ITV CHRISTMAS TV 1985
Saturday 21st December 1985
6.55am TV-am : Good Morning Britain
7.30am The Wide Awake Club
9.25am TX
11.00am Mr T's Christmas Dream
12.00 ITN News
12.05pm Saint & Greavsie
12.30pm Wrestling
1.20pm Airwolf
2.15pm Gymnastics
4.15pm Small Wonder
4.45pm Results Service
5.00pm ITN News
5.05pm Blockbusters
5.35pm Blind Date
6.15pm Copy Cats
6.45pm 3-2-1 Christmas Special
7.45pm Christmas Cannon & Ball
8.45pm ITN News and Sport
9.00pm Movie Premiere : Reds (1981)
12.30am Closedown
Regional Variations
TVS
1.20pm to 2.15pm Knight Rider
GRANADA
4.15pm to 4.45pm Diff'rent Strokes
12.35am to 1.00am Cher at Caesar's Palace
TYNE TEES
4.15pm to 4.45pm Happy Days
LWT
4.15pm to 4.45pm Benson
Christmas Eve Tuesday 24th December 1985
ITV LONDON
6.15am TV-am : Good Morning Britain
with Anne Diamond and Nick Owen
Special Panto Guest : Nicholas Parsons
News with Gordon Honeycombe 6.15, 6.30, 7.00, 7.30, 8.00, 8.30, 9.00.
Weather with Wincey Willis 6.28, 6.58, 7.28, 7.58, 8.28, 8.58.
Sport: Richard Keys 6.35, 7.34.
Lizzie Webb: 6.20.
News Topics 6.45, 7.07, 7.45, 8.13, 8.45
Regional Report 7.15.
Pop Video with Julie Brown 7.55.
Tuesday Specials: Christmas Past with Irene Handl, who looks back to the best of her childhood memories 8.17
Gyles Brandreth on Christmas Traditions.
Pop Special. A profile of pop group AHA. 8.45.
Film Review with Paul Gambaccini 8.54.
Wacaday 9.04.
9.25am Thames News
followed by
Fraggle Rock
Marooned
Boober and Red have never been the closest of friends, until they are trapped in a cave-in.
Discovering that they may perish together brings many changes.
Fulton Mackay is the Captain (Repeat)
9.50am Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends
Thomas's Christmas Party
Thomas and his friends from the engine shed say thank you to an old lady and everyone has a
happy Christmas. Ringo Starr tells the story (Repeat)
10.00am The Night Before Christmas
cartoon
'Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house not a creature was stirring,
not even a mouse. Disney cartoon in which Santa goes to visit some children all tucked up
in bed. At the sound of Santa's trumpet all the toys come to life and have a big party
10.05am The Battle of the Monster Trucks
Spectacular action from America as huge, customised trucks race against each other. Watch Bigfoot,
UFA-1, Psycho and others — the biggest, meanest monster machines ever created...
10.55am Film : Never Never Land (1980)
starring Petula Clark and John Castle
When eight-year old Jennie is dumped on relations by her recently divorced father, she finds in the
home of her Auntie Bee and Uncle Jim a very sympathetic friend in her cousin Joe. There are three
children in the family and their lives are disrupted by the addition of another child.
So the older two, Angela and Walter, make life exceedingly difficult for Jennie and Joe.
But they have a way out. Joe, who is in love with the idea of Peter Pan and his statue in London's
Kensington Gardens, takes Jennie with him into the land of fantasy and Peter Pan and Wendy
and the Lost Boys
12.30pm God Bless Us Every One!
with Frank Finlay, Jane Lapotaire, a celebration from All Saints' Church, Kingston-upon-Thames
People have worshipped in All Saints' Church at Kingston upon-Thames for more than 1000 years.
From this historic church comes a celebration in words and music, spanning 600 years of reflection
on the Birth of Christ, from the beauty of the medieval carol to Sir John Betjeman's contemporary view
of Christmas. Frank Finlay and Jane Lapotaire are joined by children from Coombe Hill Junior School
for a reading from Dickens' timeless tale A Christmas Carol
1.00pm News at One
with Leonard Parkin
Latest national and international news, weather prospects and share prices
1.20pm Thames News
1.30pm Film : Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Special Edition) (1977)
starring Richard Dreyfuss, Francois Truffaut, Teri Garr, Roy Neary, a film repair man for an
electricity company, witnesses unidentified flying objects near his home in Indiana.
This encounter sets in motion a startling chain of dramatic events, and Neary tries desperately
to understand what has happened.
He is baffled by the apparent governmental cover-up that blocks his efforts
3.55pm The Wind in the Willows
(New Series)
Winter Sports
animation with the voices of Michael Hordern, Richard Pearson, Peter Sallis, David Jason, Ian Carmichael
Animated adventure inspired by Kenneth Grahame's classic tale.
Music by Malcolm Rowe and Keith Hopwood, performed by Ralph McTell and arranged by Brian Ibbetson
4.20pm Splash into Christmas
with Michael Groth, Victoria Studd and Nino Firetto
Splash into Christmas. With only hours to go to Christmas Day, it's party time at Splash as Nino,
Victoria and Michael open the doors to an invited audience and some very special guests
4.50pm Knight Rider
Circus Knights
starring David Hasselhoff
Another adventure with the knight errant and his super-powered car, KITT.
5.45pm News at 5.45
6.00pm Thames News
6.25pm Help!
Viv Taylor Gee with news of a 24 hour information service
6.35pm Crossroads
Nicola goes home for a family get together. Daniel decides to go skiing, but Nicola has other plans for him
7.00pm Carry On Laughing
Further film extracts featuring the Carry On team in saucy holiday mood —under canvas, in caravans
and in a half-completed foreign hotel.
Disaster and laughter are guaranteed with: Bernard Bresslaw, Peter Butterworth, Kenneth Connor,
Jim Dale, Sally Leeson, Carol Hawkins, Charles Hawtrey, Hattie Jacques, Sidney James, Dilys Laye,
Jimmy Logan, Betty Marsden, Terry Scott, Joan Sims, Hike Sommer, June Whitfield,
Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor
7.30pm Whose Baby ?
Bernie Winters & Schnorbitz, with Henry Cooper, Nanette Newman & Kenneth Williams
Bernie Winters hosts a special edition of the family quiz in which celebrities try to guess the identities
of famous parents by quizzing their children.
And be prepared for a special surprise finish
8.00pm The Best of Morecambe and Wise
with Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise, Peter Barkworth, Suzanne Danielle, Hannah Gordon,
Ann Hamilton, Glenda Jackson, Donald Sinden
Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without Eric and Ernie, so join Ernie as he introduces some
of the highlights from their past shows
9.00pm Film : Arthur (1981)
starring Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli and John Gielgud
Arthur Bach, heir to a vast fortune, is an habitual drunk, scandalises high society in New York's
smartest restaurants and picks up prostitutes in his chauffeur driven limousine. His family threatens
to disinherit him unless he marries wealthy Susan Johnson and gives up his playboy lifestyle.
But then Arthur meets Linda Marolle, who is shoplifting at the time, and falls in love with her.. .
10.45pm ITN News
11.00pm Carols from Christ Church
In this Christmas carol programme, Alec McCowen reads The Journey of the Magi by T S Eliot, and
Ian Charleson reads The Burning Babe by Robert Southwell.
The Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford, conducted by Francis Grier, and the Warwick
University Chamber Choir sing a selection of favourite carols (Repeat)
11.30pm Midnight Mass
Join the nurses, doctors and patients from the Mater Infirmorum Hospital, Crumlin Road, Belfast,
for Midnight Mass.
The Most Rev Cahal Daly, Bishop of Down and Conor, is the concelebrant, assisted by
Fr Eamonn O'Brien and Fr Anthony McLaverty.
The organist is Robert Leonard
12.30am Closedown
ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)
1.20am Calendar News
(until 1.30)
6.00pm Calendar
(until 6.35)
Christmas Day Wednesday 25th December 1985
ITV LONDON
6.15am TV-am : Good Morning Britain
with Anne Diamond and Nick Owen
Cartoon time (until 7.15)
News Headlines with Gordon Honeycombe at 7.00,8.00,9.00
Weather with Wincey Willis 6.58,7.58,8.58
TV-am's Christmas Party 7.15
9.25am Christmas Fraggle Rock
9.50am Dangermouse
Journey to the Earth's. . .Cor!
10.00am The Christmas Morning Service
from Kenton Methodist Church
11.00am Disney at Christmas
11.15am Film : The Black Hole (1979)
starring Maximillian Schell, Anthony Perkins
1.00pm Jim Davidson's Top Pop Videos of '85
2.00pm The Royal Year
highlights presented by Anthony Carthew
3.00pm The Queen
3.05pm The James Bond Film : Moonraker (1979)
starring Roger Moore
5.30pm ITN News
with Carol Barnes
5.40pm Name That Tune
with Lionel Blair, Maggie Moone, Alan Braden and his Orchestra
6.10pm Coronation Street
6.45pm Fresh Fields Christmas Special
A Dickens of a Christmas, starring Julia McKenzie and Anton Rogers
7.30pm Minder on the Orient Express
starring Dennis Waterman, George Cole
9.30pm Des O'Connor Tonight
with Joan Collins, Dudley Moore, Alan King & Willie Tyler and Lester
10.40pm ITN News, with Carol Barnes
10.50pm Film : Gregory's Girl (1981)
starring Gordon John Sinclair and Dee Hepburn
12.30am Christmas Night Thoughts
from St Mary's Church, Wimbledon, with Alec McCowen and Paul Miles-Kingston
12.40am Closedown
ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London)
Boxing Day Thursday 26th December 1985
ITV LONDON
7.00am TV-am : Good Morning Britain
News Headlines : Gordon Honeycombe 7.00,8.00,9.23
Weather with Wincey Willis 7.03,8.03,9.26
Rainbow Brite Special 7.08
Flipper 7.30
Wide Awake Club/Are You Awake Yet ? Pantomime : Frying Pan Meets the Genie of the Kettle!
9.25am Fraggle Rock
The Minstrels (Repeat)
9.50am Sooty's Christmas Special
Matthew Corbett with guests Richard Cadell and Bernie Clifton
10.15am Santa Claus- The Movie : Behind the Scenes
Sue Robbie talks to Dudley Moore
10.40am Film : The Great Race (1965)
starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Natalie Wood
1.25pm ITN News
with Anne Leuchars
1.30pm First Annual Stuntman Awards
introduced by Lee Majors
2.40pm Film : Superman (1978)
starring Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder and Gene Hackman
5.15pm ITN News and Sport
5.30pm The Krypton Factor Celebrity Special
presented by Gordon Burns, with karate's Jeoff Thompson, oarswoman Beryl Crockford,
Richard Ellison and Virginia Holgate
6.00pm Crossroads
6.30pm This Is Your Life
presented by Eamonn Andrews
7.15pm Give Us a Clue
presented by Michael Parkinson, with Una Stubbs, Lionel Blair, Judith Chalmers, Frazer Hines,
Ian Ogilvy, Jack Watling, Lizzie Webb and June Whitfield
7.45pm Coronation Street- The First Twenty-Five Years
8.45pm ITN News
with Anne Leuchars
9.00pm Movie Première : Who Dares Wins (1982)
starring Lewis Collins, Judy Davis, Edward Woodward & Richard Widmark
11.20pm Dizzy in Concert
Dizzy Gillespie with Marian Montgomery, Bud Shank and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra,
introduced by Benny Green
12.20am Christmas Night Thoughts
12.30am Closedown
ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)
12.20am Closedown
6.55am TV-am : Good Morning Britain
7.30am The Wide Awake Club
9.25am TX
11.00am Mr T's Christmas Dream
12.00 ITN News
12.05pm Saint & Greavsie
12.30pm Wrestling
1.20pm Airwolf
2.15pm Gymnastics
4.15pm Small Wonder
4.45pm Results Service
5.00pm ITN News
5.05pm Blockbusters
5.35pm Blind Date
6.15pm Copy Cats
6.45pm 3-2-1 Christmas Special
7.45pm Christmas Cannon & Ball
8.45pm ITN News and Sport
9.00pm Movie Premiere : Reds (1981)
12.30am Closedown
Regional Variations
TVS
1.20pm to 2.15pm Knight Rider
GRANADA
4.15pm to 4.45pm Diff'rent Strokes
12.35am to 1.00am Cher at Caesar's Palace
TYNE TEES
4.15pm to 4.45pm Happy Days
LWT
4.15pm to 4.45pm Benson
Christmas Eve Tuesday 24th December 1985
ITV LONDON
6.15am TV-am : Good Morning Britain
with Anne Diamond and Nick Owen
Special Panto Guest : Nicholas Parsons
News with Gordon Honeycombe 6.15, 6.30, 7.00, 7.30, 8.00, 8.30, 9.00.
Weather with Wincey Willis 6.28, 6.58, 7.28, 7.58, 8.28, 8.58.
Sport: Richard Keys 6.35, 7.34.
Lizzie Webb: 6.20.
News Topics 6.45, 7.07, 7.45, 8.13, 8.45
Regional Report 7.15.
Pop Video with Julie Brown 7.55.
Tuesday Specials: Christmas Past with Irene Handl, who looks back to the best of her childhood memories 8.17
Gyles Brandreth on Christmas Traditions.
Pop Special. A profile of pop group AHA. 8.45.
Film Review with Paul Gambaccini 8.54.
Wacaday 9.04.
9.25am Thames News
followed by
Fraggle Rock
Marooned
Boober and Red have never been the closest of friends, until they are trapped in a cave-in.
Discovering that they may perish together brings many changes.
Fulton Mackay is the Captain (Repeat)
9.50am Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends
Thomas's Christmas Party
Thomas and his friends from the engine shed say thank you to an old lady and everyone has a
happy Christmas. Ringo Starr tells the story (Repeat)
10.00am The Night Before Christmas
cartoon
'Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house not a creature was stirring,
not even a mouse. Disney cartoon in which Santa goes to visit some children all tucked up
in bed. At the sound of Santa's trumpet all the toys come to life and have a big party
10.05am The Battle of the Monster Trucks
Spectacular action from America as huge, customised trucks race against each other. Watch Bigfoot,
UFA-1, Psycho and others — the biggest, meanest monster machines ever created...
10.55am Film : Never Never Land (1980)
starring Petula Clark and John Castle
When eight-year old Jennie is dumped on relations by her recently divorced father, she finds in the
home of her Auntie Bee and Uncle Jim a very sympathetic friend in her cousin Joe. There are three
children in the family and their lives are disrupted by the addition of another child.
So the older two, Angela and Walter, make life exceedingly difficult for Jennie and Joe.
But they have a way out. Joe, who is in love with the idea of Peter Pan and his statue in London's
Kensington Gardens, takes Jennie with him into the land of fantasy and Peter Pan and Wendy
and the Lost Boys
12.30pm God Bless Us Every One!
with Frank Finlay, Jane Lapotaire, a celebration from All Saints' Church, Kingston-upon-Thames
People have worshipped in All Saints' Church at Kingston upon-Thames for more than 1000 years.
From this historic church comes a celebration in words and music, spanning 600 years of reflection
on the Birth of Christ, from the beauty of the medieval carol to Sir John Betjeman's contemporary view
of Christmas. Frank Finlay and Jane Lapotaire are joined by children from Coombe Hill Junior School
for a reading from Dickens' timeless tale A Christmas Carol
1.00pm News at One
with Leonard Parkin
Latest national and international news, weather prospects and share prices
1.20pm Thames News
1.30pm Film : Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Special Edition) (1977)
starring Richard Dreyfuss, Francois Truffaut, Teri Garr, Roy Neary, a film repair man for an
electricity company, witnesses unidentified flying objects near his home in Indiana.
This encounter sets in motion a startling chain of dramatic events, and Neary tries desperately
to understand what has happened.
He is baffled by the apparent governmental cover-up that blocks his efforts
3.55pm The Wind in the Willows
(New Series)
Winter Sports
animation with the voices of Michael Hordern, Richard Pearson, Peter Sallis, David Jason, Ian Carmichael
Animated adventure inspired by Kenneth Grahame's classic tale.
Music by Malcolm Rowe and Keith Hopwood, performed by Ralph McTell and arranged by Brian Ibbetson
4.20pm Splash into Christmas
with Michael Groth, Victoria Studd and Nino Firetto
Splash into Christmas. With only hours to go to Christmas Day, it's party time at Splash as Nino,
Victoria and Michael open the doors to an invited audience and some very special guests
4.50pm Knight Rider
Circus Knights
starring David Hasselhoff
Another adventure with the knight errant and his super-powered car, KITT.
5.45pm News at 5.45
6.00pm Thames News
6.25pm Help!
Viv Taylor Gee with news of a 24 hour information service
6.35pm Crossroads
Nicola goes home for a family get together. Daniel decides to go skiing, but Nicola has other plans for him
7.00pm Carry On Laughing
Further film extracts featuring the Carry On team in saucy holiday mood —under canvas, in caravans
and in a half-completed foreign hotel.
Disaster and laughter are guaranteed with: Bernard Bresslaw, Peter Butterworth, Kenneth Connor,
Jim Dale, Sally Leeson, Carol Hawkins, Charles Hawtrey, Hattie Jacques, Sidney James, Dilys Laye,
Jimmy Logan, Betty Marsden, Terry Scott, Joan Sims, Hike Sommer, June Whitfield,
Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor
7.30pm Whose Baby ?
Bernie Winters & Schnorbitz, with Henry Cooper, Nanette Newman & Kenneth Williams
Bernie Winters hosts a special edition of the family quiz in which celebrities try to guess the identities
of famous parents by quizzing their children.
And be prepared for a special surprise finish
8.00pm The Best of Morecambe and Wise
with Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise, Peter Barkworth, Suzanne Danielle, Hannah Gordon,
Ann Hamilton, Glenda Jackson, Donald Sinden
Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without Eric and Ernie, so join Ernie as he introduces some
of the highlights from their past shows
9.00pm Film : Arthur (1981)
starring Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli and John Gielgud
Arthur Bach, heir to a vast fortune, is an habitual drunk, scandalises high society in New York's
smartest restaurants and picks up prostitutes in his chauffeur driven limousine. His family threatens
to disinherit him unless he marries wealthy Susan Johnson and gives up his playboy lifestyle.
But then Arthur meets Linda Marolle, who is shoplifting at the time, and falls in love with her.. .
10.45pm ITN News
11.00pm Carols from Christ Church
In this Christmas carol programme, Alec McCowen reads The Journey of the Magi by T S Eliot, and
Ian Charleson reads The Burning Babe by Robert Southwell.
The Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford, conducted by Francis Grier, and the Warwick
University Chamber Choir sing a selection of favourite carols (Repeat)
11.30pm Midnight Mass
Join the nurses, doctors and patients from the Mater Infirmorum Hospital, Crumlin Road, Belfast,
for Midnight Mass.
The Most Rev Cahal Daly, Bishop of Down and Conor, is the concelebrant, assisted by
Fr Eamonn O'Brien and Fr Anthony McLaverty.
The organist is Robert Leonard
12.30am Closedown
ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)
1.20am Calendar News
(until 1.30)
6.00pm Calendar
(until 6.35)
Christmas Day Wednesday 25th December 1985
ITV LONDON
6.15am TV-am : Good Morning Britain
with Anne Diamond and Nick Owen
Cartoon time (until 7.15)
News Headlines with Gordon Honeycombe at 7.00,8.00,9.00
Weather with Wincey Willis 6.58,7.58,8.58
TV-am's Christmas Party 7.15
9.25am Christmas Fraggle Rock
9.50am Dangermouse
Journey to the Earth's. . .Cor!
10.00am The Christmas Morning Service
from Kenton Methodist Church
11.00am Disney at Christmas
11.15am Film : The Black Hole (1979)
starring Maximillian Schell, Anthony Perkins
1.00pm Jim Davidson's Top Pop Videos of '85
2.00pm The Royal Year
highlights presented by Anthony Carthew
3.00pm The Queen
3.05pm The James Bond Film : Moonraker (1979)
starring Roger Moore
5.30pm ITN News
with Carol Barnes
5.40pm Name That Tune
with Lionel Blair, Maggie Moone, Alan Braden and his Orchestra
6.10pm Coronation Street
6.45pm Fresh Fields Christmas Special
A Dickens of a Christmas, starring Julia McKenzie and Anton Rogers
7.30pm Minder on the Orient Express
starring Dennis Waterman, George Cole
9.30pm Des O'Connor Tonight
with Joan Collins, Dudley Moore, Alan King & Willie Tyler and Lester
10.40pm ITN News, with Carol Barnes
10.50pm Film : Gregory's Girl (1981)
starring Gordon John Sinclair and Dee Hepburn
12.30am Christmas Night Thoughts
from St Mary's Church, Wimbledon, with Alec McCowen and Paul Miles-Kingston
12.40am Closedown
ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London)
Boxing Day Thursday 26th December 1985
ITV LONDON
7.00am TV-am : Good Morning Britain
News Headlines : Gordon Honeycombe 7.00,8.00,9.23
Weather with Wincey Willis 7.03,8.03,9.26
Rainbow Brite Special 7.08
Flipper 7.30
Wide Awake Club/Are You Awake Yet ? Pantomime : Frying Pan Meets the Genie of the Kettle!
9.25am Fraggle Rock
The Minstrels (Repeat)
9.50am Sooty's Christmas Special
Matthew Corbett with guests Richard Cadell and Bernie Clifton
10.15am Santa Claus- The Movie : Behind the Scenes
Sue Robbie talks to Dudley Moore
10.40am Film : The Great Race (1965)
starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Natalie Wood
1.25pm ITN News
with Anne Leuchars
1.30pm First Annual Stuntman Awards
introduced by Lee Majors
2.40pm Film : Superman (1978)
starring Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder and Gene Hackman
5.15pm ITN News and Sport
5.30pm The Krypton Factor Celebrity Special
presented by Gordon Burns, with karate's Jeoff Thompson, oarswoman Beryl Crockford,
Richard Ellison and Virginia Holgate
6.00pm Crossroads
6.30pm This Is Your Life
presented by Eamonn Andrews
7.15pm Give Us a Clue
presented by Michael Parkinson, with Una Stubbs, Lionel Blair, Judith Chalmers, Frazer Hines,
Ian Ogilvy, Jack Watling, Lizzie Webb and June Whitfield
7.45pm Coronation Street- The First Twenty-Five Years
8.45pm ITN News
with Anne Leuchars
9.00pm Movie Première : Who Dares Wins (1982)
starring Lewis Collins, Judy Davis, Edward Woodward & Richard Widmark
11.20pm Dizzy in Concert
Dizzy Gillespie with Marian Montgomery, Bud Shank and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra,
introduced by Benny Green
12.20am Christmas Night Thoughts
12.30am Closedown
ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)
12.20am Closedown
