ITV CHRISTMAS TV 1982
Christmas Eve Friday 24th December 1982
ITV LONDON (THAMES)
9.30am Sesame Street
10.30am A Handful of Songs (Repeat)
10.40am Once Upon a Time
10.55am The Dollar Bottom
starring Robert Urquhart
11.30am A Christmas Treat
read by Edna O'Brien
12.00 Aldabra-Island of Giant Tortoises
1.00pm News at One
1.20pm Thames News
1.30pm The Journey
2.00pm We Six Kings
The King's Singers from Nostell Priory
2.30pm Film : Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)
4.15pm Strawberry Ice
spectacular fantasy on ice
5.15pm The Goodies Christmas Special
Snow White part 2
5.45pm ITN News
6.00pm Thames Weekend News
6.15pm Cartoon Time
6.30pm Punchlines!
with Lennie Bennett
7.00pm A Christmas Lantern
with Cliff Richard, Una Stubbs, Robert Hardy,
Christopher Timothy, Mike Reid and Wayne Sleep
8.00pm In Loving Memory
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
8.30pm The Stanley Baxter Hour
9.30pm ITN News
9.45pm A Christmas Carol
Thea Musgrave operatic version
11.45pm Watchnight Service
from St Andrew's and St George's Church of Scotland, Edinburgh
12.30am Closedown
REGIONAL VARIATIONS
TVS
1.20pm TVS News
6.00pm Coast to Coast.
ANGLIA
1.20pm Anglia News, Weather
6.00pm About Anglia.
TSW
9.25am Carols of Cornwall
1.20pm TSW News
4.15pm The Messengers
4.45pm Emmerdale
5.15pm The Waiters;
6.00pm Today South West
12.30am Postscript
12.35am Weather and Shipping Forecast
HTV
1.20pm HTV News
6.00pm West : HTV News;
6.00pm Wales : Wales at Six
CENTRAL
10.55am Christmas Message
11.05am The Nutcracker
1.20pm Central News
6.00pm Central News
GRANADA
1.20pm Granada Reports
6.00pm Granada Reports
12.30am Lou Grant
1.00am Close
TYNE TEES
9.20am The Good Word
9.25am NE News
1.20pm NE News, Lookaround
6.00pm Northern Life
YORKSHIRE
1.20pm Calendar News, Weather
6.00pm Calendar, Weather
ULSTER
10.55am Cartoon Time
11.05am Stingray
1.20pm Lunchtime
4.13pm Ulster News
6.00pm Good Evening, Ulster
6.30pm What the Churches Say
9.44pm Weather
STV
1.20pm STV News
1.30pm Children's Ceilidh
4.15pm Freetime;
4.45pm Emmerdale
6.00pm Scotland Today
9.43pm STV News
GRAMPIAN
9.25am First Thing
1.20pm North News
1.30pm Children's Ceilidh
2.30pm Film: Charlotte's Web (1973)
6.00pm North Tonight, Weather
9.43pm Reflections
BORDER
1.20pm Border News
6.00pm Lookaround Friday
Christmas Day Saturday 25th December 1982
ITV LONDON (LWT)
9.00am Film : Journey Back to Oz (1972)
cartoon
10.30am Christmas Morning Service
from the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady, St John's Wood
11.30am TV Film : Enid Blyton's Island of Adventure (1982)
with Wilfrid Brambell and Norman Bowler
1.00pm Film Fun at Christmas
with Derek Griffiths
2.00pm Andy Williams' Christmas Special
3.00pm The Queen
3.05pm Film : The Parent Trap (1961)
starring Hayley Mills, Maureen O'Hara & Brian Keith
5.25pm ITN News
5.35pm 3-2-1
with Ted Rogers
6.35pm Game for a Laugh
7.25pm Bruce Forsyth's Play Your Cards Right
8.00pm Film : The Black Hole (1979)
starring Maximillian Schell, Anthony Perkins and Robert Forster
9.50pm Chas and Dave's Christmas Knees-Up
10.50pm ITN News
10.55pm Cleo and John
Cleo Laine and John Dankworth
11.55pm Christmas at Radio GOSH
at Great Ormond Street Hospital
12.05am Closedown
ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London)
Christmas Sunday 26th December 1982
ITV LONDON (LWT)
9.00am A Snow White Christmas
animated sequel to the fairy tale
9.50am Day of Days
Dr Robert Runcie looks back to the historic Canterbury service with the Pope
10.20am The Birth of Christ
with Dr John Newton, past-president of the Methodist Conference
10.50am Film : The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (1979)
12.30pm Survival Special: Tiger !, Tiger !
1.30pm University Challenge
2.00pm Film : Benji (1974)
with Edgar Buchanan and Peter Breck
3.30pm The Krankies Christmas Club
4.15pm The Pyramid Game
4.45pm Pop Goes Christmas
with David Essex, Shakin' Stevens, Toyah and many others
5.40pm Bullseye
6.10pm ITN News
6.15pm Children Sing Christmas
introduced by Nanette Newman, from Salisbury Cathedral
7.15pm Film : Bear Island (1979)
starring Donald Sutherland, Vanessa Redgrave & Richard Widmark
9.25pm Secombe at Christmas
with Gemma Craven and Christopher Gable
10.25pm ITV News
10.30pm Rod Stewart- Tonight He's Yours
at the Los Angeles Forum last Christmas
12.10am Closedown : Peace on Earth
with Barbara Leigh-Hunt
12.20am Closedown
ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)
12.10am Five Minutes
12.15am Closedown
Boxing Day Monday 27th December 1982
ITV LONDON (THAMES)
9.30am Cockleshell Bay
9.40am Rainbow
9.55am Stainless Steel and the Star Spies
10.45am Dangermouse
11.05am Film : Black Beauty (1971)
with Mark Lester
1.00pm ITN News
1.05pm Racing from Kempton
(1.10, 1.40, 2.15 races)
2.30pm TV Film : Hollywood : The Gift of Laughter (1982)
5.15pm ITN News and Sport
5.30pm Give Us a Clue
presented by Michael Aspel
6.00pm Coronation Street
6.30pm The James Bond Film : Moonraker (1979)
starring Roger Moore, Richard Kiel and Lois Chiles
9.00pm The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show
10.00pm ITN News
10.15pm Film : California Suite (1978)
starring Michael Caine, Alan Alda, Maggie Smith,
Walter Matthau, Jane Fonda and Elaine May
12.15am Closedown : Sit Up & Listen
with Barbara Leigh-Hunt
ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)
12.10am Closedown
Bank Holiday Tuesday 28th December 1982
ITV LONDON (THAMES)
9.30am Sesame Street
10.30am The Munch Bunch
10.55am Film : Laurel and Hardy : Way Out West (1937)
12.00 Gymnastics
1.00pm ITN News
1.05pm Racing from Kempton
2.35pm It's Quicker Backwards
3.15pm Film : The Muppet Movie (1979)
5.00pm ITN News and Sport
5.15pm Billy Smart's Circus
6.35pm Crossroads
7.00pm Film : Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
8.45pm Anyone for Denis?
10.15pm ITN News
10.30pm The Making of '82
12.00 Victims
12.25pm Close
followed by
Closedown