A musical cartoon narrated by Rich Little with the voices of Rita Coolidge and Rupert Holmes
Can the horrible and greedy Cyril Sneer be responsible for making the raccoons homeless at Christmas time?
A Gillis-Wiseman production
(Repeat)
Ian Carmichael introduces Christmas music from Newby Hall at Ripon. with Grace Kennedy , Robert White Cambridge University Chamber Choir
Director of Music RICHARD MARLOW Organist TIMOTHY LOLE
Harpist IMOGEN BARFORD The children of SKELTON-ON-URE PRIMARY SCHOOL
Director tony WOLFE
Producer ROY RONNIE. BBC Pebble MM
from The Mint Methodist Church. Exeter
A look at the stories which surround the birth of Jesus - stories which have become an essential part of our Christmas heritage and celebration. with THE REV AMOS CRESSWELL , President of the Methodist Conference
Assisted by THE REV DR JOHN SAMPSON (Minister of the Mint) and members of the congregation and Sunday School
Director of Music BRYAN BLACKMAR
Bible Readings:
Luke2.vv1-7,8-20;Matthewlnl-11
Hymns: Away in a manger (Cradle Song); 0 little townofBethlehem(ForestGreen);Hark!The herald angels sing (Berlin); Good Christian men, rejoice! (In Dulci Jubilo); 0 come, all ye faithful (Adeste Fideles)
Sound DAVID BEAVAN Lighting GEOFF STAFFORD TV presentation RAYMOND SHORT
A colourful animation adventure starring Rolf Harris
Rolf Harris, as Jake the Peg, with the Extra Leg, presents the story of the convicts who settled and built the new country of Australia.
Christmas Films: page 15
An award-winning animated Christmas story about the magic of giving. Ziggy - a little guy in a big world, overweight and underwhelmed - takes a job as a street-corner Santa. But as luck (and his is usually bad) would have it, he unsuspectingly goes to work for a con-man.... Even so Ziggy finds the true spirit of Christmas in a greedy, commercialised world.
in Abominable Snow Rabbit
A film for all the family starring Ben Buckton, Keith Jayne
When a spaceship crash-lands on Earth, its 'pilot'-a small silver ball - is befriended by Max and Pete. They find that the alien being has a vast appetite and can signal to its fellows in space. A lively film from the Children's Film Foundation.
Christmas Films: p15 (First showing on British television)
The Radio 1 DJs present the singers and bands who have made this year's top-selling records.
Michael Jackson, Shakin' Stevens, Men at Work, Bonnie Tyler, Duran Duran, Bucks Fizz, Lionel Richie, David Bowie
The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth
(Also on BBC2 at 9.50 pm with sign language)
(Subtitles on Ceefax page 170)
Terry Wogan hosts a special Christmas edition of the comedy quiz game
[with] Sabina Franklyn, Roy Kinnear, Ruth Madoc, Patrick Moore, Beryl Reid and Freddie Starr
Presented by arrangement with: Goodson Toodman and Talbot TV
(Feature page 4)
(Subtitles on Ceefax page 170)
The film starring Robert Newton, Bobby Driscoll, Basil Sydney.
A host of characters from Robert Louis Stevenson's greatest sea tale of them all spring to life in Walt Disney's colourful live action entertainment.
When the sinister Blind Pew visits the Admiral Benbow Inn to serve the 'black spot' on ex-Captain Billy Bones, Jim Hawkins finds he has possession of the secret map of Captain Flint's buried treasure. His friends, Squire Trelawney and Dr Livesey, charter a ship, but unknown to them Flint's old crew, led by peg-leg Long John, has signed up for the voyage....
(Christmas Films: p 15 (First showing on British television)
with Jan Leeming; Followed by The Weather
with Jimmy Savile OBE
including: An 11-year-old Hi-de-Hi! Yellowcoat
Two pupils of a school for the blind riding at the Horse of the Year Show
An 8-year-old Father Christmas
How to crack Christmas walnuts.
Feature: page 4
Based on The Lord God Made Them All by JAMES HERRIOT
Written by BRIAN FINCH starring Christopher Timothy as James Herriot
Robert Hardy as Siegfried Farnon Peter Davison as Tristan Farnon Carol Drinkwater as Helen
England, 1947. Demobbed from the army, James Herriot returns to his beloved Yorkshire, to his wife and young son and the day-to-day dramas of a country veterinary practice.
FEATURE page 108
Subtitles on Ceefax page 170
with Jan Leeming; Weatherman
The feature film starring David Niven, Art Carney, Maggie Smith
In this British premiere of David Niven's last film, he plays Nicky-suave, charming, workshy and a total rascal. Art Carney plays Charles-sober, hard-working and broke. Many years before, Nicky and Charles were rivals for the love of Jennifer and either might be the grandfather of her grand-daughter Bridget-a precocious 10-year-old who just happens to have inherited 23 million dollars....
(First showing on British television) Christmas Films: page 16
*Subtitle on Ceefax page 170
The festive season would not be complete without a session with Tony, Hugh, Mick and Cliff.
Join them in the Dickensian street at York's Castle Museum for an evening of not-so-familiar seasonal songs with John McCormick on bass.
BBC Manchester
