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ITV CHRISTMAS TV 1979


  Christmas Eve Monday 24th December 1979

  ITV Granada

  9.30am  Walt Disney Classics  
                   Ferdinand the Bull, Tea for Two Hundred, Pluto and the Armadillo

  9.50am  It Happened One Christmas 
                   starring Marlo Thomas, Wayne Rogers, Orson Welles, Cloris Leachman

11.35am   A Family Circus Christmas 
                  animated story about a boy who dreams of riding with Santa on his sleigh

12.00       Jamie and the Magic Torch 
                  Wishes

12.10pm  Once Upon a Time 
                  The Dog and His Reflection told by Peter Davison, puppet story

12.30pm  A Christmas Runaround 
                   presented by Mike Reid

  1.00pm  News at One 

  1.20pm   Granada Reports

  1.30pm   Film : Ben-Hur (1959)

                     starring Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Haya Harareet

  5.20pm  News

  5.30pm  Granada Reports

  6.05pm  You're Only Young Twice

                    Christmas at Paradise Lodge,  starring Peggy Mount, Pat Coombs, Lally Bowers, Diana King, Charmian May

  6.35pm   Crossroads

  7.00pm  Give Us a Clue

                    Michael Aspel with guests Beryl Reid, Dickie Davies

  7.30pm  Coronation Street

  8.00pm  London Night Out Christmas Special
                     
with Tom O'Connor, Petula Clark, Topo Gigio, The Nolan Sisters, The Irving Davies Dancers, Dick Franco

  9.00pm  Film : The Tamarind Seed (1974)
                     starring Julie Andrews, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quayle, Sylvis Sims

10.15pm    ITN News

10.30pm   Film : The Tamarind Seed (1974)
                     
continued

11.30pm    Midnight Communion
                    from Hexham Abbey, Northumberland

  ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV Granada except)

  1.20pm  Calendar News
                   (until 1.30)

  5.30pm  Calendar
                   
(until 6.05)

  ITV LONDON (as ITV Granada except)

  5.30pm  Thames News



  Christmas Day Tuesday 25th December 1979

  ITV LONDON

  8.45am  Beautiful Morning 
                   carols from the choir of St Winifred's School, Stockport with the St Winifred's School Choir, Burl Ives

  9.00am  The Christmas Story
                    
for younger viewers,told by Paul Copley

  9.15am    A Merry Morning  
                    from the National Children's Home, Harrogate, presented by Jimmy Tarbuck, with Animal Kwackers, Mike Harding, Ward Allen  

10.00am  Christmas Morning Service
                     
from Harpenden Methodist Church, Hertfordshire

11.00am   TV Film : Lassie : The New Beginning (1978)  Première
                    
with John Reilly, Lee Bryant, Gene Evans 


12.45pm    Walt Disney Classics
                     
Three Orphan Kittens, cartoon

  1.00pm   Christmas Oh Boy!
                     with Joe Brown and the Bruvvers, Billy Hartman, Freddie "Fingers" Lee, Alvin Stardust, Shakin' Stevens, Rachel Sweet, Tim Witnall, Fumble,
                     The Oh Boy! Cats and Kittens, The Oh Boy! Boogie Band


  1.30pm    Crossroads

  2.00pm   Star Games  
                     The Grand Final - Comedy v TV Presenters with Michael Aspel, Alan Pascoe, Jenny Hanley, Gerald Sinsta

  3.00pm   The Queen

  3.15pm     The James Bond Film : Goldfinger (1964)
 Première
                      starring Sean Connery, Honor Blackman

  5.10pm    News

  5.15pm     3-2-1
 
                     
Dickensian Xmas Show, presented by Ted Rogers, with Terry Scott, 
Bill Maynard and Wilfrid Brambell

  6.15pm    George and Mildred
                    
The Twenty-Six Year Itch, starring Yootha Joyce and Brian Murphy

  6.45pm   Film : The Three Musketeers (1973) Première
                     starring Michael York, Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Faye Dunaway, Frank Finlay, Richard Chamberlain

  8.45pm   Christmas with Eric and Ernie
                     with Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise, David Frost, Glenda Jackson, The Peter Knight Orchestra

  9.45pm    This Is Your Life Special
                     presented by Eamonn Andrews

10.30pm   News

10.40pm   Cleo's Christmas

                     Cleo Lane with John Dankworth, Scott Madden, Modesty, Karen Winkermann

11.40pm    TV Film : Death at Love House (1976)
                     starring Robert Wagner, Sylvia Sidney, Joan Blondell, Dorothy Lamour and John Carradine

  1.00am   A Child Is Born
                    Christmas chants from the monks of Farnborough Abbey


   ITV GRANADA (as ITV London except)

11.40pm  Vegas Night of a Thousand Eyes
                   starring Robert Urich, Bart Braverman

12.35am  A Child Is Born
                  Christmas chants from the monks of Farnborough Abbey

12.45am  Closedown

  ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)

11.45pm  The Love Boat

12.35am  A Child Is Born



  Boxing Day Wednesday 26th December 1979

  ITV GRANADA

  9.00am   The Adventures of Rupert Bear Rupert and the Jack-in-the-Box
                     (Repeat)

  9.10am    Once Upon a Time
                    The Pig, The Squirrel and The Ladybird told by Peter Davison

  9.25am    Puff the Magic Dragon
                     a musical animated special

  9.50am   Get It Together Christmas Bonanza
                    with Roy North, Linda Fletcher, Mike Moran and the Band, TSD's, Child, Sally Oldfield, Squeeze, Chas and Dave

10.35am   Clapperboard
                    with Chris Kelly

11.00am   Film : Scalawag (1973)
                    
with Kirk Douglas, Mark Lester, Neville Brand, Lesley-Anne Down

12.40pm   ITN News

12.45pm   Cinderella

                    animated puppet film

  1.30pm  Crossroads

  2.00pm  Film : The King and I (1956)

                     starring Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner

  4.15pm    Billy Smart's Christmas Circus
                    with Bernie Winters and Schnorbitz

  5.30pm   News and Sports Results

  5.45pm   All Stars Winner Takes All

                    with Jimmy Tarbuck, Geoffrey Wheeler and guests Moira Anderson, Henry Cooper, Anita Harris, Dickie Henderson

  6.15pm    Charlie's Angels
                    starring Jaclyn Smith, Cheryl Ladd, Shelley Hack

  7.15pm    Coronation Street

  7.45pm   The Dick Emery Special
                    with Anna Dawson, Tim Barrett, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Robert Dorning, David Rayner, John Rutland, Frank Coda, Gemma Craven, The Three Degrees, Annabel

  8.45pm   Man About the House
                    
with Richard O'Sullivan, Paula Wilcox, Sally Thomsett, Brian Murphy, Yootha Joyce

10.25pm  ITN News

10.35pm  Shirley MacLaine at the Lido
                   
with Tom Jones, Charles Aznavour, Sacha Distel, The Lido Girls

12.20am  Closedown


  ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV Granada)

  ITV LONDON (as ITV Granada except)

12.20am  Christmas Pie
                   Lambeth children talk about the humble aspects of the Christmas story

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