with Basil Brush, Derek Fowlds, Ken Brooke, The Idle Jacks

(Bert Hayes appears by permission of the Winter Gardens, Margate)
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A cartoon parade introduced by Michael Aspel
The first complete Mickey Mouse cartoon on British television in colour

Pluto's Christmas Tree
Two chipmunks cause chaos to Mickey's decorations!
A Walt Disney Cartoon

Together with two Tom and Jerry classics:

The Night Before Christmas
Tom and Jerry finally reach a seasonal truce

Johann Mouse
The Academy Award-winning cartoon of the dancing mouse.

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for Christmas Day from Netherlee Parish Church, Glasgow
Conducted by the Minister, The Rev Stanley D. Mair

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by Alvar Lidell on behalf of the Wireless for the Blind Fund

The Fund relies entirely on this annual appeal to provide some 8,000 sets every year, for the newly blinded and as replacements. Today, each set costs £14. In comfort and companionship its value is incalculable.
Donations, preferably by crossed PO or cheque, to: Alvar Lidell, [address removed], or to any branch of the Midland or Clydesdale Banks.
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Starring Eleanor Parker, Richard Basehart, John Gregson, Cyril Ritchard
with Robin Askwith

An original television musical, filmed on location in Europe. Spectacular skating scenes, including a race-for-life along Holland's frozen canals, are featured in this story about young Hans Brinker who tries to help his ailing father by winning a pair of silver skates.
Produced by MMM Production Company in co-operation with NBC
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A special Christmas Day edition featuring hits of 1970
with Mr Bloe, Desmond Dekker, Edison Lighthouse, Elvis Presley, Lee Marvin,
Kenny Rogers and the First Edition, Marmalade, Matthews Southern Comfort, Pickettywitch, Simon and Garfunkel, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, The World Cup Squad
Introduced by Jimmy Savile and Tony Blackburn
Top of the Pops Orchestra
directed by Johnny Pearson
Pan's People
(Top of the Pops 1970: see page 10)
(Boxing Day edition: tomorrow, 3.30)
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speaks to the Commonwealth and introduces a special Christmas Day film
(On BBC2 at 7.20 pm)
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New magnificence in the old tradition of the Greatest Show on Earth

Springboard sensations with top flight stars - The Unbelievable Urbans

It's terrifying! A thin tight wire between Manfred Doval and a sheer drop of 40 ft

The world's largest elephant presentation Billy Smart Jr's 'Elephant Safari'

Man juggles man - with his feet the unrivalled 'Risley' of The Rios Brothers

Famed throughout Europe as the greatest - The Fabulous Francesco Clowns

The beautiful dancing horse of Danny Renz partners ballerina in a graceful pas-de-deux

Beauty in the balance three glamorous globe-trotters The Salvadors

Horse laughs for Danny Renz who gets a kick out of Roger, his temperamental steed

The most dangerous and the most stylish swinging trapeze act currently in Europe - Gerard Edon

Pyramid of eight balanced on five horses the bareback bravado of The Magnificent Carolis

Introduced by David Smart and Frank Bough, aided by members of a star-studded audience
Produced under the Big Top by Mary David
(A clown's Christmas in Glasgow: page 7)
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Introduced by Harry Worth
Presenting some famous Walt Disney animals, from cats and cougars to squirrels and snakes.
Special features include:
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; Pinocchio; Perri That Darn Cat; Smoke
Jungle Book; The Aristocats; Charlie the lonesome Cougar
Films by courtesy of Walt Disney Productions.

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BBC Television's Christmas pantomime
Starring Ken Dodd as Billy Crusoe
with Lyn Kennington as Robinson Crusoe, Peter Glaze as Bosun's Mate, Arthur Mullard as Bosun, Stanley Platts as Will Atkins, Billy Whittaker as Mrs Crusoe, Liz Edmiston as Polly Perkins
[and] David Davenport as Davy Jones, Holly Doone as Spirit of the Sea, Arch Taylor as the Cannibal King, Ken McGregor as Man Friday, George Barnes as Umpire
Also appearing Ken Dodd's Diddymen, The Maljohns, The Roy Gunson Dancers, The Bowles Bevan Singers

(Ken Dodd and the Diddymen are in "The Ken Dodd Laughter Spectacular" at the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool; Lyn Kennington is in "Cinderella" at the Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham; Peter Glaze in "The Sleeping Beauty" at the New Theatre, Oxford)
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with Kenneth Kendall
and Weather
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Introduced by Cilla Black
With her special guests Bob Hope, Mary Hopkin, Graham Kerr, Jerry Lewis, Nana Mouskouri, Clodagh Rodgers, Frank Sinatra, Jack Warner
plus:

Dad's Army
Starring Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier and Clive Dunn
featuring John Laurie, James Beck, Arnold Ridley and Ian Lavender
with Bill Pertwee

Stanley Baxter

Dick Emery

Bachelor Father
Starring Ian Carmichael
with Pauline Yates, Ian Johnson, Briony McRoberts, Beverley Simons, Roland Pickering

Terry Scott and June Whitfield

(Cilla's Christmas: page 8)
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BBC1's feature film for Christmas night stars one of the great partnerships Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in a spy thriller
with Walter Matthau, James Coburn, George Kennedy

From the carriage of a train speeding across the French countryside hurtles the body of a man. For Audrey Hepburn as Reggie Lambert, life becomes bewildering and sinister when she finds her flat stripped bare. Who is telling her the truth? Can she trust anybody?
A slick, stylish thriller, Charade was the forerunner of a whole genre that successfully blended sex, black comedy and high camp.
(Holiday Films: pages 13 and 15)
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Starring Danny La Rue in a gala programme of Old-Time Music-Hall from the stage of the Famous City Varieties Theatre, Leeds.
(by arrangement with Stanley and Michael Joseph)
Presenting June Bronhill, Neville King, Mac Lou, Carazini
Members of the Players Theatre, London: Denis Martin, Godfrey Charles, Dudley Stevens, Jonathan Denis, Michael Darbyshire, Deryk Parkin
Chairman Leonard Sachs

(Danny La Rue is appearing in "Danny La Rue at the Palace," and at Danny La Rue's Club, London; Neville King is appearing in "The Black and White Minstrel Show" at the Palace Theatre, Manchester)
(The longer the words the more the audiences like them: page 105)
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Joyce Grenfell, Cyril Fletcher and Ernie Wise
At the end of another Christmas Day three entertainers explain what the story of the Nativity means to them.

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