ITV CHRISTMAS TV 1968
Christmas Eve Tuesday 24th December 1968
THAMES
9.00am Moonshot
9.15am Close
4.30pm The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
4.50pm Sooty's Christmas Party
Harry, Sooty, Sweep and Butch are spending Christmas at home and holding a party for
all their puppet friends.
With so many people to cater for, Sooty and Co. decide to help Harry prepare the food
5.15pm Thirteen Thousand and Eighty-Three Pounds
with Elizabeth Crowther, Howard Trevor, James Hayter and Marjie Lawrence.
Poor little rich girl, Esther, is 11 years old and has £13,083 in the bank.
Surprising, then, that she is having a horrible Christmas.
Like all spoilt children, when she suffers she makes sure that everyone else in sight is miserable.
5.50pm News
6.04pm Today
with Eamonn Andrews
6.30pm Peyton Place
the last episode
7.00pm Moody
starring Ron Moody
7.30pm Film : Carry On Regardless (1961) Première
starring Sidney James, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey
9.00pm Whatever Happened to Christmas ?
with Bruce Forsyth and Cliff Richard
10.00pm News
10.30pm Borge presents Borge
with Victor Borge
11.30pm Focus on St Paul's
introduced by Kenneth Robinson, with the Very Rev Martin Sullivan (Dean of St Paul's), John Betjeman,
Paul Paget (Architect and Surveyor to the Fabric- St Paul's)
11.55pm Midnight Mass of the Nativity
from the Church of St Mary's Star of the Sea, Largs, Ayrshire
YORKSHIRE (as Thames except)
3.00pm Helter Skelter
with Carol Marsh, David Tomlinson
4.15pm Jimmy Green and his Time Machine
4.25pm Crossroads (until 4.50pm)
6.05pm Calendar
6.30pm Honey Lane (until 7.00pm)
7.30pm Fast and Loose
with Stanley Holloway, Kay Kendall, Brian Reece (until 9.00pm)
11.30pm Carols in Kirkgate
(until 11.55pm)
1.00am Weather
Granada (as Thames except)
No programmes until
2.00pm Film : Tons of Trouble (1956)
starring Richard Hearne, William Hartnell, Austin Trevor
3.15pm Film : Tom Brown's Schooldays (1951) (until 4.50pm)
starring John Howard Davies, Robert Newton, James Hayter
6.00pm Granada News
6.05pm At Last - It's Christmas
6.30pm Honey Lane
7.30pm Film : Whisky Galore! (1949) (until 9.00pm)
starring Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood, Catherine Lacey
11.30pm Pardon My Ghost (until 11.55pm)
Christmas Day Wednesday 25th December 1968
THAMES
9.15am Christmas Day with Tingha and Tucker
Fly with us on a magic carpet to the land of make-believe and meet a wicked magicIan,
a genie of a lamp, a talking elephant and Prince Origami with his magic fan
9.45am Carols from Ripon Cathedral
10.30am Holy Communion at Southwark Cathedral
11.40am Royal Family at St George's Chapel, Windsor
12.00 Freewheelers
The Zander Plot-The Stones
12.30pm Film : Tarzan's Savage Fury (1952)
with Lex Barker
2.00pm All Kinds of Music
3.00pm The Queen
3.10pm The Kelvin Hall Circus
4.10pm Do Not Adjust Your Stocking
starring Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, David Jason,
Denise Coffey and the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
5.00pm Film : The Courage of Lassie (1946)
with Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Morgan, Tom Drake
5.50pm News
6.00pm Film : The Courage of Lassie (1946) continued
6.45pm Gala Opportunity Knocks
7.30pm Coronation Street
8.00pm Film : Westward the Women (1951)
with Robert Taylor, Denise Darcel, John McIntyre
10.00pm News
10.15pm Christmas Horne A'Plenty
10.45pm The Sex Game
Hippy Hippy Who Cares, by Fay Weldon, with Julia Foster, Renee Houston,
Valerie Gearon, Julian Orchard, Frederick Jaeger
11.45pm Mountbatten Interview
12.05am The Other Side of the Coin
Kenneth Groot talks to Marjorie Proops
YORKSHIRE (as Thames except)
9.15am Moonshot
9.30am Sugarball (until 9.45am)
5.00pm Film : Yankee Buccaneer (1952)
with Jeff Chandler, Scott Brady, Susan Ball (until 5.50pm)
6.05pm Film : Yankee Buccaneer (1952)
part two (until 6.45pm)
11.45pm The Flying Angel
story of the Hull Missions to Seamen
12.05am Weather
Granada (as Thames except)
11.30am Stingray (until 12 noon)
5.00pm Film : The Perils of Pauline (1947) (until 5.50pm)
starring Betty Hutton, John Lund
6.05pm Film : The Perils of Pauline (1947) continued (until 6.45pm)
11.45pm Closedown
Boxing Day Thursday 26th December 1968
THAMES
10.00am Mad Movies
10.25am Bugs Bunny
10.50am The Flying Nun
"Cyrano de Bertrille" with Sally Field
11.15am Sugarball the Little Jungle Boy
11.25am Dickens at Christmas
Christmas at Dingley Dell, introduced by Fredric March,
with James Donald, Ambrosine Philpotts, John Salew, Jack Watling
11.50am Little Big Time
12.15pm Film : Silver City (1951)
starring Edmond O'Brien
2.00pm Racing from Wincanton
3.55pm Professional Wrestling
4.40pm Film : Cinderfella (1960)
with Jerry Lewis
5.40pm News and Sports Results
6.00pm Film : Cinderfella (1960) continued
6.30pm Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width
I'm Dreaming of a Kosher Christmas,with John Bluthal and Joe Lynch
7.00pm Film : Hatari (1962)
starring John Wayne, with Elsa Martinelli
9.30pm The Reporters
10.00pm News
10.15pm Cinema Says It With Music
11.00pm Eamonn Andrews Boxing Day Special
with Kenny Ball, Danny La Rue, Roy Hudd and Dickie Henderson
11.45pm The Other Side of the Coin
Kenneth Groot talks to Alan Brash, director of Christian Aid
YORKSHIRE (as Thames except)
9.55am Moonshot
10.00am Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
11.00am Robin Hood
11.25am Once Upon a Time
11.35am Crossroads
12.00pm Little Big Time
12.30pm Film : They Rode West (1954)
with Robert Francis and Donna Reed (until 2.00pm)
11.45pm Honey Lane
12.15pm Weather
Granada (as Thames except)
No programmes until
10.20am Thunderbirds (until 11.15am)
11.30am Skippy
12.00 Little Big Time
12.30pm Bugs Bunny
12.35pm Film : Helter Skelter (1949) (until 2.00pm)
starring Carol Marsh, David Tomlinson, Mervyn John
11.45pm Closedown
