ITV CHRISTMAS TV 1971
Christmas Eve Friday 24th December 1971
ITV LONDON
9.30am A Concert for Christmas
from the Royal Festival Hall, London
10.20am Anita in Jumbleland
with Anita Harris
10.30am Christmas Lift Off
with Middle of the Road, Jack Wild, Kim Jones, Ayshea Brough, Wally Whyton
11.00am The Roadrunner Show
More cartoon adventures
11.30am The Hardest Way Up - Annapurna
12.30pm Film : Tarzan Goes to India (1962)
with Jock Mahoney, Mark Dana
2.00pm Riptide
Jump High, Land Easy
Moss Andrews runs foul of a gang of rich teenagers. . .
3.00pm Junior Showtime Christmas Pantomime
3.50pm Laurel and Hardy
3.55pm The Champions
Reply Box No.666
The Champions probe a Caribbean conundrum -Who wants a parrot that speaks Greek?
4.50pm The Cat in the Hat
cartoon
5.20pm Freewheelers
Pay Off!
5.50pm News
6.00pm Today...is Christmas Eve
with Eamonn Andrews
6.30pm The New Dick Van Dyke Show
A Room with a Room
7.00pm The Comedians' Christmas Party
7.45pm The Persuaders!
Element of Risk with Tony Curtis, Roger Moore
8.45pm The Fenn Street Gang
When Did You Last See Your Father?
9.15pm Val Doonican
10.00pm News at Ten
10.15pm All This- and Christmas Too
with Sidney James, Kenneth Connor, Joe Gladwin
11.15pm Aquarius
The Other Belfast
11.55pm Midnight Mass
from the Cathedral of St Nicolas, Fribourg, Switzerland
1.00am Closedown
ITV Yorkshire (as ITV London except)
11.00am Trade Winds to Tahiti
11.55am The Enchanted House
12.05pm Charlie Brown's Christmas (until 12.30pm)
2.00pm The Flintstones
2.30pm The Odd Couple (until 3.00pm)
3.50pm Film : Great Expectations (1946)
5.50pm News
6.00pm The Cat in the Hat
6.30pm The Sky's the Limit (until 7.00pm)
Christmas Day Saturday 25th December 1971
ITV LONDON
8.15am Carols in Kirkgate
from the Castle Museum, York
9.00am Cartoons
Two cartoons for today : Captain's Christmas and The Pups' Christmas
9.15am Christmas Morning Service
a United Free Church Service from Princes Street Congregational Church, Norwich
10.15am A Merry Morning
with John Alderton, Daisy May and Saveen
10.45am Chidren's Chistmas Cinema
11.30am Film : Captain Sinbad (1963)
starring Guy Williams, Heidi Bruhl, Pedro Armendariz
1.00pm Christmas Singalong with. . .
The Bachelors, Moira Anderson, Sacha Distel, Howard Keel, Andee Silver
2.00pm Kelvin Hall Circus
3.00pm The Queen
3.10pm Film : King Solomon's Mines (1950)
starring Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger
5.00pm A Variety of Reg Varney
6.00pm News
6.05pm All Star Comedy Carnival
8.30pm Film : Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
with David Niven, Robert Newton
10.00pm News
10.10pm Film : Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
(continued)
11.40pm It Matters to Me
ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)
9.00am Mel-O-Toons
(until 9.15am)
11.40am Polaris- The Secret World
12.35pm Weather
Christmas Sunday 26th December 1971
ITV LONDON
11.00am Morning Service
12.05pm The Sky's the Limit
with Hughie Green
12.30pm Film : Heidi (1937)
starring Shirley Temple, Jean Hersholt
2.00pm Queen's Hall Circus
2.45pm Film : Oklahoma! (1955)
with Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Rod Steiger, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson, Eddie Albert
5.15pm The Golden Shot
hosted by Bob Mobkhouse with guests Des O'Connor, Mary Hopkin
6.05pm News
6.15pm A Play for Sunday: The Crib
starring Janet Key, Jenny Twigge, Ray Lonnen
7.00pm Stars on Christmas Sunday
with Petula Clark, The Beverley Sisters, Beryl Reid, The Poole Family, Shirley Bassey, Hughie Green,
Bobby Bennett
7.25pm On the Buses Boxing Day Social
7.55pm Film : How to Steal a Million (1966)
with Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole
9.55pm News
10.10pm Who Killed Santa Claus
with Barbara Murray, Robert Hardy, Carolyn Seymour, Lyndon Brook, Peter Bowles
11.25pm It Matters to Me
11.35pm Closedown
ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)
9.30am Bugs Bunny
9.40am Out of the Shadow of the Sun
10.30am Wendy and Me
(b&w) (until 11.00)
12.00 Film : Heidi (1937)
1.35pm Happy Sounds
(until 2.00)
10.35pm Film : High Society (1956)
12.30pm The World of Whicker
1.00am Weather
Boxing Day Monday 27th December 1971
ITV LONDON
9.05am Happy Sounds
with Ray Fell, Bryan Burdon, Julie Rogers
9.30am The Adventures of Rupert Bear
Rupert and the Crackerjack
9.45am Atom Ant
cartoons
10.05am Superman
cartoon
10.25am Lost in Space
The Flaming Planet
11.25am Till I End My Song
12.20pm Bank Holiday Racing
2.15pm Hey! Cinderella
with Belinda Montgomery, Robin Ward
3.10pm Film : Courage of Lassie (1946)
with Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Morgan
4.55pm It's Ken Goodwin
with Elaine Delmar, The Black Abbotts
5.40pm News and Sports Results
5.55pm Laurel and Hardy
6.00pm Opportunity Knocks!
with Hughie Green
6.45pm For the Love of Ada
starring Irene Handl, Wilfred Pickles
7.30pm Coronation Street
8.00pm Film : To Catch a Thief (1955)
starring Cary Grant, Grace Kelly
10.00pm News at Ten
10.15pm Another Edward Woodward Hour
guests Margaret Lockwood, Peter Jones, Julia Lockwood, Russell Hunter
11.15pm Dowager in Hot Pants
12.10am Outlook '72
(approx) with Allan Hargreaves, Richard Hall
12.20am Closedown
(approx)
ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)
9.05am Pinky and Perky
9.15am The Sounds of Summer
10.05am Alice in Wonderland
cartoon
10.55am One Man Alone
11.50am The Bungaloos
(until 12.00)
2.15pm The Mysterious Lighthouse
3.15pm Film : Ivanhoe (1952)
starring Robert Taylor (until 4.55pm)
5.55pm Sylvester
(until 6.00)
11.15pm The Disappearing World
12.00 All Our Yesterdays
12.30pm Weather
Bank Holiday Tuesday 28th December 1971
ITV THAMES
9.55am The Ugly Duckling
10.15am Bugs Bunny
10.40am The Flintstones
The Long, Long Weekend
11.05am Out of School
12.00 Tale of a Tower
12.25pm Skippy Luna Park
1.15pm Toolbox
Floors and Ceilings (b&w)
1.45pm Film : Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964)
with Paul Mantee, Adam West
3.40pm Pinky and Perky
Guide to the Stars
3.55pm Yoga for Health
4.25pm The Charlie Brown Show
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
4.55pm Junior Showtime
5.20pm Magpie
5.50pm News
6.00pm F Troop Miss Parmenter
6.35pm Crossroads
7.00pm Mike and Bernie To Russia, With Love
7.30pm Film : The Train (1964)
with Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau
10.00pm News at Ten
10.30pm Two of a Kind
documentary with Douglas Bader and Marilyn Gillies
11.05pm Drive-In with Shaw Taylor
11.35pm Outlook '72
YORKSHIRE (as Thames except)
9.55am no programmes
12.50pm Sean the Leprechaun
1.05pm Vortex
2.00pm Adventure in Rainbow Country
2.35pm Film : Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1965)
starring Maureen O'Hara
4.30pm Survival
(until 4.55pm)
6.05pm The Candidate
with Milton Berle, Ruth Roman and Dina Merrill (until 7.00pm)
11.05pm Film : The Strange World of Planet X (1958)
12.30am Weather
