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    Christmas Eve Friday 24th December 1982 

  4.45pm  Buster Keaton Film : Cops (1920)
                    A series of mishaps manages to make a young man get chased by a big city's entire police force (b&w)
                
  5.15pm  The Tube
                   Christmas Eve - live in Studio Five with Paula Yates, Jools Holland 

  7.00pm  Channel Four News
                    Peter Sissons, Trevor McDonald, Sarah Hogg, Godfrey Hodgson

  7.30pm  The Friday Alternative
                    The 'other' news seen not by newscasters or reporters but by the public

  8.00pm  In the Spirit
                     gospel Christmas celebration featuring Natalie Cole, Rev James Cleveland, Marion Williams, Dorothy Norwood
                     Southern California Community Choir
(Repeat)

  9.00pm  The Sixties : Swingeing 
                    Photographers like David Bailey, pop stars like The Beatles, and film stars like Michael Caine appeared to herald a new
                    age of classlessness and sexual freedom. The Pill, abortion on demand and homosexual rights, contributed
                    to a feeling that the Sixties were a liberal, permissive age. Inevitably, there was a backlash. Mary Whitehouse
                    tried to clean up TV, the police raided Andy Warhol's film 'Flesh' and Mick Jagger was arrested on drugs charges.
                    Narrated by James Bolam


10.00pm  The Curious Case of Santa Claus
                    starring James Coco, Jon Pertwee
                    Santa Claus has an identity crisis. Is he really Santa Claus?
                    Why do people call him Father Christmas?
                    He goes to a psychiatrist, Dr Merryweather who in a hilarious travelogue, takes Santa from his birth in Turkey,
                    through sleigh rides in Siberia, miracles in italy and pageants in Holland to our hearth in 1982.
                    It is a blend of seasonal comedy and fascinating history -St Nicholas, Santa Claus or Father Christmas?
                   Who is he? Who cares? 'Even if we don't believe in him forever' says Dr Merryweather, 'we all believe for a time' 


11.00pm  Norman Gunston at Christmas
                   It's the little Aussie bleeder himself. Comedian Norman Gunston - he of the blood soaked shaving technique and creeping 
                   sycophancy and startling interview technique - tonight fills out the role of Father Christmas. Or tries to but his
                   attempt is even more inept than his surreal encounters with Hollywood celebrities like Lee Marvin, Elliot Gould,
                   Karen Black, Zsa Zsa Gabor and the Bee Gees


12.00      Closedown

  
  Christmas Day Saturday 25th December 1982  

10.30am  Film : Captain Stirrick (1982)
                    musical starring Freddie Jones, Roger Sloman, Ronnie Stevens 
                    
This is the first production of the newly-formed Children's Film Unit, a unique organisation which gives , children the opportunity to make films.
                    With music by Richard Brett it tells the story of the teenage leader of a gang of Victorian child pickpockets.
                    They rule the streets of Smithfield, until their attempt to rob a lord leads to murder
 

12.10pm  The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin
                   animated version of the pantomime story in which the characters are played by Penguins 

12.20pm  Film : Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
​                    starring Vivien Leigh, Claude Rains 
                   
George Bernard Shaw's comedy about Julius Caesar's years in Alexandria. Caesar guides the young Egyptian queen 
                   Cleopatra from wilful girl to powerful monarch


  2.40pm  Preview 4
                    Holiday viewing highlights with Paul Coia, Keith Harrison, Olga Hubicka, and David Stranks

  3.00pm  Magic of China
                    Mark Wilson, Nani Wilson, Greg Wilson, The People of China, Top American illusionist Mark Wilson takes his wife Nani and
                    son Greg on a wondrous trip. Magic has a special meaning in China. For hundreds of years magicians have been known as
                    'men who confuse vision'. Wilson's magic is as spellbinding to the Chinese as his trip is to European eyes. Narrator: Steve Allen


  4.00pm  Buster Keaton Film : The Navigator (1924)
                    Rollo Treadway catches the wrong boat to Hawaii and becomes involved with a gang of spies trying to sink the ship. With the love
                    of his life, he lands up on an island and is chased by cannibal (b&w)


  5.05pm  Brookside
                    Lucy and Karen escape their families to enjoy the festivities and Heather gets some unexpected attention at the Law Society dance.
                    Christmas Day dawns peacefully at Brookside for everyone except Bobby Grant and his union committee. And what with Barry's injury,
                    Karen's hangover and Damon's school report, Sheila's wondering what she's supposed to be celebrating
  (Repeat)

  6.00pm  The Queen's Christmas Message
                    The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth

  6.05pm  St Mark's Gospel
                    When Alec McCowen performed his one-man version of St Mark's Gospel in New York last year, it was hailed as a prodigious feat of memory, an act
                    of faith and a virtuoso performance. McCowen tells the Gospel story as if it was hot news and becomes a multitude of characters: Pharisees and disciples,
                    the lame and the blind., Salome, Pontius Pilate and Jesus Christ


  8.00pm  News Headlines followed by
                    Upstairs, Downstairs 
                    The Key of the Door 
                     In November 1908, Elizabeth Bellamy comes under the influence of a woman with radical views
 (Repeat)

  9.00pm  Film : Richard III (1955)
                    starring Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud 
                    Olivier's classic interpretation of one of Shakespeare's most evil characters — Richard Crookback, the Medieval prince whose accumulation of treacherous
                    deeds eventually brought him the crown of England, led to the Battle of Bosworth Field and the Tudor era


11.55pm  Closedown


  Christmas Sunday 26th December 1982   

11.45am  Los Villancicos 
                  Luis Alvarez
                  A series of lively, dramatic cantatas by 18th-century Spanish composer Antonio Soler (1729-83). The work is set in Spain, 1760.
                  A choirboy, a priest and a poet stand on the altar steps of the village church arguing about the form the annual Christmas entertainment should take.
                  These cantatas, consigned to a dusty corner for centuries, have been rediscovered and restored to new life by musicologist Alice Pole.                    
                  With Luis Alvarez (baritone); the Choir of Escolania Di Santa Cruz Del Valle De Los Caidos, directed by Laurentino Saez De Buruaga;
                   and the Arthur Haas Ensemble, music director Arthur Haas


  1.20pm  International Film Season : Sholay (Flames of the Sun) (1975)
                  This epic action film from India has been described as a curry western. It tells of Thakur, a retired policeman living in an isolated mountain village.
                  He hires two criminals, Jai and Veeru, as gunmen to protect the village from the ravages of a marauding gang


  4.30pm  Film : A Night at the Opera (1935)
                    One of the Marx Brothers' most famous comedy films. Otis B Driftwood is an opportunist who is wooing wealthy Mrs Claypool who is,
                    in turn, being persuaded to invest some of her millions in the New York Opera Company by its untrustworthy chief, Gottlieb.
                    Driftwood tries to out-manoeuvre Gottlieb by signing his protégé, Lasparri, but, through the chicanery of an Italian called Fiorello, finds himself
                    saddled with an unknown young singer from the company's chorus. Everyone sets sail for New York, but Driftwood discovers that his tiny cabin
                    is beset by stowaways and unwelcome visitors... (b&w)


  6.15pm  The Snowman  
                  
By Raymond Briggs
                  An animated version, produced to appeal to audiences of all ages, of the well-known children's story.
                  It's Christmas Eve and the snow is falling. A time for magic. A little boy races outside to build a snowman.
                  Later when everyone's asleep, the snowman comes alive and after a spin or two on a motorbike the snowman and the boy fly off
                  to the North Pole to meet a Very Important Person


  6.45pm  Sleeping Beauty Wakes Up at the 10th Street Car Wash
                   Hilarious, simple tale of a middle-aged lady who takes her car to the car wash only to find herself in a strange fantasy world

  7.00pm  The Love of Three Oranges 
                    Prokofiev's opera is set in a fantasy world of magic, pantomime and knockabout humour. The Prince can be cured of his illness only if he
                    is made to laugh. The outstanding success of the 1982 Glyndebourne season, this lavish production features the Glyndebourne Chorus,
                    director Jane Glover; the London Philharmonic Orchestra, leader David Nolan, conductor Bernard Haitink.
                    Designed by Maurice Sendak, the opera includes special animated sequences


  9.15pm  News Headlines followed by 
                  Bob Hope's Double Bill
                  Film : The Princess and the Pirate (1944)

                  Bob Hope,  Virginia Mayo, Walter Brennan, Victor McLaglen
                  Aboard the good ship Mary Ann, Sylvester the Great, an actor who is his own biggest fan, keeps bragging to Margaret Warbrook,
                  a princess in disguise fleeing to the West Indies after a royal row with her father. Sylvester's veneer of courage soon breaks down
                  when the ship is captured by The Hook, a villainous pirate who intends to hold the princess to ransom


11.00pm  Film : They Got Me Covered (1943)
                   Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Otto Preminger
                   The Bob Hope double bill concludes with this spy spoof which casts Hope as a newsman fired from his news syndicate for muffing a story.
                   Seeking consolation with Christine, the head of his bureau's office in Washington, he runs across a confidential report on spy activities in
                   America and becomes involved with a spy ring who have lethal plans for his future....


12.45am  Closedown

 
  Boxing Day Monday 27th December 1982  

  3.00pm  Film : Hans Christian Anderson (1952)
                    starring Danny Kaye 
                    Musical based on the life of one of Denmark's most famous sons, the fairytale writer Hans Christian Andersen


  5.00pm  Madam
                    The Story of Rake's Progress  
                    First of five films about the work of Britain's grand lady of ballet, Dame Ninette de Valois.
                    Last year, both the Royal Ballet and Sadler's Wells Theatre celebrated their 50th anniversary.
                    For the golden anniversary of the company she started, Dame Ninette re-staged her classic
                    ballet, The Rake's Progress. This first programme tells the story of the ballet. Appearing are
                    members of Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet, directed by Peter Wright, Sir Robert Helpmann,
                    Sir Anton Dolin, Pamela May, June Brae, Peter Wright and Barry Wordsworth


  5.45pm  Preview 4

  6.00pm 
Fifties to the Fore  (until 10.00pm)
                     
Fifties nostalgia comes to Channel Four in this selection of top ITV programmes from the period.
                     Comedy, drama, vintage rock n' roll — it's all here for your enjoyment.
                     All programmes were made in black and white

                     The Arthur Haynes Show
                     Re-run of one of the most popular variety shows. This one from 1959 shows 'the large
                     as life and twice as sly' Arthur outwitting authority. Also appearing: Aileen Cochrane,
                     Nicholas Parsons, Kept Morris, Leslie Noyes, Diana French, and Jessie Ball


  7.00pm  Oh Boy!
                    Jimmy Henney, Tony Hall
                    Relive the days when beat music exploded live from the Hackney Empire.
                    Vintage rock rolls again with Marty Wilde, Cliff Richard and the Drifters, The Dallas Boys,
                    Cherry Wainer, Don Lang, Cuddly Dudley, The Vernons Girls, Lord Rockingham's XI,
                    Rod Price, Billy Fury, Dickie Pride, Mike Preston, Bill - Forbes, Peter Elliott, Neville Taylor and His Cutters and Lorie Mann


  7.30pm   The Larkins
                     Ale and Farewell 
                     In this episode of the classic sitcom, first shown in 1958, Ada is on the 
warpath


  8.00pm  Armchair Theatre
                    Hot Summer Night 
                    starring John Slater
                    Jacko believes everyone's equal on the factory floor, but not at home, especially when his daughter acquires a new boyfriend


  9.30pm  Fifty Paces
                    Catch the flavour of the Fifties in this selection of documentary material

10.00pm  Whatever You Want
                     Tansey Lambert is Dead, OK?
                     A seasonal greeting is despatched from his cell by a youngster called Tansey
   

11.00pm   Johnny Cash in Scotland
                    Join singers Johnny Cash and Andy Williams, June Carter Cash, John Carter Cash, Carlene Carter​

12.00        Closedown  
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