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BBC CHRISTMAS TV 1973

  Saturday 22nd December 1973

  BBC1

    
9.00am   Watch with Mother :
                     Mary, Mungo and Midge
     9.15am   Help! It's the Hair Bear Bunch
     9.35am   Right Charlie
  10.00am   Laurel and Hardy : A Chump at Oxford
   11.00am   Film : The Secret Garden (1949)
   12.25pm   Weatherman
   12.30pm   Grandstand
    5.05pm   The Movie Quiz
    5.35pm   News, Weatherman 
    5.50pm   Doctor Who : The Time Warrior : Part 2
     6.15pm   Bruce Forsyth and The Generation Game
    7.00pm   Harry Secombe Show
     7.45pm   Men of Action
                    Film : South West to Sonora (1966)
    9.20pm   News, Weather
    9.30pm   International Show Jumping
   10.15pm   Match of the Day
    11.15pm   Parkinson
   12.30am   Weatherman
                    Closedown


  Sunday 23rd December 1973

  BBC1

    
9.15am   Nai Zindagi Naya Jeevan
   9.45am   Farming
 10.10am   Private Lives
 10.35am   Family Service
 11.40am   The Philpott File
 12.30pm   The World of Abbott and Costello
    1.45pm  Watch with Mother : The Herbs
  2.00pm   News, Weatherman
   2.05pm   The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau
   2.50pm   Show Jumping
    3.35pm   Grey Owl
   4.30pm   The Basil Brush Show
   5.00pm   Film : The Red Badge of Courage (1951)
    6.05pm   News, Weatherman
     6.15pm   The Sunday Debate
    6.50pm   Family Carols
     7.25pm   Film :  How the West Was Won (1962)
     9.55pm   News, Weather
   10.05pm   Onedin Line
   10.55pm   Marcel Marceau
    11.35pm   Christmas Music from Lincoln
     12.15am   Weatherman
                      Closedown


​  Chistmas Eve Monday 24th December 1973

  BBC1

  9.00am  Fingerbobs
 
                  House

  9.15am    Champion, the Wonder Horse  
                  Stone Heart (b&w)

  9.40am   Event : The Welsh Hill Rally

10.05am   Magic Roundabout

10.10am    Wonderful World of Disney   
                  Fantasy on Skis

10.55am  Tom and Jerry  
                 The Night Before Christmas
                 and the award-winning Johann Mouse

11.10am    Film : A Night in Casablanca (1946)
                  starring the Marx Brothers 

12.30pm  The Perry Como Winter Show
                 starring Perry Como and his guests
                 
Joey Heatherton, The Muppets and 
Art Carney 

  1.20pm   News, Weatherman Bert Foord

  1.25pm    Mastermind
                   introduced by Magnus Magnusson 

  1.55pm   Robert Mayer Carol Concert
                  for 50 years Sir Robert Mayer has been
                  associated with concerts for children.
                  In honour of his services to music, the
                  annual Carol Concert was this year given
                  by The Academy of the BBC


  2.45pm  Wildlife Safari to the Argentine 
                 with Jeffery Boswall

  4.00pm  Play School  
                  today's story : The Twelve Days of Christmas 

  4.25pm   Yogi Bear 
                  A Bear Pair

  4.30pm  Jackanory 
                 with Eileen Alkins
                 "The Tailor of Gloucester"


  4.45pm  Blue Peter 
                 including Blue Peter Pantomime with
                 Valerie Singleton, 
John Noakes,
                 Peter Purves and Lesley Judd


  5.15pm   National News with Richard Whitmore
                 Weather

  5.20pm  Natural Break
                 Cows can't fly ... but some mammals can

  5.30pm  Mr Chetham's Music School
                 words and music in tune with Christmas
                 spoken, sung and played by the boys and
                 girls of this unique school


 6.00pm  Film : Walt Disney's
                 The Happiest  Millionaire (1967)

                  starring Fred MacMurray, Tommy Steele,
                  Greer Garson, Geraldine Page, Gladys Cooper, 
                  Hermione Baddeley


  8.20pm  Ken Dodd
                  says.... Stand by your beds!  for 
                  
Doddy's Christmas Forces Show 


  9.20pm  News Richard Whitmore 
                  Weather

  9.30pm  Steptoe and Son
                  Christmas special

 10.15pm   Gershwin's Porgy
                  a special Christmas Omnibus

  11.30pm  The Countryman at Christmas
                  introduced by Duncan Carse who sets out to
                  capture that elusive "spirit of Christmas"


  12.00       Midnight Mass of the Nativity
                   from the Priory Church of Christ the King,
                   Cockfosters 


   1.00am   Closedown

 
  Christmas Day Tuesday 25th December 1973

  BBC1


   9.35am  Along the Trail 
                 Canadian wildlife, including caribou
                 and timber wolves


  9.50am  The Selfish Giant  
                 cartoon film of the fairy tale by Oscar Wilde.
                 The children used to play in the Giant's
                 beautiful garden. One day, he came back 
and
                 put up a notice "Trespassers will be 
prosecuted."

10.15am   News Headlines, Weatherman Bert Foord

10.20am  Christmas Morning Service
                 for Christmas Day from Wimborne Minster,
                 Dorset 


11.25am    Harry Secombe
                 appeals on behalf of the National Council for
                 One-Parent Families


11.30am    A Stocking Full of Stars
                  opened by Michael Aspel and Hope and Keen
                  direct from the National Children's Home at
                  Harpenden including Blue Peter, Roy Castle,
                  Charlie Cairoli,The Goodies, The Osmonds,
                  Tom and Jerry, Top Soccer Stars, Vision On,
                  Walt Disney


  1.30pm   The Black and White Minstrel Show
                  starring The Mitchell Minstrels  

  2.15pm   Top of the Pops 73
                  A review of the year's No 1 hits introduced by
                  Tony Blackburn 
and Noel Edmonds

   3.00pm  The Queen
                   speaks to the Commonwealth

    3.15pm  Billy Smart's Christmas Circus

   4.20pm  Christmas Pantomime : Robin Hood
                   starring Terry Scott and Anita Harris

    5.55pm  News Robert Dougall
                   Weatherman Bert Foord

   6.05pm  Bruce Forsyth and the Generation Game
                   with Anthea Redfern

    7.05pm  The Mike Yarwood Christmas Show

    7.35pm  Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show

                   A star-studded holiday special starring 
                   
Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise with special
                   guests Vanessa Redgrave, Hannah Gordon,
                   The New Seekers, 
John Hanson and guest
                    appearances of Yehudi Menuhin,
                    Rudolf Nureyev, 
Laurence Olivier,
                    Andre Previn


   8.35pm  Film : The Odd Couple (1968)
                   starring Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon

 10.20pm  News Robert Dougall  Weather

 10.30pm  Gala Performance
                  Michael Flanders introduces: Norma Burrowes
                  Jacques Loussier Play Bach Trio,
                 
Galina Samsova, Andre Prokovsky Ballet,
                  Folklorico of Mexico, 
Nigel Kennedy, 
                  
New Philharmonia Orchestra


11.35pm    Lost Hearts
                  a ghost story for Christmas by M. R. James

12.10am    Weather
                   Closedown   



  Boxing Day Wednesday 26th December 1973

   BBC1 

  9.25am  Ragtime

                 Play words with Bubble, Humbug
                 and the Spoons 


  9.40am  Appointment at Kiel
                 the story of the ambitious men who fought  
                 for places in the British Olympic Yachting team


 10.35am  Film : A Hard Day's Night (1964)
                 starring The Beatles Premiere

 11.55am  Weatherman Keith Best

  12.00      Boxing Day Grandstand
                  (12.05 Football Preview 
                   
12.15 Rugby League 
                   12.55 Motor Racing 

                   1.05 Racing from Kempton 
                   1.25 Racing from Wincanton 
                   1.40 Racing from Kempton 
                   1.55 Racing from Wincanton 

                   2.10 Racing from Kempton) 

    2.35pm  It's A Christmas Knockout
                   between teams from Great Britain Belgium,
                   Italy and Holland 
from the Olympic Ice Rink,
                   Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy 


    3.25pm  Film : Porgy and Bess (1959)
                   starring Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge,
                   Sammy Davis Jr


   5.15pm   Holiday on Ice
                   starring Ondrej Nepela , Hauss and Hafner,
                   Mitsuko Funakoshi, Don Knight, Janet Runn,
                   Teri Tucker, Ricky Inglesi and a chorus
                   including 30 gorgeous girls


    6.05pm  News with Peter Woods, Weather and 
                    Today's Sport

    6.15pm   Disney Time 
                    introduced by Paul and Linda McCartney

    7.00pm  Film : Casino Royale  (1967) Premiere
                   starring David Niven

    9.05pm  The Dick Emery Show

     9.35pm  The Two Ronnies Old-Fashioned 
                    Christmas Mystery

                     starring Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker 

    10.35pm   News Peter Woods  Weather

    10.50pm   The Good Old Days
                      Christmas edition of Old-Time Music-Hall
                      from the stage of the Famous City Varieties
                      Theatre, Leeds


     11.40pm  The Exorcism
                      the weekend cottage is not quite the bargain
                      it seemed, as Dan and Margaret find when
                      they accept an invitation to go there for
                      Christmas
​


     12.30am  Weatherman
​                      Closedown

  Thursday 27th December 1973

​  BBC1

     
9.45am   Watch with Mother : Chigley
   10.00am   Champion the Wonder Horse
   10.25am   Event
   10.50am   Magic Roundabout
    10.55am  The Wembley Story 1923-1973 
     11.30am  Sapporo Winter Olympics
     1.00pm   Racing from Kempton Park 
     2.30pm   The World of Jimmy Young
      3.15pm   Penguin City
     4.00pm   Doctor Who : The Green Death
     5.30pm   National News, Weatherman 
     5.40pm   Tom and Jerry
      5.45pm  Top of the Pops : Ten Years of Pop Music,
                      1964-74 
      6.35pm   Film : Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times
                      (1936)
     8.00pm   Mastermind
      8.30pm   Some Mothers Do 'ave 'em
      9.00pm   All Star Swing Festival
      9.50pm   News, Weather
     10.00pm  TV Film : The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll
                       and Mr Hyde (1968)
      12.00        Weatherman 
                       
followed by Regional News and Weather 
                        Closedown

  Friday 28th December 1973

​  BBC1

     
9.50am   Watch with Mother :  Joe
   10.05am   Champion the Wonder Horse
   10.30am   Event
   10.55am   Magic Roundabout
   11.00am   Film :  Laurel and Hardy  : Swiss Miss (1938)
   12.10pm   That Stuart Hall Show
   12.40pm   News, Weather
   12.45pm   Tibenham's Travels
      1.35pm   Film : A Dog of Flanders (1959)
     3.10pm   Andre Previn
     4.05pm   Play School
     4.30pm   Jackanory
     4.45pm   The Magician's Heart
     5.25pm   National News, Weatherman
     5.35pm   Tom and Jerry
     5.40pm   Film : Hans Christian Andersen (1952)
     7.30pm   Frost's Weekly
     8.15pm   The Mikado 
    9.20pm   News and Weekend Weather
    9.35pm   The Mikado
(continued)
  10.35pm   Uri Geller
   11.05pm   TV Film :  The Mad Trapper (1972)
   12.20am   Weather 
                     
followed by Regional News and Weather 
                     Closedown


  Saturday 29th December 1973

​  BBC1

    9.00am   Watch with Mother :
                     Mary, Mungo and Midge
      9.15am   Hair Bear Bunch
     9.35am   Champion the Wonder Horse
   10.00am   A Visitor from Space
    10.25am   Tom and Jerry
    10.30am   Laurel and Hardy : The Music Box 
    11.00am   Film : Professor Beware (1938)
    12.25pm   Weatherman
    12.30pm   Grandstand
     5.05pm   News, Weatherman 
      5.10pm   Doctor Who : The Time Warrior
      5.35pm   Today's Sport
      5.40pm   Bruce Forsyth and The Generation Game
      6.30pm   Dixon of Dock Green
       7.20pm   Harry Secombe Show
       8.05pm  Saturday Thriller
                      Film : A Dandy in Aspic (1968)
      9.50pm   News, Weather
    10.05pm   Match of the Day
    11.05pm   Parkinson
    12.05am   Weatherman
                      Closedown

​  Sunday 30th December 1973

  BBC1

    9.00am   Nai Zindagi NayaJeevan

     9.30am   Farming
     9.50am   Snow!
   10.00am   Rock Island Climb
    10.25am   The Coming of the Kings
    11.00am   Seeing and Believing
    11.30am   The Year of the Horse 1973
    12.25pm   The Red Carpet
     1.50pm   Weatherman
      1.55pm   Watch with Mother : The Herbs
     2.10pm   Tom and Jerry
      2.15pm   The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau
     3.05pm   Film Matinee : Desiree (1954)
     4.50pm   Romark
     5.20pm   Wonderful World of Disney -
                     Fifty Happy Years

     6.05pm   News, Weatherman 
      6.15pm   Faces of Christ
      6.50pm  This Year of Praise
       7.25pm   Film :  Cleopatra (1963)
       9.15pm   News, Weather
       9.25pm  Film : Cleopatra (1963)
(continued)
      11.30pm  Parkinson meets....
                      Ustinov, Reid and Charlton

     12.35am   Weatherman
                      Closedown

  New Year's Eve Monday 31st December 1973

​  BBC1

    
9.40am   When the Cameras Came to Brum
   10.10am   Film :  Band of Thieves (1962)
    11.15am   What Colour is the Wind?
   12.05pm   Faces of Christ
   12.40pm   News, Weatherman 
   12.45pm   Film : Harry Langdon in Long Pants (1927)
     1.45pm   Watch with Mother : Camberwick Green
    2.00pm   Film Matinee : Further Up the Creek (1958)
    3.30pm   Mastermind - The Final 
    4.00pm   Play School
     4.25pm   Yogi Bear
     4.30pm   Jackanory
     4.45pm   Blue Peter
      5.15pm   The Long-Nosed Princess
      5.45pm   National News, Weather
     6.00pm   Nationwide - at theTurn of the Year
      7.00pm   Sporting Superstars
      8.15pm   Nimmo in Australia
     9.00pm   Nine O'Clock News, Weather
      9.25pm   Film : Last Train from Gun Hill (1959)
    10.55pm   Top of the Year
    12.30am   Closedown

  
New Year's Day Tuesday 1st January 1974

​  BBC1

   
9.35am   On the Farm
    9.50am   Thoroughbred
   10.10am   Film :  Jack the Giant Killer (1962)
   11.40am   The Best of Knockout
   12.25pm   Weatherman
   12.30pm   Holiday Grandstand
     2.45pm   Winners at the Wheel
     3.35pm   A Funny Thing....for New Year
    4.00pm   Play School
     4.25pm   Screen Test
     4.50pm   Scooby-Doo
     5.10pm   Vision On
     5.35pm   Today's Sport
     5.45pm   National News, Weather
    6.00pm   Nationwide - at the Turn of the Year
     6.45pm   Film : Around the World Under the Sea
                      (1966)
     8.30pm   Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
     9.00pm   Nine O'Clock News, Weather
      9.25pm   Shirley Bassey at the Royal Albert Hall 
    10.10pm   Nimmo in Australia
   10.55pm   Use Your 'Euro' Loaf
    11.25pm   Weatherman 
                     
followed by Regional News and Weather 
                     Closedown

  Wednesday 2nd January 1974

  BBC1

    11.00am  Out of School
    12.10pm   Closedown
    12.25pm   Nai Zindagi Naya Jeevan
    12.55pm   News
      1.00pm   Pebble Mill at One
       1.45pm   Watch with Mother : Andy Pandy
        2.00m   Do You Remember the Memory Man?
      2.45pm   Take Another Look
      3.05pm   Petticoat Junction
      3.30pm   The Governor and J. J.
      4.00pm   Play School
       4.25pm   Pixie and Dixie
       4.35pm   Jackanory
      4.50pm   Josie & the Pussycats
       5.10pm   Search
      5.40pm   Crystal Tipps and Alistair
       5.45pm   National News, Weather
      6.00pm   Nationwide
       6.50pm   Search Control
       7.40pm   The Liver Birds
        8.10pm   Softly, Softly:Task Force
       9.00pm   Nine O'Clock News, Weather
        9.25pm   Till Death Us Do Part
        9.55pm   Ice and Easy
      10.35pm   Midweek
      11.20pm   Late Night News
      11.25pm   A Lasting Joy
      11.55pm   Weatherman; 
                       Regional News, Weather
                       Closedown

​  Thursday 3rd January 1974

    11.00am   Out of School
    12.10pm   Closedown
   12.30pm   Telewele
    12.55pm   News
     1.00pm   Pebble Mill at One
      1.45pm   Teddy Edward
      1.50pm   Ring a Ding
     2.00pm   Thursday Matinee
                      Film : The Roots of Heaven (1958)
     4.00pm   Play School
      4.25pm   Boris the Bold
      4.35pm   Jackanory
      4.50pm   Blue Peter
       5.15pm   John Craven's Newsround
      5.25pm   Wacky Races
      5.40pm   Crystal Tipps and Alastair
      5.45pm   National News, Weather
     6.00pm   Nationwide
      7.00pm   Tomorrow's World
       7.25pm   Top of the Pops
      8.00pm   It Ain't Half Hot, Mum
      8.30pm   Holiday 74
      9.00pm   Nine O'Clock News, Weather
       9.25pm   Play for Today
     10.45pm   Midweek
     11.30pm   Late Night News
     11.35pm   Weatherman : Regional News,
                      Weather : Close

  Friday 4th January 1974

 
   11.00am   Out of School
    12.00        Closedown
   12.30pm   Cywain
    12.55pm   News
     1.00pm   Pebble Mill at One
      1.45pm   Watch with Mother : Trumpton
     2.00pm   Interval
     2.05pm   Born Black, Born British
      2.45pm   For the Sake of Appearance
     3.00pm   Holiday 74
     3.30pm   Animal Stars
     4.00pm   Play School
      4.25pm   Clangers
      4.35pm   Jackanory
      4.50pm   The Pink Panther
      5.00pm   Crackerjack
      5.40pm   Crystal Tipps and Alistair
      5.45pm   National News, Weather
     6.00pm   Nationwide
      6.55pm   The Friday Western
                      Film : The Lawless Breed (1953)
       8.15pm   Frost's Weekly
      9.00pm   Nine O'Clock News, Weather
       9.25pm   Perils of Pendragon
      10.15pm   The Dimbleby Talk-In
      11.00pm   Late Night News and Weekend Weather
       11.05pm   Film : House of Wax (1953)
       12.30am   Weather 
                         
followed by Regional News and Weather 
                         Closedown
  Saturday 22nd December 1973

  BBC2

 
   2.55pm   Saturday Cinema
                    Film :  Jolson Sings Again (1949)
    4.25pm   Play Away
    4.50pm   Film Extra
    5.20pm   Man Alive
     6.10pm   Show Jumping
     7.00pm   News and Sport, Weather
      7.10pm   Rugby Special
      7.45pm   The Childhood of Christ
     9.30pm   Vienna 1900
   10.20pm   The Lost Wilderness
   10.50pm    Jazz at the Mill
     11.25pm   News on 2, Weather
    11.30pm   Midnight Movie
                     Film : Dead Image (1964)
      1.20am   Closedown


 



​  Sunday 23rd December 1973

  BBC2

    
2.05pm   Man Alive Special
     5.25pm   The Ascent of Man
      6.15pm   News Review
    6.50pm   See You Sunday
     7.25pm   The World About Us
     8.15pm   The Wedding of the Year
    8.55pm   Sporting Scenes
    9.45pm   Sherrill Milnes
  10.50pm   News on 2, Weather
   10.55pm   Frank Sinatra
    11.45pm   Up Christmas
    12.10am   Closedown

​











​  
  Christmas Eve Monday 24th December 1973


  BBC2

11.00am  Play School
                 today's story: The Twelve Days of Christmas

11.25am   Closedown

  1.50pm  Film : The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)
                 
starring Debbie Reynolds Harve Presnell
                 with Ed Begley, Jack Kruschen,
                 Hermione Baddeley



  3.55pm  This World Is Not For Children
                  In this film, director Erwin Leiser looks at
                  'poverty row' life in India, Japan, Peru,
                  Colombia and Thailand through the eyes of
                  the children who have to endure it.


  4.45pm  Top Crown
                 Champions of Crown Green Bowling compete
                 for the BBC2 Masters Trophy
                 The Final : Brian Duncan (Lancashire) v
                 Denis Mercer (Cheshire)

 
5.15pm   The Goodies and the Beanstalk
                starring Tim Brooke-Taylor Graeme Garden,
                Bill Oddie with Alfie Bass and other surprise
                guests 


 6.00pm  Call My Bluff
                 a duel of words and wit between Frank Muir,
                 Helen Mirren, James Maxwell and  Patrick
                 Campbell, Lynn Seymour, Simon Ward
                 Referee : Robert Robinson


  6.30pm  The Mormon Tabernacle Choir
                  Music and carols for the season Steve Race
                  introduces The Joy of Christmas 
from
                  Salt Lake City


  7.10pm  The Cornet Lesson
                 by Roy Kendall
                 The identity of the Salvation Army
                 bandmaster's new young pupil is a mystery
                 but, discovering more about her, he is faced
                 with an agonising dilemma


  7.40pm  Horizon
                 Kula - a Reason for Giving

  8.20pm  The Fox
                 Simon lives on an isolated farm in the
                 middle of Dartmoor with his mother
                 and deaf-mute father. He has no school
                 to go to, no other children to play with.
                 His life centres around his animals,
                 particularly a new friend - a fox


  9.20pm  Sonny and Cher
                 songs and a surprising line in up-beat comedy
                 with two of America's top entertainers and
                 their guests


10.10pm  News on 2, Weather
               
 10.15pm  Film : Wuthering Heights (1939)

                 starring Laurence Olivier, David Niven,
                 Merle Oberon with Flora Robson,

                 Donald Crisp, Hugh Williams,
                 
Geraldine Fitzgerald
 
 11.55pm  Closedown 
 

 





















  Christmas Day Tuesday 25th December 1973 

   BBC2

11.00am  Play School

                 presented Carol Chell, Johnny Ball,
                 
Lionel Morton
                 Story: The Christmas Story


11.30am  To Earth with Heaven
                reflections for Christmas morning by
               The Bishop of Gloucester, Rt Rev Basil T. Guy


11.35am   Film : White Christmas (1954)
                 starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye,
                 
Rosemary Clooney


  1.30pm  Palio
                 narrated by Robert Hardy

  2.00pm   A Christmas Carol
                   cartoon version narrated by
                   Sir Michael Redgrave with the voices of
                   Alastair Sim as Scrooge and
                   Michael Hordern as Marley's Ghost 


  2.30pm   What's My Line?
                   special Christmas game
                   Chairman David Jacobs 
                   Panel : Isobel Barnett Kenneth Williams,
                   William Franklyn,
                   Nanette Newman and a guest celebrity


  3.00pm   The Queen
                   speaks to the Commonwealth

  3.15pm    Film : Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
                   starring Julie Christie, Terence Stamp,
                   
Peter Finch, Alan Bates 

  5.55pm   The Railroader
                   starring Buster Keaton

  6.20pm  Les Marottes de Paris
                 Andre Tahon 's Company of the
                 Champs-Elysees Theatre - one of the
                 world's leading puppet theatres -
                 has delighted audiences for a generation


  6.50pm  Face the Music

  7.30pm  News on 2, Weather


   7.35pm  Swan Lake
                  with Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev

   9.15pm  Alice Through the Looking-Glass
                  by Lewis Carroll dramatised by
                  James MacTaggart 
with
                  Original music by 
Herbert Chappell

10.30pm  Film : Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
                  starring James Donald , Andrew Keir,
                  
Barbara Shelley , Julian Glover 
Premiere

12.05am  Closedown











 





   Boxing Day Wednesday 26th December 1973

  BBC2
   
11.00am   Play School

                 Boxing Day outing to a village in
                 Gloucestershire with Carol Chell.
                 Johnny Ball, Lionel Morton


11.25am  Closedown

  1.30pm  Film : Mr Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962)

                 starring James Stewart and Maureen 0'Hara

  3.25pm  Wide World of Entertainment
                  featuring The Amazing Chinese Acrobats

  4.25pm  Smike!
                 A pop musical freely based upon
                 Nicholas Nickleby


  5.20pm  Alias Smith and Jones 
                  What Happened at the XST?

  6.10pm  Man Alive 
                  Sing a Song for Christmas

   7.00pm  Golf 73
                  Highlights of a fascinating year introduced
                  by Henry Longhurst and Harry Carpenter


   7.45pm  The Pilgrimage of Everyman
                  A journey to Santiago de Compostela
                  with Edwin Mullins 


  9.05pm  News on 2, Weather

   9.10pm  Film : No Way to Treat a Lady (1968)

                  starring Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, George Segal 

  10.55pm  The Old Grey Whistle Test
                   Bob Harris introduces this special edition
                   featuring film shot during Emerson, Lake
                   and Palmer's recent European tour


   11.50pm  The Dalai Lama
                   Unique colour film of ceremonies in Tibet
                   that have vanished, probably forever


12.15am  Closedown


















​
​



​  Thursday 27th December 1973

​  BBC2

    11.00am   Play School
     11.25am   Closedown
     5.00pm   Film : It's Magic (1948)
      6.35pm   Europa
      7.00pm   Hong Kong Symphony
      7.30pm   News on 2,  Weather
       7.35pm   Negus in the Nursery
     8.00pm   Most Magnificent and Expensive Diversion
      9.10pm   Vienna 1900
    10.00pm   The Vera Lynn Show
    10.50pm   The Ascent of Man
     11.40pm   News on 2, Weather
     11.50pm   Closedown










​


   Friday 28th December 1973

​   BBC2

 
    11.00am    Play School
      11.25am   Closedown
      5.40pm   Orville and Wilbur 
       7.05pm   A Visitor from Space
       7.30pm   News on 2, Weather
        7.35pm   Family Fare
        7.50pm   The Idle Islands
        8.15pm   The Roaring Silence
       9.05pm   The Camera and the Song
        9.35pm   World Cinema
                        Film : Z (1969)
       11.35pm   News on 2, Weather
       11.50pm   Closedown

​
  











  ​Saturday 29th December 1973

​  BBC2

    
3.00pm   Saturday Cinema
                     Film : A Connecticut Yankee in
                     King Arthur's Court (1949)
     4.40pm   Play Away
     5.05pm   Film Extra
     5.40pm   Saturday Request :
                     The Chinese Tutankhamun 
     6.30pm   Man Alive
     7.20pm   News and Sport, Weather
     7.30pm   Rugby Special
     8.05pm   The Goodies
      8.35pm   La Traviata
    10.35pm   Vienna 1900
     11.25pm   News on 2, Weather
     11.30pm   Midnight Movie 
                      Film : The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
    12.55am    Closedown








  Sunday 30th December 1973

  BBC2

    
4.15pm   The Royal Institution Christmas Lecture :
                   The Languages of Animals
    5.15pm   The Ascent of Man
    6.05pm   News Review
    6.50pm   What's It All About?
     7.25pm   The World About Us
     8.15pm   Wide World of Entertainment
    9.05pm   Maurice Ravel
   10.15pm   Sporting Scenes
   11.05pm   News on 2, Weather
    11.10pm   Monty Python's Flying Circus
   11.40pm   Closedown















 
  New Year's Eve Monday 31st December 1973

​  BBC2

​    
11.00am   Play School
     11.25am   Closedown
    5.00pm    Film : If You Feel Like Singing (1950)
     6.45pm   Royal Institution Christmas Lecture :
                     The Languages of Animals
     7.45pm   News on 2, Weather
     7.50pm   Look, Stranger
     8.15pm   Alias Smith and Jones
    9.00pm   Call My Bluff
     9.25pm   Horizon
   10.20pm   Centre Play -
                     The Illumination of Mr Shannon 
   10.50pm   News on 2, Weather
   10.55pm   Film :  After the Thin Man (1936)
    12.45am   Closedown








  
New Year's Day Tuesday 1st January 1974

​  BBC2  

    
11.00am   Play School
     11.25am   Closedown
      2.45pm   Film :  PT 109 (1963)
     5.00pm   The Tournament of Roses
      5.25pm   New Year's Day Concert from Vienna
     6.40pm   News on 2, Weather
      6.45pm   Royal Institution Christmas Lecture :
                      The Languages of Animals 
      7.45pm   Escape to the Sea
     8.30pm   Henry Moore
      9.25pm   Alpha Beta
    10.30pm   News on 2, Weather
    10.45pm   The Old Grey Whistle Test
   12.00          Closedown












​   Wednesday 2nd January 1974

  BBC2

    
11.00am   Play School
      11.25am   Closedown
      6.30pm   Royal Institution Christmas Lecture :
                       The Languages of Animals
      7.30pm   News Summary, Weather
       7.35pm   Richie Havens In Concert 
       8.10pm   Man Alive
      9.00pm   Midweek Cinema
                       Film : Marnie (1964)
      11.05pm   News Extra
      11.35pm   Film Night Quiz
      12.05am   Closedown





















  ​Thursday 3rd January 1974

    11.00am   Play School
     11.25am   Closedown
     6.30pm   Royal Institution Christmas Lecture :
                      The Languages of Animals
      7.30pm   News Summary, Weather
       7.35pm   Europa
      8.30pm   Vienna 1900
       9.25pm   Show of the Week: The Two Ronnies
      10.10pm  The Ascent of Man
      11.00pm  News Extra
      11.30pm  Real Time
      12.15am   Closedown


















​  Friday 4th January 1974

    
11.00am   Play School
     11.25am   Closedown
      6.30pm  Royal Institution Christmas Lecture :
                      The Languages of Animals
      7.30pm   News Summary, Weather
      7.35pm   Family Fare
      7.45pm   The Idle Islands
      8.10pm   The Money Programme
      9.00pm   The Camera and the Song
      9.30pm   The Energy Crunch
     11.30pm   News Extra
     12.00         Closedown


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