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7.10 Teletubbies: Making Christmas Cards
(Shown yesterday at 10am)
(Stereo)
7.35 Model Millie
Comedy. Millie's model park comes to life.
(Repeat) (Stereo)
7.50 The Busy World of Richard Scarry
Animation.
(Stereo)
8.15 Yakky Duck
Adventures of a little duckling.
(Repeat)
8.35 Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
Animation. Samuel Claus is haunted by voices.
(Repeat)
9.05 The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest
Animation. The team find an alien skeleton.
(Repeat)
9.30 Sweet Valley High
Teenage drama.
(Repeat) (Stereo)
9.55 Teletubbies
Dipsy's present is a big Christmas cracker.
(Stereo)
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Fantasy adventure, starring
Noah Hathaway , Barret Oliver
A lonely boy taking refuge from bullies in an old bookshop discovers a mysterious book depicting the land of Fantasia. He gradually gets drawn into the story. DirectorWolfangPetersen(1984. U)
♦ See Films: pages 43-76
A Feast of Christmas Cheer! The
Christmas story celebrated in a gala of carols, comedy, music and dance, at London's Royal Albert Hall. Guests include Cliff Richard , Diana Rigg ,
Peter Bowles , Hannah Gordon , Gloria Hunniford and the Chicken Shed Theatre Company. TV presentation Simon Betts Stereo
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Ruth resolves to leave Erinsborough.
Repeated at 5.05pm Stereo Subtitled.
Comedy starring John Ritter
Seven-year-old Junior is an orphan who, through his fiendish behaviour, has become the "most returned" inmate of the Brutus Orphanage. Eventually, he is adopted by an unsuspecting couple. Director Dennis Dugan (1990. PG)
♦ See Films: pages 43-76 *
The team are joined by a band and some school children for a spot of carol-singing.
Shown at 1.15pm Stereo Subtitled ...
An insight into the chartbusting girl group, with interviews, previous performances on the music show. and their latest single. Top of the Pops is tomorrow at 1.15pm.
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? Andrew Duncan interviews the Spice Girls: page 18
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Details on Monday 22 December.
Comedians Gareth Hale and Norman Pace join chefs Ainsley Harriott and Antony Worrall Thompson for a festive edition of the cookery show. Which one of the mirth-making duo will be the turkey in the kitchen?
Producer Mary Ramsay
Stereo Subtitled .........................
Ronnie Corbett gets into the festive mood with a selection of seasonal BBC comedy. Among the classic programmes featured are Porridge, The Good Life, Morecambe and Wise, Steptoe and Son and Bottom.
Director Gareth Carrivick ;
Producer Tom Webber
(Stereo, Subtitled)
A Christmas Eve transmission of the BBC's promotional video, which is being shown several times over the holiday season. The single topped the chart following Children in Need.
Humpback Whale
Continuingthe series celebrating the 40th anniversary of the BBC Natural History Unit, presented by David Attenborough.
Latest research shows the humpback whales' song to be a weapon used in verbal exchanges between bulls fighting overfemales. These battles can turn physical, sometimes endangering mothers with vulnerable calves.
Producers Andy Byatt , Rick Rosenthal Series producer Keith Scholey
Carol Smillie hosts the midweek draw, and Carol Vorderman finds out what to buy a jackpot winner for Christmas.
(Stereo)
Comedy starring
Leslie Nielsen
Priscilla Presley
Retired from the Police Squad and playing house husband to wife Jane,
Lieutenant Frank Drebin secretly longs to get back to shoot-outs and smashing cars. Then Captain Ed Hocken suggests that he helptheteam track down a mad bomber.
Director Peter Segal (1994, 12)
♦ See Films: pages 43-76 ****
Then National Lottery Update
With Justin Webb. Subtitled
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A live broadcast from Salisbury Cathedral where worshippers congregate for a traditional celebration of the First Mass of Christmas. The Cathedral Choir lead the singing which features the Mass Setting of Mozart's Missa Brevis in D. Carols include Once in Royal David's
City, 0 Come All Ye Faithful , and Silent Night, Holy Night.
Producer John Kirby
Comedy starring
John Alderton
Deryck Guyler
When the students from Fenn
Street secondary school get the chance to go on a fortnight's trip to a country recreation centre,
Bernard Hedges makes sure his class is included.
Director Mark Stuart (1971. PG) . ♦ See Films: pages 43-76 **
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