BBC CHRISTMAS TV 1972
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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 |
