Presenting the optimistic, indestructible panther who is permanently in-the-pink and the Inspector with unquenchable joi de vivre who hardly ever gets his man, in a triple helping of comic fantasy.
(Repeat)
In the centenary year of Buckfast Abbey. Devon, Paul Daniels introduces a programme of music for Christmas. with Stephanie Lawrence
Cambridge University Chamber Choir
Director of music RICHARD MARLOW Timothy Lole (organ) Frances Kelly (harp)
MONKS OF BUCKFAST ABBEY
CHOIR OF BUCKFAST ABBEY SCHOOL Musical director TREVOR JARVIS
Director TONY WOLFE Producer ROY RONNIE BBC Pebble Mill
At Hyde Park Barracks The Queen's Life Guard prepares for Christmas Day ceremonial duties while sons and daughters of The Household Cavalry and The Scots Guards enjoy a special television request party, with visits from favourite personalities. Introduced by Simon Bates and Floella Benjamin.
from St Chad 's Church, Lichfield
Holy Communion Rite A celebrated by the Rector,
PREBENDARY JOHN WIDDAS
Lessons: 1 John 4, vv 7-14; John 1, vv 1-14
Carols: 0 come, all ye faithful; Child In the manger; 0 little town of Bethle. hem; Love came down at Christmas; Hark! the herald angels sing
Director of music GEOFFREY THRELFALL Organist DUNCAN MOON
Television presentation MICHAEL SHOESMITH BBC Pebble Mill
The musical cartoon narrated by RICH LITTLE with the voices of RITA COOLIDGE and LEO SAYER
For animals and humans alike, the frozen lake in the Evergreen Forest is a winter paradise. But the horrible Cyril Sneer has plans to turn the playground into a colossal concrete complex ..
Produced and directed by KEVIN GILLIS A GlLLIS.WISEMAN production
The feature film starring Anthony Newley , David Hemmings
In this highly entertaining musical version of Charles Dickens 'The Old Curiosity Shop', Anthony Newley plays Daniel Quilp, the sly and grasping Cockney moneylender who describes himself as 'so crooked I have to screw my socks on'. London 1840: Richard Swiveller becomes involved in the affairs of Nell Trent and her old grandfather, forced into the clutches of Quilp in order to maintain his little shop of curios...
(First showing on British television) Films: page 15
The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth
(Also on BBC2 at 6.45 pm)
(Subtitles on Ceefax page 170)
The feature film starring Tatum O'Neal, Nanette Newman, Christopher Plummer, Anthony Hopkins
A love of horses dispels the unhappiness of 14-year-old Sarah, an orphan sent from America to live with her Aunt Velvet in England. Determined to buy the last foal sired by Pi, the horse which Velvet once rode to victory in the Grand National, Sarah takes the first step on the road to her dream of becoming an Olympic horse-woman.
Films: page 15
(First showing on British television)
with Jan Leeming; Weatherman
Dear Jim, Please may I...
Visit Ken Dodd's jam butty mines? Sing with Val Doonican? Help Father Christmas pack his sack?
In this special Christmas edition, Jimmy Savile, OBE, makes these and other dreams come true.
(A new series of Jim'll Fix It begins on Monday 3 January)
Join Paul Daniels as he entertains in the special company of Floella Benjamin, Lorraine Chase, Billy Dainty, Jill Gascoine, Lucinda Green, Rolf Harris, Nerys Hughes, Barbara Kelly, Patrick Moore, Tim Rice, Barry Took and Kenneth Williams, and introduces the remarkable skills of his international guests: from France, the inspired puppetry of Compagnie Philippe Genty; from the USA, Luisa, the first lady of hula hoops; from Morocco, The Rios, with their incredible precision acrobatics; from Great Britain, The Trocaderos, with their sensational 'Globe of Death'.
With Glen Bexfield, Debbie McGee
(Paul starts a new series on R4 on Tuesday 12.27 pm)
(Subtitles on Ceefax page 170)
Feature p4
by Roy Clarke
Starring Bill Owen, Peter Sallis and Brian Wilde
(Feature p7)
by AGATHA CHRISTIE
The feature film starring Peter Ustinov, Mia Farrow, Simon MacCorkindale
The great Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot , can hardly guess how many enemies the beautiful American heiress. Linnet Ridgeway, has made. And when she is murdered on her honeymoon cruise, Poirot begins his investigation. The problem is, everybody on board could have done it and everybody had a reason for doing it!
Screenplay by ANTHONY SHAFFER. Produced by JOHN BRABOURNE and RICHARD GOODWIN Directed by JOHN GUILLERMIN , Films: p 15 (First showing on British television)
* Subtitles on Ceefax page 170
with Jan Leeming; Weatherman
A ghost story for Christmas by Charles Dickens dramatised by Andrew Davies
with Denholm Elliott as the Signalman, Bernard Lloyd as the Traveller, Carina Wyeth as the Bride, Reginald Jessup as the Engine-driver
A lonely signalman is haunted by a hooded figure which warns of danger. But what is the danger?
Tony, Mick, Cliff and Hughie take their Christmas show to Bradford's Alhambra Theatre.
BBC Manchester
