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BBC CHRISTMAS TV 1983

     Saturday 17th December 1983

     BBC1


      8.35am   Inch High Private Eye
      9.00am  Saturday Superstore
     12.12pm   Weather 
     12.15pm   Grandstand
      5.10pm   News, Weatherman
      5.20pm   Sport/Regional News
      5.25pm   The Little and Large Show
     6.00pm   The Saturday Film :
                      Can't Stop the Music (1980)  
Première
     8.00pm   The Two Ronnies
     8.50pm   Bergerac
     9.45pm   News and Sport
   10.00pm   International Show Jumping
    11.00pm   Late Night Horror
                     Film : The Devil Rides Out (1968)
   12.35am    Weather

  Sunday 18th December 1983

​  BBC1


     9.00am   Heads and Tails
      9.15am   Sunday Worship :
                     Jesus - His Life and Teaching
   10.00am   Asian Magazine
   10.30am   Let's Go
   10.40am   Maths Help
   10.55am 
 iDigame!
   11.20am   People First
   11.45am   Business Club
   12.10pm   See Hear!
    1.00pm   Farming
    1.30pm   Discovering Birds
    1.55pm   News Headlines
   2.00pm   Film Matinée :  The Man in the
                    Santa Claus Suit (1979) 
Première

   3.30pm   Mickey and Donald
    3.55pm   International Show Jumping
    4.50pm   The Flight of the Condor
    5.45pm   News, Weatherman
    5.55pm   Jane Eyre
    6.25pm   Mind How You Go : You Can Save Lives
    6.35pm   Pauline Collins
    6.40pm   Songs of Praise
     7.15pm   Hi-de-Hi!
     7.45pm   By the Sword Divided
    8.40pm   The Sunday Thriller
                     TV Film : Studio Murders (1982) 
Première
    10.15pm   News, Weatherman
   10.30pm   Omnibus
    11.20pm   The Weekenders
    11.55pm   Phil Silvers as Sergeant Bilko 
    12.20am   Weather


     Monday 19th December 1983

     BBC1


      6.00am  Ceefax AM
      6.30am   Breakfast Time
      9.00am   RAF Scampton
      9.30am   Songs of Praise
     10.06am  Closedown
     10.30am   Play School
     10.55am   Closedown
     12.30pm   News After Noon
      12.57pm   Regional News 
                       Financial Report, and News Headlines
                       
(London and SE)
       1.00pm   Pebble Mill at One
        1.45pm   Pigeon Street
       2.00pm   See Hear!
       2.50pm   International Show Jumping
       3.53pm   Regional News
(excluding London)
        3.55pm   Play School
        4.15pm   Mighty Mouse
       4.20pm   Jackanory
       4.35pm   Playhouse
       5.05pm   Newsround
       5.10pm   Blue Peter
       5.40pm   Sixty Minutes
includes
                        The News
        5.53pm   Regional Magazines
        6.15pm   Weather
        6.38pm   Closing headlines
        6.40pm   Tom and Jerry
        6.50pm   Christmas with Terry and June
         7.20pm   Europe's Strongest Man
         8.10pm   Panorama
        9.00pm   Nine O'Clock News
                         Weatherman
         9.25pm   Hollywood Superstars 
                         Film : Lee Marvin In Point Blank (1967)
        10.55pm  International Show Jumping
       12.00        News Headlines, Weatherman


    Tuesday 20th December 1983

     
BBC1

      6.00am   Ceefax AM
      6.30am   Breakfast Time
      9.00am   Training Dogs the Woodhouse Way
      9.25am   Arthur Negus at 80
     10.15am   Tom and Jerry
    10.30am   Play School
    10.55am   Closedown
    12.30pm   News After Noon
                      Weather 
     12.57pm  Regional News 
                     Financial Report, and News Headlines
                      
(London and SE only)
     1.00pm   Pebble Mill at One
      1.45pm   Gran
      1.50pm   Stop-Go!
     2.00pm   Day Out
     2.30pm   Lucky Luke
     3.40pm   Goldilocks and the Three Bears
      3.53pm   Regional News
(excuding London)
      3.55pm   Play School
      4.20pm   The Adventures of Bullwinkle and Rocky
      4.25pm   Jackanory
      4.40pm   Wuffer
      5.05pm   Newsround
      5.10pm   Record Breakers
      5.40pm   Sixty Minutes
includes
                      The News 
      5.53pm   Regional Magazines 
       6.15pm   Weather 
      6.38pm   Closing headlines
      6.40pm   Angels
       7.05pm   Harty
       7.40pm   No Place Like Home
       8.10pm   Dallas
      9.00pm   Nine O'Clock News
                       Weatherman 
       9.25pm   TV Film : Orwell on Jura (1983)

     10.55pm   Perry Como's French-Canadian
                       Christmas Special
      11.45pm   News Headlines, Weatherman


     Wednesday 21st December 1983

     BBC1


      6.00am    Ceefax AM
      6.30am    Breakfast Time
      9.00am   The New Adventures of Flash Gordon
       9.20am   Battle of the Planets
       9.45am   Blue Peter Special Assignment
     10.30am   Play School
      10.55am   Gharbar
       11.20am   Emil and the Detectives
      12.05pm   Look Back with Noakes
      12.30pm   News After Noon
                        Weather 
       12.57pm   Regional News 
                        Financial Report, and News Headlines
                        
(London and SE only)
        1.00pm   Pebble Mill at One
         1.45pm   Hokey Cokey
        2.00pm   Bank Holiday Fair
         2.25pm   Star Movie : Film : Bing Crosby in
                         East Side of Heaven (1939)

         3.53pm   Regional News
(excluding London)
         3.55pm   Play School
         4.20pm   The Adventures of Bullwinkle and Rocky
         4.25pm   Jackanory
         4.40pm   Screen Test
         5.05pm   Newsround
         5.10pm   Carrie's War
         5.40pm   Sixty Minutes
includes 
                         The News 
         5.53pm   Regional Magazines 
          6.15pm   Weather 
         6.38pm   Closing headlines
         6.40pm   Harty
           7.15pm   Film : Something Big (1971)
         9.00pm   Nine O'Clock News
                          Weatherman
          9.25pm   Q.E.D.
          9.55pm   Film : The Fog (1980) Première
         11.23pm   News Headlines
         11.25pm   Barbara Mandrell
        12.00         Weatherman

  

  Thursday 22nd December 1983

     BBC1


      6.00am   Ceefax AM
      6.30am   Breakfast Time
      9.00am   The New Adventures of Flash Gordon
      9.20am   Battle of the Planets
      9.45am   Blue Peter Special Assignment
    10.30am   Play School
    10.55am   Cartoons
     11.10am   Emit and the Detectives
    12.00        Look Back with Noakes
    12.30pm   News After Noon
                      Weather 
     12.57pm   Regional News 
                      Financial Report, and News Headlines
                      
(London and SE only)
      1.00pm   Pebble Mill at One
       1.45pm   Postman Pat
      2.00pm   Country Lines
      2.30pm   Star Movie
                      Film : Bing Crosby in
                      Birth of the Blues (1941)

      3.53pm   Regional News
(excluding London)
      3.55pm   Play School
      4.20pm   The Adventures of Bullwinkle and Rocky
      4.25pm   Jackanory
      4.40pm   Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends
      5.05pm   Newsround
      5.10pm   Blue Peter
      5.40pm   Sixty Minutes
includes
                      The News 
      5.53pm   Regional Magazines 
       6.15pm   Weather 
       6.38pm   Closing headlines
       6.40pm   Angels
        7.05pm   Tomorrow's World
        7.30pm   Top of the Pops
       8.05pm   Wildlife on One
       8.30pm   Only Fools and Horses
       9.00pm   Nine O'Clock News
                        Weatherman
        9.25pm   The Crazy Gang: A Celebration
      10.25pm   Film 83
      11.00pm   The Rockford Files
      11.50pm   News Headlines; Weatherman

  
     Friday 23rd December 1983

     BBC1


      6.00am   Ceefax AM
      6.30am   Breakfast Time
      9.30am   The New Adventures of Flash Gordon
      9.50am   Battle of the Planets
     10.15am   Tom and Jerry
    10.30am   Play School
    10.55am   Play Ideas
     11.05am   Mountain Born
     11.50am   Christmas Cartoons
    12.05pm   Look Back with Noakes
    12.30pm   News After Noon
                      Weather
    12.57pm   Regional News 
                     Financial Report, and News Headlines
                     
(London and SE only)
     1.00pm   Pebble Mill at One
     1.50pm   Little Misses and The Mister Men
     2.05pm   Star Movie :Film : Bing Crosby in
                     Welcome Stranger (1947)

     3.53pm   Regional News
(excluding London)
     3.55pm   Play School
     4.20pm   The Adventures of Bullwinkle and Rocky
      4.25pm   Jackanory
     4.40pm   Take Hart
     5.00pm   Crackerjack
     5.40pm   Sixty Minutes includes 
                     The News 
     5.53pm   Regional Magazines 
     6.15pm   Weather 
     6.38pm   Closing headlines
     6.40pm   BBC Television's Carol Competition 1983
      7.15pm   Film : Across the Great Divide (1976)
                     
Première 
     8.50pm   Points of View
     9.00pm   Main News
                      Weekend Weather
       9.15pm   The Princess and the People
    10.05pm   Film : The Dirty Dozen (1967)
     12.30am   Weather​


  Christmas Eve Saturday 24th December 1983

    BBC1 

    8.35am  Inch High Private Eye

    9.00am  From All of Us to All of You

                    Walt Disney clip show

    9.45am  The Happy World of Hanna-Barbera
                   Gene Kelly presents a clip show

  10.50am  Film : A Connecticut Yankee 
                   in King Arthur's Court (1949) 
                   starring Bing Crosby

  12.30pm  Bonanza 
                   with Lorne Greene and Dan Blocker

    1.20pm  Film : Around the World with Dot 
                   starring Drew Forsythe

   2.30pm  TV Film : The Magic of Lassie (1978)
                   starring James Stewart and Mickey Rooney

   4.10pm   The Dukes of Hazzard

   5.00pm  News
read by Jan Leeming

    5.10pm  Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
                   1975 special starring Michael Crawford

    5.55pm  Pop Quiz  
                   presented by Mike Read, with Roger Taylor,
                   
Dave Edmunds, Mari Wilson, Limahl,
                   Leee John and Midge Ure


    6.30pm  The Little and Large Show  
                    with Jimmy Cricket, Joe Brown, 
                    
Martin Daniels, Cleo Rocos and
                    Chas 'n' Dave


      7.10pm  Film : Flash Gordon (1980) Première
                     starring Sam Jones, Topol, 
                     Melody Anderson, Brian Blessed 

                     and Max von Sydow

     8.55pm  Val Doonican's Christmas Party  
                     with Howard Keel, The Nolans,
                     Sky & 
Wall Street Crash

     9.40pm  Bergerac 
                     starring John Nettles, with Liza Goddard

    10.35pm  News read by Jan Leeming Weather

    10.45pm  The Good Old Days 
                     chaired by Leonard Sachs, with 
                     Danny La Rue, Valerie Masterson, 

                     Robert White, Bernard Cribbins, 
                     
Barry Cryer, the Clark Brothers
                     and Castan Bloom


    11.45pm  Midnight Eucharist  
                    from the Cathedral Church of St Mary
                    the Virgin, Blackburn


   12.45am   Weather

   12.50am   Closedown

    

     Christmas Day Sunday 25th December 1983  

     BBC1  

      8:35am  The Christmas Raccoons
                     A musical cartoon narrated by
                     Rich Little with the voices of Rita Coolidge
                     and Rupert Holmes 

                     Can the horrible and greedy Cyril Sneer
                     be responsible for making the
                     raccoons homeless at Christmas time?​


      9:00am  Carols from Newby Hall  
                      Ian Carmichael introduces Christmas
                      music from Newby Hall at Ripon.
                      with Grace Kennedy , Robert White,
                      
Cambridge University Chamber Choir 

      9:50am  Away In a Manger
                     Children's stories, songs, pictures
                     and thoughts about the Nativity. 
                     'Mary was doing the washing-up
                      when the angel came and told
                      her she was going to have a baby.' 
                      'The three kings brought presents of gold,
                      
frankenstein and myrhh.' 
                     'Today he would be born in a garage
                      and they'd put him in newspapers"


    10:20am  Christmas Morning Family Service
                      from The Mint Methodist Church. Exeter 
                      A look at the stories which surround
                      the birth of Jesus - stories which have
                      
become an essential part of our Christmas
                      heritage and celebration


      11:17am  Weather

     11:20am  The Little Convict

                     A colourful animation adventure
                     starring Rolf Harris 

                     Rolf Harris , as Jake the Peg, with the
                     Extra Leg, presents the story of the
                     convicts who settled and built the
                     new country of Australia.


   12:35pm  Ziggy's Gift
                    An award-winning animated Christmas
                    story about the magic of giving. Ziggy-a
                    little guy in a big world, overweight and
                    underwhelmed-takes a job as a
                    street-comer Santa.
                    But as luck (and his is usually bad) would
                    have it, he unsuspectingly goes to work for
                    a con-man.... Even so Ziggy finds the
                    true spirit of Christmas in a greedy,
                    commercialised world


    1:00pm  Bugs Bunny
                    in Abominable Snow Rabbit

     1:05pm  Film : Glitterball (1977) 
                    A film for all the family starring
                    Ben Buckton, Keith Jayne When a
                    spaceship crashlands on earth, its 'pilot'-
                    a small silver ball-is befriended by Max
                    and Pete. They find that the alien being
                    has a vast appetite and can signal to
                    its fellows in space

                    Première

    2:00pm  Top of the Pops 1983
                    Part 1: the Radio 1 DJs present the singers
                    and bands who have made this year's
                    top-selling records. 
                    Michael Jackson , Shakin' Stevens Men
                    at Work, Bonnie Tyler, Duran Duran,
                    Bucks Fizz, Lionel Richie, David Bowie 

                                        
    3:00pm  The Queen
                    
speaks to the Commonwealth

     3:15pm  Blankety Blank
                   
Terry Wogan hosts a special Christmas
                   edition of the comedy quiz game
                   Sabina Franklyn, Roy Kinnear, Ruth Madoc,
                   Patrick Moore, Beryl Reid, Freddie Starr


    3:50pm  Film : Treasure Island (1950) 
                   starring Robert Newton Bobby Driscoll,
                   Basil Sydney 
                   A host of characters from Robert Louis
                   
Stevenson 's greatest sea tale of them all
                   spring to life in Walt Disney's colourful
                   live action entertainment. 
                   When the sinister Blind Pew visits the
                   Admiral Benbow Inn to serve the 'black spot'
                   
on ex-Captain Billy Bones, Jim Hawkins
                   finds he has 
possession of the secret map
                   of Captain Flint's buried treasure.
                   His friends, Squire Trelawney and
                   Dr Livesey, charter a ship, but unknown
                   to them Flint's old crew, led by peg-leg
                   Long John, has signed up for the voyage....
 

                   Première

    5:25pm  News with Jan Leeming and Weather

    5:35pm  Jim'll Fix It

                   with Jimmy Savile OBE
                   including: An 11-year-old Hi-de-Hi! Yellowcoat
                   Two pupils of a school for the blind riding
                    at the Horse of the Year Show
                    An 8-year-old Father Christmas
                    How to crack Christmas walnuts


     6:15pm  Songs of Praise Special 
                    from Peterborough Cathedral 
                    Almost 2,000 years ago in a small village
                    in the Middle East a baby was born.
                   Only a few shepherds and strangers from
                   afar suspected that they were witnessing
                   the most important event in the history
                   of the world. Today over a thousand million
                   
Christians all over the world join in
                   
celebration of Christ's nativity. 
                   Tonight in the Norman splendour
                    of Peterborough Cathedral,
                    Geoffrey Wheeler joins schools, choirs
                    and congregations in their musical
                    
celebration of the Christmas story. 

      7.15pm  The Two Ronnies
                    starring Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett 
                    
and their special guest Elton John featuring
                    
The Adventures of Archie a cautionary tale
                     of 
time and space


     8:05pm  All Creatures Great and Small
                    starring Christopher Timothy as
                    James Herriot, Robert Hardy as
                    Siegfried Farnon, Peter Davison as
                    Tristan Farnon, Carol Drinkwater as Helen
                    England, 1947. Demobbed from the army,
                    
James Herriot returns to his beloved
                    Yorkshire, to his wife and young son and
                    the day-to-day
dramas of a
                    country veterinary practice.


    9:35pm  Only Fools and Horses
                   
Thicker Than Water
                   starring David Jason and Nicholas Lyndhurst 
                   
with Lennard Pearce
                   Christmas is a time for family and friends.
                   You can choose your friends -
                   but not your family!


  10:05pm  News with Jan Leeming and Weatherman

   10:15pm  Film : Better Late Than Never (1983) 

                   starring David Niven, Art Carney,
                   Maggie Smith
                   In this British premiere of David Niven's
                   last film, he plays Nicky-suave, charming,
                   workshy and a total rascal. Art Carney
                   plays Charles-sober, hard-working and broke.
                   
Many years before, Nicky and Charles were
                   
rivals for the love of Jennifer and either
                   might be the grandfather of her
                   grand-daughter Bridget-a precocious
                   10-year-old who just happens to
                   have inherited 23 million dollars....

                   Première

   11.45pm  The Spinners at York
                   The festive season would not be
                   complete without a session with Tony,
                   Hugh, Mick and Cliff. 

                   Join them in the Dickensian street at
                   York's Castle Museum for an evening of
                   not-so-familiar seasonal songs with
                   John McCormick on bass


   12.15am  Weather 

     Boxing Day Monday 26th December 1983

     BBC1

    9.00am  The New Adventures of Flash Gordon

    9.20am   The Natural World: Snowy 
                     Chilly, Motley and Me, cats & dogs
                     with Oxford zooligist John Paling


    10.10am   Cartoons
                      Jack Wabbit and the Beanstalk, 
                      
with Bugs Bunny and Dragoncastle


    10.30am   Play School 
                      with the story Cobweb Christmas Tree, 
                      
by Shirley Climo, presented
                      by Elizabeth Millbank and Brian Jameson


     10.55am  Pigeon Street

      11.10am  Strange Companions

                     a young runaway stows away on a
                     light aircraft, 1/2


     12.00      Look Back with Noakes 
                    the coastal paths of Devon and Cornwall
                    in summer


   12.30pm  News Headlines ; Weather

   12.35pm  The Racoons and the Lost Star
 
                    cartoon

    1.20pm   Cracked Ice
                    a Warner Brothers cartoon

     1.30pm  The Good Life

     2.00pm  Film : Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

                     starring Alec Guinness

     4.35pm  The Keith Harris Christmas Party 
                    with Shakin' Stevens and Stu Francis

     5.10pm  News with Richard Whitmore

     5.15pm  Final Score with David Icke

     5.25pm  Circus World Championships

     6.25pm  The Paul Daniels Magic Christmas Show 
 
                    with illusionists The Pendragons,
                   
acrobats, the Five Star Endresz family
                    
and Professor Al Cartny and his 
                    mechanical man


      7.15pm  The Kenny Everett Television Show

      7.50pm  Film : Rocky(1976) 
Première
                     starring Sylvester Stallone

      9.45pm  Lenny Henry presents Laughing Matter
                     a selection of classic comedy clips

    10.25pm  News with Richard Whitmore

    10.35pm  Kiri and Friends
                     with Thomas Allen, Wayne Sleep, 
                     Alessandra Ferri, 
Marisa Robels,
                     Richard Van Allen and Dimitris Sgouros


     11.35pm  The Treasure of Abbot Thomas

      12.15am  Weather

    Holiday Tuesday 27th December 1983

    BBC1


   9.00am  The New Adventures of Flash Gordon
                   Ming's Last Battle

   9.25am   Why Don't You....?
                   "Why Don't You just switch off your
                    television set and go out and do
                    something less boring instead?"
                    Your ideas, games and activities
                    presented by the children of the
                    Belfast Why Don't You....? Gang​


    9.50am  Paddington Special
                   Paddington goes to the Movies

  10.10am   Jackanory
                   The Dangerous Journey by Elizabeth Renier

  10.25am   Ivor the Engine
                    Snowdrifts

  10.30am   Play School
                    Presented by Elizabeth Millbank,
                    Fred Harris, Wayne Jackman
 


   10.55am   Gran
                    Gran's Goat 
                    narrated by Patricia Hayes Gran's Goat 
                    Gran gets some goats to keep her grass
                    down-but they get her down too. 


   11.00am   Stop-Go!
                    Go Train Go
                    Locomotives may have to be repaired
                    and carriages cleaned before they join
                    up to make a train waiting to leave
                    the station.
                    Narrated by Ben Thomas


   11.10am   Strange Companions
                   Part 2 

    12.00      Look back with Noakes
                   John Noakes and Shep review the
                   adventures and travels of the Go with
                   Noakes series. 
                   The Oxford Bumps 
                    John coxes the Balliol eight to inglorious
                   
defeat. 


  12.30pm  News Headlines, Weather 

  12.35pm   Color Rhapsodies
                    Gifts from the Air
                    The Little Matchgirl 
                    A double-bill of seasonal cartoons


   12.55pm  Take Two
                    In a special end of year edition
                    Lucie Skeaping presents clips
                    from your favourite television
                    programmes and recalls what the
                    critics had to say about them.
                    New requests are also included with
                    fresh voices from up and
                    down the country giving their opinions on 
                    
Seaview, The Late Late 
Breakfast Show,
                    Harty and  Blankety Blank.

                    An opportunity also to enter the last
                    
competition of the year,
                    so have your pencil and paper ready.


    1.35pm   Film : El Cid (1961)
                   The first of two feature films starring
                   Charlton Heston with Sophia Loren,
                   Gary Raymond, Raf Vallone Genevieve Page,
                   John Fraser 


    4.30pm   Disney Time
                    The traditional Christmas visit to the world
                     of Walt Disney films
                     introduced by Mike Read and Sarah Greene
                     Films include: 
                     Jungle Book
                     Mickey's Christmas Carol
                     Lady and the Tramp
                     Never Cry Wolf 
                     Sleeping Beauty
                     The Sword and the Stone
 

     5.20pm  Evening News with Frances Coverdale 
                    Weatherman

    5.25pm   Final Score
                    Introduced by David Icke

    5.35pm   It's a Christmas Knockout
                    A festive Anglo-Swedish competition on
                    ice from the Aviemore Centre, Scotland. 
                    Featuring a team from Karlskrona.
                    
representing Sweden, and a British
                    squad made up of ice skaters recruited from   
                    Bournemouth, Altrincham, Aviemore
                     and Queens Ice Rinks

                     Introduced for Great Britain by
                     Stuart Hall and for Sweden by
                     Henrik Engberg 
                     Referees: 
                     GB-Lorna Brown (former World
                     Professional Skating Champion) 
                     Sweden - Willie Lofqvist (former Olympic
                     Ice Hockey player)
 


     6.25pm   Film : Hooper (1978)  Première
                     starring Burt Reynolds, Sally Field,
                     Jan-Michael Vincent, Brian Keith 


    8.00pm   Dallas
                     The Buck Stops Here 
                     Pam has a rough ride when she sees
                     Bobby and Jenna at the Charity Rodeo, 
                     but she's soon back in the saddle to make
                     up with Mark. 

                     Meanwhile back at the office J.R. plans to
                     rope in the traitor in his camp....


      8.50pm  Last of the Summer Wine
                      A comedy film adapted from his novel by
                      Roy Clarke
                      starring Bill Owen, Peter Sallis, Brian Wilde
                      In answer to his one last request,
                      Compo, Clegg and Foggy reluctantly
                      
sneak Sam out of his invalid bed for a
                      final frolic 
with the not so young as she
                      
used to be Lily-Bless-Her.
​                      Then - with an unthinking lack of gratitude
                      
and a smile on his face - Sam drops them
                      
right in it by becoming far more trouble
                      dead than 
alive...​


    10.20pm   Main News with Frances Coverdale 
​                      Weatherman

    10.30pm  Wedding In Las Vegas
                     The true story of how a fake wedding
                     party and a computer improved the odds
                     for a rock group manager who set out to
                     make a big win at blackjack in the
                     world's most famous casinos.
 
                     Every blackjack player dreams of the
                     perfect system. Is this it? 


     11.20pm  Men v Women
                     An International Golf Challenge

                     The opening match of a series especially 
                     
made for BBC1 between top American
                     women golfers  Joanne Carner and
                     Sandra Haynie and two of the world's
                     leading golfing men, Germany's Bernhard
                     Langer and the 'Great White Shark' from
                     
Australia Greg Norman.
                     The only concession the ladies receive in
                     the opening four-ball match over nine holes
                     
of the Duke's Course at Woburn, is to play off
                     the forward tees.


   12.10am    Weatherman

     Wednesday 28th December 1983

     BBC1


      6.00am   Ceefax AM
      6.30am   Breakfast Time
     9.00am   The New Adventures of Flash Gordon
      9.25am   Why Don't You....?
      9.50am   Wacky Races
    10.00am   Play Chess!
     10.10am   Jackanory
     10.25am   Paddington
    10.30am   Play School
    10.55am   Hokey Cokey
     11.10am   Three Tall Tales
    12.00        Look Back with Noakes
   12.30pm   News After Noon
                     Weather 
    12.42pm   Regional News 
                     Financial Report, and News Headlines
                     
(London and SE only)
    12.45pm   Tom and Jerry
     1.00pm   Bonanza
     1.50pm   Film : Dodge City (1939)
    3.30pm   The World of Stanley Holloway
    4.20pm   Heyyy, It's the King
    4.30pm   Jackanory
     4.45pm   Gulliver's Travels
     5.35pm   Ivor the Engine
    5.40pm   Evening News, Weatherman
    5.50pm   Regional news magazines
    6.00pm   Film : The Great Escape (1963)
     8.45pm   Main News, Weatherman
    9.00pm   The Best of Three of a Kind
    9.30pm   Review 83
   10.50pm   Phil Silvers as Sgt Bilko
     11.15pm   Men v Women
                     An International Golf Challenge 
    12.05am   Weatherman


  Thursday 29th December 1983

     BBC1

​      10.30am   Play School
       10.55am   Postman Pat
       11.10am    Smoke
       12.00        Look Back with Noakes
       12.30pm   News After Noon
                         Weather 
       12.42pm   Regional news 
                         Financial Report, and News Headlines
                         
(London and SE only)
       12.45pm   Barney Bear
       12.50pm   Yellowstone Below Zero
          1.15pm   Bonanza
         2.05pm   Film : Brother of the Wind (1973)
                         
Première
         3.30pm   The World of Stanley Holloway
         4.20pm   Laurel and Hardy
         4.25pm   Jackanory
         4.40pm   Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends
         5.05pm   Blue Peter Review of the Year
         5.35pm   Ivor the Engine
         5.40pm   Evening News, Weatherman
         5.50pm   Cartoon :  Alias St Nick
                         
(London and South East only)
                         Regional News (All other English Regions)
         6.00pm   A Question of Sport
         6.35pm   Tomorrow's World
         7.00pm   Top of the Pops 1983: Part 2
          7.55pm   Rainbow Safari
         8.45pm   Main News, Weatherman
         9.00pm   Film :  Coma (1978)
Première
       10.50pm   Phil Silvers as Sergeant Bilko 
         11.15pm   Men v Women
                         An International Golf Challenge 
        12.05am   News Headlines; Weatherman


  Friday 30th December 1983

      6.00am   Ceefax AM
      6.30am   Breakfast Time
      9.00am   The New Adventures of Flash Gordon
       9.25am   Why Don't You ...?
       9.50am   Wacky Races
     10.00am   Play Chessl
     10.10am   Jackanory
     10.25am   Paddington
    10.30am   Play School
     10.55am   Play Ideas
      11.05am   Little Misses and The Mister Men
      11.20am   Smoke
     12.05pm   Look Back With Noakes
     12.30pm   News After Noon
                       Weather 
      12.42pm   Regional news 
                        Financial Report, and News Headlines
                        
(London and SE only)
      12.45pm   Tom and Jerry
       1.00pm   Bonanza
        1.45pm   Film : Khartoum (1966)
       3.50pm   Goodbye to The Good Old Days
       4.20pm   Laurel and Hardy
       4.25pm   Jackanory
      4.40pm   Yogi Bear
      4.45pm   Take Hart
      5.05pm   Cheggers Plays Pop
      5.40pm   Evening News, Weatherman
      5.50pm   Cartoon Lonesome Strangers
                       
(London and SE only)
                       Regional News  (All other English Regions)
      6.00pm   Cartoons
      6.20pm   Film : Warlords of Atlantis (1978)
       7.55pm   The Superstars
       8.45pm   Main News
                       Weekend Weather 
       9.00pm   Waters of the Moon
     10.40pm   Carrott's Lib
      11.25pm   The Late Film: The Midnight Man (1974)


  New Year's Eve Saturday 31st December 1983

  BBC1


     8.35am   Inch High Private Eye
    9.00am   Saturday Superstore
    12.12pm   Weather 
    12.15pm   Grandstand
    5.05pm   News, Weatherman
      5.15pm   Sport/Regional News
     5.20pm   Jim'll Fix It
      5.55pm   The Little and Large Show
     6.30pm   Film : Arabian Adventure (1979)
Première
     8.05pm   Best of British Comedy
     8.55pm   Bergerac
     9.50pm   News and Sport
                     Weatherman
   10.05pm   Match of the Day
   10.45pm   A Farewell Celebration of
                     The Good Old Days
    11.45pm   Across the Years
    12.10am   At Last -It's 1984!
      1.05am   Weather


  New Year's Day Sunday 1st January 1984

​  BBC1


      9.00am   Mr Benn
       9.15am   Sunday Worship
    10.00am   Asian Magazine
    10.30am   See Hear!
    10.55am   The Edinburgh Military Tattoo of 1983
    12.05pm   From Brooklyn to Blenheim
    12.50pm   Cartoon
      1.00pm   Under the Blackpool Tower with Ken Dodd
       1.45pm   News Headlines
       1.50pm   Film : The Yellow Rolls Royce (1964)
      3.50pm   Hot Shoe Show
      4.40pm   Aladdin and the Forty Thieves
      5.35pm   Richard Chamberlain on The Thorn Birds
      5.55pm   News, Weatherman
      6.05pm   The Holiday Programme
      6.40pm   Songs of Praise
        7.15pm   The Two Ronnies
       8.05pm   Film : Fame (1980) 
Première
       10.15pm  News, Weatherman
      10.25pm   Everyman
       11.05pm   Men v Women
                        An International Golf Challenge 
        11.55pm   Phil Silvers as Sergeant Bilko
        12.20am   Weather


    Bank Holiday Monday 2nd January 1984

​     BBC1

      
9.00am   The New Adventures of Flash Gordon
       9.25am   Why Don't You...?
      9.50am   Wacky Races
    10.00am   Play Chess!
     10.10am   Jackanory
     10.25am   Paddington
     10.30am   Play School
     10.55am   TV Film :
                       Antonio and the Mayor (1975) 
Première
      12.12pm   Weather 
      12.15pm   Grandstand
       4.25pm   Blue Peter
       4.55pm   Final Score
       5.05pm   News
        5.15pm   The Grinch Grinches the Cat-in-the-Hat
       5.40pm   Film :
                       It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
       8.10pm   Best of British Comedy
      9.00pm   Main News, Weatherman
       9.10pm   Amy
     10.45pm   Films of the Year
      11.25pm   Men v Women
                      An International Golf Challenge 
      12.15am   Weather
  Saturday 17th December 1983

  BBC2


    10.35am   Open University
      2.45pm   The Sky at Night
      3.05pm   Play Away
      3.25pm   The Emigrants
      5.50pm   Greek - Language and People
       6.15pm   Whistle Test - On the Road
       6.55pm   Newsnight December
       7.45pm   News and Sport
      8.00pm   Zubin Mehta Masterclass
       8.50pm  Film ; Cary Grant In Night and Day (1946)
      10.58pm  News Summary Weather
      11.00pm  The New Land


 


  
   Sunday 18th December 1983

​  BBC2


      11.25am  Open University
                      Caring for Older People :
                      Voluntary Workers 
     11.50am   Maths: The Alvey Report 3 :
                      Software Engineering 
     12.15pm   Towards One Force of Nature 
      2.25pm   Horizon
       3.15pm   Beethoven Piano Sonatas
      3.45pm   The Great Palace: The Story of Parliament
      4.35pm   Rugby Special
      5.25pm   Ski Sunday
     6.00pm   News Review
     6.30pm   The Money Programme
       7.15pm   Russell Harty : The Nativity
       7.45pm   The Natural World : Pelican Delta
      8.40pm   News on Two, Weather
      8.45pm   Did You See...?
      9.35pm   Pranks
      10.15pm  TV Film : Frankenstein :
                      The True Story (1973)


 











  Monday 19th December 1983

  BBC2


   3.55pm  Film : Cary Grant In Bringing Up Baby (1938)
   5.35pm  News Summary, Weather
   5.40pm  Eureka
   6.10pm  International Show Jumping
   6.55pm  Schoolgirl Chums
  8.00pm  Food and Drink
  8.30pm   The Bob Monkhouse Show
  9.25pm    A Talent for Murder
 10.55am   Frank Delaney


 











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​ 
   Tuesday 20th December 1983

  
BBC2

     4.00pm  Film : Cary Grant In Mr Lucky (1943)
     5.35pm   News Summary
                     Weather
     5.40pm   Rockschool
     6.05pm   Gymnastics
      7.05pm   St Ursula's In Danger
      8.10pm   Bookmark
     9.00pm   Film : Rollerball (1975)  
Première
    11.00pm   Out of Court
    11.30pm   News on Two, Weather
    11.35pm   Greek-Language and People


 


























​ 

   Wednesday 21st December 1983

  BBC2


     4.15pm  Film : Cary Grant In Every Girl
                    Should be Married (1948) 
Première
    5.35pm   News Summary, Weather
    5.40pm   A Waltons Special :
                    A Wedding on Waltons' Mountain

     7.15pm   Championship Darts Special
    8.30pm   Nature
    9.00pm   Entertainment USA
     9.25pm   My Music for Christmas
     9.55pm   Barry at Blenheim
   10.40pm   News on Two, Weather
   10.45pm   TV Film : The Roads of Exile (1978)   
                     
(Part One) Première

 



























  Thursday 22nd December 1983

  BBC2


     3.30pm  Film : Cary Grant in
                    Mr Blandings Builds his Dream House
                   
(1948)
     5.00pm  The World Chess Championships
     5.35pm   News Summary, Weather
     5.40pm   Sports Review of 1983
      7.25pm   Callas An International Celebration
     9.25pm   The Great Palace: The Story of Parliament
    10.15pm   Christmas at Cromore
    11.05pm   News on Two, Weather
    11.10pm   Film : The Roads of Exile (1978)  (
Part Two)

 































  Friday 23rd December 1983

  BBC2


     3.55pm   Film : Cary Grant in
                     The Grass is Greener (1960)
     5.35pm   News Summary, Weather
     5.40pm   A Waltons Special :
                     Mother's Day on Walton's Mountain
      7.15pm   Championship Darts Special
     8.20pm   Global Report
     8.50pm   M*A*S*H
      9.15pm   The Everly Brothers Reunion Concert
   10.30pm   Film : The Marx Brothers in
                     Monkey Business (1931)
    11.45pm   News on Two, Weather
    11.50pm   The Old Grey Whistle Test :
                     Pick of the Year​



























  Christmas Eve Saturday 24th December 1983

 
BBC2
  
    1.05pm  Film : Scrooge (1951)
 
                   starring Alistair Sim
  
   2.30pm  Shakespeare in Perspective 
                  comedy with Roy Hudd


    2.55pm  The Book Game 
                   chaired by Robert Robinson, with
                   Anthony Burgess, Germaine Greer,
                   Susan Hill and Adam Mars-Jones, 
                   Freddie Jones reads the extracts


    3.25pm  Film : That Touch of Mink (1962)
                   starring Cary Grant and Doris Day

    5.00pm  The BBC Television Shakespeare 
                   The Comedy of Errors, starring
                   Roger Daltrey and Michael Kitchen
                   as the two pairs of twins, with
                   Wendy Hiller, Cyril Cusack, Charles Gray,
                   Suzanne Bertish and Joanne Pearce​


    6.55pm  Sky at Drury Lane
                   
with guest Patrick Ros

    7.45pm  News with Jan Leeming

    7.55pm  Cider with Rosie 
                   starring Rosemary Leach in the
                   1971 production


    9.30pm  Private Lives
                    highlights from the series with Maria Aitken

   10.00pm  Whistle Test Presents
                     
Paul Young from the Hammersmith Odeon

    10.45pm  Film : To Catch a Thief (1955)
                     starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly 
                     in Hitchcock's thriller


     12.35am  Closedown












 












   Christmas Day Sunday 25th December 1983

  BBC2

       2:00pm  Nobody Minded the Rain

                       Impressions of Coronation Day 
                       Where were you on 2 June 1953?
                       Perhaps you were one of the 20 million
                       who watched the day's events on
                       television ; perhaps you were one of
                       the hundreds of thousands who braved
                       the cold and rain to cheer the Queen 
                       
through the streets of London. Possibly
                       you were one of the 7,000 people present
                       in Westminster Abbey for the Service,
                       the most glittering ceremony that
                       our tradition provides. 
                       This programme tells the story of 
                       
Coronation Day and the preparations
                       for it through the reminiscences of
                       people who were there, including
                       Lord Ramsey-then Bishop of Durham,
                       Lord Eccles - 
then Minister of Works,
                       Lady Rayne-one of the Queen's Maids
                       of Honour, together with many citizens
                       who, for one reason or another, have
                       good cause to remember the day, like
                       the crewmen of the Lowestoft 
lifeboat
                       who were among the few that missed
                       the Coronation celebrations


       3:00pm  The Book Game
                       The second of four conversational
                       games about books and writers in which
                       
Anthony Burgess, Germaine Greer,
                       Susan Hill
 and Adam Mars-Jones try
                       to identify recited extracts, and then
                       give vent to their literary likes and dislikes


       3:30pm  The Great Palace : The Story of Parliament
                       
The People of the Palace

       4:20pm  Henry's Cat
                      
Christmas Dinner 

       4:25pm  Film : Meet Me in St Louis (1944)
                      starring Judy Garland with
                      Margaret O'Brien Mary Astor Leon Ames 
                      Meet Me in St Louis is perhaps Vincente
                      Minnelli's best-loved musical, featuring
                      Judy Garland in numbers like 'The boy next
                      door' and 'Have yourself a merry little
                      
Christmas' and, of course, the classic
                      'Trolley song'. It traces the life and loves
                       of a middle-class St Louis family through
                       the four seasons, investigating the trials
                       and tribulations of growing-up


        6:15pm  The Natural World : Winter Days
                      Narrated by Robert Powell
                      A season of death and decay, or months
                      of magic? When the sun departs and
                      winter days arrive, how does our wildlife
                      
cope with the cold?
   
       
7:05pm  News on Two with Jan Leeming,  Weather
                  
        7:15pm  Cinderella

                      Rossini's delightful comic opera based
                      on the classic pantomime story provides
                      a special musical treat for opera lovers
                      at Christmas


      9:50pm  The Queen
                      The Christmas Day programme in which
                      Her Majesty speaks to the Commonwealth
                      
(with open subtitles and sign language 
                       interpretation 
for the deaf and
                       hard-of-hearing)


    10:05pm  The Bob Monkhouse Show
                      Bob Monkhouse presents the last of
                      the present series in which he introduces
                      the best of comic talent from around
                      the world. 
                      This week his special guests are
                      Norman Wisdom and from the
                      USSR via Los Angeles 'The Russian Comic',
                     
Yakov Smirnoff with music from
                      Bertice Reading and The Harry Stoneham
                      
Band


     11:00pm  Film : The Marx Brothers in
                      Duck Soup (1933)

                      The postage-stamp republic of
                      Freedonia, threatened by a
                      revolution, appoints Rufus (Groucho)
                      T. Firefly as its dictator.
                      With Chico and Harpo as double agents
                      
working for the rival state of Sylvania,
                      
Freedonia is about to get a traumatic taste
                      of Marxist rule! 


     12:10am  Closedown
  



















  



  






































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   Boxing Day Monday 26th December 1983


  BBC1

  12.45pm  Racing from Wincanton

                   introduced by Julian Wilson, with
                   Peter O'Sullevan & Richard Pitman
                   (1.00, 1.35, 2.05 races)


    2.20pm  Joseph and Child
                   Arthur Dooley's sculpture

    2.35pm  The Tale of Beatrix Potter 
                   a biographical play with Penelope Wilton 
                   
and Michael Hordern


    4.30pm  The Book Game
                    with Anthony Burgess, Germaine Greer,
                    
Susan Hill & Adam Mars-Jones


    5.00pm  Shakespeare in Perspective 
                    The Two Gentleman of Verona 
                    Broadcaster Russell Davies introduces
                    
tomorrow's BBC2 comedy of young love
                    and some fascinating variations on
                    the mating game

​

     5.25pm  Film : Mame (1974)
                    starring Lucille Ball and Robert Preston

     7.15pm  A Life in the Theatre 
                   Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies

    8.05pm  News Summary with subtitles

    8.10pm   Romeo and Juliet
                    Prokofiev's ballet from La Scala, Milan,
                    
choreographed by John Drummond
                    with Carla Fracci, Rudolph  
Nureyev and
                    Dame Margot Fonteyn


   10.25pm  Film : The Ipcress File (1965) 
                    starring Michael Caine, Nigel Green and
                    Guy Dolman


    12.15am  Closedown






























  
Holiday Tuesday 27th December 1983

    BBC2

   
12.30pm  Racing from Chepstow
                    (12.40, 1.10, 1.45 2 20 races)

     2.35pm  Dolin, Friends and Memories
                    Anton Dolin was Britain's first male
                    ballet star. He died last month in Pans at
                    the age of 79. In this film, first shown last
                    year in Omnibus, Barry Norman 
                    talked to Sir Anton who recalls his life as
                    a dancer and the people he knew. 


    2.55pm   The Book Game
                    The last of four programmes

    3.25pm   Machines In Motion
                    1: Driving Forces
                    Professor Leonard Maunder 
                    The Royal Institution's 154th
                    Annual Christmas Lectures
                    for Young People. 
                    A six-part series on why and how
                    things move, especially machines
 

    4.25pm   Film : The Wiz (1978) Première
                   The hit musical starring Diana Ross,
                   Michael Jackson, Richard Pryor
                   Based on the successful Broadway show,
                   The Wiz retells the magical story of the
                   Judy Garland classic The Wizard of Oz,
                   this time with an all-black cast, a soul 'n'
                   disco score, and a New York setting.. 


    6.35pm  Bus and Truck
                   Does anyone know the way to
                   Green-point High? 
                   The television series Fame is based on
                    a real school -the New York
                    School of Performing Arts.
                    In this film the pupils at the School write
                    and stage their own musical and take it
                    on a bus to Brooklyn, uncertain of what
                    facilities they will find and what
                    reception they will receive.


    7.05pm   News on Two with Frances Coverdale 
                    Weather

     7.10pm   Chronicle
                    China-Treasures of the Cultural Revolution
                    During the Cultural Revolution
                    immense effort was put into archaeological
                    
excavations.
                    The finds that resulted were of world
                    
importance. Chronicle has obtained
                    from Peking extraordinary film that
                    charts the discoveries made in China
                    between 1966 and 1972.
                    Presented by Kenneth Shepheard


   8.00pm   The BBC Television Shakespeare :
                    The Two Gentlemen of Verona


   10.20pm   Film : Oh God! (1977) Première
                     starring George Burns, John Denver,
                     Teri Garr
                     One morning Jerry Landers,
                     assistant manager at a Californian
                     supermarket, receives an invitation
                     in the post for an interview with God.
                     Unconvinced by a disembodied voice,
                     Jerry is honoured by a personal
                     appearance  - a senior citizen wearing
                     baggy trousers, anorak, sneakers
                     and baseball cap, who sports a talent
                     for throwaway gags.
                     Octogenarian comedian George Burns
                     made his second triumphant come-back
                     in this sparkling comedy about the perils
                     of divine intervention.


















































































 






  Wednesday 28th December 1983

     BBC2


     1.40pm  Film : Judy Garland stars in
                    Presenting Lily Mars (1943)
Première
     3.20pm 
The Royal Institution's Christmas Lectures 
                     
Machines in Motion
     4.20pm   A Waltons Special :
                     A Day of Thanksgiving on
                     Waltons' Mountain 
      5.55pm   News Summary, Weather
     6.00pm   World Snooker
      8.15pm   The Case of the Frightened Lady
      9.30pm   Film : Michael Caine in
                      Funeral In Berlin (1966)
     11.10pm   News on Two, Weather
     11.15pm   Film : The Marx Brothers in
                     Horse Feathers (1932)






















   Thursday 29th December 1983

   BBC2


     6.00am   Ceefax AM
     6.30am   Breakfast Time
     9.00am   The New Adventures of Flash Gordon
     9.25am   Why don't You....?
     9.50am   Wacky Races
   10.00am   Play Chess!
    10.10am   Jackanory
    10.25am   Paddington
     2.05pm   Film : Judy Garland Stars in
                     Everybody Sing (1938)
     3.25pm   
The Royal Institution's Christmas Lectures 
                     Machines in Motion
      4.25pm  Film : Cary Grant in Suspicion (1941)
     6.00pm   George Orwell
      6.55pm   News Summary, Weather
      7.00pm   Film : The Gypsy Moths (1969)
      8.45pm   Orpheus In the Underworld
     10.45pm  News on Two, Weather
     10.50pm  Film : The Marx Brothers in
                      A Night in Casablanca (1946)


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     Friday 30th December 1983


   1.40pm   Film : Judy Garland Stars in
                   The Pirate (1948)
   3.20pm  The Royal Institution's Christmas  Lectures
​                    
Machines in Motion  
    4.20pm   Romany
    4.50pm   Film : Cary Grant in Notorious (1946)
    6.30pm   George Orwell
     7.25pm   News Summary, Weather
     7.30pm   A Year in the Life of the World
    9.00pm   A Clip Round the Year
    9.30pm   Film : Michael Caine in
                    Billion Dollar Brain (1967)
    11.15pm   News on Two, Weather
    11.20pm  International Basketball
    11.55pm  Film : The Marx Brothers in
                    Animal Crackers (1930)


 





















 
  New Year's Eve Saturday 31st December 1983

  BBC2


   2.10pm   Film : Cary Grant in
                   The Pride and the Passion (1957)
   4.20pm   
The Royal Institution's Christmas  Lectures 
                   
Machines in Motion
   5.20pm   World Darts
   6.25pm   Die Fledermaus : Act I
   7.30pm   News on Two, Weather 
   7.40pm   Interval 
   7.50pm   Die Fledermaus : Act II
   9.05pm   Interval 
   9.25pm   Die Fiedermaus : Act III
 10.20pm   Angus McBean
 10.45pm   World Darts
  11.45pm   Film : Theatre of Blood (1973)






 
  New Year's Day Sunday 1st January 1984

​  BBC2


    12.15pm   Film :  In Name Only (1939)
      1.45pm   World Darts
     2.30pm   Rugby Special : London Welsh v Leicester
     3.20pm   Machines in Motion
     4.20pm   International Basketball
      5.15pm   Ski Sunday
     5.55pm   World Darts
     6.45pm   News Review
      7.15pm   Beyond 1984
     8.15pm   News on Two, Weather
    8.20pm   Beyond 1984 (Part 2)
    9.30pm   World Darts
    10.15pm   Film : Murder by Decree (1979) 
Première
     12.00       World Darts

​

 








​  Bank Holiday Monday 2nd January 1984


​  BBC2

    2.00pm   The Smith Boys
     2.50pm   Bank Holiday Film :
                     2001 : A Space Odyssey (1968)
     5.15pm    World Darts
     6.00pm   George Orwell
      6.55pm   News Summary, Weather
      7.00pm   The Natural World
      7.50pm   The New Year Concert
     9.00pm   Beyond 1984
      9.55pm   World Darts
    10.40pm   News on Two, Weather
    10.45pm   Film : The Dark Mirror (1946)





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