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ITV CHRISTMAS TV 1987


  Christmas Eve Thursday 24th December 1987

  ITV LONDON

  6.00am  TV-am
                     presented by Kate Burley and Mike Morris

  7.00am  Good Morning Britain

  9.00am  Wacaday

  9.25am   Thames News

  9.30am   Children's ITV
                    A Child's Christmas in Wales
 
                    play based on a Dylan Thomas story, with Denholm Elliott


10.25am  ITN News Headlines

10.30am  Santa Barbara


11.00am  The Vladimir Experience  
                    John Taylor reports on the experiences of Russian gymnasts

11.30am    Tidings of Comfort  
                    the work of the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen


12.00       The Sullivans

12.30pm  ITN News

12.50pm  Thames News

  1.00pm  Disney at Christmas : Swiss Family Robinson (1960)

                    starring John Mills, Dorothy McGuire & James MacArthur

  3.20pm  Disney at Christmas : Symphony Hour  
                    with Mickey and Goofy

  3.25pm  Thames News

  3.30pm  Sons and Daughters

  4.00pm  Disney at Christmas : Santa's Workshop
 
                     cartoon


  4.10pm   Film : Mr Horatio Nibbles (1971)

                    starring Lesley and Gary Smith

  5.15pm    Blockbusters

  5.45pm   News

  6.00pm  Thames News

  6.25pm   Help- Christmas Line

  6.35pm   Crossroads


  7.00pm  Sporting Triangles  
                     presented by Nick Owen, Jimmy Greaves and Tessa Sanderson, with Frank Bruno, Dennis Taylor, Aiden J Harvey and Andy Gray

  7.30pm  Only When I Laugh

  8.00pm  Strike It Lucky

  8.30pm  TV Film : A Masterpiece of Murder (1986)

                    starring Bob Hope and Don Ameche

10.15pm   News

10.30pm  A Duty Free Christmas

11.30pm   Midnight Eucharist 
 
                    
from Norwich Cathedral


12.30am   Film : Vertigo (1958)  
                    starring James Stewart and Kim Novak

  2.50pm  News Headlines   followed by
                    The All-Time Christmas Top Ten

  4.00am  Lindisfarne Rock 'n' Roll Christmas Party
                    
from City Hall, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

  5.00am   A Good Tree

  5.30am   CNN Headline News
        
 
  ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)

12.00       Lunchtime News (until 12.30)

12.50pm  Calendar News (until 1.00)

  6.00pm  Calendar (until 6.35)

  2.50am  Closedown


  Christmas Day Friday 25th December 1987 

  ITV Central                                                            

  6.00am  TV-am

  9.25am  Disney at Christmas : Pluto's Christmas Tree

  9.40am  Fat Tulip's Fat Christmas

10.00am  Christmas Family Worship                                             
                                                                                                     
11.00am   Disney at Christmas
 : Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983)

11.30am    Disney at Christmas : Dumbo (1941) 

12.40pm   The James Bond Film : The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
                     with Roger Moore

  3.00pm  The Queen

  3.10pm    Disney at Christmas : Alice in Wonderland (1951)

  4.30pm    ITN News                                                                            

  4.35pm    Disney at Christmas  : Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)


  6.45pm    Christmas Blind Date    
                                                     
  7.30pm    Coronation Street

  8.00pm   It'll Be Alright on Christmas Night

  9.00pm   Inspector Morse


11.00pm    ITN News

12:15am      Film : Airplane II The Sequel (1982)

  1.50am     The Roxy

  2.20am    America's Top Ten

  2.50am    Phil Collins - Live at Perkins Palace

  3.50am    Central Jobfinder '87


      Yorkshire

  ANGLIA (as Central except)

12.15am    Jay Leno and the American Dream

  1.00am  Night Network

  4.00am  Film : Diamonds (1975)


  GRANADA (as Central except)

  1.50am   All Time Christmas Top 10

  3.00am  Closedown


   THAMES/LWT (as Central except)

12.15am    Jay Leno and the American Dream

  1.00am  Night Network

  4.00am  Film : Diamonds


  TVS

12.15am    Jay Leno and the American Dream

  1.00am  Night Network

  4.00am  Closedown


  YORKSHIRE

 
1.50am  Barbara Dickson at the Royal Albert Hall

  2.50am  As Central


 
  Boxing Day Saturday 26th December 1987

  ITV LONDON

  6.00am  TV-am

  7.30am   Mallet in Majorca

  8.00am  WAC Special

  9.25am    BMX Beat
 
                     the Tizer World BMX Freestyle Championships

10.00am  The Velveteen Rabbit  
                    animation

10.30am  The Smurfs

11.00am   Film : Professor Poopenagle's Steam Zeppelin : A Race to the Finish
 
                    starring Jose Maria Caffarel


12.30pm  The Roxy

  1.00pm   ITN News

  1.05pm    Saint and Greavsie Boxing Day Special


  2.00pm   A.L.F.

  2.30pm   Film : Scrooge (1970)

                     starring Albert Finney

  4.35pm  Mickey's Birthday Party

  4.45pm  Results Service

  5.00pm  ITN News

  5.05pm  Christmas Robbins
 
                    impressions from Kate and Ted Robbins

  5.50pm  The Sleeping Beauty  
                    ice spectacular with Robin Cousins

  6.50pm  Bobby Davro's TV Annual '88  
                    comedy and music

  7.30pm  Movie Première : Ghostbusters (1984)  
                    starring Bill Murray

  9.30pm   ITN News

  9.45pm   The Dame Edna Christmas Experience!

10.50pm  Clive James in Japan
 
                    part two

11.45pm    Babara Dickson at the Royal Albert Hall

12.45am   Fun in the Sun
                    surfing and jet-skiing

  1.00am  Night Network

  4.00am  TV Film : The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies
  (1981) 
                    starring Buddy Ebsen

  5.40am  Christmas Cartoon

 ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)

10.30am  The Roxy

11.00am  Mickey Mouse

11.10am    Film : The Cat from Outer Space

                   (until 1.00)

  4.55pm  Sports Results
                  
(until 5.00)

11.45pm   TV Film : Agatha Christie's Murder with Mirrors (1985)

  1.25am   Closedown



  Christmas Sunday 27th December 1987

  CENTRAL

  6.00am  TV-am
                     introduced by Suzanne Dando
                     Open College how to survive the 9 to 5


  7.00am  Wide Awake Club : Are You Awake Yet
                     with Sally Dewhurst, Peter Gosling

  8.00am  Jimmy Greaves' Christmas Special 
                    celebrities join Jimmy Greaves for a musical celebration of Christmas Sunday
 
  9.25am   BMX Beat
                   
The Tizer World BMX Freestyle Championships with Andy Ruffell, Ron Stebbenne

10.00am  Film : The Johnstown Monster (1971) 
                     starring Connor Brennan, Simon Tully, Kim McDonald

11.00am   Morning Worship
                    from St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Soho Square, London

12.00        Chris Bonington - the Everest Years

  1.00pm  Disney Family Movie : Fuzzbucket (1986) (TV Movie)

  2.00pm  The Royal Year


  2.45pm    Christmas Bullseye 
                     with Jim Bowen, Eric Bristow, Duggie Brown, Geoff Capes, Bob Carolgees, Tony Green, 
                     Denny Hodge, Cliff Lazarenko, Rustie Lee, Jan Leeming, Steve Nallon, Jerry Thomas, Jocky Wilson

  3.30pm  The Bretts Grand Finale

  4.30pm   Cue Gary's Christmas!

                     with Gary Wilmot

  5.15pm     Coronation Street (Repeat)

  6.15pm     ITN News

  6.20pm    Highway Christmas Special

                      with Harry Secombe, Roy Castle, Max Boyce, Helen Hessey-White, Richard Williams Singers, Brian Johnston

  7.15pm      Home to Roost
                     
 Family Ties
                      with John Thaw, Reece Dinsdale


  8.15pm     Christmas Surprise, Surprise
                     with Cilla Black, Bob Carolgees, Gordon Burns

  9.15pm      Watching  
                      Seasoning
                      with Emma Wray, Paul Brown, Liza Tarbuc
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  9.45pm     ITN News

10.00pm   Spitting Image  Christmas Show Special

10.30pm   The Lady's Not For Burning

                     Christopher Fry's play starring Kenneth Brannagh, Cherie Lunghi

12.00       Prisoner : Cell Block H

12.55am  Donahue Men Over 50

  1.50am  Thriller Classic : Burnt Evidence

  3.00am  Central Jobfinder '87


  ANGLIA (as Central except)

 12.00       Hart to Hart

   1.00am  Night Network -The Carpenters

   2.00am  Film : North to Alaska (1960)

                     with John Wayne, Stewart Grainger

   3.45am   Film : Cahill US Marshall (1973)

   5.40am  Cartoons

                     (until 6.00)

  GRANADA (as Central except)

12.00         Alfred Hitchcock Presents...
                     
(until 12.30am)


   HTV (as Central except)

12.00        America's Top Ten
                    (until 12.30am)

  TVS

12.00        Film : Airplane II - The Sequel (1982)
                    starring Robert Hays, Julie Haggerty

  YORKSHIRE (as Central except)

12.00         Lord of the Tin Soldiers
                    (until 12.30am)


  Bank Holiday Monday 28th December 1987

  THAMES

  6.00am  TV-am

  9.25am  Splash- Christmas in Walt Disney World  
                   with Lisa Maxwell and Michael Groth

  9.55am  Bellamy's Journey to the Centre of the World

10.25am  News

10.30am  Walt Disney presents : Donald Duck

10.45am  Film : The Spaceman and King Arthur (1979)

12.30pm  News


12.35pm  The Best of Walt Disney's True-Life Adventures  
                   1975 compilation


  2.15pm   TV Film : Kim (1984)  
                    with Peter O'Toole


  4.50pm  News; Sport ; Weather

  5.05pm  Blockbusters  
                    with Bob Holness

  5.35pm   The Deacon Street Deer  
                    Disney drama about inner city kids protecting a four-legged friend

  6.30pm  Wish You Were Here...?  
                    with Anneka Rice on a coach tour of America, Judith Chalmers investigating gliding and museums in Shropshire
                    and John Carter on the Yugoslavian island of Korcula


  7.00pm  The Krypton Factor
                    the final with Gordon Burns and guest Imran Khan

  7.30pm  Coronation Street

  8.00pm  Film : No Sex Please, We're British (1973)  
                     starring Ronnie Corbett


  9.45pm   News ; Weather

10.00pm  Film : Twilight Zone- The Movie (1983)


11.50pm  Boxing Year
                   
a review by Dickie Davies, with Jim Watt

12.50am  Closedown
 
  YORKSHIRE (as Thames)

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