Presented by Darren Jordon.
Timetable on Christmas Day (W)
Hardy is challenged to a duel to the death.
(BW) (R) (S)
Comedy, a newly restored print continuing the Laurel and Hardy season.
Respectably married Stan and Ollie land in trouble when their no-good twin brothers arrive in town.
(1936, U) (BW) (S)
Films: pp 49-79 ***
Another Laurel and Hardy comedy in which the pair try to attend a convention in Chicago without their wives finding out.
(1933, U) (BW) (S)
Films: pp 49-79 *****
Karl Jenkins, composer of the chart-topping Adiemus series, has just seven days to create a piece for Manchester's Chinese New Year celebrations. Last in the series.
(S) (W)
Drama, continuing the Kirk Douglas season.
Ambitious, ruthless and embittered by poverty, Midge Kelly hits the road and gets into the fight game. Kirk Douglas Scene by Scene follows.
(1949, PG) (BW) (S)
Films: pp 49-79 ****
Mark Cousins talks to cinema's original gladiator about a career that has spanned such greats as Spartacus, The Vikings and Lust for Life. Lonely Are the Brave follows.
(S) (W)
Modern-day western starring Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands and Walter Matthau.
When old-fashioned cowboy Jack Burns finds himself thrown in jail, he makes a defiant bid for freedom.
(1962) (BW) (S)
Man without a Star concludes the Kirk Douglas season tonight at 7.30pm
Films: pp 49-79 ****
The first of four special daily editions of the show that puts the scrap back into metal as more home-made robots do battle.
See Choice.
(S)
Children: page 19
In the third part of the daily drama Dantes, still posing as the Count, initiates his revenge on Danglars.
In French with English subtitles.
(For cast see Boxing Day)
Third in the daily seven-part dramatisation of John le Carre's classic spy drama.
George Smiley sets out for Oxford to visit an old and valued friend while Peter Guillam is despatched for a spot of burglary.
(For cast see Wednesday 27 December and New Year's Eve) (R) (S)
Classic comedy starring Harry H Corbett and Wilfrid Brambell.
Albert's martial arts friends save the day when a protection racket menaces the Steptoes.
(R) (S)
Concluding the Kirk Douglas season. Western starring Kirk Douglas and Jeanne Crain.
Veteran Dempsey Rae sets about making a real cowboy out of youngster Jeff Jimson. They find work at the Big Triangle ranch, whose owner turns out to be a woman, the very determined Reed Bowman.
(1955) (S)
Films: pp 49-79 ****
Mark Lamarr, Sean Hughes and Phill Jupitus are joined by Dave Hill from Slade, Tony Wright of Terrorvision, GMTV's Lorraine Kelly and comedian Rich Hall for a fun and festive edition of the irreverent pop quiz.
See Choice.
(S) (W)
Another chance to see a one-off collection of sketches featuring such comic creations as Road Rage Richard, the King and Midlife Crisis Man. With Paul Whitehouse, Charlie Higson, John Thomson and Simon Day.
(R) (S)
Psychological drama starring Robert Forster. On her way from LA to Utah, Sandra Thomas is driven off the road by a mysterious station wagon. She is helped by Jake Nyman , a passing motorist, whose car also breaks down. As they wait for assistance, Nyman flips a coin and discusses the nature of chance.
(1997, 15) (S)
Films: pp 49-79***
Continuing the Universal Horror season with film historian Kevin Brownlow's documentary chronicles how Universal Studios became Hollywood's most famous producer of horror films, populated with such characters as Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster and the Wolf Man.
(1998. PG) (Colour and BW) (S)
The season continues with The Old Dark House which follows at 2am
Films: pp 49-79****
Classic comedy horror, continuing the Universal Horror season, starring Boris Karloff.
A group of stranded travellers is forced to take refuge from a storm in the house of the sinister Femm family.
Ends 3.10am.
(1932, PG) (BW) (S)
(The Black Cat is on tomorrow at 1.40am. Gods and Monsters, a biographical drama about director James Whales, is on New Year's Eve at 10.15pm)
Films: pp 49-79****
