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BBC CHRISTMAS TV 1972

  Saturday 23rd December 1972

  BBC1

 
  10.00am  Watch with Mother : Mr Benn
   10.10am   The Night the Animals Talked
   10.35am   The Crazy World of Laurel and Hardy
    11.55am   Harlem Globetrotters
    12.15pm   Barrier Reef
   12.40pm   Grandstand Special
    3.20pm   Quiz Ball
    3.45pm   What the Dickens
     4.15pm   We Want to Sing
     4.45pm   Final Score
    5.00pm   The Gang Show
     5.45pm   News, Weatherman 
    6.00pm   Film :
                     Charlie Chaplin in the Chaplin Revue (1959)
      7.25pm   The Harry Secombe Show
      8.10pm   Film :  The War Wagon (1967)
      9.45pm   News, Weather
   10.00pm   Match of the Day
    11.00pm   Parkinson
     12.15am   Weatherman

                      Closedown

  Christmas Eve Sunday 24th December 1972 
 
  BBC1

10.00am  In Mercy and Love Unite
                 Mass from St Dunstan`s Church, King's Heath,
                 Birmingham


 11.05am  A Christmas Carol  
                 animation


 11.30am  Jerusalem International
                 A film by Hugh Burnett
                 The tourists and pilgrims scatter across the
                 countryside around Jerusalem in search of the
                 shrines of three of the world's great religions
                 Judaism, Christianity and Islam


12.20am  The Vienna Boys Choir
                 introduced by Michael Flanders Conducted by
                 Anton Neyder


  1.00pm  The Golden Age of Comedy
                 Brilliant and hilarious highlights of laughter
                 from the studios of Mack Sennett and
                 Hal Roach , featuring the most famous
                 comedians of the 1920s: Laurel and Hardy,
                 Harry Langdon, Will Rogers, Ben Turpin,
                 Charlie Chase, Andy Clyde, Billy Bevan,
                 Charlie Murray not to mention, Cameo, the
                 wonder dog (b&w)


  2.15pm   Mary, Mungo and Midge 
                  The Letter

  2.30pm  Film : Davy Crockett- King of the Wild
                 Frontier (1955)

                 with Fess Parker, Buddy Ebsen, Basil Ruysdael

  4.00pm  Around the World in Eighty Minutes  
                 a guided tour of our spectacular planet with
                 Joyce Grenfell, Kenneth Allsop,
                 David Attenborough and Tony Soper
 


  5.20pm  Disney Time  
                  introduced by Rolf Harris with scenes from
                  Snow White and Seven Dwarfs
                  Peter and the Wolf
                  Cinderella
                  Mickey Mouse
                  Bear Country
                  Darby O'Gill and the Little People
                  and a new film, Snowball Express


  6.05pm  News, Weatherman Bert Foord

   6.15pm  Fancy Sending Them Away 
                  film about a special school

   6.35pm  The New Beginning
                  The story of Jesus told in pictures 
                  2: The Coming of the Christ 

   6.45pm  Carols with King's College Choir
                   from Lincoln Cathedral
                  Christmas music and readings to mark the
                  900th Anniversary of the founding of Lincoln
                  Cathedral


    7.25pm  Film : West Side Story (1961) 
                   with Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer,
                   
Russ Tamblyn
 
   9.50pm  News Peter Woods Weather

 10.00pm  Omnibus : Judy
                   Impressions of Garland 
                   A profile of Judy Garland, one of the world's
                   greatest entertainers, who died three years
                   ago in London at the age of 47


  11.05pm  A Ghost Story for Christmas 
                   A Warning to the Curious

  11.55pm  Nativity 
                  Midnight Eucharist from the Parish Church of
                  St Mary, Portsea


   Christmas Day Monday 25th December 1972 

  BBC1

  9.30am  This is Christmas Morning

                 Seasonal words and music spoken, sung and
                 played by the boys and girls of Chetham's
                 School, Manchester


10.00am  Mr Benn 
                  Cowboy

10.15am  News Summary
                Weatherman Graham Parker

10.20am  Born in the City
                 a service for Christmas morning

11.25am  A Christmas Appeal 
               Robert Dougall appeals on behalf of Television
               for the Deaf 


11.30am  A Stocking Full of Stars 
                opened by Michael Aspel and Roy Castle,
                featuring
                Bruce Forsyth and the Generation Game,
                Basil Brush, Blue Peter, The Goodies,
                Animal Magic, Laurel and Hardy,
                Penelope Pitstop, Tom and Jerry,
                Top of the Pops, Vision On, Yogi Bear


  1.30pm  The Black and White Minstrel Show
                 starring The Mitchell Minstrels featuring
                 
Ted Darling, Dai Francis, Margaret Savage,
                 
Andy Cole, Les Rawlings 
with The Television
                 Toppers 


   2.10pm  Top of the Pops 72
                  part 1, with Jimmy Savile and Ed Stewart

  3.00pm  The Queen
                  speaks to the Commonwealth

  3.05pm  Billy Smart's Christmas Circus

   4.10pm  Dick Whittington
                  starring Dick Emery and Peter Noone

   5.45pm  News Robert Dougall
                  Weather

   5.55pm  Bruce Forsyth and the Generation Game

   6.55pm  Christmas Night with the Stars,

                  introduced by Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie
                  Barker, featuring Cilla Black, Lulu,
Dad's
                  Army, Look - Mike Yarwood, 
The Liver
                  Birds, The Goodies, 
The Young Generation,
                  The Two Ronnies


   8.15pm  The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show
                  A star-studded holiday special starring
                  Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise
                  with special guests Glenda Jackson, Jack Jones,
                  Vera Lynn, Pete Murray with Kenny Ball and
                  his Jazzmen and guest appearances of
                  Shirley Bassey, Ian Carmichael, Fenella
                  Fielding, Eric Porter, Andre Previn, Flora
                  Robson


   9.15pm  Film : Barefoot in the Park (1967) 
                  starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda

 11.00pm  The Good Old Days 1953-1973
                  special Christmas edition which also marks
                  the 150th programme of Old-Time Music-Hall
                  from the stage of the Famous City Varieties
                  Theatre, Leeds


  11.50pm  A Story for Christmas
                  Told by John Slater 

  12.00       Weather

 12.05am   Closedown



  Boxing Day Tuesday 26th December 1972

  BBC1

  9.10am  Camberwick Green 
                 Mickey Murphy, the Baker

  9.25am  Winter Quarters
                 The wildlife of the Norfolk Broads makes itself
                 snug and awaits the coming spring


10.00am  Film :
                 Journey to the Centre of the Earth
 (1959) 
                 starring James Mason

  12.00      Holiday Grandstand 
                  (12.05 Football Preview, 12.20 Rugby  
                  League: Leeds v Wakefield T,
                  1.05, 1.40, 2.10 Racing from Kempton
                  1.25, 1.55 Motor Racing from Brands Hatch)


   2.35pm  It's a Christmas Knock-Out!
                  from Aviemore Centre, Scotland.
                  Great Britain: Aviemore 
                  Holland: Ysselstein 
                  Belgium: Angleur 
                  Italy: Madonna Di Campiglio 


  3.30pm  Film : Help!(1965) 
                  starring The Beatles with Leo McKern,
                  Eleanor Bron, Victor Spinetti, Roy Kinnear 


  5.00pm  News Summary
                  Weather and Today's Sport

  5.15pm    Holiday on Ice
                   with Joan Haanappel and Wolfgang Schwarz

  6.05pm   The Sound of Petula 
                   staring Petula Clark

  6.50pm   Film : Carry On Cleo (1964)
                   starring Sidney James,Kenneth Williams,
                   Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, 
Joan Sims,
                   Jim Dale, Amanda Barrie 


  8.20pm  The Last Goon Show of All
​                 A unique occasion recorded by outside
                 broadcast cameras during the BBC Anniversary
                 celebrations earlier in the year,  when a special
                 edition of radio's most famous comedy show
                 took place before a distinguished audience at
​                 the Camden Theatre in London


  9.00pm  News Richard Whitmore Weather

  9.10pm  Till Death Us Do Part
                 starring Warren Mitchell, Dandy Nichols,
                 Anthony Booth and Una Stubbs featuring
                 Bill Maynard and special guests from
                 Jesus Christ Superstar


  9.55pm  Shirley Bassey
                 recently returned from a record-breaking
                 appearance in New York With Segment 


10.40pm  Mastermind
                 Final 

11.10pm    Mr Wodehouse Speaking
                  William Mervyn presents the Comic and
                  Idyllic World Of P G Wodehouse


12.10am    Weatherman Keith Best ​
                  Closedown

  Wednesday 27th December 1972

  BBC1

    
9.35am  Watch with Mother :
                   Mary, Mungo and Midge
   9.50am   Desert Crusader
  10.10am   Before the Event
  10.35am   Huckleberry Hound
  10.45am   The Red Arrows
   11.30am   The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau
  12.20pm   The Year of the Horse -1972
    1.05pm   Grandstand
    2.35pm   Screen Test
    3.05pm  Doctor Who and the Sea Devils
    4.35pm  Thursday's Child
    5.05pm  A Collection of Goodies
    5.30pm  National News, Weather
    5.40pm  Tom and Jerry
     5.45pm  Fifty Years of Music
     7.00pm  Film : The Blue Max (1966)
     9.30pm  Panorama of 1972
   10.30pm  News, Weather
   10.45pm   Wildlife Safari
   12.00         Weatherman, Regional News, Weather 
                     Closedown


  Thursday 28th December 1972

  BBC1

 
   9.45am   The Sky at Night
  10.00am   Desert Crusader
   10.25am   Before the Event
   10.50am   Huckleberry Hound
   11.00am   The Pennine Wa
    11.50am   Mastermind : The Final
   12.20pm   Tom and Jerry
   12.30pm   Jimmy Young Asks
    12.55pm   News
     1.00pm   Pebble Mill at One
      1.30pm  Watch with Mother : Pogles' Wood
      1.45pm  Film :  The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958)
     4.15pm   Play School
     4.40pm  Jackanory
     4.55pm   Blue Peter
      5.25pm  Yogi Bear
                     Pixie and Dixie
     5.45pm   National News,  Weather
    6.00pm   Nationwide
     6.45pm   Tomorrow's World
      7.10pm   Top of the Pops 72 : Part 2 
     8.00pm   Sykes
     8.30pm   Holiday 73
     9.00pm   Nine O'Clock News, Weather
      9.15pm   Colditz 
    10.05pm   Tom Jones
    10.50pm   The Life and Travels of
                      Miguel de Cervantes
     11.40pm   Weatherman
                       
followed by Regional News and Weather
                       Closedown


  Friday 29th December 1972

  BBC1

    
9.45am   The Sky at Night
  10.05am   Desert Crusader
  10.25am   Before the Event
  10.50am   Huckleberry Hound
  11.00am   Tom and Jerry
   11.10am   Tomorrow's World
   11.35am   Everest 1924
  12.25pm   The Week We Caught Sea Fever
  12.55pm   News
   1.00pm   Pebble Mill at One
    1.30pm  Watch with Mother : Joe
    1.45pm   Film : The Story of Ruth (1960)
   3.50pm   Droopy
   4.00pm   Clangers
    4.10pm   Play School
    4.35pm   Crystal Tipps and Alistair
    4.40pm   Jackanory
    4.55pm   Help! It's the Hair Bear Bunch
     5.15pm   The Record Breakers
     5.45pm   National News, Weather
    6.00pm   Nationwide
    6.50pm   The Mary Tyler Moore Show
      7.15pm   The Virginian
    8.30pm   Dad's Army
    9.00pm   Nine O'Clock News, Weather
     9.15pm   The Gondoliers
   11.05pm   Cannon


  Saturday 30th December 1972

  BBC1

    
9.45am  Watch with Mother : The Herbs
 10.00am   Hansel and Gretel
   11.10am   Whale Safari
  11.40am   Harlem Globetrotters
 12.00         The Yellow Slippers
  12.25pm   Grandstand
   3.50pm   Lancer
   4.40pm   Final Score
   5.05pm   The Basil Brush Show
    5.35pm   News, Weatherman 
   5.50pm   Doctor Who : The Three Doctors : Part 1
    6.15pm   Dixon of Dock Green
    7.05pm   The Saturday Film : The Jokers (1967)
    8.35pm   Cilla
    9.20pm   A Man Called Ironside
   10.10pm   News, Weather
  10.20pm   Match of the Day
   11.20pm   Parkinson meets The Goons 
   12.20am   Weatherman
                     Closedown


  New Year's Eve Sunday 31st  December 1972

  BBC1

 
   11.00am   Seeing and Believing
     11.35am   The Little Angels
    12.05pm   Film :
                      Laurel and Hardy in Our Relations (1936)
       1.15pm   The Man Who Loves Giants
      2.05pm   Watch with Mother :
                      Mary, Mungo and Midge
      2.20pm   Barney Bear
      2.30pm   Andre Previn's Music Night
       3.15pm   Festival of Entertainment
      4.00pm   Film :  North West Frontier (1959)
      6.05pm   News, Weatherman 
       6.15pm   The Church and Apartheid
      6.40pm   The New Beginning
      6.50pm   Songs of Praise
       7.25pm   The Onedin Line
       8.15pm   All Time Greats
                      Film : A Star is Born (1954)
    10.45pm   News, Weather
    11.00pm   Top of the Year
    12.45am   Closedown


​  New Year's Day Monday 1st January 1973

​  BBC1

    
9.25am   Captain Pugwash
    9.35am   Desert Crusader: The Lord of the Desert
  10.00am   Unsolved Mysteries:
                    The Deep Blue Sea and the Devil
  10.20am   Huckleberry Hound
  10.30am   Winners at the Wheel
   11.30am   A Blank on the Map
   12.30pm  Film :  The Mark of Zorro (1940)
   2.00pm   The Best of Knock-Out!
    2.50pm   Joysticks and Jets
    3.35pm   Ski-Jumping from Garmisch
   4.00pm   Pixie and Dixie
    4.10pm   Play School
    4.35pm   Jackanory
    4.50pm   Blue Peter
     5.15pm   Scooby Doo Where are You!
    5.40pm   Crystal Tipps and Alistair
    5.45pm   National News and Weather
    5.55pm   Tom and Jerry
   6.00pm   Bruce Forsyth and The Generation Game
   6.50pm   Film :  Norman Wisdom in :
                    On the Beat (1962)
    8.30pm   The Tarbuck Follies 
     9.15pm   The Main News, Weather
    9.30pm   Gala Performance
  10.30pm   Talk-In Europe
    11.15pm   On Stage with Lena Martell
   12.00        Weatherman 
                     
followed by Regional News and Weather 
                     Closedown
  Saturday 23rd December 1972

  BBC2

    
3.00pm   Saturday Cinema
                     Film : I'd Rather be Rich (1964)
     4.35pm   Play Away
    5.00pm   Choir Practice
    6.00pm   The Bristol Entertainment
      7.10pm   Home
     7.40pm   Westminster
     8.00pm   News and Sport, Weather
      8.10pm   War and Peace
      8.55pm   Full House
      9.50pm   Christmas Greetings 
     11.00pm   News on 2, Weather
     11.05pm   Midnight Movie
                       Film : The Collector (1965)







​ 
 
   Christmas Eve Sunday 24th December 1972


  BBC2
 
  4.30pm  Money at Work 

                  The Poverty of Nations

  5.30pm  Horizon 
                  Patently Absurd

  6.15pm    News Review
                   A digest of the news of the week plus a visual
                   commentary for the deaf


   6.50pm  News Summary
                   Weather

   6.55pm   Christmas! What's It All About ? 

                   A Quiz for Christmas Eve with Jimmy Savile
                   OBE, Tania Mallett, 
The Rev David Martin,
                   
Questionmaster Brian Redhead 


    7.25pm   America 
                   A Personal History of the United States in 13
​                   parts written and narrated by 
Alistair Cooke
                   7/13 : A Firebell in the Night 


    8.15pm  Face the Music
                   A Christmas Eve edition of this musical
                   quiz 
Chairman Joseph Cooper with Joyce
                   Grenfell, 
Bernard Levin, Robin Ray

                   Guest Clifford Curzon 


   8.45pm    For Loving 
                    a play for Christmas by John King

   9.30pm  Milligan in Winter
                   entertainment with words and music by
                   Spike Milligan


  10.00pm  A Day Out  
                    by Alan Bennett

  10.50pm  Up Sunday
                    with James Cameron , Kenny Everett,
                    William Rushton , John Wells 


  11.00pm   News on 2
                    Weather


  11.05pm    Film : The Quiet Man (1952)
                     starring John Wayne and Maureen O`Hara

   1.10am     Closedown
















 





 
 




 






  Christmas Day Monday 25th December 1972
  

  BBC2

 11.00am  Play School

                 presented by Miranda Connell, Rick Jones
                 Story: The Christmas Story


 11.25am   TV Film : The Point (1971)
                  Dustin Hoffman narrates this cartoon with
                  music about a land where everything and
                  everyone is pointed - except little Oblio,
                  a boy who is always pointed at.
                  Songs written and sung by Harry Nilsson
​


 12.40pm  The Vanishing Hedgerows 
                  Another chance to see this highly-praised
                  documentary, entered for the 1973 Monte
                  Carlo International TV Festival


   1.30pm  Look, Stranger 
                  The World of Jane Phillips

   1.55pm  News Headlines

  2.00pm  Golf Story 72
 
                  with Tony Jacklin, Lee Trevino and Gary Player

  3.00pm   The Queen
                   speaks to the Commonwealth

   3.05pm  Film : Henry V (1944) 
                   produced and directed by Laurence Olivier
 
    5.15pm  Call My Bluff
                  A duel of words and wit between Frank Muir,
                  Jean Marsh, Miles Kington and
                  Patrick Campbell, Anne Stallybrass,
                  Douglas Fairbanks Jr

                  Referee : Robert Robinson


  5.45pm   Childhood of Christ
                  by Berlioz
                  A musical evocation of the familiar story of
                  the Holy Family's flight into Egypt


   7.25pm   The Stallion 
                   a man's efforts to capture a black Arab stallion

     8.15pm  La Sylphide
                    a film from French Television of a romantic
                    ballet first performed at the Paris Opera 140
                    years ago


    9.25pm   The Stone Tape 
                     by Nigel Kneale, 
                     starring
Michael Bryant and Jane Asher

   10.55pm   News on 2
                     Weather


    11.00pm   America 
                     a Personal History of the United States by
                     Alistair Cooke   7/13


   11.50pm    Fred Astaire 
                      in a special edition of The Dick Cavett Show

    12.40am    Closedown


















​  Boxing Day Tuesday 26th December 1972

  BBC2

  11.00am  Play School
                   today's story: Good King Wenceslas

  11.25am   Closedown

    1.25pm   Film :
                   The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
 
                    with Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, 
                    
Anton Walbrook

   3.30pm   Star Pieces 
                    James Mason, Honor Blackman. Una Stubbs,
                    Derek Nimmo, Deryck Guyler,
                    Dimitri Tiomkin, Donald Pleasence,
                    Anita Harris, Leslie Crowther, Vince Hill,
                    Julie Ege, Stanley Baker and Arthur Negus
                    each talk about a favourite piece in their
                    collections.
                    Hugh Scully introduces Collector's World


     4.10pm  The Living Arctic
                    The summer bloom of flowers, beasts and
                    birds is legendary.
                    Narrator Derek Jones 


     4.40pm  Orville and Wilbur 
                     with Stacey Keach and James Keach

     6.05pm  McCrindell's Toys 
                    Soho publican Ron McCrindell has been
                    collecting old toys for over a quarter of a
                    century 


    6.40pm  News Summary, Weather

    6.50pm  Falstaff 
                    Verdi's comic opera

    8.55pm   Skis Across the Alps
                    Last winter a party of British
                    ski-mountaineers set out to traverse the
                    entire length of the Alps from east to west,
                    climbing some of the highest mountains on
                    the way


     9.55pm  The Edwardians 
                    The Reluctant Juggler
                     A night at an Edwardian music-hall both
                     on stage and backstage, where the
                     performers are organising a strike
                     with Georgia Brown, Jack Douglas,
                     Fulton Mackay, Peter Pratt and George Sewell
​


  11.10pm     News on 2
                     Weather


  11.15pm     The Old Grey Whistle Test 
                     In this special 'Sampler' edition Bob Harris
                     introduces a selection of some of the
                     highlights of the last series, including
                     The Beach Boys, Jerry Lee Lewis,
                     Kris Kristofferson, Roxy Music,
                     Rolling Stones, The Beatles and many others










  ​Wednesday 27th December 1972

  BBC2

 
  11.00am   Play School
    11.25am   Closedown
    6.00pm   Peter Ustinov
    6.40pm   In Praise of Watercolour
    7.00pm   Man Alive
     7.50pm   News Summary, Weather
    8.00pm   Looking In
    9.30pm   Man of Straw
   11.30pm   News on 2, Weather
   11.35pm   Man of Straw (continued)
     1.35am   Closedown













  Thursday 28th December 1972

  BBC2

    
11.00am   Play School
     11.25am   Closedown
      7.30pm   Newsroom, Weather
     8.00pm   Europa
     8.30pm   War and Peace
      9.15pm   Horizon
   10.00pm   News on 2, Weather
   10.05pm   The Mad Trapper
    11.20pm   Georgia Brown In Concert 
   12.00         Closedown


 



















​ 
  Friday 29th December 1972


  BBC2

 
  11.00am   Play School
    11.25am   Closedown
     7.05pm   Search for the Ideal
     7.30pm   Newsroom, Weather
    8.00pm   Money at Work
    9.00pm   World Cinema
                     Film : Vivre pour Vivre (1967)
    11.05pm   News on 2, Weather
    11.10pm   Film Night Quiz


  

















​  Saturday 30th December 1972


  BBC2

    
3.00pm   Saturday Cinema
                     Film : Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)
     4.25pm   The Dot and the Line
     4.35pm   Play Away
     5.00pm   Under London Expedition
     5.50pm   Man Alive
     6.40pm   Television Doctor
     6.55pm   Horizon
     7.40pm   News and Sport, Weather
     7.50pm   Rugby Special
    8.30pm   War and Peace
     9.15pm   Them and Us
   11.40pm   News on 2, Weather
   11.45pm   Midnight Movie
                    Film :  King and Country (1964)
     1.05am   Closedown


  



​  
New Year's Eve Sunday 31st December 1972

  BBC2

    
4.15pm   Money at Work
    5.15pm   Ripples in the Ether :
                   Royal Institution Christmas Lecture
    6.15pm   News Review
    7.20pm   News Summary and Weather
    7.25pm   America
    8.15pm   The Moiseyev Ballet
    9.15pm   But Seriously - It's Sheila Hancock
    9.45pm   The View from Daniel Pike
  10.35pm   Up the Channel
  11.00pm   Film : John Ford's Tobacco Road (1941)
  12.20am   News Summary,  Weather
  12.25am   Closedown


  

​




​
  New Year's Day Monday 1st January 1973

​  BBC2

    
11.00am   Play School
     11.25am   Closedown
     3.30pm   Film :  Pal Joey (1957)
      5.15pm   New Year's Day Concert from Vienna
     6.25pm   Ripples in the Ether :
                     Royal Institution Lectures
      7.25pm   News Summary, Weather
      7.30pm   Look, Stranger : Foula - the Lonely Island
      7.55pm   Call My Bluff
      8.25pm   America
      9.15pm   Alias Smith and Jones
    10.05pm   Marlene Dietrich Show
    10.50pm   Opinion :
                      The 1972 Critics' Circle Television Awards
      11.15pm   News Extra
     11.45pm   Closedown













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