Story: The Christmas Spiders (traditional).
Presenters Carol Leader, Ben Thomas
Shy boy Harold is distracted from writing his book on love-making when he learns the girl he loves is to marry a scheming bigamist.
(Black and white)(Films: page 105)
[Starring] Cliff Richard
with Lauri Peters, David Kossoff, Ron Moody, The Shadows
Four young London Transport workers borrow a double-decker bus for their Continental holiday. The trip to Athens, in spite of misadventures, proves to be their best summer holiday ever.
Films: page 105
(Wonderful Life: Boxing Day 3.50 pm)
A series of 14 programmes from the books by James Herriot
Adapted by Terence Dudley
Starring Christopher Timothy as James Herriot, Robert Hardy as Siegfried Farnon and Peter Davison as Tristan Farnon
with Carol Drinkwater
Parasites... red tape... a tubercular cow... and Siegfried takes an instant dislike to Mr Murray who ill-treats a dog, as a vet's life in Skeldale Surgery continues.
BBC Birmingham
(First shown on BBC1)
The feature film starring Eric Porter, Rachel Roberts
Tag, an orphan fox-cub, is adopted by a professional huntsman and reared with a litter of hound puppies. From this strange beginning Tag retains the instincts of a fox yet becomes the constant companion to Merlin, a puppy hound. When the new season starts the fox becomes a victim of the hunt - but proves too wily for the hunters and disaster strikes.
with Moira Stuart and subtitles for the hard-of-hearing, followed by Weather
Madonna in the Meadow at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Written and narrated by David Piper
(Tomorrow: Leonardo Da Vinci - Virgin and Child with St Anne)
Music and comedy from Berkshire and Lancashire, when Pam Ayres meets Fivepenny Piece in a celebration of Christmas. The meeting is on neutral ground at Cheshire's brand new Spectrum Arena.
(BBC Manchester)
A musical celebration for Christmas Eve. Seven nations come together in a live global concert united by the man-made star of today - the communications satellite.
From The Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem; Mount Royal in Montreal, Canada; St Martin's Old Church. Garmisch, W Germany; Virginia Beach, USA; Cathedral of St Pierre, Geneva, Switzerland; St Andrew's Church, Nairobi, Kenya; St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London. Narration written by Christopher Fry and spoken by Tom Fleming and Claire Bloom
with Moira Stuart; Weather
Join Russell in his Yorkshire home for a Christmas Eve party with Cilla Black, The Cambridge Buskers, Dame Edna Everage, Madge Hindle, Arthur Marshall, Edna O'Brien, The Great Soprendo, John Tovey, Giggleswick and Settle Brass Band, Keasden Carol Singers, Kirkby Lonsdale Handbell Ringers
played by Rhondda Gillespie (piano)
Many of the 12 short movements are based on traditional Christmas songs and the work was intended for family music making.
Producer KENNETH CORDEN
Director HELEN MORTON
