ITV CHRISTMAS TV 1976
Christmas Eve Friday 24th December 1976
ITV LONDON
9.30am A Diary of Civilizations
10.20am Animated Classic: A Christmas Carol
11.10am Cowboy in Africa
12.00 A Handful of Songs
Maria Morgan and Keith Field show more of your paintings and sing their songs
12.10pm Pipkins
The Lookout. It's Johnny's birthday and his presents must be a surprise
12.30pm Frosty the Snowman
1.00pm News
1.20pm Today's Post
1.30pm Crown Court
A World of Difference
2.00pm Good Afternoon
2.25pm TV Film : Stowaway to the Moon
with Lloyd Bridges
4.15pm The Siege of Golden Hill
The Frighteners
In his quest to stop his grandfather, Old Tom, being ousted from his life-long home, Billy sees Sarah's
father, a local councillor
4.45pm Magpie
5.15pm University Challenge
5.45pm News
6.00pm Double Helping
6.35pm Crossroads
7.00pm Holiday Sweepstakes Game
7.30pm Within These Walls
Katharine Blake in Silent Night with Mona Bruce, Beth Harris, Denys Hawthorne and Jerome Willis
8.30pm TV Film : Terror on the 40th Floor (1974)
with John Forsythe
10.15pm News
10.30pm Bing Crosby's White Christmas
11.30pm Midnight Mass
from St Margaret of Scotland, Twickenham
12.25am Weather Forecast
followed by
Closedown
ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)
9.15am The Story of Silent Night
9.45am Lassie
10.15am Film : The Belles of St Trinian's (1954)
with Alistair Sim, Joyce Grenfell, George Cole (until 12.00)
1.20pm Calendar News
(until 1.30pm)
2.25pm Cartoon
2.30pm Film : Half a Sixpence (1967)
starring Tommy Steele, Julia Foster (until 4.45)
5.15pm The Siege of Golden Hill
(until 5.45pm)
6.00pm Christmas Calendar
(until 6.35pm)
Christmas Day Saturday 25th December 1976
ITV LONDON
8.45am Carols from Durham Cathedral
with Roy Dotrice
9.30am The Legend of the Christmas Messenger
10.00am Morning Service
from Boxgrove Priory, Chichester
11.00am A Merry Morning
with Jimmy Tarbuck, Johnny Hart
11.30am Film : Doctor Dolittle (1967)
starring Rex Harrison
2.15pm Christmas Supersonic
3.00pm The Queen
3.10pm Film : Please Sir! (1971)
with John Alderton, Deryck Guyler and Joan Sanderson
5.00pm New Faces
Derek Hobson with Jack Parnell, Les Reed, Shaw Taylor, Muriel Young
6.00pm News
6.10pm Christmas Sale of the Century
6.45pm The John Curry Ice Spectacular
with Millicent Martin and Wayne Sleep
8.00pm Film : Waterloo (1970)
starring Rod Steiger
10.25pm News
10.35pm Two's Company
A Loving Christmas, starring Elaine Stritch and Donald Sinden
11.05pm Celebration
with Sir Geraint Evans, Petula Clark, Ray Smith and Angharad Rees
12.00 Christmas Pie
ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London)
Christmas Sunday 26th December 1976
ITV LONDON
10.00am Morning Worship
from ATV Television Centre, Birmingham
10.30am A Christmas Two Step
10.50am Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
11.40am The Tiny Tree
12.05pm Film : Thunderbirds Are Go (1966)
1.45pm Peter Ustinov tells stories from Hans Christian Andersen
2.35pm The World of Magic
with Doug Hemming, Bill Crosby, Gene Kelly and Shimada
3.35pm TV Film : Peter Pan (1976)
with Mia Farrow and Danny Kaye
5.35pm The Ghosts of Motley Hall
(new series)
The Christmas Spirit
6.05pm News
with Gordon Honeycombe
6.15pm A Card for Christmas
with Sheila Kennedy
6.25pm Rock Nativity
7.25pm Stanley Baxter's Christmas Box
8.25pm Film : Catch Me a Spy (1971)
with Kirk Douglas
10.10pm News
10.25pm Operetta : The Merry Widow
with Catherine Wilson and Johnny Blane
12.05am Christmas Pie
ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)
9.10am The Little House on the Prairie
(until 10.00am)
12.05pm Film : The Downhill Racer
(until 1.45pm)
12.05am Univerity Challenge
12.35am Closedown
Boxing Day Monday 27th December 1976
ITV LONDON
9.35am Dr Seuss on the Loose
10.00am ...and Maisy too
(New Series)
with Quentin Blake, Jenny Hanley
10.10am Mister Trimble
"Sounds" with Tony Boden
10.25am Christmas Clapperboard
11.00am We Six Kings
The King's Singers
11.30am Film : Susannah of the Mounties (1939)
with Shirley Temple
1.00pm News
with Ivor Mills
1.05pm Cartoons
1.25pm The Cedar Tree
The Treatment
When Anne and her mother depart for Germany, Liz has to face new responsibilities
1.55pm Film : The Call of the Wild (1935)
with John Beck and Bernard Fresson
3.40pm Christmas Runaround
with Mike Reid
4.10pm Chipperfield's Christmas Circus
Ringmaster David Hamilton
5.10pm News and Results
with Alastair Burnet
5.30pm Rising Damp
6.00pm Gilbert O'Sullivan's Greatest Hits
6.45pm Christmas Opportunity Knocks
Songwriters' Show
7.30pm Coronation Street
8.00pm Yanks Go Home
Rossi Keeps His Cool
9.00pm The Mating Season
a play, with Bruce Forsyth, Joy Stewart, Joyce Blair
10.00pm News
10.15pm Film : Puppet on a Chain (1971) Première
with Sven-Bertil Taube, Barbara Parkins
12.00 Peege
12.25am Reading
ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)
9.00am Daniel Boone
(until 10.00pm)
11.30am Film : The Prince Who Was a Thief
starring Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie (until 1.00am)
Bank Holiday Tuesday 28th December 1976
ITV LONDON
9.25am Aesop's Fables
10.00am Issi Noho
The Magic Conference That Never Was
10.10am Mister Trimble
Houses and Buildings, with Tony Boden
10.25am The Entertaining Electron
The 1975-76 Faraday Lecture
11.20am Film : Munster Go Home (1966)
1.00pm News
1.05pm Ukaliq
1.30pm The Cedar Tree
2.00pm Lure of the Dolphins with Anthony Grey
3.00pm Film - Gigi
with Leslie Caron Maurice Chevalier Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold, Eva Gabor
5.05pm News and Sports Results
5.20pm Crossroads
5.45pm Cranford
Judy Cornwall, Colin Douglas with Ann Beach, Joyce Grant, Pamela Charles, Eleanor McCready
7.00pm Tommy Cooper's Guest Night
with Arthur Askey, The Three Degrees, Los Zafiros, Lionel Blair
8.00pm The James Bond Film : From Russia with Love (1963) Première
10.10pm News
10.25pm International Pop Proms
11.25pm A Winter Journey
11.55pm Vincent Price
