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BBC CHRISTMAS TV 1974

   Saturday 21st December 1974

​  BBC1

    
9.10am  Watch with Mother : Trumpton
    9.25am   Josie & the Pussycats in Outer Space
    9.45am  Festival of Fun
                   Film :  The Marx Brothers Go West (1940)
   11.05am  Film : Abbott and Costello : In Society (1944)
   12.12pm  Weatherman
   12.15pm  Grandstand
   5.05pm   Tom and Jerry
    5.15pm   News, Weatherman 
    5.25pm  Today's Sport
   5.30pm   Disney Time
    6.15pm   Bruce Forsyth and The Generation Game
    7.10pm   Film :  Doctor in Clover (1966)
   8.45pm   Petula Sings Christmas
   9.30pm   Kojak
 10.20pm   News, Weather
 10.30pm   Match of the Day
  11.30pm   Parkinson
 12.30am   Weatherman
                   Closedown


    Sunday 22nd December 1974

  BBC1

     
9.05am   Nai Zindagi Naya Jeevan
      9.35am   Farming
    10.00am   A Worcester Carol
    10.30am   Sung Mass from Clifton Cathedral, Bristol 
     11.35am   Plane Crazy
    12.20pm   International Show Jumping
      1.10pm   News Headlines, Weatherman 
       1.15pm   Ragtime
      1.30pm   Star Trek
      1.55pm   Film : Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N
                     (1951)
     3.50pm   Basil Brush's Christmas Fantasy
     4.20pm   Alias Smith and Jones
      5.10pm   David Copperfield
     6.05pm   News, Weatherman 
      6.15pm   Away in a Village
     6.50pm   Family Carols
      7.25pm   Film : Grand Prix (1966)
    10.10pm   News, Weather
   10.20pm   Omnibus : Mr Laurel and Mr Hardy
    11.25pm   The Countryman at Christmas
    11.55pm   A Story for Christmas
    12.05am   Weatherman
                      Closedown


  Monday 23rd December 1974

​  BBC1

    
9.55am  Boss Cat*
  10.20am  The Royal Institution Annual Christmas
                   Lectures (1973) :
The Languages of Animals
  10.50am   Abracadabra
  11.00am   Away in a Village
   11.35am   Holiday Star Trek
  12.20pm   To the Land Where Glaciers Grow
  12.50pm   News, Weatherman
   12.55pm   Pebble Mill Christmas
     1.35pm  Watch with Mother : Chigley
     1.50pm  Film : The Hills of Home (1948)
    3.23pm   Regional News
(excluding London)
    3.25pm   Screen Test
    3.50pm   Play School
     4.15pm   The Wombles
    4.20pm   Jackanory
     4.35pm   A Christmas Carol
    5.00pm   Blue Peter
    5.25pm   National News, Weatherman
    5.35pm   Tom and Jerry
(London only)
                    Regional News (All other English Regions) 
   5.40pm   Now You See It -Now You Don't
   6.05pm   The Osmonds
    6.55pm   It's a Christmas Knockout
   8.00pm   Dad's Army
   8.30pm   Mastermind : The Final 
   9.05pm   Main News, Weather
   9.20pm   Film : The Graduate (1967)
  11.05pm   The Spinners at Christmas 
   11.35pm   A Ghost Story for Christmas
   12.10am   Weatherman
                    Closedown


   Christmas Eve Tuesday 24th December 1974

  BBC1

  9.00am  Mr Benn 

                  The Frogman

  9.15am    Boss Cat

  9.40am   The Hope and Keen Scene

                   on Christmas starring Mike Hope and
                   Albie Keen with Jennifer Hill
                   and special guests 
Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band


10.05am   The Languages of Animals
                  The Royal Institution Annual Christmas
                  Lectures to Young 
People by
                  David Attenborough

                  Part 2 : Beware!

 10.35am  Speed Buggy
                  Speed Buggy is the 'pet' of engineer Tinker
                  and his pals Mark and Debbie


  11.00am  Roobarb
                  When it was Christmas

 11.05am   Holiday Star Trek 
                  Court Martial

 11.50am   A Summer Friendship
                  forty boys and girls aged 11 from ten countries
                  meet for the first time to work and play
                  together for a summer month, without the
                  help of a common language
​


 12.20pm  News, Weatherman Barbara Edwards

  12.25pm  Pebble Mill Christmas
                   the songs, comedy, food, games and customs
                   of a Victorian Family Christmas


 12.50pm   The Black and White Minstrels 
                   Christmas Show

                   starring The Mitchell Minstrels

    1.35pm   Film : National Velvet (1944)
                   starring Elizabeth Taylor, Mickey Rooney,
                   Donald Crisp


    3.35pm  The Diane Solomon Show
                   Music and song with Christmas in mind,
                   starring Diane Solomon with special guests
                   Spike Milligan, Demis Roussos, 
Arthur Negus

   4.15pm   Aladdin
                   starring Michael Aspel, Jacqueline Clarke,
                   Dana, Peter Glaze, The Goodies,
                   
Barrie Gosney, Derek Griffiths,
                   
Deryck Guyler, Jan Hunt, Don Maclean,
                   Pan’s People, 
Ed Stewart and Richard Wattis


   5.15pm   National News Richard Whitmore
                  Weather

   5.30pm  Tom and Jerry
                  in The Night before Christmas 

   5.40pm  Film : Walt Disney's Kidnapped (1960)
                   starring Peter Finch , James MacArthur

  7.10pm   The Dick Emery Christmas Show

  7.45pm   The Likely Lads

                  a special Christmas edition

  8.30pm  Film : Ice Station Zebra (1968)
                  starring Rock Hudson with Ernest Borgnine,
                  Patrick McGoohan, 
Tony Bill , Lloyd Nolan 


 10.50pm  Main News Richard Whitmore 
                  Weather

  11.00pm  Andre Previn's Christmas Music Night
                   Janet Baker joins Andre Previn in a
                   programme specially devised for relaxation
                   and enjoyment on Christmas Eve, including
                   music by Mozart and Tchaikovsky and a
                   carol or two


  11.55pm  The Message of the Angels
                  Family Eucharist from the parish church
                  of Hale, St Peter, Cheshire


 1.00am  Closedown


Christmas Day Wednesday 25th December 1974
 
  BBC1

  8.45am   Carols from Canterbury

                  This year's Christmas Carol Service
                  comes from Canterbury Cathedral
 

  9.25am   Camberwick Green

  9.40am   Cartoon Christmas Box
 
                  with Paul Jones who unwraps the box to
                  discover new versions of favourite stories :
                  The Foolish Frog
                  Sinbad the sailor
                  Babar the Elephant


  10.25am  Christmas Appeal 
                   Dame Flora Robson appeals on behalf of
                   The National Deaf Children's Society


  10.30am  Christmas Morning Service
                    from Killearn Kirk

  11.25am    A Stocking Full of Stars 
                   with Michael Aspel and Rolf Harris direct
                   from the National Children's Home at
                   Harpenden


  12.25pm  Film : Way Out West (1937)
                   starring Laurel and Hardy

   1.25pm  Holiday on Ice
                 Glamour, grace and skill from one of the
                 world's greatest ice shows


   2.15pm   Top of the Pops 
                  with Tony Blackburn and Jimmy Savile

   3.00pm  The Queen
                   speaks to the Commonwealth

   3.05pm  Billy Smart's Christmas Circus

   4.05pm  Film : True Grit (1969)

                   starring John Wayne

   6.10pm  National News Peter Woods
                  Weatherman Keith Best

   6.15pm   Bruce Forsyth and the Generation Game
                   with Anthea Redfern

    7.15pm  Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em 
                  Jessica's First Christmas

   8.05pm The Mike Yarwood Christmas Show
                  with special guest Max Bygraves

   8.45pm  Film : Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
                  starring Alec Guinness

  11.20pm  News Peter Woods
                  Weather

  11.25pm  Parkinson Takes a Christmas Look
                  at Morecambe and Wise

                  with highlights from their
                  award-winning shows


 12.20am  Closedown


  Boxing Day Thursday 26th December 1974

  BBC1

  9.05am   Barnaby 
                  Having lost her way Nordine is persuaded
                  to work for Mr Pimolou's circus and has to
                  be rescued by Barnaby and Crow


  9.15am   Boss Cat
                 A film cartoon series about the gang of
                 Alley Cats captained by the ever-resourceful
                 and formidable Boss Cat (Top Cat)


  9.40am  Holiday Star Trek
                  Cat's Paw

10.30am  Film : Help! (1965)
                 starring the Beatles

12.00       Boxing Day Grandstand
                 (12.05 Football Focus 
                 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)


  2.30pm  Film : Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
                  special Boxing Day presentation of the
                  famous feature film starring 
Dick Van Dyke,
                  Sally Ann Howes 


  4.50pm  The Sporting Superstars
                 Seven top professional athletes from the
                 arenas of British sport confront each other
                 over two days at the National Sports Centre,
                 Crystal Palace, for total prize money of £9,000
                 and the Wilkinson Sword Trophy


 6.05pm   News Peter Woods 
                 Weatherman Keith Best

  6.15pm   Cilla
                  Boxing Day edition starring Cilla Black
                  with her special guest David Essex also
                  starring Gerald Harper, The Wombles,
                  Irving Davies Dancers


  7.00pm   Film : The Magnificent Seven (1960)
                  starring Yul Brynner Eli Wallach,
                  
Steve McQueen, Horst Buchholz,
                  Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn,
                  
 James Coburn

   9.05pm  Steptoe and Son

   9.45pm   Main News Peter Woods  Weather

   9.55pm   Christmas with Kojak 
                   The Chinatown Murders
                   A special feature-length film starring
                   
Telly Savalas

  11.30pm  The Good Old Days
                   Christmas edition of Old-Time Music-Hall
                   from the stage of the Famous City Varieties
                   Theatre, Leeds
 

  12.25am  Weatherman
​                  Closedown


  Friday 27th December 1974

  BBC1

     
9.25am  Watch with Mother :
                    Mary, Mungo and Midge
    9.40am   Boss Cat*
   10.05am  Royal Institution Christmas Lectures :
                    The Languages of Animals
   10.35am   Ski School
   11.00am   From China with Love
   11.40am   Holiday Star Trek
  12.30pm   Bewitched
   12.55pm   News, Weatherman 
    1.00pm   Grandstand
    2.45pm   Doctor Who : Planet of the Spiders
    4.30pm   The All Star Record Breakers
    5.00pm   National News, Weatherman
     5.10pm   Tom and Jerry
(London only)  
                     Regional News (All other English regions)
     5.20pm   Top of the Pops
     6.05pm   Film : El Cid (1961)
     9.00pm   Nine O'Clock News, Weather
      9.15pm   Dr Watson and the
                     Darkwater Hall Mystery
   10.25pm   Gala Performance
    11.35pm   The Detectives: Harry O
    12.25am   Weatherman
                     Closedown


  Saturday 28th December 1974

  BBC1

   
8.35am  Watch with Mother : Trumpton
   8.50am   Josie & the Pussycats in Outer Space
   9.10am   The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures :
​                   The Languages of Animals
   9.40am   The Golden Age of Comedy
  10.55am   The Virginian
   12.12pm   Weatherman
   12.15pm   Grandstand
    5.10pm   The Shari Lewis Show
   5.20pm   News, Weatherman 
   5.30pm   Today's Sport
    5.35pm   Doctor Who : Robot : Part 1
   6.00pm   Bruce Forsyth and The Generation Game
    6.45pm   Film : On the Beat(1962)
    8.30pm   Shirley
    9.20pm   Kojak
   10.10pm   News, Weather
   10.20pm   Match of the Day
    11.20pm   That's Life 1974
    12.20am   Weatherman, Closedown


    Sunday 29th December 1974

​  BBC1

     
9.00am   Someone from the Welfare ...
   10.00am   Seeing and Believing
   10.30am   The Wildlife of New York City
    11.20am   Made in Britain 74
   12.05pm   Winners at the Wheel
   12.55pm   News Headlines, Weatherman 
    1.00pm   Ragtime
      1.15pm   Film : Northwest Frontier (1959)
     3.20pm   A Secret Place
     4.20pm   Omnibus: A Circus for a School
      5.10pm   David Copperfield
      6.05pm   News, Weatherman 
       6.15pm   Children of the Way
       6.55pm   Glory to God
        7.25pm   Sing a Song of Secombe
        8.15pm   Robinson Crusoe
        9.55pm   News, Weather
      10.05pm   Film : Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1941)
      12.00         Weatherman
                        Closedown

  
  Monday 30th December 1974

  BBC1

​   
 10.10am   Right Charlie
    10.25am   Royal Institution Christmas  Lectures :
                     The Languages of Animals
    10.55am   Out of School
     11.45am   Holiday Star Trek
    12.35pm   News, Weatherman 
    12.40pm   The Best of Knockout
       1.35pm   Andy Pandy
      1.50pm   Film : Postman's Knock
      3.10pm   Skywatch
     3.58pm   Regional News (excluding London)
    4.00pm   Play School
     4.25pm   Deputy Dawg
     4.35pm   Jackanory
    4.50pm   Blue Peter
    5.20pm   Boss Cat*
    5.45pm   National News, Weatherman
   6.00pm   Nationwide
    6.50pm   Film : Charlie Chaplin in The Gold Rush
   8.00pm   Spectacular Britain
   9.00pm   Nine O'Clock News, Weather
    9.25pm   Churchill's People
  10.10pm   Holiday 75
  10.45pm   Film : The Thirty-nine Steps (1935)
   12.10am   Weatherman
                    Closedown


  New Year's Eve Tuesday 31st December 1974

​  BBC1

   
 10.00am   The Monkees
     10.25am   The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
                      The Languages of Animals
     10.55am   Out of School
      11.45am   Holiday Star Trek
     12.35pm   News, Weatherman 
     12.40pm   Film 74
       1.30pm   The Mister Men
        1.35pm   Teddy Edward
        1.45pm   The Year of the Horse
        2.30pm  Film : The Endless Summer (1966)
        3.58pm  Regional News (excluding London)
       4.00pm   Play School
        4.25pm   Dastardly and Muttley
        4.35pm   Jackanory
        4.50pm   The Hope and Keen Scene
         5.15pm   Vision On: Reflections
        5.40pm   Magic Roundabout
        5.45pm   National News, Weather
       6.00pm   Nationwide
       6.50pm   The Greatest Show on Earth
        7.30pm   Film : Star! (1968)
       10.15pm   News, Weather
      10.25pm   Till Death Us Do Part
      10.55pm   Top of the Year
       12.01am   For Auld Lang Syne


  New Year's Day Wednesday 1st January 1975

​  BBC1

    
9.45am   Watch with Mother : Camberwick Green
 1 0.00am   The Monkees
   10.25am   The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures :
​                     The Languages of Animals
   10.55am   Holiday Star Trek
    11.45am   The Gary Player Special
   12.42pm   Weather 
   12.45pm   Holiday Grandstand
     3.58pm   Regional News (excluding London)
    4.00pm   Play School
     4.25pm   Wacky Races
     4.35pm   Babar Comes to America
     5.00pm   The Secret Garden
     5.30pm   National News, Weather
      5.45pm   Nationwide
      6.45pm   Custer of the West
     9.00pm   Nine O'Clock News, Weather
      9.15pm   The Yeomen of the Guard
     11.15pm   Nimmo in Australia
     12.00       Weatherman
                     Closedown


​    Thursday 2nd Janaury 1975

​  BBC1

   
10.00am   The Monkees
     10.25am   The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures :
                       The Languages of Animals
     10.55am   Out of School
      11.45am   Holiday Star Trek
     12.30pm   Swn y Ser
      12.55pm   News, Weatherman 
       1.00pm   Pebble Mill
        1.45pm   The Herbs
       2.00pm   Bewitched
        2.25pm   Bugs Bunny
        2.35pm   Film : Oh! Mr Porter (1937)
       4.00pm   Play School
        4.25pm   Astronut
       4.30pm   Jackanory
       4.45pm   Blue Peter
        5.10pm   The Emperor's Nightingale
       5.40pm   Magic Roundabout
        5.45pm   National News, Weatherman
       6.00pm   Nationwide
         6.55pm   Tomorrow's World
         7.20pm   Top of the Pops
         8.00pm   It Ain't Half Hot Mum
         8.30pm   Taste for Adventure
         9.00pm   Nine O'Clock News, Weather
         9.25pm    TV Film : The Missiles of October (1974)
       12.00         Nimmo in Australia
        12.45am   Weatherman
                          Closedown


​  Friday 3rd Janaury 1975

​  BBC1

 
   10.00am   The Monkees
     10.25am   The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures :
                       The Languages of Animals
     10.55am   Metro-Land
      11.45am   Holiday Star Trek
     12.30pm   Cywain
      12.55pm   News, Weatherman 
       1.00pm   Pebble Mill
        1.45pm   Watch with Mother : Bagpuss
       2.00pm   Film : The Birds and the Bees (1956)
        3.53pm   Regional News (excluding London)
        3.55pm   Play School
        4.20pm   Jackanory
        4.35pm   Search
        5.00pm   Crackerjack
        5.40pm   Magic Roundabout
        5.45pm   National News, Weatherman
       6.00pm   Nationwide
        6.40pm   The Little House on the Prairie
         8.15pm   Ken Dodd's World of Laughter
        9.00pm   Nine O'Clock News, Weather
         9.25pm   The Detectives : Cannon
        10.15pm   Larger Than Life
       10.45pm   Late Night News, Regional News 
                         Weekend Weather
       10.53pm   Film : Kiss Me Stupid (1964)
       12.53am   Weather
                        Closedown


*Boss Cat is really "Top Cat" but because at the time there was a leading brand of cat food called "Top Cat" and because the BBC are not allowed to advertise they changed the title to "Boss Cat!"
  Saturday 21st December 1974  

  BBC2

    
3.00pm   Saturday Cinema
                     Film : Boys' Town (1938)
     4.30pm   Play Away
     4.55pm   Closedown
     5.45pm   Westminster
      6.15pm   News and Sport, Weather
     6.25pm   Rugby Special
      7.10pm   Lord Peter Wimsey
     8.40pm   News on 2, Weather
     8.45pm   Film : Sam Whiskey (1969)
   10.20pm   Network
   10.50pm   Closedown


  







​  Sunday 22nd December 1974

  BBC2

    5.40pm   Messiah from Scratch
    6.30pm   News Review
    6.50pm   More Ways Than One
     7.25pm   The World About Us
     8.15pm   Denver in Colorado
     8.55pm   Guitar
     9.05pm   Daniel Barenboim
    10.10pm   Alpha Beta
     11.15pm   News on 2, Weather
    11.20pm   Closedown : 
Gabriel Woolf reads 
                     The Journey of the Magi

    11.25pm   Close

  











  Monday 23rd December 1974

​  BBC2

  
11.00am   Play School
   11.25am   Closedown
    7.25pm   News on 2, Weather
    7.30pm   Call My Bluff
   8.00pm   Wilderness
    8.30pm   The Last Turkey in the Shop Show
    9.05pm   Horizon
  10.05pm   For Loving
  10.50pm   Inside Story
   11.20pm   News on 2, Weather
   11.25pm   Christmas Music from Hampton Court
   12.10am   Closedown :  Gabriel Woolf reads
                    The Christmas Tree
    12.15am   Close
​  


 
















   Christmas Eve Tuesday 24th December 1974


  BBC2

11.00am  Play School 
                 Story : The Bell Tower

11.25am   Closedown

 5.30pm   Tchaikovsky Night
                 Bernard Haitink conducts the
                 London Philharmonic Orchestra
  


 6.20pm  News on 2,  Weather

  6.25pm  Oh Happy Day

                 Away from the worries of recent history,
                 thousands of Americans celebrated their July
                 freedom with front-porch music of the
                 down-home kind, right in the middle of
                 Washington.​


  7.00pm  The Flat- 1974
                  Julian Wilson introduces the highlights of
                  the 1974 Flat Racing Season


  7.40pm  Amahl and the Night Visitors
                 A Christmas opera with words and music
                 by Gian-Carlo Menotti


 8.30pm  The Best of Not Only...But Also
                 starring not only Peter Cook but also 
                 
Dudley Moore

  9.10pm   Getaway
                  The Golden Girls of Garie Beach 
                  A Christmas Special from Australia with
                  Ray Barrett and Diana Fisher 


 10.05pm  The Old Grey Whistle Test
                  presents Elton John's Christmas Concert
                  broadcast live in stereo from the
                  Hammersmith Odeon 


 11.00pm   Poor Christmas
                   with Roy Hudd 

  11.20pm   Closedown





 

 






















 
 


 











 



  Christmas Day Wednesday 25th December 1974 


  BBC2
 
11.00am  Play School 

                 Story : Christmas in the Stable

11.30am  Closedown

  2.55pm  To You and All Mankind . . .

                 reflections on Christmas Day by
                 The Rev Dr Howard Williams
                 Bloomsbury Baptist Church


  3.00pm  The Queen
                  speaks to the Commonwealth

   3.05pm  Golf 74
                   Harry Carpenter and Peter Alliss discuss
                   the current trends in world golf and look
                   back on another fascinating year


    4.05pm  La Traviata
                   music by Giuseppe Verdi

    6.10pm  Film : Henry V (1944)
                   starring Laurence Olivier

    8.25pm  Evel Knievel 
                   David Frost introduces another chance to
                   see one of the more bizarre events that took
                   place in America this year: the attempt by the
                   motor-cycle dare-devil Evel Knievel to pilot
                   his sky-cycle across the Snake River Canyon


  8.45pm  Futtock's End 
                 with Michael Hordern and Ronnie Barker

  9.30pm  News on 2 , Weather

  9.35pm  Face the Music

                 Christmas edition of television's musical quiz
                 invites you to match your musical wits against
                 Joyce Grenfell,Robin Ray, Bernard Levin


10.20pm  When the Angels...
                 and the Wise Men and the Shepherds grew up
                 Kenneth More tells the story of what has
                 happened to the children that appeared in
                 a televised nativity 18 years ago


11.05am   Closedown


 


  















​  Boxing Day Thursday 26th December 1974

  BBC2

 11.00am  Play School

                 Story: Jenny's Smile

11.25am   Closedown

  2.55pm  Cartoon World- Zagreb 74


  3.50pm  Little Mermaid

  4.20pm  Look, Stranger

                 The World of Blaster Bates

  4.50pm  A Forest Tale : Friends for Life 
                 Storyteller : Frank Duncan 

  6.00pm  Scatsophrenia
                  An alley cat's dream 

  6.10pm  Return to the River Kwai
                 What really happened on the River Kwai?
                  In this programme, John Coast, author and
                  ex-POW, revisits the scenes of his enforced
                  labour, together with three of his former
                  Japanese captors


   7.00pm  Lord Peter Wimsey
                   Murder Must Advertise

   8.30pm  'I’ve Cracked It'
                   A study in puzzles you can do and
                   puzzles you can't 


   9.00pm  A Christmas Box from Joseph Cooper
                   The master of the dummy keyboard tonight
                   plays the real one and is joined by
                   Joyce Grenfell, Neville Marriner,
                   The Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields in
                    a programme of melody (sometimes hidden)
                    and monologue​


   10.00pm  The Moon Shines Bright on Charlie Chaplin
                     by Robert Hughes

   10.50pm  News on 2, Weather

   10.55pm   Test Cricket from Australia

                     by satellite The Third Test
                     Australia v England from Melbourne
                     highlights of the first day's play​


11.25am   Closedown


















​   Friday 27th December 1974

  BBC2

 
   11.00am   Play School
     11.25am   Closedown
     5.30pm   Test Cricket from Australia
     6.00pm   News on 2, Weather
     6.05pm   Tony Bennett at the Royal Festival Hall
      7.05pm   The Breaking
       7.10pm   Alice Through the Looking Glass
      8.20pm   In the Spirit
      8.50pm   M*A*S*H
       9.15pm   Double Bill
                      Film : On the Town (1949)
     10.50pm  Film : Singin' in the Rain (1952)
      12.30am  Closedown


  








​ 


  Saturday 28th December 1974


  BBC2

    
3.00pm    Saturday Cinema
                      Film : Jupiter's Darling (1955)
     4.35pm    Play Away
     5.00pm    Closedown
     6.30pm   News and Sport, Weather
      6.45pm   Rugby Special
       7.25pm   S'Wonderful - S'Marvellous - S'Gershwin 
      8.30pm   An Unofficial Rose
      9.20pm   This Year, Next Year
      11.10pm   Test Cricket from Australia
      11.40pm   News on 2, Weather
      11.45pm   Close


​  






​
   Sunday 29th December 1974


​   BBC2

    
5.10pm   The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures :
                    The Engineer Through the Looking Glass
    6.10pm   News Review of the Year
    6.50pm   More Ways Than One : The Mystic Spiral
     7.25pm   The World About Us
     8.15pm   Film : Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
    9.50pm   Lost
   10.05pm   A Day with Dana
   10.35pm   Florence -The Fifth Element 
    11.25pm   News on 2, Weather
    11.30pm   Closedown
                     Gabriel Woolf reads In Santa Maria
                     del Popolo by Thom Gunn
    11.35pm   Close


 





   Monday 30th December 1974


​  BBC2

    
11.00am   Play School
     11.25am   Closedown
     6.30pm   Royal Institution Christmas Lectures :
                      The Engineer Through the Looking Glass
      7.30pm   Newsday
      7.45pm   Look, Stranger
      8.10pm   Alias Smith and Jones
     9.00pm   Call My Bluff
      9.25pm   Horizon
    10.20pm   Centre Play
    10.50pm   News Extra
     11.20pm   Test Cricket from Australia
     11.50pm   Closedown
                      Gabriel Woolf reads Thrushes
                      by Ted Hughes
     11.55pm   Close


​

  






​ 
​  
New Year's Eve Tuesday 31st December 1974

​  BBC2

    
11.00am   Play School
     11.25am   Closedown
      5.45pm   Test Cricket from Australia
      6.15pm   Royal Institution Christmas Lectures : 
                      The Engineer Through the Looking Glass
      7.15pm    Newsday
     7.30pm    The Book Programme
     7.55pm    Romeo and Juliet
(ballet)
     9.40pm   Globe Theatre
    10.25pm   Film : The Devil Rides Out (1968)
   12.00         News Headlines
    12.03am   The Old Grey Whistle Test
     2.00am   Closedown


 












​   New Year's Day Wednesday 1st January 1975

​  BBC2

    
11.00am   Play School
     11.25am   Closedown
      2.55pm   Marx Brothers Double Bill 
                      Film : A Night at the Opera (1935)
      4.25pm   Film : The Big Store (1941)
      5.45pm   Royal Institution Christmas Lectures :
                      The Engineer Through the Looking Glass
      6.45pm   Escape to the Sea
      7.30pm   Newsday
      7.45pm   New Year's Day Concert from Vienna
     8.30pm   The Cat
       9.15pm   Film : The Charge of the Light Brigade
                      (1968)
     11.25pm   News on 2, Weather
     11.35pm   Closedown
                      Gabriel Woolf reads Hyssop by
                      Walter De La Mare
     11.40pm   Close


  


  Thursday 2nd Janaury 1975

  BBC2

    
11.00am   Play School
     11.25am   Closedown
     6.30pm   The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures :
                     The Engineer Through the Looking Glass
     7.30pm   Newsday
      7.55pm   An Unofficial Rose
     8.45pm   The Roman Way
    9.00pm   After That, This
     9.30pm   Show of the Week : The Two Ronnies
    10.15pm   Gone, Going, Going
    11.05pm   News Extra, Weather
     11.35pm   Closedown
                      Gabriel Woolf reads New Year from
                      MS of Benedictbeurn
     11.40pm   Close


  

  











  Friday 3rd Janaury 1975

​  BBC2
​
    
11.00am   Play School
     11.25am   Closedown
     6.30pm   The Royal Institution Annual Lectures :
                      The Engineer Through the Looking Glass
      7.30pm   Newsday, Weather
       7.45pm   Yankee Treble : Paper Moon
       8.10pm   The Money Programme
      9.00pm   M*A*S*H
       9.25pm   The Song of Songs
      10.15pm   Collector's World
     10.45pm   Film Night Question and Answer Show
      11.15pm   News Extra, Weather
      11.45pm   Closedown
                       Gabriel Woolf reads Caring for Animals
                       by Jon Silkin
      11.50pm   Close
















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