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BBC CHRISTMAS TV 1980

  Saturday 20th December 1980

​  BBC1


    9.05am   Football Association Coaching :
                    Tactics, Skills
    9.30am   Multi-Coloured Swap Shop
   12.12pm   Weather  
   12.15pm   Grandstand
    5.05pm   Rolf at Christmas
    5.40pm   News, Weatherman
    5.50pm   Sport/Regional News
    5.55pm   Film : The Jungle Book (1942)
    7.40pm   The Little and Large Show
    8.30pm   Dallas
    9.20pm   News and Sport
                    Weather
    9.35pm   Film : Freebie and the Bean (1974)
   11.25pm   Around with Rook
  12.05am   Weatherman


   Sunday 21st December 1980

  BBC1


    9.05am   The Flumps
    9.20am   The Sunday Gang.
    9.50am   F.A.C.T.S.
                    Football Association Coaching :
                    Tactics, Skills 
   10.15am   Nai Zindagi Naya Jeevan
   10.45am   Speak for Yourself
    11.10am   A Christmas Tree
  12.05pm   Family Service
  12.50pm   Farming
     1.15pm   News Headlines
    1.20pm   Animal Olympians
    2.20pm   Film : The Wizard of Oz (1939)
    4.00pm   Go with Noakes
    4.30pm   Match of the Day
    5.30pm   The Talisman
    6.00pm   News, Weatherman
     6.10pm   Sir John Betjeman
                     appeals on behalf of
                     The Parkinson's Disease Society
                     of the United Kingdom 
     6.15pm   Songs of Praise Special
      7.15pm   Film : It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet
                     
(1976)  Première
     8.45pm   Mastermind - The Final 
     9.20pm   Shoestring
    10.15pm   News, Weather
    10.25pm   Everyman
     11.25pm   The Spinners at Christmas
     11.55pm   Weatherman


   Monday 22nd December 1980

   BBC1


      9.30am   F.A.C.T.S.
                      Football Association Coaching :
                      Tactics, Skills 
      9.55am   King Rollo
   10.00am   The Red Hand Gang
    10.25am   Why Don't You....?
    10.50am   Play Chess
     11.00am   TV Film : Lassie and Neeka (1968)
     12.15pm   Battle of the Planets
    12.35pm   Barney Bear
    12.45pm   Midday News
     1.00pm   Camberwick Green
      1.15pm   California Fever
    2.00pm   Film : Merry Andrew (1958)
    3.40pm   Bottles
    3.53pm   Regional News
(excluding London)
    3.55pm   Play School
    4.20pm   Yogi Bear
    4.25pm   Jackanory
    4.40pm   Cheggers Plays Pop
    5.05pm   Blue Peter
    5.40pm   Evening News
                    Weatherman
     5.55pm   Regional news magazines and Nationwide
    6.20pm   Christmas on Nationwide 
    6.50pm   Angels
      7.15pm   So You Think You Know About Christmas?
     8.10pm   The Europe We Joined
    9.00pm   Nine O'Clock News
                     Weatherman
    9.25pm    Nice Work
    9.55pm   Film : Are You Being Served? (1977)
                   
 Premiere
   11.30pm   News Headlines
   11.32pm   Roaring Jelly's Christmas Trifle
   12.05am   Weatherman


 Tuesday 23rd December 1980

  BBC1


    9.30am   F.A.C.T.S.
                    Football Association Coaching :
                    Tactics, Skills 
    9.55am   King Rollo
  10.00am   The Red Hand Gang
   10.25am   Why Don't You....?
   10.50am   Play Chess
    11.00am   TV Film : Lassie : Well of Love (1970)
     12.15pm   Battle of the Planets
    12.35pm   Porky Pig
    12.45pm   Midday News, Weather 
     1.00pm   Bagpuss
      1.15pm   California Fever
     2.00pm   Film : A Challenge for Robin Hood (1967)
                     
Première
     3.35pm   The Gay Parisian
     3.53pm   Regional News
(excluding London)
     3.55pm   Play School
     4.20pm   Yogi Bear
     4.25pm   Jackanory
     4.40pm   The Bells of Astercote
     5.35pm   Paddington
     5.40pm   Evening News, Weatherman
     5.55pm   Regional News Magazines and Nationwide
     6.15pm   Christmas on Nationwide
    6.50pm   Angels
     7.15pm    Terry and June Christmas Show
     7.45pm   Christmas Comedy Classic : The Likely Lads
    8.30pm   The Dawson Watch
    9.00pm   Nine O'Clock News, Weatherman
     9.25pm   Play for Today : Jessie
   10.55pm   Best of British
    11.35pm   News Headlines ; Weatherman


​  Christmas Eve Wednesday 24th December 1980

  BBC1
 

    9.15am    Fingerbobs
                    
the story of string

     9.30am   F.A.C.T.S. 
                     Football Association Coaching: Tactics, Skills 
                     5: Creating Space (2) 


    9.55am    King Rollo

  10.00am   The Red Hand Gang

  10.25am    Why Don`t You...?

                    'Why Don't You just switch off your
                     television set and go and do something
                     less boring instead? '
                     Your ideas, games and activities presented
                     by the children of the Bristol Why Don't
                     You gang.​


   10.50am   Play Chess
                     
Improve your game and learn some
                     new tricks! 3 : The Bishop


  11.00am    TV Film : Lassie : Flight of the Cougar (1967)
                     
Lassie saves a wounded cougar and her
                     cubs, and helps tame a wild horse


  12.15pm     Battle of the Planets
                     
A cartoon series of science-fiction
                     adventure stories.
                     Museum of Mystery
                     Princess is in great danger from Zoltar
                     when she loses her special G-Force shoe.
                     For now Spectra's evil leader can make a
                     duplicate of her from a hidden power
                     within the shoe


   12.40pm   Middday News, Weather Jack Scott

   12.50pm   California Fever
                     Stars of Tomorrow
                     Vince and his rock band, Four on the Floor,
                     are conned by a smooth operator and as a
                     result their friend Rick is in big trouble


    1.35pm    Film : Kim (1950) 
                     starring Errol Flynn and Dean Stockwell

    3.25pm   Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too 
                    Walt Disney cartoon

    3.55pm   Play School 
                    with the story of Ruby the Donkey

    4.20pm   The Mole at Christmas
                    cartoon
                   
The Mouse comes round to sing carols
                     in the snow


    4.25pm   Jackanory
                   
Judi Dench tells The Tailor of Gloucester 
                    by Beatrix Potter


    4.40pm  All Star Record Breakers
                    with Roy Castle

    5.35pm   Paddington  
                    Paddington's Christmas

    5.40pm  News with Kenneth Kendall Weatherman

    5.55pm   Tom and Jerry (London & SE) 
                   
 Regional News (All other English regions)

   6.00pm   Film : Pollyanna (1960)
                    starring Hayley Mills, Jane Wyman and
                    Karl Malden


    8.15pm    Val's Special Years of Christmas 
                     Val Doonican with Gemma Craven, 
                     
Roy Hudd, Gilbert O`Sullivan and the
                     boys of St Paul`s Church Choir


    9.00pm   Main News Kenneth Kendall Weatherman

     9.15pm   Film : Big Jake (1971)
                     starring John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara 
                     and Richard
Boone

    11.05pm   Placido Domingo's Christmas Choice 
                     with Donald Sinden, Bob Peck, 
                     
Kiri Te Kanawa, Peter Glossop, 
                     Kevin Keegan, Bernard Levin and 
                     
the Choir of Chichester Cathedral


   11.50pm   Midnight Eucharist 
                     from Carlisle Cathedral

   12.55am   Closedown

 
  Christmas Day Thursday 25th December 1980

  BBC1

    8.55am  Watch
                   
The story of the Nativity, 
                   
with James Earl Adair and Louise Hall-Taylor


    9.25am  Mr Benn

    9.40am  The Pink Panther Show

  10.00am  Morning Worship 
                   Worship for Christmas morning is
                   Family Mass from the Cathedral Church
                   of St Peter and Paul, Clifton


  11.00am   Weather Jim Bacon

   11.05am   Film : The Wonderful World 
                    of the Brothers Grimm (1962)

                    staring Laurence Harvey

    1.10pm   Carols from Warwick Castle
                    introduced by Douglas Fairbanks Jnr,
                    with Vince Hill and Iris Williams

   2.00pm   Top of the Pops 80 
                    including Abba, Blondie, David Bowie,
                    Pink Floyd, The Police and The Nolans.
                    Peter Powell and Jimmy Savile, OBE
                    introduce a special edition featuring
                    some of the top records of 1980


    3.00pm  The Queen

     3.10pm  Film : 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) 
                    starring Kirk Douglas, James Mason, 
                    Peter Lorre 
Première

     5.15pm   The Paul Daniels Magic Show,
                     Join Paul Daniels as he conjures up a host
                     of seasonal surprises and introduces his
                     special guests with their remarkable skills.
                     from Broadway : America's foremost
                     magician Harry Blackstone, from Paris:
                     the dazzling puppets of Compagnie Philippe
                     Genty, from Hollywood: the quick-change
                     talents of Michael McGiveney from Japan:
                     the ballerina on the golden bicycle Lilly Yokoi


    6.05pm   Evening News with Angela Rippon

    6.10pm   Larry Grayson's Generation Game

     7.15pm   Dallas

     8.05pm  The Mike Yarwood Christmas Show


     8.45pm   Film : Airport 1975 (1974)
                     starring Charlton Heston, Karen Black
                     and George Kennedy
Première

   10.30pm  Main News with Angela Rippon 
                    Holiday
 Weather Jim Bacon

   10.40pm  Parkinson at Christmas 
                    with Penelope Keith, James Galway and
                    Ben Vereen


    11.40pm  Christmas Comedy Classic : Fawlty Towers
                    Gourmet Nights
                   
When Basil hires a new chef he tries to
                    turn 'Fawlty Towers' into a gourmet's paradise


    12.10am  Weather


  Boxing Day Friday 26th December 1980

  BBC1

   9.15am   Over the Moon

    9.30am  F.A.C.T.S.
                   
Football Association Coaching: Tactics, Skills 
                   A series of 14 programmes 6:
                   Passing and Support 


   9.55am   King Rollo

 10.00am  The Red Hand Gang
                 
A series of nine programmes 4: Doc's Big Idea
                  The gang find the real sportsman and plan
                  his escape


 10.25am  Why Don`t You...?

 10.50am  Play Chess 
                  tactics when using the Queen

 11.00am   TV Film : Barnaby and Me (1977)
                   A film for the family starring Sid Caesar,
                   Juliet Mills, Leo Fisk is a contact man - all
                   'con' and no tact! When he discovers a map
                   which he thinks will lead him to hidden
                   treasure, he takes the attractive Jennifer,
                   her daughter Linda and their koala with him
                   on safari. Their adventures form the story
                   for this lighthearted comedy, which stars
                   the delightful Barnaby -Australia's only
                   talking bear! and Davis Butler as the voice
                   of Barnaby​


  12.30pm  Battle of the Planets
                   
Mission to Inner Space

  12.55pm  The Bear and the Beavers
                   An MGM cartoon

   1.00pm   California Fever
                   Portrait of Laurie
                   After a row with her parents,
                   Laurie runs away from home.
                   But she discovers that trying to survive
                   on her own is not that easy


   1.50pm   Baboushka 
                   a musical fable by Donald Swann and
                   Arthur Scholey, starring Eira Heath


  2.40pm   The Turkey
                  Its Natural and Unnatural History
                  A fun film about the Christmas bird - in fact
                  almost everything you wanted to know
                  about the turkey but were afraid to ask!
                  Introduced by Jeffery Boswall
                  The turkey - in the American wild and
                  on the English farm; in gun-sight and in
                  restaurant; in science and business ; in
                  mythology and art; in fact and figures ;
                  in phrase and poetry ; in song and dance;
                  at Thanksgiving and Christmas


  3.35pm   Film : Storm Boy (1976)
                  A feature film starring Greg Rowe,
                  Peter Cummins , David Gulpilil
                  Storm Boy lives with his father in a
                  beautiful but isolated part of the
                  South Australian coast. One day he
                  discovers another human being
                  living among the sand dunes-
                  Fingerbone Bill , a young Aborigine
                  who becomes his friend


   5.00pm  Today's Sport 
                  Tony Gubba introduces a round-up of
                  today's major sports news, including a
                  complete check on the Classified Football
                  Results


  5.10pm   Disney Time
                  The traditional Christmas visit to the world
                  of Walt Disney films.
                  Introduced by Marti Caine
                  Films include Dumbo, Pinocchio, Popeye,
                  Lady and the Tramp, Snow White and
                  the Seven Dwarfs


  5.55pm   Evening News Jan Leeming Weatherman

  6.05pm   Jim'll Fix It

  6.45pm   Blankety Blank
​                  Terry Wogan hosts a special Christmas
                  edition of the comedy quiz game, in which
                  contestants attempt to match their 'blanks'
                  with Katie Boyle, Windsor Davies, Les Dawson,
​                  Sandra Dickinson, Kenny Everett,
                  Shirley Anne Field David Hamilton,
                  Roy Hudd, The Krankies, Rula Lenska,
                  Patrick Moore, Beryl Reid,
                  Madeline Smith , Jimmy Tarbuck


   7.25pm   The Two Ronnies 
                   with Barbara Dickson

   8.15pm   Film : The Towering Inferno (1974)
                   starring Paul Newman, Steve McQueen 
                   and an all-star cast
Première

 10.55pm   News and Sport  with Jan Leeming

  11.10pm   Boxing Night at the Mill 
                   Ken Dodd , Susan Hampshire, Peter Davison
                   and Wall Street Crash are among
                   Bob Langley's guests in a Christmas
                   programme of music conversation and
​                   entertainment from the foyer of Pebble Mill,
                   with Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen​


   12.10am  Closedown

  Saturday 27th December 1980

    BBC1


    8.55am   Play Chess
    9.05am   F.A.C.T.S.
                    Football Association Coaching :
                    Tactics, Skills 

    9.30am   Multi-Coloured Swap Shop
   12.12pm   Weather 
   12.15pm   Grandstand
    2.35pm   The Record Breakers
    3.25pm   The Woodhouse World of Animals
    4.05pm   Emu's Magical Music Show
    4.40pm   Today's Sport
    5.05pm   Basil's Christmas Cruise
    5.40pm   News, Weatherman
    5.50pm   Tom and Jerry 
(London and South East only)
                    Regional News (All other English regions)
   6.00pm   It's a Christmas Knockout
    7.00pm  Film : Bugsy Malone (1976) 
Première
   8.30pm   The Dick Emery Christmas Show
   9.20pm   News and Sport, Weather
   9.35pm   On Approval
  11.05pm   Men v Women
                    International Golf Challenge 
   11.55pm   Weatherman


  Sunday 28th December 1980

  BBC1


     9.00am   Chigley
       9.15am   F.A.C.T.S.
     9.40am   Naya Saal Mubarak
    10.10am   Lassie : The Voyager  
    11.40am   Battle of the Planets
   12.05pm   This is the Day
   12.50pm   News Headlines, Weather 
    12.55pm   Dorian Williams - Voice of Show Jumping
      1.35pm    Ice Skating
      2.25pm   Perry Como's Christmas Special
       3.15pm   Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet
     5.00pm   Match of the Day
     6.00pm   News, Weatherman
      6.10pm    The Talisman
     6.40pm   Songs of Praise
       7.15pm   Film : Nickelodeon (1976) 
Premiere
       9.15pm   The Queen and Prince Philip
     10.15pm   News, Weather
     10.25pm   Everyman
     11.00pm   Men v Women
​                      International Golf Challenge 
     11.50pm   Weatherman​


  Monday 29th December 1980

  BBC1


    9.30am   F.A.C.T.S.
                    Football Association Coaching: Tactics, Skills

     9.55am   King Rollo
  10.00am   The Red Hand Gang
   10.25am   Why Don't You....?
  10.50am   Play Chess
   11.00am   Film : Lassie : Challenge to Lassie (1949)
    12.15pm   Battle of the Planets
   12.35pm   Mouse Placed Kitten
   12.45pm   Midday News, Weather 
    1.00pm   Chigley
     1.15pm   California Fever
   2.00pm   Film : Two Weeks with Love (1950)
    3.30pm   Intergalactic Thanksgiving
    3.53pm   Regional News
(excluding London)
    3.55pm   Play School
   4.20pm   Mighty Mouse
    4.25pm   Jackanory
   4.40pm   The Devil and Daniel Mouse
    5.05pm   Blue Peter Review of the Year
    5.40pm   Ivor the Engine
    5.45pm   Evening News, Weatherman
   6.00pm   Tom and Jerry
(London and South East only)  
                    Regional News (All other English regions) 
    6.10pm   Junior Kick Start
    6.45pm   Christmas Comedy Classic :
                    Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
     7.40pm   Thank You 1980, and Goodbye
     8.45pm   Main News, Weatherman
    9.00pm   Film : The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
    11.13pm   News Headlines
    11.15pm   Men v Women
                     International Golf Challenge
    12.05am   Weatherman


  Tuesday 30th December 1980

  BBC1


    9.30am   F.A.C.T.S.
                    Football Association Coaching : Tactics, Skills 
     9.55am   King Rollo
   10.00am   The Red Hand Gang
    10.25am   Why Don't You...?
    10.50am   Play Chess
    11.00am   Lassie : The Miracle
    12.15pm   Battle of the Planets
   12.35pm   Tom and Jerry
   12.45pm   Midday News, Weather 
    1.00pm   Camberwick Green
      1.15pm   California Fever
    2.00pm   Film : Flipper and the Pirates (1964)
     3.35pm   The Spanish Fiesta
     3.53pm   Regional News
(excluding London)
     3.55pm   Play School
     4.20pm   Mighty Mouse
     4.25pm   Jackanory
     4.40pm   Animal Magic
     5.05pm   Grange Hill
     5.35pm   Ivor the Engine
     5.40pm   Evening News, Weatherman
     5.55pm   Tom and Jerry
(London and South East only)
                     Regional News (All other regions) 
     6.05pm   Rising Stars - Grand Final 
     6.55pm   Film : When the North Wind Blows (1974)
                     
Premiere
     8.45pm   Main News, Weatherman
    9.00pm   Not the Nine O'Clock News
     9.45pm   Films of the Year
   10.25pm   The Europe We Joined
     11.13pm   News Headlines
     11.15pm   Men v Women
                     International Golf Challenge
    12.05am   Weatherman


  New Year's Eve Wednesday 31st December 1980

  BBC1


     9.30am  F.A.C.T.S.
                    Football Association Coaching : Tactics, Skills 
    9.55am   King Rollo
  10.00am   The Red Hand Gang
   10.25am   Why Don't You...?
   10.50am   Play Chess
   11.00am   Lassie : Lassie's Great Adventure
  12.30pm   Battle of the Planets
   12.55pm   Midday News, Weather 
    1.00pm   Camberwick Green
     1.15pm   200 Years of a King's Rain
    1.40pm   The Edinburgh Military Tattoo of 1980
    2.50pm   Men v Women
                     International Golf Challenge 
    3.40pm   Bugs Bunny
     3.53pm   Regional News
(exc London)
     3.55pm   Play School
     4.20pm   Mighty Mouse
     4.25pm   Jackanory
     4.40pm   The Record Breakers
      5.10pm   The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris
      5.40pm   Evening News, Weatherman
      5.50pm   Tom and Jerry
(London and South East only)
                      Regional News (All other English regions)
      6.00pm   Christmas Comedy Classic : Dad's Army
      6.40pm   Larry Grayson's Generation Game
       7.35pm   Citizen Smith
       8.10pm   Film : Birth of The Beatles (1979)
Première
       9.50pm   Main News, Weatherman
     10.00pm   Pick of 80
      11.00pm   The Good Old Days
     12.00          Big Ben
   
   12.01am   A Happy New Year

  New Year's Day Thursday 1st January 1981

  BBC1


     9.15am  Trumpton
    9.30am   F.A.C.T.S.
                    Football Association Coaching : Tactics, Skills 
    9.55am   King Rollo
  10.00am   The Red Hand Gang
   10.25am   Why Don't You...?
  10.50am   Play Chess
   11.00am   Lassie : The Road Back
    12.15pm   Goldilocks and the Three Bears
    12.27pm   Weather 
   12.30pm   Grandstand
     3.10pm   Men v Women
                     International Golf Challenge
    4.00pm   Play School
     4.25pm   Mighty Mouse
     4.30pm   Jackanory
      4.45pm  Heidi
      5.05pm  Blue Peter
      5.35pm  Ivor the Engine
      5.40pm  Evening News, Weatherman
      5.50pm  Tom and Jerry
(London and South East only) 
                      Regional News (All other English regions)
      6.00pm  TV Film :
                      The Return of Wonder Woman (1977)

       7.10pm   Top of the Pops 80
       7.55pm   Christmas Comedy Classic : The Good Life
       8.25pm   Sink or Swim
       8.55pm   Main News, Weatherman
       9.05pm   Film : Papillon (1973) Premiere
      11.30pm   Michael Parkinson meets James Cagney
      12.25am   Weatherman


​  Friday 2nd January 1981

​  BBC1


     10.00am   The Red Hand Gang
      10.25am   Why Don't You....?
      10.50am   Play Chess
      11.00am   Lassie : Hanford's Point
      12.10pm   Battle of the Planets
      12.35pm   Field Mouse
      12.45pm   Midday News, Weather 
        1.00pm   Trumpton
         1.15pm   Film : Hatari!(1962)
        3.45pm   Tom and Jerry
        3.53pm   Regional News
(excluding London)
        3.55pm   Play School
        4.20pm   Mighty Mouse
        4.25pm   Jackanory
        4.40pm   Johnny Ball Games
        5.05pm   Grange Hill
        5.35pm   Ivor the Engine 
        5.40pm   Evening News, Weatherman
        5.55pm   Tom and Jerry
(London and South East only)
                        Regional News  (All other English regions)
        6.05pm   The Pink Panther Show
        6.25pm   Tomorrow's World
        6.55pm   The Superstars
        8.05pm   To Serve Them All My Days
        9.00pm   Main News
                         Weekend Weather 
          9.15pm   Max Boyce
          9.45pm   Film : Breakheart Pass (1975) Premiere
          11.18pm   News Headlines
         11.20pm   The Trial of Lady Chatterley
         12.40am   Weatherman
  Saturday 20th December 1980

​  BBC2


  2.15pm    Christmas Matinée : 1
                   Film :  The Cat and the Fiddle (1934)
   3.40pm   Play Away
   4.05pm   Christmas Matinée : 2 
                    Film : The Firefly (1937)
    6.10pm   Did You See...?
    6.45pm   Bullseye
     7.25pm   News and Sport
                    Weather
     7.40pm   Arts UK - OK?
     8.35pm   Rugby Special
     9.20pm   International Show Jumping
   10.40pm   News on 2
                     Weather
    10.45pm   The Old Grey Whistle Test
     11.25pm   Film :  Gaslight (1944)


  Sunday 21st December 1980

  BBC2


    2.30pm   Horizon
    3.30pm   The Great Railway Cavalcade
    4.30pm   Ireland : A Television History
    5.20pm   The Rose and the Ring
    5.45pm   Everybody's Doin' It
    6.15pm   Ski Sunday
    6.45pm   News Review
     7.15pm   The Lost Tribe
    8.05pm   The Much Loved Music Show
                    Christmas Special 
    8.55pm   News on 2, Weather
    9.00pm   Distant Guns
    9.30pm   International Show Jumping
   10.25pm  The Great American Picture Show
                    Film : Midnight Cowboy (1969)


  












 

  Monday 22nd December 1980

  BBC2

     
 11.00am   Play School
       11.25am   Closedown
       3.30pm   Christmas Matinée
                       Film : That Certain Age (1938)
        6.35pm   One Hundred Great Paintings
        6.45pm   News Summary
                        Weather
         6.55pm   Film : Walter Matthau in
                         The Fortune Cookie (1966)
         9.00pm   Alan Price
         9.30pm   The Pinch
        10.15pm   Dire Straits
         11.15pm   News on 2, Weather
























​  Tuesday 23rd December 1980

  BBC2


    11.00am   Play School
     11.25am   Speak for Yourself
     11.50am   Closedown
      3.55pm   Schools Prom
      4.45pm   Christmas Matinée
                      Film : The Desert Song (1953)
      6.35pm   One Hundred Great Paintings
      6.45pm   News Summary, Weather
      6.55pm   Napoli
      8.45pm   Country Holiday
      9.25pm   Ireland: A Television History
    10.20pm   Christmas with the Fivepenny Piece
    10.50pm   News on 2, Weather
     10.55pm   Film :  Walter Matthau in
                       Pete 'n' Tillie (1972)

​
 

















 
​   
Christmas Eve Wednesday 24th December 1980

  BBC2

  10.20am   Gharbar 
 
                     In a special Christmas Eve edition
                     of Gharbar, Rajni Kaul talks about how
                     Asians celebrate Christmas in this
                     country and presents a selection of music
                     and dance by some of the well-known
                     artists from the sub-continent​


   10.45am    Closedown

   11.00am    Play School

    11.25am    Closedown


     3.55pm    Christmas Matinee :
                      The Toast of New Orleans (1950)

                      with Mario Lanza, David Niven and
                      Kathryn Grayson


    5.30pm     The Long, Short and Tall Stories
                      Children's books, with Michael Rosen,
                      Nina Bawden and Quentin Blake


    5.55pm     Sounds of Christmas 
                      concert from the Royal Albert Hall,
                      
presented by Richard Stilgoe

    6.45pm    One Hundred Great Paintings
                     Renoir's Luncheon of the
                     Boating Party. with Milton Brown


   6.55pm     News and Weather

    7.00pm    Moving Pictures
                    
a journey through time, with John Wells,
                     Anharad Rees and Alison Steadman


    7.35pm     Sky
                     
in Rhythm on 2 featuring John Williams 
                     
Herbie Flowers, Kevin Peek. Tristan Fry,
                     Francis Monkman
                     
Part 1 of a concert given by this popular
                     group earlier this year


  8.15pm      Moon June 
                     
a love story by Brian Thompson,
                     starring June Barry and Roderick Smith


  8.55pm     Instant Sunshine
                    in Roads to Stardom with Peter Christie,
                    David Barlow, Miles Kington,
                    Alan Maryon-Davis
                    Three doctors and a journalist make
                    up this lighthearted vocal and
                    instrumental group. When chance first
                    brought them together in the heady days
                    of the late 60s they little dreamt that in
                    a mere ten years they would still be doing
                    the same sort of show. It's not so much that
                    stardom has eluded them, as that they have
                    eluded stardom. After more than 70
                    television appearances, five radio series,
                    four records, a book, and offers from British
                    and American impresarios, nothing seems
                    to change, usually because they can't find
​                    the letter.
                    This film charts some of their epic journeys
                    to the brink of success and back again​


  10.00pm   The Old Grey Whistle Test
                     Ian Dury and the Blockheads in a
                     special Christmas Eve concert, direct
                     from the Dominion Theatre, London
                     Introduced by Anne Nightingale 
​

   11.00pm   News on 2, Weather  

    11.05pm   Film : A New Leaf (1971)
                     with Elaine May and Walter Matthau

    12.50am   Closedown


    


    


 

 
 








 
  Christmas Day Thursday 25th December 1980


  BBC2

   11.00am    Play School
                     
The Shepherds on the Hill, with
                     Carol Chell, Carol Leader 
and Fred Harris


  11.25am      Closedown

   3.10pm      A Year in the Life of an Exmoor Man
                      Tom Rook lives at Porlock on the edge
                      of Exmoor. He has never lived anywhere
​                      else, and never wanted to. Over the years
                      he has become an important member of
                      the community that lives and works on
                      the moor.
                      The film follows Tom's year, from
                       sheep-shearing to lambing, from
                       puppy-walking to the hounds in full
                       cry, from Porlock Show to the
                       point-to-point - men and beasts move
                       against the backdrop of the moor.
                       Indeed, so deeply is Tom woven into
                       that pattern of life, that the film emerges
                       as a portrait of Exmoor itself, its wide
                       slopes of bracken and heather, its secret
                       coombes, and its people.​


     4.10pm    Film : Blue Skies (1946)
                      starring Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby

     5.50pm    Little Swallow
                      A spoilt baby swallow spurns the food his
                      mother brings him, but finally learns his
                      lesson, animation


    6.05pm     Film : The Band Wagon (1953)
                       starring Fred Astaire, Jack Buchanan
                       and Cyd Charisse


    7.55pm      News Summary

    8.05pm     Tosca
                       Italian film of the Puccini opera, 
                       with Placido Domingo and 

                       Raina Kabaivanska


  10.10pm      The Queen

  10.20pm      One Hundred Great Paintings:
                       Seurat's La Grande Jatte, 
                       
with Milton Brown

  10.30pm      Film : The Front Page (1974)
                       starring Jack Lemmon,
                       Walter Matthau 
and Carol Burnett


    12.15am      Closedown






 












  Boxing Day Friday 26th December 1980

  BBC2

  11.00am   Play School
                    
Story : The King Who Built a Tower
                    to the Moon presented by Carol Chell, 
                    Carol Leader and 
Fred Harris


   11.25am    Closedown

   12.45pm   Racing from Wincanton
                     introduced by Julian Wilson
                     (1.00, 1.30, 2.00 races)

  
    2.15pm    The Story of Christmas
                     An award-winning cartoon

     2.25pm   Film : The Berkleys of Broadway (1949)
                     starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers

     5.50pm  Monkey
                    
The Fires of Jealousy 
                    Or how the Queen of Fire fanned the
                    flames of Monkey's anger


     6.35pm   One Hundred Great Paintings  
                     This week's subject :
                     Outdoor Life Eakins (1844-1916)
                     Max Schmitt in a Single Scull at
                     the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
                     New York.
                     Written and presented by Milton Brown


      6.45pm  In the Country 
                     Presented by Angela Rippon
                     Where the Dream Begins (9/16)
                     'I like this place in all its moods ;
                     I like the way it's been edited by wind
                     and age.' The place is Dartmoor,
                     the creative environment of Brian Carter,
                     artist, writer and poet.
                     Angela and Brian have in common a love
                     of this austere landscape.
                     Each, in their own way, has explored
                     every corner of this wild, remote
                     and beautiful countryside. Through
                     his pictures, poetry and prose Brian
                     recalls images of Dartmoor as it was in
                     his boyhood. These were the days before
                     the tourist when the moor was still a
                     secret landscape - a dreamscape measured
                     by the seasons, inhabited by characters
                     like the badger, otter and the fox


   7.15pm   News Summary, Weather

   7.25pm   Ballet : The Nutcracker 
                   With Mikhail Baryshnikov and
                   Gelsey Kirkland, with artists of the
                   American Ballet Theatre.
                   The National Philharmonic conducted
                    by Kenneth Schermerhorn
                    For his first major venture into
                    choreography, Mikhail Baryshnikov chose
                    one of the world's most popular ballets,
                    The Nutcracker, to Tchaikovsky's
                    enchanting score. Baryshnikov says of
                    the ballet : 'It is more than the spirit of
                    Christmas. It has suspense, romance,
                    fantasy - something for everyone.
                    It also has, I think, the most glorious
                    ballet music ever written.'​

                   
    8.45pm   Plain Murder  
                    London, 1929: a foggy November day,
                    and the grim spectre of unemployment
                    threatens three young men from the
                    Universal Advertising Agency until
                    Morris comes up with the perfect
                     solution : Murder!​

​

    10.25pm  The World Land Speed Record 
                     These 40 Glorious Years
                     Raymond Baxter takes a nostalgic took
                     back to the days when Campbell,
                     Cobb and Segrave were national heroes.
                     To the days when Britons held the world's
                     land speed record almost unchallenged.
                    Nonagenarian Sammy Davis, a former
                     motor racer and journalist, recalls those
                     heroes. He was at school with Sir Malcolm
                     Campbell - and Campbell's daughter Jean
​                     Wales has more personal memories
                     of her brother Donald​


   11.10pm    Film : The Secret Life of an
                     American Wife 
(1968) 
                     starring Walter Matthau

   12.45am    Closedown























 
 ​  Saturday 27th December 1980

  BBC2


    1.30pm   Film : Fred Astaire in
                    You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
    3.05pm   Play Away
    3.30pm   Film : Fred Astaire in Silk Stockings (1957)
     5.25pm   Paradise Lost
    6.00pm   The Brute Force Challenge
     6.45pm   News and Sport, Weather
     7.00pm   A Carnival in the Caucasus
     7.50pm   Sky
    8.30pm   A Prisoner in the Caucasus
     9.35pm   Great American Picture Show
                     Film : The Godfather (1972)


 










  Sunday 28th December 1980


  BBC2


    1.30pm  Film : Fred Astaire in
                   Yolanda and the Thief (1945)
     3.15pm  Tennis : Borg v McEnroe :
                   The Wimbledon Final 1980 
     4.25pm  Quietly into 1981
     5.00pm  The Mystery of the
                    Disappearing Schoolgirls
     6.10pm  Ireland: A Television History
     7.05pm  News on 2, Weather
      7.15pm   Call Me Flicka
     8.15pm   "... not in a Thousand Years"
     9.15pm   Maria Marten
   10.10pm   Young Musician 1980
    10.15pm   Great American Picture Show
                     Film : Nashville (1975) 
Premiere









  Monday 29th December 1980

  BBC2

 
   11.00am   Play School
    11.25am   Closedown
     4.15pm   New Year Matinée :
                    The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
    6.00pm   The Royal Institution's
                     Christmas Lectures 
                     The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules
     7.00pm   Rugby Special
     7.30pm   Mid-Evening News
                     Weather
      7.40pm   Captain Beaky's World of Words
                      and Music
      8.35pm   One Hundred Great Paintings
      8.45pm   Maria Marten
      9.40pm   International Snooker
      11.15pm   A Child's Voice
     11.45pm   News on 2, Weather



















  Tuesday 30th December 1980

  BBC2


    11.00am   Play School
     11.25am   Closedown
      4.10pm   New Year Matinée
                     Film : The Pickwick Papers (1952) 
     5.55pm   The Royal Institution's
                     Christmas Lectures :
                     The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules
     6.55pm   The Innes Book of Records
     7.20pm   One Hundred Great Paintings
     7.30pm   Mid-Evening News
                     Weather
     7.40pm   Showaddywaddyshow
    8.20pm   Pot Black
    8.45pm   Maria Marten
    9.40pm   Ireland: A Television History
   10.30pm  Film : Clark Gable in The Misfits (1961)





















​  New Year's Eve Wednesday 31st December 1980

  BBC2


    10.20am   Gharbar
    10.45am   Closedown
     11.00am   Play School
      11.25am   Closedown
      1.00pm    Racing from Cheltenham
       3.15pm   The Shepherd
       4.10pm   For Valour
       4.25pm   New Year Matinée
                       Film : Nicholas Nickleby (1947)
       6.10pm   The Royal Institution's
                       Christmas Lectures :
                       The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules
       7.10pm   One Hundred Great Paintings
       7.20pm   Mid-Evening News
                       Weather
        7.30pm   Treasures from Chatsworth
        8.10pm   In This Your Honour
       10.10pm  Film : Clark Gable in
                        It Happened One Night (1934)
       11.55pm   News on 2, Weather
       12.00        Big Ben

       12.01am   The Old Grey Whistle Test

 










  New Year's Day Thursday 1st January 1981

  BBC2


    11.00am   Play School
     11.25am   Closedown
     3.05pm   New Year Matinée :
                     Great Expectations (1946)
     5.00pm   The Royal Institution's
                     Christmas Lectures :
                     The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules
     6.00pm  Film : The Importance of
                     Being Earnest (1952)
      7.35pm   One Hundred Great Paintings
      7.45pm   Mid-Evening News, Weather
      7.55pm   New Year's Day Concert from Vienna
      9.05pm   Joyce Grenfell  1910-1979 
    10.05pm   Man Alive
    10.50pm   Genesis at the Lyceum
     11.30pm   Film : Clark Gable in Red Dust (1932)


​














​  Friday 2nd January 1981

​  BBC2


  11.00am   Play School
   11.25am   Closedown
    3.15pm   New Year Matinée : Scrooge (1951)
    4.40pm  The Royal Institution's
                   Christmas Lectures :

                   The Chicken, the Egg and the Molecules
    5.40pm  Monkey
    6.25pm   In the Country
    6.55pm   News Summary, Weather
    7.00pm   The Tales of Hoffmann
     8.15pm   One Hundred Great Paintings
     8.25pm   The Tales of Hoffmann
(continued)
   10.45pm   News on 2, Weather
   10.50pm   Girl in a Glider
    11.20pm   Film :  Clark Gable in
                     It Started in Naples (1960)

















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