An RKO film
(Black and white)
with John Stapleton and Sally Magnusson
(R)
Starting with:
Fireman Sam: Snow Business
All Christmas preparations stop when Sam and the crew are called out to save Sarah and James.
Christopher Plummer narrates Hans Christian Andersen's well-loved story.
(R)
Can it be true that Father Christmas is stealing the children's presents?
(R)
Weather followed by Going for Gold
Simon Parkin - starting with:
Playbus
which stops today at The Patch Stop in Sheffield.
Storyteller Derek Griffiths
Story: King Greenfingers - Puddings, Pies and Stripy Socks by Kathleen Dean, illustrated by Kristina Stephenson
Music Jonathan Cohen
Producer Anne Gobey
10.50am Paddington: Trouble at the Waxworks
by Michael Bond
(R)
with Judi Dench
Starting with:
Fern the Red Deer
A farmer's son suddenly acquires an orphaned girl cousin and an abandoned baby fawn.
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with Sue Cook, Alan Titchmarsh, Judi Spiers and Tina Baker.
with Philip Hayton
Weather Michael Fish
Jane's past catches up with her.
Written by PENNY FRASER
Directed by KENDAL FLANAGAN (For cast see page 52. Repeated at
5.35pm)
Hosted by Henry Kelly.
Sarah Greene introduces a spectacular celebration of Christmas held in the Royal Albert Hall, London, in the presence of HRH The Princess Royal. Organised by the Westminster Christmas Appeal Trust and Save the Children Fund, in association with the Ford Motor Company Ltd. Artists appearing include: Anthony Andrews, Margaret Cable, Penelope Keith, Ben Kingsley, Julian Lloyd-Webber, Keith Michell, Sir John Mills, Ron Moody, Derek Nimmo,
Adrian Phillips, Sir Anthony Quayle, Cliff Richard, Pamela Stephenson, Gary Wilmot with London Oriana Choir, English Baroque Orchestra Band of the Irish Guards, English Baroque Choir, London, Brass Trumpeters from the Household Division, London Schools' Steel
Orchestra and Boys' Choir of Harlem from the USA, Moscow Music Society Choir from the USSR.
For Joy to the World:
Musical director LEON LOVETT
Written by ROSEMARY ANN SISSONS
Concert director GEORGE MAY
Concert design GARY WITHERS and IMAGINATION
Devised and produced by MAJOR MICHAEL PARKER
For BBCtv:
Executive producer TIMOTHY MARSHALL
Television presentation BOB WILD
Andy Crane - starting with:
Charlie Chalk: Mildred's Day Off
Written by Jocelyn Stevenson
Captain Mildred and her first mate, Mary the Hover Fairy, decide to go on holiday.
Lassie delivers a letter which makes an old man very happy.
Last in the series by Jim and Duncan Eldridge.
Which red suitcase contains the priceless statue?!
with John Craven Roger Finn and Helen Rollason
with Mark Curry, Caron Keating and Yvette Fielding.
Christmas Is Coming!
There's a crib, cards, music from the Chalk Farm Salvation Army Band and carols round the tree.
(Ceefax subtitles)
with Nicholas Witchell and Philip Hayton
Weather JOHN KETTLEY
by Tony Holland.
"I wouldn't take advantage of a man in a situation like that."
(For cast see page 128)
(Ceefax subtitles)
with Howard Stableford, Judith Hann, Maggie Philbin, Peter Macann and mystery celebrity guests.
Join the studio audience and pit your wits against Doctor Who - alias Sylvester McCoy - and his team of experts to separate fact from fiction.
Who's more likely to be telling the truth - the Tomorrow's World team or one of Britain's top Olympic athletes? And would you believe a man who's not sure if he's Sir Robin Day or President Reagan?
The man with some answers is Father Christmas...
with Martyn Lewis
Regional News; Weather
starring George Segal Glenda Jackson.
A chance meeting in Hyde Park brings Vicki Allessio and Steve Blackburn together in an unlikely love affair. Sick of the complications in London, the two set off for a naughty week in Marbella. The problems start at the airport and culminate with Steve dislocating his back at an unfortunate moment ...
Screenplay by MELVIN FRANK and JACK ROSE
Produced and directed by MELVIN FRANK
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Barry Norman introduces a season of cinema greats. Tonight: Topper starring Cary Grant, Constance Bennett, Roland Young.
When George and Marian Kerby are killed in an automobile crash after a wild night of drinking and carousing, their ghosts decide that the party has only just begun!
Determined to do a good deed, they set about liberating their friend Cosmo Topper from his dull existence as a banker. With their newly-gained supernatural powers anything is possible...
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