Ends 7.00.

Little Bear
The friends wait for it to snow on Pudding Hill.

6.25 Teletubbies Count to Christmas
Day 24 of the calendar.

Then
Pingu
The little penguin builds a snowman.

6.35 Bob the Builder
As Spud skates on the duck pond. the ice starts to crack.

6.45 Clifford the Big Red Dog
Charley comes to realise that his friends like him for who he is.

Ends 1.15.

Santa's Special Delivery
Santa is horrified to learn that people no longer believe in him.

7.25 Arthur
A big blizzard comes to Elwood City, and Arthur's teacher moves in with
him.

7.50 Taz-Mania
A double bill with the Tasmanian devil.

8.10 Christmas Chucklevision
Double bill. Paul and Barry help out in Santa's workshop, then Paul receives a ghostly visitation.

8.40 The Woody Woodpecker Show
Woody's Christmas gifts are stolen. Chilly seeks warmer climes, and Woody tries to impress Santa.

9.00 Xchange Xtra
S Club perform their latest single and Joe spends a day at Santa School.

9.25 Second Star to the Left
A rabbit, guinea pig and hamster deliver a gift to a little girl.

9.50 The Scooby-Doo Show
Ghostly canine adventures.

10.15 Christmas at the Club Blue Peter
(Shown yesterday at 4.35pm)
(Blue Peter Christmas Show is at 2pm)

11.20 Looney Tunes
Fun with Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny.

11.25 Miracle on 34th Street
Christmas fantasy starring Richard Attenborough and Elizabeth Perkins. A sceptical young girl asks a department store Santa Claus for the family she has always wanted.
(Widescreen) (1994, U) ***
Review page 50.

Then Wallace and Gromit's Cracking Contraptions

Weather; Regional News

Ends 4.55.

The Scooby-Doo Show
Ghostly adventures.

2.00 Blue Peter Christmas Show
Including the story of the Christmas truce during the First World War, plus gifts for the pets and carols around the tree. With Konnie Huq, Simon Thomas, Matt Baker and Liz Barker.
(Repeated tomorrow 8.15am)
(Blue Peter Review of the Year is on New Year's Day at 1.20pm)

2.30 Looney Tunes
Sylvester and Tweety are snowed in.

2.40 Celebrity Stitch Up!
Handy Andy, Melinda Messenger and Daniel Macpherson are taken for a ride in a special edition.

3.10 Free Willy
Wildlife adventure starring Jason James Richter and Lori Petty.
An act of vandalism leads a young tearaway to an adventure park. where he forms a friendship with an orca whale called Willy.
(Widescreen) ***
Review page 50.
Director Simon Wincer (1993, U)
(Free Willy 2: the Adventure Home is on Friday 27 December at 2.35pm)

A panto-themed team, including Bobby Davro, face taskmaster Anne Robinson.

Animated adventure, featuring the voices of Dave Foley, Kevin Spacey, Phyllis Diller and Roddy McDowall.

When daydreaming ant Flik accidentally puts his colony in peril from a swarm of warlike grasshoppers, led by the ruthless Hopper, he sets off for the big city to win even tougher bugs over to the ants' cause.
Widescreen.
Review page 50.
(1998, U)

With Anna Ford. Weather with David Braine.
Regional News

Period horror adventure. A party of archaeologists discover a tomb containing the 3,000-year-old remains of a murderous Egyptian priest, Imhotep. When the mummy is accidentally disturbed, he unleashes his terrifying powers on those who have desecrated his resting place. Review page 53.
Director Stephen Sommers (1999, 12)

EastEnders' Jessie Wallace joins Dale Winton for the Christmas Millionaire Maker and the Lotto draws.
Director Geraldine Dowd : Producer Noleen Golding The National Lottery-Jet Set is on Saturday 28 December at 7.35pm

Guests on this bumper edition of Michael Parkinson 's talk show include musician Tom Jones , impressionist Alistair McGowan , Dame Edna Everage , actor Nigel Havers , magician Marc Paul and poet Benjamin Zephaniah. Music comes from Martine McCutcheon and soul diva Mica Paris, in performance with the London Community Gospel Choir. Director Stuart McDonald ; Executive producer Beatrice Ballard Alistair McGowan 's The Big Impression is tomorrow at 8.25pm
Followed by National Lottery Update

With Anna Ford. Weather David Braine.
Regional News

From Wells Cathedral in Somerset, where worshippers gather for a celebration of the First Communion of Christmas, a live service led by the Dean of Wells, the Very Rev Richard Lewis , with the Bishop of Bath and Wells, the Rt Rev Peter Price, giving the address. Music from the cathedral choir includes Once in Royal David's City, It Came Upon the Midnight Clear, Sing of a Maiden and Hark! the Herald Angels Sing. Producer R Medwyn Hughes; Executive producer Hugh Faupel

Comedy starring Sid James, Kenneth Williams and Amanda Barrie.
Mark Antony falls for Cleopatra's charms and together they begin plotting against the hapless Julius Caesar.
Review page 53.
(1964, PG)
(Carry On Camping is on Saturday 28 December at 12.55am)

Followed by Weatherview

Programmes with sign language. Ends 4.55.
Fame, Set and Match Following the fortunes of some of the artists who took part in Band Aid. First shown on BBC2
3.25 The Life Laundry The team clears out clutter from a London fiat.
First shown on BBC2
3.55 Pyramid The story of the construction of Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza as it would have appeared to those who built it.