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For many years now, families have gathered together on Christmas Day to enjoy Christmas lunch and Christmas telly.
Below you can find listings of every programme broadcast on British television on December 25th during the twentieth century.

  <<   Christmas Day 1976   >>

     
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LWT
08.45Carols from Durham Cathedral
Roy Dotrice and the Choir of Durham Cathedral
09.30The Legend of the Christmas Messenger
10.00Christmas Morning Service
11.00A Merry Morning
Jimmy Tarbuck Johnny Hart
11.30Doctor Dolittle (1967)
14.15Christmas Supersonic
The G Band, John Miles, Guys'n'Dolls, Linda Lewis with Marc Bolan, Gary Glitter, Russell Harty, Joanna Lumley
15.00The Queen
15.10Please, Sir! (1971)
17.00New Faces
Derek Hobson with Jack Parnell Les Reed Shaw Taylor Muriel Young
18.00News
Gordon Honeycombe
18.10Christmas Sale of the Century
Nicholas Parsons with Angela Daniels Linda Hooks John Benson
18.45The John Curry Ice Spectacular
with Millicent Martin Julia McKenzie David Kernan Wayne Sleep guest Peggy Fleming La Compagnie Andre Tahon The Norman Maen Dancers
20.00Waterloo (1970)
22.25News
22.35Two's Company
A Loving Christmas
by Bill Macilwraith
23.05Celebration
Sir Geraint Evans Petula Clark Ray Smith Angharad Rees
BBC ONE
08.40Ragtime
With MAGGIE HENDERSON and FRED HARRIS
Music by PETER GOSLING and DAVE MOSES Written and produced by MICHAEL COLE
Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE It's Ragtime, 55p, from bookshops
08.55Sing Noel!
Pupils of schools from Essex join together in the beautiful Parish Church of Thaxted to tell again the Christmas story in familiar carols, readings and paintings.
Conductor ERIC STAPLETON
Director ROY TIPPING
Producer DENIS MORIARTY
09.45Hong Kong Phooey
TV or not TV and Stop Horsing Around
Comedy cartoons
10.09Weather
Keith Best
10.10Angela Rippon
appeals for Television for the Deaf
This is a special Fund administered by The Royal National Institute for the Deaf to provide television sets for old and lonely deaf people throughout the United Kingdom. There is a long waiting list.
Donations, preferably by crossed po or cheque, to: Angela Rippon, [address removed]
10.15Christmas Morning Service
from Coventry
The minister and congregation of West Orchard United Reformed Church visit Quinton
Park Baptist Church for a united Christmas service conducted by REV ROGER WOODWARD Preacher REV BRIAN HOLROYD
Carols:
O come. all ye faithful
Love came down at Christmas O little town of Bethlehem Once in royal David's city
Hark: the herald angels sing Readings:
Luke 1, vv 26-33 and 38 Luke 2, vv 1-7 and 8-20 Matthew 2, vv 1-12
Choirmistress ANGELA LANE Organist don DADE
Television presentation MICHAEL SHOESMITH BBC Birmingham
11.15Rod Hull and Emu
Sing a Christmas Song Guest star Rolf Harris with help from TOM CHATTO and 300 children from New Mills, Derbyshire
Musical director BERNARD HERRMANN Director GEOFF WILSON
Producer HAZEL LEWTHWAITE BBC Manchester
11.454 Clowns (1970)
starring
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
Charley Chase, Buster Keaton
A hilarious look at four of the cinema's great laughter-makers from the silent era.
We start with Laurel and Hardy's early solo performances, take a look at another popular Hal Roach comic, Charley Chase, and end with the immortal Buster Keaton. Narrator JAY JACKSON
Music MANNY ALBAN. Produced and written by ROBERT YOUNGSON. Films: pages 15-16
13.20Holiday on Ice
Introduced by Brian Matthew
Highlights from the greatest live spectacular in Europe today. This brilliant production combines the brash panache of Broadway, the romance of ballet and the thrills of the circus in Holiday on Ice.
Glamorous girls galore in a colourful pastiche of the Ziegfeld era.
The charming nostalgia of old Vienna is conjured up to the music of Johann Strauss.
Breathtaking costumes add colourful excitement to the infectious rhythms of carnival time in Brazil. And the circus comes to town-with the finest menagerie since Noah's Ark - a cortege of clowns. A new concept in ice entertainment embraces the swirl of the kilt and the skirl of the pipes, with plaid-clad dancers in a 'Highland Fling'!
Grace, skill and daring are all displayed by star soloists Hauss and Hafner, Patty-Claire Welsh, Rick Inglesi, Cheryl Richardson. And smile a while to the amazing antics of comedy teams- plus - making his ice début - the new superstar Snoopy.
Created, staged, directed by TED SHUFFLE Televised by arrangement with SKEE GOODHART for International Holiday on Ice Company
Recorded in Lausanne, in co-operation with Swiss television
Lighting TOMMY THOMAS Director ERIC NOGUET
Produced for television by DON SAYER
14.10Top of the Pops
Noel Edmonds and Dave Lee Travis introduce a special Christmas Day edition, featuring some of the No 1 records of the year including Abba, J. J. Barrie
Elton John and Kiki Dee, Queen
Demis Roussos, Slik, The Wurzels TOP OF THE POPS ORCHESTRA
LEGS & CO
Musical director JOHNNY PEARSON Choreography FLICK COLBY
Lighting JOHN DIXON. Sound KEITH GUNN Designer ROBERT BERK Director PHIL BISHOP
Producer JOHNNIE STEWART
15.00The Queen
A Christmas Day programme in which The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth.
Producer RICHARD CAWSTON
15.15Billy Smart's Christmas Circus
International stars from six countries present a special gala presentation of the world-famous circus from the sawdust ring beneath the Big Top.
Yasmine Smart introduces from Poland: The Koziaks springs, bounces and laughs on the trampoline net Duo Beskidy precision and balance taken to great heights from Switzerland: The Burgers walking their way through an upside-down world from Germany:
Willy Hagenbeck's Horses eight magnificent greys presented by YASMINE SMART from America:
The Niccollnl Chimpanzees equal to their human masters The Michaels two men and two girls supreme on the flying trapeze from Hungary:
The Charles Troupe from a springboard they achieve the impossible from Great Britain:
Robert Brothers' Elephants seven favourites of the circus presented by BOBBY ROBERTS JR Jacko Fossett and Little Billy serving up the comedy
Commentator RAY MOORE
Circus produced by RONNIE, BILLY and DAVID SMART Musical director KEN GRIFFIN Designer RAY LONDON
Television presentation IAN SMITH
16.15Oliver! (1968)
Oliver's story from the cruelty of the workhouse and the unsavoury world of Fagin's crime school has a happy ending when his real identity is established.
Not even Oliver could ask for anything more enjoyable... (THE PEOPLE)... a most magnetic musical, a triumph
(THE SUN)
First Showing On British Television.
Oliver! starred Mark Lester, Oliver Reed, Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, Leonard Rossiter, Hylda Baker, Harry Secombe and Jack Wild.
Music and lyrics by LIONEL BART
Director CAROL REED. Films: page 15-18
18.35Evening News
with Peter Woods ; Weatherman
18.45Bruce Forsyth and The Generation Game
A special Christmas Day edition starring Bruce Forsyth with Anthea Redfern
Family couples from all over the country compete in a test of their general knowledge, skill and ingenuity.
Orchestra directed by RONNIE HAZLEHURST Programme associates
BARRY CRYER, TONY HAWES Designer BOB COVE Director ALAN BOYD
Producer ROBIN NASH
19.45The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show
A star-studded holiday special starring
Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Written by BARRY CRYER, MIKE CRAIG
LAWRIE KINSLEY, RON MCDONNELL with special guests
Elton John, John Thaw
Dennis Waterman, Kate O'Mara Marion Montgomery The Nolans with ARTHUR TOLCHER
GERTAN KLAUBER
Musical arrangements and orchestra directed by PETER KNIGHT
Designer VIC MEREDITH Producer ERNEST MAXIN
20.45Airport (1970)
A powerful suspense story set in an international airport crippled by the worst blizzard in 30 years. Burt Lancaster plays the dedicated airport manager battling to keep the planes flying. As he and his men struggle to the limits of endurance to overcome a long line of emergencies, a crisis explodes thousands of feet above.
Written and directed by GEORGE SEATON Films: pages 15-16
22.55News
with Peter Woods ; Weather
23.00The Parkinson Magic Show
BBC TWO
12.10Reflections
As Christmas Day fragments into being, a fragmented thought or two spoken by Ian Mackenzie
BBC Scotland
12.15Horizon
The Mystery of King Arthur and his Round Table
King Arthur's Round Table has hung on the wall of Winchester Castle for at least 600 years. Was there really a King Arthur and could this be his famous table? Did the Knights of the Round Table sit here? The results of a four-month scientific study were announced last Monday.
13.05Play Away
An entertainment for children starring Brian Cant with Toni Arthur, Chloe Ashcroft Derek Griffiths, Lionel Morton Spike Heatley, Alan Rushton
Jeff Crampton, Stephen Henderson Music, songs, puzzles and comedy.
Musical director SPIKE HEATLEY Producer ANN REAY
Director PETER CHARLTON
13.40Carols from King's
A Ceremony of Nine Lessons and Carols from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge
Processional Hymn
Once in royal David's city The Bidding Prayer
Carol: A hymn to the Virgin (Britten) First Lesson: Genesis 3 Reader: A CHORISTER
Carols: Adam lay ybounden (Boris Ord); Ding dong! merrily on high (French) Second Lesson: Genesis 22 Reader: AN UNDERGRADUATE
Carols: A spotless rose (Herbert Howells ): I saw three ships (trad arr Philip Ledger)
Third Lesson: Isaiah 9
Reader: A CHORAL SCHOLAR
Carol: In dulci jubilo (German)
Hymn: O little town of Bethlehem Fourth Lesson: Isaiah 11
Reader: A RESEARCH STUDENT
Carol: The holly and the ivy (trad arr Walford Davies )'
Fifth Lesson: St Luke 1
Reader: THE MASTER OVER THE CHORISTERS Carol: Gabriel's message (old Basque) Motet
Hodie Christus natus est (Poulenc) Sixth Lesson- St Luke 2 Reader: THE CHAPLAIN
Carol: Quelle est cette odeur agréable? (French arr David Willcocks ) Seventh Lesson: St Luke 2
Reader: THE DIRECTOR OF MUSIC
Hymn: While shepherds watched
Carol: The shepherds' cradle song (German arr C. Macpherson)
Eighth Lesson: St Matthew 2
Reader: A FELLOW OF THE COLLEGE
Carols: Personent hodie (arr Gustav Holst); In the bleak mid-winter (Harold E. Darke )
Ninth Lesson: St John 1 Reader: THE DEAN
Hymn: O come, all ye faithful Collect for Christmas Eve The Blessing
Hymn: Hark! The herald angels sing Organist FRANCIS GRIER
Director of music PHILIP LEDGER Lighting HUBERT CARTWRIGHT
Producer BRIAN LARGE
15.00The Queen
A Christmas Day programme in which The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth.
Producer Richard CAWSTON
15.15The Snow Queen
A fairy tale for television by IAN KEILL and PETER GLIDEWELL Based on the story by HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
Illustrations by ERROL LE CAIN Music by CARL DAVIS
The Devil makes a mirror -and it shatters. This is the story of what happens to little Kay when one of the pieces finds its way through his eye and into his heart.
The powers of evil are unleashed ... the Summer Garden Witch - the Robbers in the Wood - but above all - the mysterious elemental figure of The Snow Queen. Only Gerda - Kay's friend - helped by birds and animals - has the power to overcome them all.
and the voices of ARTHUR MULLARD, JOHN WELLS VIVIAN STANSHALL
PENELOPE LEE
SHEILA STEAFEL
Animator BETH MCFALL Graphic designer BERNARD LODGE
Director ANDREW GOSLING Producer IAN KEILL
16.20Alice Through the Looking-Glass
by LEWIS CARROLL Dramatised by JAMES MACTAGGART with and ' Oh look - it's a great huge game of chess that's being played - all over the world.'
Original music by HERBERT CHAPPELL Producer ROSEMARY HILL
Director JAMES MACTAGGART
17.30Audition
It was Matthew's chance to sing in the choir of St Mary's Church. The real conversation between him and the choirmaster became the sound-track for this animated film.
Animated and directed by BILL MATHER
Producer colin THOMAS BBC Bristol
17.35News on 2
Weather
17.45Aika, the Polar Bear
Aika was born in a Berlin zoo. When she was a few months old she left the zoo to be brought up as a pet by a Russian family in Siberia. Then it was decided to take her back to her natural environment in the Arctic to see if she could adapt to life there.
In a unique film Yuri Ledin. one of the Soviet Union's best-known natural history cameramen, recorded Aika's first impressions of her homeland and her first encounter with wild polar bears. Written and narrated by ERIC THOMPSON
Adapted from a Soviet TV film by MARYSE ADDISON
18.35Forty Years
A raid on the archives of BBC Television
Dimbleby - Harding - Michelmore - Frost - The Coronation - Tonight - 1984 - Maigret - Hancock - Muggeridge - Horrocks - Cooke - The Grove Family - Quatermass - Sergeant Bilko - Bronowski - Cotton - Whicker - Muffin the Mule - Dr Finlay - Monty Python - The Forsytes - TW3
In November 1936 the BBC launched the world's first television service. Since then TV has become part of our Lives and our memories.
This anthology was first shown earlier this year to launch BBC2's Festival of Television. Using over 200 moments from programmes, it attempts to give an impression of the people and events, the entertainment, the excitement and the sadness that make up television's first 40 years.
Producer RICHARD DREWETT
(Coronation Day 1953: next Saturday, BBC2, 10.10 am-5.15 pm)
21.20Late News on 2
Weather
21.25Survival in Limbo
A true experience relived by, Duncan Carse
Fifteen years ago DUNCAN CARSE was marooned in South Georgia, a remote island on the edge of the Antarctic: one of the most inhospitable places on earth.
Earlier this year he returned to South Georgia to tell us the story of his epic 116-day fight for survival; a story of survival disciplines, of physical and psychological stresses in appalling weather conditions ... and of a girl called 1 Fran
Film cameraman DEREK BANKS Recorded by ROGER TURNER Film editor MICHAEL APPELT Producer DAVID COBHAM
22.15Sing all ye Faithful
A presentation of popular carols sung in Devonshire settings, In true folk-song fashion, the news of Bethlehem is spread by The Faraway Folk at Cockington Court
The Choir of Holy Trinity Buckfastleigh sing in a traditional procession to the Parish Church and The Benedictine Community of Buckfast Abbey lead a multi-denominational tribute to the founder of Christianity. Narrator
ANDREW CRUICKSHANK
Organist GEORGE F. BUDDEN FR SEBASTIAN WOLFF, OS1 Producer DOUGLAS HESPE
(Buckfast Abbey televised by kind permission of Abbot Leo Smith, osb)
23.00Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Christmas with Cagney
starring James Cagney with Walter Huston, Joan Leslie
The musical biography of the famous American entertainer, George M. Cohan. James Cagney, who had begun his career in vaudeville, temporarily forsook the gangster roles which had brought him Hollywood fame, to play a song-and-dance man. And his portrayal of George M. Cohan won for Cagney the 1942 Award for Best Performance by an Actor.
Director MICHAEL CURTIZ. Films - pages 15-16
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