ITV CHRISTMAS TV 1989
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Saturday 23rd December 1989
ITV GRANADA
5.00am ITN Morning News
6.00am TV-am
9.25am Motormouth 2 at Christmas
11.30am The ITV Chart Show
12.30pm The Partridge Family (Repeat)
1.00pm ITN News & ITV National Weather
1.05pm Granada Reports
1.10pm World of Sport
1.40pm First Division Special : Liverpool v Manchester United
3.50pm Home to Roost Christmas Special (Repeat)
4.50pm Porky Pig
5.00pm ITN News & ITV National Weather
5.10pm Granada Reports
5.15pm The Disney Christmas Special
6.45pm Catchphrase Celebrity Special
7.15pm Cliff Richard - the Event
8.15pm Blind Date
9.10pm London's Burning
10.40pm ITN News and Sport
ITV National Weather
11.00pm Music of the Night : The Songs of Andrew Lloyd Webber
12.05am Saturday Night at the Movies
12.35am TV Film : Red Alert (1977)
2.20am Film : The Promise (1979)
followed by
ITN News Headlines
4.05am The ITV Chart Show (Repeat)
Christmas Eve Sunday 24th December 1989
ITV LONDON
5.00am ITN Morning News
6.00am TV-am
Animals in Action : Baby Birds with Keith Shackleton
6.30am RSPB Bernard Cribbins reads Round Robin
7.00am It's Stardust
Alvin Stardust with seasonal songs plus cartoons including
The Little Misses & The Adventures of Parsley
8.00am David Frost on Sunday
(News & Weather with Beatrice Hollyer at 8.00am & 9.00am)
9.25am Children's ITV : The Disney Club
with Gordon Inglis, John Eccleston and Andrea Boardman, and guest Jason Donovan
11.00am Meditation : Christ Comes This Christmas
from the Parish Church of St Maty's, Nether Alderley, Cheshire
12.00 Encounter
Babies in Crisis,
Father John Fagan who finds suitable foster parents for Aids infected babies
12.30pm Time for Christmas
helping others
1.00pm ITN News with Fiona Armstrong
ITV National Weather with Alex Hill
1.05pm LWT News and Weather
1.15pm Kylie :- on the Go
behind the scenes on tour in Japan and England
2.10pm Film : A Christmas Carol (1984) Première
starring George C Scott, Frank Finlay, Edward Woodward, David Warner, Susannah York, Joanne Whalley
4.05pm Christmas Sunday Special
Gloria Hunniford with Cliff Richard, Jason Donovan and Joanna Lumley
5.00pm Bullseye Christmas Special
with Jim Bowen, Tony Green
5.45pm Time for Christmas
the launch of the Christmas Line
6.00pm ITN News with Fiona Armstrong
ITV National Weather with Alex Hill
6.10pm LWT News; Weather
6.15pm Highway
at Durham Cathedral, with Sir Harry Secombe, Jessye Norman, Robert Hardy and Patricia Brake
7.15pm Film : Pied Piper (1989)
starring Peter O`Toole and Mare Winningham (TV Movie)
9.15pm ITN News with Sue Carpenter
ITV National Weather with Alex Hill
9.25pm LWT Weather
9.30pm Film : The Woman in Black (1989)
by Nigel Kneale from the book by Susan Hill, starring Adrian Rawlins, Bernard Hepton (TV Film)
11.30pm A Service for Christmas Eve
from the Dryfesdale Parish Church, Lockerbie
12.30am Rich Little's Christmas Carol
Rich Little plays 14 major roles in his own unique adaptation of Dickens' A Christmas Carol
1.30pm The Comedy Store
with Hattie Hayridge, Simon Fanshawe and Steve Coogan
1.40pm Film : Why Me ? (1984)
starring Glynnis O'Connor, Armand Assante and Annie Potts (TV Movie)
3.20pm Film : Burning Rage (1984)
starring Barbara Mandrell, Eddie Albert (TV Movie)
5.10pm ITN Morning News
ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)
12.30pm Persistence of Angels
12.45pm Cartoon
(until 1.00pm)
1.15pm Mickey Mouse
1.30pm Kylie- on the Go
2.25pm Film : A Christmas Carol (1984)
4.15pm Highway to Heaven
5.15pm Bullseye
(until 6.00pm)
1.30am Film : Flood (1976)
starring Robert Culp (until 3.20am)
ITV CENTRAL (as ITV London except)
12.30pm A Christmas Message
12.35pm Silent Night
with Jose Carreras
1.15pm Disney's Christmas Cartoon Time Mickey's Fire Brigade, Pluto's Dream House
2.25pm Film : A Christmas Carol (1984) Première
4.15pm Highway to Heaven
Goodbye, Mr Zelinka starring Michael Landon
5.15pm Bullseye Christmas Special
with Jim Bowen, Tony Green
1.30am Film : Flood ! (1976)
starring Robert Culp (TV Movie)
Christmas Day Monday 25th December 1989
ITV CENTRAL
5.10am ITN Morning News
5.15am Scooby Goes Hollywood
animation, Scooby Doo features in his first Hoolywood musical
6.00am TV-am
Cartoon Capers
Punky Brewster in Punkywise, Christmas in July and
Mister Men : Mr Snow introduced by Timmy Mallett
7.30am Benji, Zax an the Alien Prince Double Trouble
8.00am Good Morning Britain
TV-am Christmas Party guests include Bros, Jason Donovan, Russ Conway, Timmy Mallett,
Lizzie Webb, Gyles Brandreth, Russell Grant, Kathy Tayler, Jimmy Greaves, Ulrika Jonsson
includes news bulletins with Beatrice Hollyer
9.25am Bugs Bunny & Friends at Christmas
cartoon fun with Bugs Bunny, Roadrunner, Tweety Pie, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Foghorn Leghorn
10.15am The Other Side of Christmas
Anneka Rice with Michael Aspel, Nick Owen, David Bellamy, Thelma Barlow, Helen Worth,
Bill Waddington live from the Arena in London's Docklands ,
includes at
11.10am a live service from St Michael and All Angels church, Lodon Fields, Hackney and at
12.00pm David Bellamy takes 23 children, who were in care last Christmas -
but who now have new families - to Lapland to meet the real Santa Claus
12.25pm The James Bond Film : On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
starring George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas
3.00pm The Queen
3.15pm Film : The B.F.G. (1989)
animation
5.00pm Home and Away
5.30pm ITN News followed by
ITV National Weather with Martyn Davies
5.40pm Strike It Lucky Christmas Special
with Michael Barrymore & Frank Bruno
6.30pm Christmas Comedy Box
Jim Davidson presents clips of his favourite shows and performers
8.00pm Coronation Street
8.30pm After Henry
A Week of Sundays
starring Prunella Scales, Joan Sanderson, Janine Wood, Jonathan Newth
9.00pm Film : Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986) Premiere
starring Nick Nolte, Bette Midler, Richard Dreyfuss, Little Richard
10.55pm ITN News followed by
ITV National Weather with Martyn Davies
11.10pm Film : Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
with Harrison Ford, Karen Allen
ITN News Headlines broadcast throughout the night
1.20am Film : All Night Long (1981)
starring Barbra Streisand, Gene Hackman
3.00am Film : Hard Country (1980)
with Jan-Michael Vincent, Kim Basinger, Michael Parks
4.50am Rich Little's Robin Hood
Rich Little plays 16 parts in this comedy including Robin Hood and Maid Marian
5.50am ITN Morning News
Boxing Day Tuesday 26th December 1989
ITV CENTRAL
6.00am TV-am
David Yates introduces more animal magic
Animals in Action Animal Crowds with Keith Shackleton
6.30am RSPB
Speckle and Hide, narrated by Derek Jones
7.00am Galaxy High School
It Came from Earth
7.30am Benji, Zax and the Alien Prince
Don't Fence Me In
8.00am The Black Arrow
from the story by R L Stevenson
8.50am Wacaday
a special Christmas show presented by Timmy Mallett
9.25am T-Bag's Christmas Carol
with Elizabeth Estensen, John Hasler, Kellie Bright
9.50am Film : Robin Hood (1973)
the Disney animated feature
11.20am Film : Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977)
starring Patrick Wayne, Taryn Power, Margaret Whiting, Jane Seymour
1.20pm ITN News
with John Suchet
followed by
ITV National Weather with Alex Hill
1.30pm Run the Gauntlet Christmas Special
The Mitsubishi Shogun Challenge, celebrity edition
with Alison Holloway, Ross Davidson, Eddie Kidd, Sybil Roscoe, Jilly Johnson, Gail McKenna,
David Wilkie, Curt Smith, Nigel Pivaro and Sally Jones
2.30pm Film : The Return of the Jedi (1983) Première
starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guiness
4.55pm ITN News and Sport
5.10pm Roald Dahl's Danny the Champion of the World (1989)
starring Jeremy Irons, Samuel Irons, Robbie Coltrane, Cyril Cusack (TV Movie)
7.00pm After Henry
with Prunella Scales
7.30pm Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
presented by Nicky Campbell and Carol Smillie
8.00pm The Bill
Powers of Exclusion
8.30pm Shelley
Cold Turkey
starring Hywel Bennett
9.00pm Film : Ruthless People (1986) Première
starring Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater
10.45pm ITN News
followed by
ITV National Weather with Alex Hill
11.00pm Boxing Night at the Movies
Film : The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
starring Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke
(ITN News Headlines broadcast throughout the night)
1.30am Film : Escape from New York (1981)
starring Kurt Russell, Lee Van Kleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasance
3.20am Film : Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984)
with Paul McCartney, Bryan Brown, Ringo Starr, Barbara Bach, Linda McCartney,
Tracey Ullman, Ralph Ricahrdson
5.20am Cartoon Time
Daffy's Inn Trouble, Doggone People, All Fowled Up, Past Performance
5.50am ITN Morning News
ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV Central except)
7.00pm Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
7.30pm George and Mildred
ITV GRANADA (as ITV Central)
ITV LONDON (as ITV Central except)
7.00pm Emmerdale
7.30pm Jimmy's at Christmas
ITV TVS (as ITV London)
ITV GRANADA
5.00am ITN Morning News
6.00am TV-am
9.25am Motormouth 2 at Christmas
11.30am The ITV Chart Show
12.30pm The Partridge Family (Repeat)
1.00pm ITN News & ITV National Weather
1.05pm Granada Reports
1.10pm World of Sport
1.40pm First Division Special : Liverpool v Manchester United
3.50pm Home to Roost Christmas Special (Repeat)
4.50pm Porky Pig
5.00pm ITN News & ITV National Weather
5.10pm Granada Reports
5.15pm The Disney Christmas Special
6.45pm Catchphrase Celebrity Special
7.15pm Cliff Richard - the Event
8.15pm Blind Date
9.10pm London's Burning
10.40pm ITN News and Sport
ITV National Weather
11.00pm Music of the Night : The Songs of Andrew Lloyd Webber
12.05am Saturday Night at the Movies
12.35am TV Film : Red Alert (1977)
2.20am Film : The Promise (1979)
followed by
ITN News Headlines
4.05am The ITV Chart Show (Repeat)
Christmas Eve Sunday 24th December 1989
ITV LONDON
5.00am ITN Morning News
6.00am TV-am
Animals in Action : Baby Birds with Keith Shackleton
6.30am RSPB Bernard Cribbins reads Round Robin
7.00am It's Stardust
Alvin Stardust with seasonal songs plus cartoons including
The Little Misses & The Adventures of Parsley
8.00am David Frost on Sunday
(News & Weather with Beatrice Hollyer at 8.00am & 9.00am)
9.25am Children's ITV : The Disney Club
with Gordon Inglis, John Eccleston and Andrea Boardman, and guest Jason Donovan
11.00am Meditation : Christ Comes This Christmas
from the Parish Church of St Maty's, Nether Alderley, Cheshire
12.00 Encounter
Babies in Crisis,
Father John Fagan who finds suitable foster parents for Aids infected babies
12.30pm Time for Christmas
helping others
1.00pm ITN News with Fiona Armstrong
ITV National Weather with Alex Hill
1.05pm LWT News and Weather
1.15pm Kylie :- on the Go
behind the scenes on tour in Japan and England
2.10pm Film : A Christmas Carol (1984) Première
starring George C Scott, Frank Finlay, Edward Woodward, David Warner, Susannah York, Joanne Whalley
4.05pm Christmas Sunday Special
Gloria Hunniford with Cliff Richard, Jason Donovan and Joanna Lumley
5.00pm Bullseye Christmas Special
with Jim Bowen, Tony Green
5.45pm Time for Christmas
the launch of the Christmas Line
6.00pm ITN News with Fiona Armstrong
ITV National Weather with Alex Hill
6.10pm LWT News; Weather
6.15pm Highway
at Durham Cathedral, with Sir Harry Secombe, Jessye Norman, Robert Hardy and Patricia Brake
7.15pm Film : Pied Piper (1989)
starring Peter O`Toole and Mare Winningham (TV Movie)
9.15pm ITN News with Sue Carpenter
ITV National Weather with Alex Hill
9.25pm LWT Weather
9.30pm Film : The Woman in Black (1989)
by Nigel Kneale from the book by Susan Hill, starring Adrian Rawlins, Bernard Hepton (TV Film)
11.30pm A Service for Christmas Eve
from the Dryfesdale Parish Church, Lockerbie
12.30am Rich Little's Christmas Carol
Rich Little plays 14 major roles in his own unique adaptation of Dickens' A Christmas Carol
1.30pm The Comedy Store
with Hattie Hayridge, Simon Fanshawe and Steve Coogan
1.40pm Film : Why Me ? (1984)
starring Glynnis O'Connor, Armand Assante and Annie Potts (TV Movie)
3.20pm Film : Burning Rage (1984)
starring Barbara Mandrell, Eddie Albert (TV Movie)
5.10pm ITN Morning News
ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV London except)
12.30pm Persistence of Angels
12.45pm Cartoon
(until 1.00pm)
1.15pm Mickey Mouse
1.30pm Kylie- on the Go
2.25pm Film : A Christmas Carol (1984)
4.15pm Highway to Heaven
5.15pm Bullseye
(until 6.00pm)
1.30am Film : Flood (1976)
starring Robert Culp (until 3.20am)
ITV CENTRAL (as ITV London except)
12.30pm A Christmas Message
12.35pm Silent Night
with Jose Carreras
1.15pm Disney's Christmas Cartoon Time Mickey's Fire Brigade, Pluto's Dream House
2.25pm Film : A Christmas Carol (1984) Première
4.15pm Highway to Heaven
Goodbye, Mr Zelinka starring Michael Landon
5.15pm Bullseye Christmas Special
with Jim Bowen, Tony Green
1.30am Film : Flood ! (1976)
starring Robert Culp (TV Movie)
Christmas Day Monday 25th December 1989
ITV CENTRAL
5.10am ITN Morning News
5.15am Scooby Goes Hollywood
animation, Scooby Doo features in his first Hoolywood musical
6.00am TV-am
Cartoon Capers
Punky Brewster in Punkywise, Christmas in July and
Mister Men : Mr Snow introduced by Timmy Mallett
7.30am Benji, Zax an the Alien Prince Double Trouble
8.00am Good Morning Britain
TV-am Christmas Party guests include Bros, Jason Donovan, Russ Conway, Timmy Mallett,
Lizzie Webb, Gyles Brandreth, Russell Grant, Kathy Tayler, Jimmy Greaves, Ulrika Jonsson
includes news bulletins with Beatrice Hollyer
9.25am Bugs Bunny & Friends at Christmas
cartoon fun with Bugs Bunny, Roadrunner, Tweety Pie, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Foghorn Leghorn
10.15am The Other Side of Christmas
Anneka Rice with Michael Aspel, Nick Owen, David Bellamy, Thelma Barlow, Helen Worth,
Bill Waddington live from the Arena in London's Docklands ,
includes at
11.10am a live service from St Michael and All Angels church, Lodon Fields, Hackney and at
12.00pm David Bellamy takes 23 children, who were in care last Christmas -
but who now have new families - to Lapland to meet the real Santa Claus
12.25pm The James Bond Film : On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
starring George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas
3.00pm The Queen
3.15pm Film : The B.F.G. (1989)
animation
5.00pm Home and Away
5.30pm ITN News followed by
ITV National Weather with Martyn Davies
5.40pm Strike It Lucky Christmas Special
with Michael Barrymore & Frank Bruno
6.30pm Christmas Comedy Box
Jim Davidson presents clips of his favourite shows and performers
8.00pm Coronation Street
8.30pm After Henry
A Week of Sundays
starring Prunella Scales, Joan Sanderson, Janine Wood, Jonathan Newth
9.00pm Film : Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986) Premiere
starring Nick Nolte, Bette Midler, Richard Dreyfuss, Little Richard
10.55pm ITN News followed by
ITV National Weather with Martyn Davies
11.10pm Film : Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
with Harrison Ford, Karen Allen
ITN News Headlines broadcast throughout the night
1.20am Film : All Night Long (1981)
starring Barbra Streisand, Gene Hackman
3.00am Film : Hard Country (1980)
with Jan-Michael Vincent, Kim Basinger, Michael Parks
4.50am Rich Little's Robin Hood
Rich Little plays 16 parts in this comedy including Robin Hood and Maid Marian
5.50am ITN Morning News
Boxing Day Tuesday 26th December 1989
ITV CENTRAL
6.00am TV-am
David Yates introduces more animal magic
Animals in Action Animal Crowds with Keith Shackleton
6.30am RSPB
Speckle and Hide, narrated by Derek Jones
7.00am Galaxy High School
It Came from Earth
7.30am Benji, Zax and the Alien Prince
Don't Fence Me In
8.00am The Black Arrow
from the story by R L Stevenson
8.50am Wacaday
a special Christmas show presented by Timmy Mallett
9.25am T-Bag's Christmas Carol
with Elizabeth Estensen, John Hasler, Kellie Bright
9.50am Film : Robin Hood (1973)
the Disney animated feature
11.20am Film : Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977)
starring Patrick Wayne, Taryn Power, Margaret Whiting, Jane Seymour
1.20pm ITN News
with John Suchet
followed by
ITV National Weather with Alex Hill
1.30pm Run the Gauntlet Christmas Special
The Mitsubishi Shogun Challenge, celebrity edition
with Alison Holloway, Ross Davidson, Eddie Kidd, Sybil Roscoe, Jilly Johnson, Gail McKenna,
David Wilkie, Curt Smith, Nigel Pivaro and Sally Jones
2.30pm Film : The Return of the Jedi (1983) Première
starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guiness
4.55pm ITN News and Sport
5.10pm Roald Dahl's Danny the Champion of the World (1989)
starring Jeremy Irons, Samuel Irons, Robbie Coltrane, Cyril Cusack (TV Movie)
7.00pm After Henry
with Prunella Scales
7.30pm Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
presented by Nicky Campbell and Carol Smillie
8.00pm The Bill
Powers of Exclusion
8.30pm Shelley
Cold Turkey
starring Hywel Bennett
9.00pm Film : Ruthless People (1986) Première
starring Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater
10.45pm ITN News
followed by
ITV National Weather with Alex Hill
11.00pm Boxing Night at the Movies
Film : The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
starring Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke
(ITN News Headlines broadcast throughout the night)
1.30am Film : Escape from New York (1981)
starring Kurt Russell, Lee Van Kleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasance
3.20am Film : Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984)
with Paul McCartney, Bryan Brown, Ringo Starr, Barbara Bach, Linda McCartney,
Tracey Ullman, Ralph Ricahrdson
5.20am Cartoon Time
Daffy's Inn Trouble, Doggone People, All Fowled Up, Past Performance
5.50am ITN Morning News
ITV YORKSHIRE (as ITV Central except)
7.00pm Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
7.30pm George and Mildred
ITV GRANADA (as ITV Central)
ITV LONDON (as ITV Central except)
7.00pm Emmerdale
7.30pm Jimmy's at Christmas
ITV TVS (as ITV London)
