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BBC CHRISTMAS TV 1971

   Saturday 18th December 1971

  BBC1

    11.45am   Weatherman
    11.50am   Ali Bongo's Cartoon Carnival
   12.30pm   Grandstand
    3.50pm    Lancer
     4.40pm   Final Score
    5.00pm   Tom and Jerry
     5.05pm   Whacko!
     5.35pm   News, Weatherman 
     5.45pm   Bruce Forsyth and The Generation Game
     6.30pm   Film : Around the World Under the Sea
                     (1966)
     8.20pm   Dixon of Dock Green
     9.05pm   Cilla
     9.50pm   News and Weather
   10.00pm   Match of the Day
     11.00pm  Braden's Week
     11.35pm   Weatherman : Closedown

  Sunday 19th December 1971

​  BBC1

     9.00am   Nai Zindagi Naya Jeevan
     9.30am   Closedown
    11.00am   Seeing and Believing
    11.30am   Closedown
      1.25pm   Farming
      1.50pm   Weather for Farmers 
                      Interval
       1.55pm   Made in Britain
      2.04pm   News Headlines
      2.05pm   Here's Lucy
      2.30pm   Laurel and Hardy : Fixer Uppers
      2.50pm   Film of the Book : David Copperfield
      4.55pm   Carols for Christmas
     5.25pm    Walt Disney
                      The Wonderful World of Colour
                      From All Of Us To All Of You 
      6.05pm   News, Weatherman
       6.15pm   No Peace on Earth
       6.45pm   Songs of Praise
       7.25pm   Morecambe and WiseShow
       8.10pm   The Cherry Orchard
      10.15pm   News and Weather
     10.25pm   Omnibus
      11.15pm   Parkinson
     12.05am   Weatherman : Closedown

  Monday 20th December 1971

​  BBC1

    
1.00pm   No Peace on Earth
     1.30pm   Watch with Mother : Along the River
     1.45pm   News, Weatherman
     1.53pm   Closedown
     4.15pm   Play School
    4.40pm   Jackanory
    4.55pm   Blue Peter
    5.20pm   Asterix the Gaul
    5.44pm   Magic Roundabout
    5.50pm   National News and Weather
   6.00pm   London This Week
    6.20pm   Entertaining with Kerr
    6.45pm   Ask the Family
    7.05pm   Z Cars
    7.30pm   Best of Baxter
   8.00pm   Panorama
   9.00pm   Nine O'Clock News
   9.20pm   The Troubleshooters
  10.10pm   The Spinners at the Phil
  10.40pm   24 Hours
    11.15pm   Sounds of Christmas
   11.45pm   Weatherman 
                     
followed by Regional News and Weather 
                     
(all except London and Wales) 
                     Closedown​

​  Tuesday 21st December 1971

​  BBC1

    
12.55pm  Colofn a Sylfaen
      1.25pm   Interval
     1.30pm   Watch with Mother : Joe
       1.45pm  News, Weatherman 
      1.53pm   Closedown
      4.15pm   Play School
     4.40pm   Jackanory
     4.55pm   Vision On
     5.20pm   Harlem Globetrotters
     5.44pm   Magic Roundabout
     5.50pm   National News and Weather
    6.00pm   Nationwide
    6.45pm   Transworld Top Team
     7.05pm   Z Cars
    7.30pm   High Adventure
                    Film : Dangerous Exile (1957)
   9.00pm   Nine O'Clock News, Weather
   9.20pm   Jerusalem International
  10.10pm   Film 71
 10.40pm   24 Hours
   11.15pm   Reflection
  11.20pm   Weatherman 
                   
followed by Closedown

  Wednesday 22nd December 1971

​  BBC1

    
12.25pm   Nai Zindagi Naya Jeevan
    12.55pm   Interval
     1.00pm   Disc a Dawn
      1.25pm   Interval
      1.30pm  Watch with Mother : Trumpton
      1.45pm   News, Weatherman
      1.53pm   Closedown
      4.15pm   Play School
     4.40pm   Jackanory
     4.55pm   The Madly Sad Princess
     5.20pm   Search
     5.44pm   Magic Roundabout
     5.50pm   National News and Weather
     6.00pm   Nationwide
     6.50pm   Tom and Jerry
     7.00pm   Owen MD
      7.25pm   Star Trek
     8.10pm   Softly, Softly:Task Force
    9.00pm   Nine O'Clock News
     9.20pm   The Great Exodus
   10.00pm   A Party Political Broadcast on behalf
                     of the Labour Party 
    10.15pm   Sportsnightwith Coleman
    11.00pm   24 Hours
    11.30pm   Weatherman 
                      
followed by Regional News and Weather 
                      
(all except London and Wales) Closedown

  Thursday 23rd December 1971

​  BBC1

    
12.55pm   Tresarn
      1.25pm   Interval
      1.30pm   Watch with Mother  : Pogles' Wood
      1.45pm   News, Weatherman
      1.53pm   Closedown
      4.15pm   Play School
     4.40pm   Jackanory
     4.55pm   Blue Peter
     5.20pm   The Adventures of Dr Dolittle
    5.44:pm   Magic Roundabout
     5.50pm   National News and Weather
    6.00pm   Nationwide
     6.50pm   Tom and Jerry
     7.00pm   Owen MD
     7.30pm   Film :
                     The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery (1966)
     9.00pm   Nine O'Clock News, Weather
     9.20pm   The Hallelujah Handshake
    10.35pm   Holiday 72
    11.00pm   24 Hours
     11.25pm   Conflict at Work
    11.50pm   Weatherman
                      Regional News and Weather 
                     
 (all except London and Wales) Closedown
​  
  Christmas Eve Friday 24th December 1971 
  
  BBC1


10.00am  Laurel and Hardy: Laughing Gravy

10.20am  Film : White Christmas (1954)
                 with Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye,
                 
Rosemary Clooney

 12.15pm  The Night the Animals Talked
                 cartoon

12.40pm  Jesus
                The story of His life through the eyes of the
                Young Generation 
introduced by Kenneth More

  1.20pm  Tom and Jerry 
                 Mice Follies

  1.30pm  Mary, Mungo and Midge 
                 The Hospital

  1.45pm  News, Weatherman Jack Scott

  1.55pm  Film : Mr Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962)
                 with James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara

  3.45pm  Play School

  4.10pm  Jackanory

                 The Armourer's House

  4.25pm  Jack and the Beanstalk
                 A seasonal fairy story with music starring
                 Gene Kelly


  5.15pm  Screen Test
                In this special edition Michael Rodd puts the
                questions to the four winners from 
previous
                finals


 5.44pm  Magic Roundabout

 5.50pm  National News and Weather


 6.00pm  Regional News

  6.15pm  Tomorrow's World

                 visits Yesterday's World
                 An exploration of the wonders of the
                 scientific past, set in the historic splendour
                 of Bunratty Castle


  6.45pm  Christmas Music
                 from Ely Cathedral with The Choir of King's
                 College, Cambridge 


   7.30pm  It's Cliff Richard
                  The first live show in a new series starring
                  Cliff Richard with Olivia Newton-John,
                  Labi Siffre and The Flirtations featuring
                  The New Seekers and a special guest
                  appearance of Dandy Nichols


  8.15pm   Film : Carrington VC (1955)
                  A special film presentation starring
                  David Niven, Margaret Leighton,
                  Noelle Middleton
 

10.00pm  Main News Kenneth Kendall

 10.15pm  The Onedin Line 
                  Mutiny

  11.05pm  A Ghost Story for Christmas 
                  The Stalls of Barchester

  11.50pm  Midnight Mass of the Nativity
                   from the Roman Catholic Church of the
                   
Holy Name, Manchester

  1.05am  Closedown

 Christmas Day Saturday 25th December 1971
 
  BBC1


  9.00am  This is Christmas Morning
                  Seasonal words and music spoken, sung and
                  played by the boys and girls of Chetham's
                  School, Manchester


  9.30am  Aspel's Christmas Crackers
                 Michael Aspel introduces a selection of
                 cartoons and a sequence from The Tales of
                 Beatrix Potter


10.25am  News Summary, Weather Bert Foord

10.30am  A Family Service
                 for Christmas Day from St Mary's Parish
                 Church, Moseley, Birmingham


11.30am  The Order of St John
                a Christmas Appeal on behalf of the
                Order of Chivalry


11.35am  The Basil Brush Show
                Basil in Pantoland, featuring Derek Fowlds

12.00       Rolf Harris 
                invites you to meet the Kids from Queen
                Mary's Hospital for Children, Carshalton, Surrey


12.50pm  Ken Dodd  
                 introduces We Want to Sing

   1.15pm  Bruce Forsyth and the Generation Game
                 starring Bruce Forsyth in his special Christmas
                 programme, with umpteen Santa Clauses,
                 Walt Disney characters, clowns, a pantomime
                 and Family Couples from all over the country,
                 including a special section for kids at home


  2.15pm  Top of the Pops 71
                 introduced by Jimmy Savile

 3.00pm  The Queen

  3.10pm  Billy Smart's Christmas Circus


  4.15pm  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 Orchestra


  5.00pm  Aladdin
                  starring Cilla Black as Aladdin
                  A traditional pantomime recorded at
                  Wimbledon Theatre


  6.30pm  News Richard Baker, Weather Bert Foord

  6.40pm  Christmas Night with the Stars 
                  introduced by Ronnie Corbett and
                  Ronnie Barker,featuring
                  Englebert Humperdink, Lulu,Vera Lynn,
                  Harry Secombe, The New Seekers,
                  Till Death Us Do Part, Bachelor Father,
                  Dick Emery,
                   A Policeman's Lot with Eric Sykes,
                   Look Mike Yarwood, The Young Generation


   8.00pm  The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show
                   A star-studded holiday special starring
                   Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise
                   written by Eddie Braben with special guests
                   Andre Previn and featuring Los Zafiros,
                   Ann Hamilton 


   9.05pm  Film : Arabesque (1966)
                   with Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren, Alan Badel

  10.45pm  The Good Old Days
                   A Christmas edition of Old-Time Music-Hall
​                   from the stage of the Famous Varieties
                   Theatre, Leeds


   11.35pm  The Countryman at Christmas
                   A romantic look at the countryside and its
                   resilience to change


   11.55pm  Reflection
                   Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh considers
                   a Nativity painting


   12.00       Closedown


  Christmas Sunday 26th December 1971

  BBC1

 11.00am  Seeing and Believing
                 Christmas music in several styles from 
                 
Trinity Methodist Church, Woking


  11.30am  4472- Flying Scotsman
                  An epitaph for the age of steam.
                  Another chance to see this unique film
                  of the Flying Scotsman's dramatic non-stop
                  run from London to Edinburgh on the 40th
                  anniversary of its first trip. 


 12.10pm  Horton Hears a Who
                  A voice coming from a small speck of dust
                  cries for help and Horton the Elephant vows
                  his assistance. Animation


 12.55pm  Peter and the Wolf
                 Prokofiev's enchanting musical story told
                 by Mia Farrow with the London Symphony
                 Orchestra


  1.00pm  The World of Abbott and Costello
                 starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello 

   2.15pm  The Flying Falcons
                 Behind the scenes with The RAF Free
                 Fall 
Parachute Display Team 


  2.40pm  Film : The Happy Years (1950)
                 with Dean Stockwell, Darryl Hickman,
                 Scotty Beckett


  4.25pm  The Gang Show
                 Excerpts from the 1971 London production
                 with Ralph Reader and a cast of 120 Scouts
                 and Guides


  5.00pm  Wildlife Spectacular 
                  introduced by Peter Cushing and 
                 
Dr David Bellamy

  6.05pm  News with John Edmunds 
                  Weatherman Bert Foord

   6.15pm  Noye's Fludde
                  The Chester Miracle Play set to music by
                  Benjamin Britten with Owen Brannigan as
                  Noye and Sheila Rex as Mrs Noye

                  The story of Noah's Ark

  7.05pm  Joy at Christmas
                 Joy Webb of the Salvation Army's Joystrings
                 invites you to join her in a musical party with
                 the Croydon Junior Singers in the  Hall of the
                 Parish Church Junior School, Croydon


  7.25pm  Brian Rix presents
                 "She's Done It Again!" by Michael Pertwee

  8.55pm  News Summary
                 Weather


  9.00pm  Die Fledermaus
                  operetta by Johann Strauss

11.00pm  The Life and Death of the Scharnhorst
                 written and presented by Ludovic Kennedy 

11.50pm  Weatherman, Closedown

  Boxing Day Monday 27th December 1971

  BBC1

  9.00am  Along the River
                 Watch with Mother

  9.15am   Golden Silents
                 introduced by Michael Bentine 

  9.40am  Film : A Hard Day's Night (1964)
                 starring The Beatles with Wilfrid Brambell,
                 Norman Rossington, Victor Spinetti
 
                 The Beatles' first feature film was a way-out
                 trip from Liverpool to London​


11.05am  Rock Island Climb
                An unconquered overhang in the Outer Hebrides

11.30am  Ask the Family
                introduced by Robert Robinson
                The 1971 Finalists the Bygrave Family from
                Whitchurch, Bristol v The 1970 Finalists the
                Doran Family from Middlesbrough, Teesside​

​

12.00       Holiday Grandstand
                 introduced by Frank Bough 
                 12.05 Football Preview  
                 12.20 Rugby League from Headingley Leeds
                 v Wakefield 
                 1.05; 1.40; 2.05 Racing from Kempton 
                 1.25; 1.55 Motor Racing from Brands Hatch 


  2.30pm  It's a Christmas Knockout
                  A special festive competition between teams
                  from 
Great Britain, Holland Belgium, Italy
                  from the Aviemore Centre, Scotland. 


  3.20pm  The Virginian
                 Crime Wave at Buffalo Springs
                 starring 
James Drury

  4.35pm  Top of the Pops '71
                 Part Two

  5.15pm  News Kenneth Kendall
                Weatherman Jack Scott

 5.30pm  Disney Time
                 Introduced by Valerie Singleton, John Noakes
                 and Peter Purves 
of Blue Peter with scenes from
                 Sleeping Beauty
                 Treasure Island
                 Robin Hood
                 Swiss Family Robinson
                 Wind in the Willows
                 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
                 Bedknobs and Broomsticks


  6.15pm  Dixon of Dock Green
                 Wingy starring Jack Warner

  7.00pm  A Special Dad's Army
                 Battle of the Giants

  8.00pm  Film :Carry on Cowboy (1966) Premiere
                  with Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Jim Dale

  9.30pm  Petula...and Friends
                  starring Petula Clark who invites you to join
                  her in a special Christmas programme with
                  guests Warren Mitchell, Rolf Harris,
                  Manitas de Plata, and Johnny Harris & his
                  Orchestra


10.20pm  News  Robert Dougall

10.30pm  Omnibus : Humphrey Bogart
                 looking at the life, times and personality of
                 Bogart and features excerpts from over 15 of
                 his most significant films


11.30pm  Weatherman, Closedown


  Tuesday 28th December 1971 (Bank Holiday)

  BBC1

  9.00am  Watch with Mother : Joe 
                  Joe and the Nursery
                     


  9.15am   Film : Little Women (1949)
                 with June Allyson

11.00am  Festival of Entertainment
                 share the enjoyment of music and spectacle
                 with enthusiastic audiences in a variety of
                 outside broadcast entertainments
                 introduced by Michael Aspel​


12.00       Film : The General (1926)
                 with Buster Keaton (b&w)

  1.10pm  Grandstand 
                 introduced by Frank Bough
                 (1.15, 1.45, 2.20, 2.50 Racing from Kempton,
                 2.05 Racing from Leopardstown,
                 Show Jumping review 1971)


  3.55pm  Here's Lucy 
                 Lucy and the Generation Gap

  4.20pm  Doctor Who
                 Doctor Who and the Daemons
                 for the first time a complete adventure in
                 one programme starring Jon Pertwee as the
​                 Doctor


  5.50pm  News, Weatherman Jack Scott

  6.00pm  Tom and Jerry
                  Little School Mouse 

  6.10pm  Transworld Top Team  
                 Oban v Baltimore

  6.30pm  Film : The Great Escape (1963)
                  starring Steve McQueen, James Garner

   9.15pm  News presented by Robert Dougall
                  Weather

  9.30pm  Panorama: Review of the Year
                 The sights and sounds of 71

10.25pm  Presenting Keith Michell
                 in a special Christmas programme with
                 Marian Montgomery, Nina, Richard
​                 Wattis, 
Helena and Paul Michell and some
                 surprise 
guests 


11.15pm   To Build a Fire
                based on Jack London's dramatic short story
                about a man facing the terrifying prospect of
                freezing to death  


12.05am  Reflection
                 The Rev Moelwyn Merchant considers
                 a 
painting of the Adoration of the Magi,


12.10am   Weatherman

12.12am   Regional News, Closedown

  Wednesday 29th December 1971

  BBC1

    1.00pm   Disc a Dawn

      1.25pm   Interval
     1.30pm   Watch with Mother : Trumpton
      1.45pm   News
      1.53pm   Interval
      1.55pm   Out of School
                    
Satisfaction Guaranteed
      2.15pm   Making a Musical 
     2.35pm   British Social History 
     2.55pm   New Horizons 
     3.25pm   Closedown
      4.15pm   Play School
     4.40pm   Jackanory
     4.55pm   The Madly Sad Princess
     5.20pm   Soper at Large
     5.44pm   Magic Roundabout
     5.50pm   National News and Weather
     6.00pm   Nationwide
      6.50pm  Tom and Jerry
     7.00pm   Owen MD
      7.25pm   Star Trek
      8.10pm   Softly, Softly : Task Force
     9.00pm   Nine O'Clock News, Weather
      9.20pm   A Blank on the Map
    10.20pm   24 Hours
    10.45pm   The Golden Years of Alexander Korda
     12.05am   Weatherman; 
                      Regional News, Weather
                     
(all except London and Wales)
                      Closedown

  Thursday 30th December 1971

​  BBC1

    
12.55pm   Tresarn
      1.25pm   Interval
      1.30pm   Watch with Mother : Pogles' Wood
      1.45pm   News, Weatherman 
      1.53pm   Interval
      1.55pm   Out of School 
                      People of Many Lands 
      2.15pm   Television Club
    3.00pm   Closedown
      4.15pm   Play School
     4.40pm   Jackanory
     4.55pm   Blue Peter
     5.20pm   The Adventures of Dr Dolittle
     5.44pm   Magic Roundabout
     5.50pm   National News and Weather
     6.00pm   Nationwide
     6.50pm   Tom and Jerry
      7.00pm   Owen MD
      7.25pm   Top of the Pops
     8.00pm   It's Awfully Bad for your Eyes, Darling....
     8.30pm   Holiday 72
     9.00pm   Nine O'Clock News
     9.20pm   Gala Performance
   10.20pm   24 Hours
   10.50pm   The Dean Martin Show with Frank Sinatra
    11.40pm   Weatherman 
                     
followed by Regional News and Weather 
                     
(all except London and Wales) Closedown

  New Year's Eve Friday 31st December 1971

​  BBC1


 12.00         Days of Thrills and Laughter
   1.30pm    Watch with Mother : Mary, Mungo & Midge
   1.45pm    News
   1.55pm    Out of School
                   The Story of Moka 
   2.10pm   Words and Pictures 
   2.25pm   Merry-go-Round for 7-9-year-olds 
   2.50pm   The Partridge Family
    3.15pm   Play School
    3.35pm   Jackanory
   3.50pm   TV Film :
                   The Story of the Silver Skates (1969)
   5.30pm   Ask Aspel
   5.50pm   National News and Weather
  6.00pm   London This Week
   6.15pm   Bruce Forsyth and The Generation Game
   7.00pm   The Virginian
    8.15pm   Tom Jones
   9.00pm   Nine O'Clock News, Weather
    9.15pm   Film : What's New Pussycat? (1965)
  11.00pm   Top of the Year
    1.00am   Closedown

  
New Year's Day Saturday 1st January 1972

​  BBC1


    10.00am   Victory at Fastnet
     10.30am   Winners at the Wheel
       11.15am   Tom and Jerry
      11.20am   Laurel and Hardy : The Chimp
      11.45am   Here Come the Double Deckers
     12.10pm   Dastardly and Muttley
                       in their Flying Machines
    12.30pm   Grandstand
      3.50pm   Lancer
      4.40pm   Final Score
      5.00pm   Whacko!
      5.30pm   News, Weatherman 
      5.45pm   Disney Parade : No Smoking
      5.50pm   Doctor  Who :
​                      The Day of the Daleks : Part 1
       6.15pm   It's Cliff Richard
     7.00pm   Dixon of Dock Green
      7.45pm   Film : The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
      9.25pm   The Dick Emery Show
      9.55pm   News and Weather
    10.05pm   Match of the Day
     11.05pm   Time for Baxter
     11.50pm   Weatherman
                      Closedown​
    Saturday 18th  December 1971

​  BBC2

    2.00pm   Saturday Cinema
                     Film : The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958)
     3.40pm   Play Away
     4.05pm   Closedown
      7.10pm   Westminster
      7.30pm   News and Sport and Weather
      7.40pm   Rugby Special
     8.20pm   Chronicle
     9.05pm   Wives and Daughters
     9.50pm   Gilbert O'Sullivan In Concert
    10.25pm   Tall Stories
    10.45pm   Film Night
     11.15pm   News on 2 and Weather
    11.20pm   Midnight Movie
                     Film : The League of Gentlemen (1960)
       1.10am   Closedown

​
​  Sunday 19th December 1971

​  BBC2

  
  7.00pm   News Review
     7.25pm   Music on 2
     8.10pm   The World About Us
                     The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau 
    9.00pm   Wives and Daughters
     9.45pm   Pick of the Weeks
   10.10pm   Television Doctor
   10.25pm   Comedy Tonight from
                     The Talk of the Town 
     11.10pm   News Summary and Weather
     11.15pm   Closedown



  
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​  
Monday 20th December 1971

​  BBC2

 
   11.00am   Play School
     11.25am   Closedown
      7.30pm   Newsroom, Weather
      8.00pm  Alias Smith and Jones
      8.50pm  Call My Bluff
     9.20pm   Horizon
    10.10pm   Thirty-Minute Theatre
    10.40pm   News on 2  and Weather
    10.45pm   Late Night Line-Up


​

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  Tuesday 21st December 1971

​  BBC2

    
11.00am   Play School
     11.25am   Closedown
      7.30pm   Newsroom, Weather
     8.00pm   International Tennis
     8.50pm   Jumbo in the Outback
     9.20pm   Casanova
   10.20pm   The Codebreakers
   10.50pm   News on 2 and Weather
    10.55pm   The Old Grey Whistle Test



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  ​Wednesday 22nd December 1971

​  BBC2

 
   11.00am   Play School
     11.25am   Closedown
     7.30pm   Newsroom, Weather
    8.00pm   Times Remembered
      8.10pm   Man Alive
     9.00pm   Look, Stranger
      9.20pm   Film : Private Potter (1962)
    10.00pm   Party Political Broadcast on behalf
                      of the Labour Party 
      10.15pm  Film : Private Potter (1962)
continued
     11.00pm   News on 2 and Weather
     11.05pm   Late Night Line-Up


 














  
Thursday 23rd December 1971

​  BBC2


   11.00am   Play School
    11.25am   Closedown
     7.30pm   Newsroom, Weather
    8.00pm   Collector's World
     9.20pm   Show of the Week: Vera Lynn
   10.05pm   News on 2 and Weather
     10.10pm  Film :  Brigitte Bardot in
                      Une Parisienne (1957)
    11.30pm   Late Night Line-Up


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  Christmas Eve Friday 24th December 1971
 

  
  BBC2 

11.00am  Play School
                Today's story is "The Little Drummer Boy"

11.25am   Closedown

 5.40pm   Christmas on 2

  5.45pm   Film : Show Boat (1951)

                  with Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner,
                  Howard Keel

   7.30pm  Wives and Daughters
                   by Mrs Gaskell : dramatised in six parts
                   6/6 Marriages

   8.15pm   News on 2
                   Weather

  8.30pm  Review

                  Topical arts magazine introduced by
                  David Jones

                  A look at children, childhood and the
                  Christmas Season with Alan Bennett telling
                  a Christmas story 


  9.20pm  Tales of Hoffmann
                  by Jacques Offenbach : Libretto based on the
                  English version by Edward Agate with
                  Geraint Evans, 
Elizabeth Harwood


11.30pm   Star of Bethlehem
                 Lotte Reiniger 's famous silhouettes bring a
                 fresh and colourful vitality to the familiar
                 story of the three kings on their journey to
                 
Bethlehem


11.50pm   News on 2
                 Weather


11.55pm  Film : Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
                with Maureen O'Hara, John Payne,
                Edmund Gwenn


  1.25am  Closedown


























 








 
   Christmas Day Saturday 25th December 1971
 


  BBC2

10.30am  Play School 

                 The Christmas Story,
                 
presented by Derek Griffiths, Carol Chell

 10.55am  How the Grinch Stole Christmas
                  animation

 11.20am  Closedown

   2.15pm  Christmas on 2

   2.20pm  The Man Who Loves Giants

                   a film about artist David Shepherd

  3.10pm  The Royal Ballet in La Fille Mal Gardee
                 Music by Ferdinand Herold freely adapted
                 and arranged by John Lanchbery


  4.50pm  The Queen
                 speaks to the Commonwealth

  5.00pm  I Can See It All or The Grand Illusion 
​                  written by Richard Wade starring
                  Dudley Foster as Humphrey Hastings
                  and Elvi Hale as his wife Constance,
                  An Edwardian After-Dinner Christmas
                  Entertainment


   5.30pm  Double Feature : Part 1
                   Film : A Distant Trumpet (1964)

                   with Troy Donahue, Suzanne Pleshette,
                   
Diane McBain

    7.20pm  News on 2 and Weather

   7.25pm   Double Feature : Part 2
                   Film : The Barretts of Wimpole Street
                   
(1957) 
                    
with Jennifer Jones, John Gielgud, Bill Travers

   9.05pm  Laurie Lee's Cider with Rosie

  10.45pm  The Little Angels

                   National Folk Ballet of Korea
                   Unique entertainment from the enchanting
                   young Korean dancers who stole the show at
                   the Royal Variety Performance​


11.15pm  News on 2 and Weather

11.20pm  Midnight Movie : Marnie (1964)

                 starring Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery,
                 Diane Baker, Martin Gabel, Louise Latham


  1.25am    Closedown





























 





​

 
​  Christmas Sunday 26th December 1971


  BBC2

  2.40pm  Pickwick

                 A musical based on The Pickwick Papers by
                 Charles Dickens


   4.05pm  News Review 
                  with visual and spoken commentary, a look
                  back on some aspects of a quiet year


  5.00pm  Film : Joan of Arc (1948)
                  with Ingrid Bergman, Francis L. Sullivan,
                  J. Carrol Naish


  7.25pm   Bird's-Eye View
                  Switzerland

  8.15pm  Perry Como- in Person
                made a welcome return to London earlier this
                year to star in his first British-made 
TV special

9.00pm  Film : The Prize (1963)
                starring Paul Newman, Elke Sommer with
                Diane Baker, Micheline Presle


11.10pm   News Summary and Weather

11.15pm    Germinal

                  1/5  Miners 

11.55pm    Closedown



















 













​







  Boxing Day Monday 27th December 1971


  BBC2

11.00am   Play School
                 Today's story is 'King John's Christmas' 
                  
by A A Milne

11.25am    Closedown

  4.35pm   Surrender to Everest

                  Narrated by Paul Scofield 

  6.05pm  Abracadabra 
                 The enchanted tale of four children who defy
                  the spells of an evil magician and restore the
                  sun to its rightful place in the heavens, cartoon


  6.15pm   Hansel and Gretel
                 Engelbert Humperdinck's tuneful and
                 delightful opera, loved by children and adults
                 alike, is based on a Grimm fairy tale


  8.00pm  News on 2
                  Weather


  8.10pm    Horizon
                   Patently Absurd
                   Is the world ready for a self-raising bowler
                   hat? Or an edible spoon?
                   Or even a pair of braces for escaping from
                   burning buildings?
                   The infinite variety of man's inventiveness is
                   revealed in tonight's programme, which
                   includes some of the more unusual
                   inventions patented in Britain and America
                   over the last 100 years


  8.55pm    Thirty Minute Theatre 
                   A Wen by Saul Bellow

  9.30pm    Alias Smith and Jones
                    A Western adventure series with
                    Hannibal Heyes and Jed ' Kid ' Curry
                    two of the roughest, toughest, nicest and
                    kindest-outlaws who ever rode the West​


10.20pm   Call My Bluff
                  A duel of words and wit between Patrick
                  Campbell, Margaret Tyzack, Francis Matthews
                  and Frank Muir, Angela Browne, Richard
                  Briers 
                  Referee : Robert Robinson ​


10.50pm   Film : Three Coins in the Fountain (1954) 
                  with Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire,
                  Jean Peters


12.30am   Closedown

























 
  Tuesday 28th December 1971 (Bank Holiday)

  BBC2
 
11.00am  Play School

                Today's story is "Henry Hatter" by Daphne Jones

11.25am   Closedown

  2.10pm   Film : Hand in Hand (1962)

                  starring John Gregson  and Sybil Thorndike

  3.20pm   The Sorrow and the Pity
                   Another opportunity to see this remarkable
                   film adapted by Marcel Ophuls from his
                   original production Le Chagrin et ta Pitié
                   which tells the human story of France under
                   the Occupation (b&w
)

  7.45pm    News on 2 with Peter Woods Weather

  8.00pm   International Tennis 
                   Masters Tournament from Paris

  9.00pm   Wheelbase
                   Barrie Gill and Gordon Wilkins cover the
                   world of motoring.with Maxwell Boyd 


  9.30pm    Paul Gallico's The Snow Goose
                   with Richard Harris and Jenny Agutter

  10.25pm  News on 2 
                   Weather


  10.30pm  Private Eye TV 
                   Ten years of humour from the most scurrilous
                   magazine in Britain featuring John 
Bird,
                   Eleanor Bron, Spike Milligan, William
                   Rushton, John Wells


11.15pm     The Old Grey Whistle Test
                   Richard Williams looks at the news, the
                   views, the sounds of today's music

























 



​  Wednesday 29th December
1971

  BBC2

     11.00am   Play School
      11.25am   Closedown
       7.30pm   Newsroom, Weather
      8.00pm   Times Remembered
       8.10pm   Man Alive
      9.00pm   Look, Stranger
       9.20pm   Film : Nothing But the Best (1964)
     10.55pm   News on 2 and Weather
     11.00pm   Late Night Line-Up




















  
​  
​
 Thursday 30th December 1971

​  BBC2

    11.00am   Play School
     11.25am   Closedown
      7.30pm   Newsroom, Weather
     8.00pm   Europa
     8.30pm   The View from Daniel Pike
     9.20pm   Show of the Week: Scott on Food
   10.05pm   News on 2 and Weather
    10.10pm   Daily Round
   10.20pm   Film : Brigitte Bardot in Vie Privee (1962)
    11.50pm   Late Night Line-Up



















​  New Year's Eve Friday 31st December 1971

​  BBC2

    
11.00am   Play School
     11.20am   Closedown
      7.30pm   Newsroom, Weather
     8.00pm   The Father of Europe
       9.15pm   Come Fishing
       9.35pm   The Goodies
     10.05pm   Review
     10.55pm   News on 2 and Weather
     11.00pm   Film : The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
       1.00am   Closedown












​  
​  
New Year's Day Saturday 1st January 1972

​  BBC2

    
2.00pm   Film : Let's Make Love (1960)
    3.50pm   Play Away
     4.15pm   The Point
    5.30pm   The Father of Europe
    6.30pm   New Year's Day Concert
     7.35pm   News and Sport and Weather
     7.45pm   Everybody's Revolution:
                     The Car, the Plane and Us
     9.35pm   Tall Stories
     9.55pm   Nilsson In Concert
   10.25pm   Germinal
    11.05pm   News on 2 and Weather
     11.15pm   Film Night's Third Anniversary
    11.50pm   Midnight Movie
                     Film :  House of Wax (1953)
       1.15am   Closedown


  

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