Christmas morning with Andy Crane, Simon Potter and Simon Parkin starting with -

Ziggy's Gift
Ziggy - a little guy in a big world, overweight and underwhelmed - takes a job as a street-corner Santa.
Music and lyrics by Harry Nilsson Created by Tom Wilson
Produced by Lena Tabori
Animation by Eric Goldberg
Directed by Richard Williams (R)

by Brian Cant
(R)

Bryan Murray and Maria Warner light Hanukah and Christmas candles and tell tales of freedom fighters and of the children who led a peaceful protest over an orange shortage.

For Christmas Day from the chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Pauline Webb lights the last of the candles on the Advent wreath which has travelled to Zimbabwe, Scotland and Canada. The Christians of Cambridge, Harare,
Edinburgh and Vancouver are linked together to share their favourite Christmas carols; and the Christmas gospel is read by President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia. 0 come, all ye faithful; See amid the winter's snow; Joseph holds the baby (Shona); In the bleak mid-winter; Go tell it on the mountain; The shepherd's cradle song;
Rejoice (Bemba); It came upon the midnight clear
Assistant producer STEVE BENSON Producer HELEN ALEXANDER Editor STEPHEN WHITTLE
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From the Telecom Tower in London, Noel Edmonds hosts an outside broadcast which is also being transmitted live throughout Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Gibraltar.
Noel will be uniting families and friends throughout the UK via BBC regional cameras, and satellites will beam in pictures of their loved ones abroad.
Roving camera crews will be dropping in on viewers' celebrations, Gorden Kaye will be hosting a giant Christmas party at Gerry Cottle 's Circus in Battersea
Park, and Noel will be joined by a host of star guests both in the UK and abroad, plus exclusive performances by the world's top pop groups. Produced and directed by MICHAEL HURLL

with Laurence Olivier

from St George 's Chapel, Windsor Castle
HM The Queen with HRH The Duke of Edinburgh and HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother with members of the Royal Family attend morning prayer in the historic setting of St George's Chapel.
Tom Fleming describes the scene as the Military Knights of Windsor and the Dean and Chapter are joined by the people of Windsor to celebrate Christmas Day. The sermon is preached by the Dean,
The Rt Rev Michael Mann
Choir of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
Organist and Master of the Choristers
CHRISTOPHER
ROBINSON
Assistant organist'
ROGER JUDD
Sound CHRIS HOLCOMBE Lighting STAN SNAPE '
Television presentation TIM MARSHALL

Join Noel for a morning of family reunions, Christmas jollity and festive fun.
Telephone lines will be open for the on-screen dedication service. So call Noel on [number removed], during the programme with your dedications and Christmas messages.

starring Ronnie Barker in No Way Out by DICK CLEMENT and IAN LA FRENAIS featuring Brian Wilde, Fulton Mackay with Richard Beckinsale and Peter Vaughan Graham Crowden
Designer TIM GLEESON
Produced by SYDNEY LOTTERBY (R)
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Christmas special of the classic sitcom from 1975. The festive season falls upon HMP Slade and finds the inmates planning a jailbreak. Show more

In this, her first Christmas special, Julie shares a few of her favourite things in the beautiful town of Salzburg, Austria. Joining her on this festive occasion are the much-loved singers
John Denver and Placido Domingo who, with the help of the ever-popular King's Singers, render such classics as In the Bleak Mid-winter, Edelweiss and a very original Twelve Days of Christmas.
Written by DWIGHT HEMION Produced by NICK VANOFF Directed by BUZ KOHAN

In this special Christmas Day edition Mike Smith and Gary Davies present the most popular hits of 1987 and the year's No Is on video, plus this week's Top 40 chart and the No 1 best selling record this Christmas.

HM The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth (Also on BBC2 at 11.25pm)
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with Moira Stuart
Weather Ian McCaskill

Starring Russ Abbot special guest star Les Dennis featuring Bella Emberg, Maggie Moone, Tom Bright, Suzy Aitchison, Paul Shearer.

Join C.U. Jimmy (pictured below) as he watches a supersize superhero pick up a penguin; Rockimus the gladiator take on the lions; and the latest video - it's not Barcelona but macaroni! It's a festive feast. See you Jimmy! Script associate BARRY CRYER
Musical director ALYN AINSWORTH Choreographer DOMINI WINTER Written by BARRY CRYER
DICK VOSBURGH , PAUL MINETT
AND BRIAN LEVESON. RUSSEL LANE BOBBY CRUSH
Sound HUGH BARKER
Lighting DICKIE HIGHAM
Videotape editor MYKOLA PAWLUK Designer GARY WILLIAMSON Produced and directed by JOHN BISHOP
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'I can see how irritating it must be for you Inspector, but we shall probably both be involved in this business.... when one of us is clever enough to find the body.'
Feature: page 144
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with Moira Stuart
Weather

starring
Shirley MacLaine Debra Winger and Jack Nicholson A special Christmas presentation of one of the outstanding cinema successes of the 80s. Winner of five Academy Awards, including best picture, this colourful combination of laughter and tears also won Oscars for
Shirley MacLaine and Jack Nicholson as the most unlikely of lovers.
Aurora Greenway is an attractive widow whose main problems in life are fending off an alarming number of suitors and keeping her headstrong daughter Emma in check. But over the years their attitude to life, love, and each other will change - or maybe it won't. Aurora Greenway
SHIRLEY MACLAINE
Emma Horton ..DEBRA WINGER Garrett Breedlove
JACK NICHOLSON
Vernon Dahlart
DANNY DEVITO
Flap Horton JEFF DANIELS Sam Burns. ........JOHN LITHGOW Patsy Clark
LISA HART CARROLL
Rosie Dunlop .....BETTY R. KING Teddy .........HUCKLEBERRY FOX Tommy Horton TROY BISHOP Screenplay by JAMES L. BROOKS Produced and directed by JAMES L. BROOKS ..
(First showing on British television)
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The Christmas story of the birth of Christ from St Luke told by Roger Rees
Filmed on location in Bethlehem and Jerusalem, Shakespearean actor Roger Rees uses the words of St
Luke to tell the story of the birth of Jesus and the effect it had on the people there. Producer JIM MURRAY