ITV CHRISTMAS TV 1990
Christmas Eve Monday 24th December 1990
ITV LONDON
5.10am Christmas Comes to Pacland
Santa Claus develops sleigh trouble on Christmas Eve and crash-lands in Pacland,
home of Pac-Man, the video game character, and his family in this story (Repeat)
5.40am Cartoon Time
Animated fun from some favourite cartoon characters
5.55am ITN Morning News
6.00am TV-am
Good Morning Britain
presented by Martin Frizell for the first hour and by Lorraine Kelly and Mike Morris from 7.00am
8.50am Wacaday
presented by Timmy Mallett
9.25am Disney Cartoon Time
The Cookie Carnival
The Grasshopper and the Ant
The Ant and the Merbabies
(Repeat)
9.55am Thames News and Weather
10.00am The New Adventures of He-Man - the Movie (1990)
A feature-length edition of the series in which cartoon hero He-Man and his friends
defend the Universe. Transported to the Triax system, He-Man must battle against
his old enemy, Skeletor (TV Movie)
11.45am Disney Cartoon
Donald Duck in The Art of Self Control
12.00pm Christmas Eve with Dana
Dana is celebrating Christmas Eve or Heilige Nacht, Austria's Holy Night, with the
Aschauer family in the mountain village of Hallstatt in Austria.
Join her as she shares the religious traditions that make Christmas Eve a reflective,
holy and joyous celebration
12.25pm Home and Away
Adam conceives a dastardly plan to keep Grant out of the iron-man competition.
Bobby and Matt discover the identity of Shane's murderer
12.55pm Thames News and Weather
1.00pm ITN News at One
presented by John Suchet
ITV National Weather
Trish Williamson
1.20pm Disney Cartoon
Old King Cole
Characters from Mother Goose attend King Cole's party (Repeat)
1.30pm Film : A Very Brady Christmas (1988)
starring Robert Reed, Florence Henderson (TV Movie)
3.15pm ITN News Headlines
3.20pm Thames News Headlines
3.25pm Families
Mrs Grandby's unfounded suspicions about Mike look as though they might possibly
have some grounding in truth. Mike discovers that Andrew and Amanda are romantically
involved and in his ignorance is very pleased for her
3.55pm Rolf Meets Bugs & Friends in Hollywood
Rolf Harris goes to Hollywood to the home of many of the world's favourite cartoon characters
such as Bugs Bunny, Wile E Coyote, Tweety Pie, Pepe Le Pew.
He meets the creators of many of the Warner Brothers cartoon greats - Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng.
A group of children join Rolf for some drawing and a sneak preview of the newest cartoon blockbuster -
Steven Spielberg's "Tiny Toons"
5.10pm Blockbusters
with Bob Holness
5.40pm ITN News at 5.40
ITV National Weather
6.00pm Home and Away (Repeat)
6.30pm Thames News
7.00pm Wish You Were Here . . . ?
Judith Chalmers celebrates Christmas in a showpiece Cotswold village
John Carter reports on summer holidays in an all-too-often overlooked part of France and
Anneka Rice goes underwater to take a diving course off the island of Gozo
7.30pm Coronation Street
Jack has some last-minute preparations for Christmas and comes up with the ideal present for Vera
8.00pm Des O'Connor Tonight
with guests Bob Monkhouse, Sir Robin Day, Susan Hampshire, Bananarama, Jethro, and Bernie Clifton
9.00pm The Ruth Rendell Mystery
Put on by Cunning
World-renowned flautist Manuel Carmargue is about to marry his 30 year old fiancee when
tragedy strikes.He is found drowned in a lake in the grounds of his house. Although
"death by misadventure" is recorded the intrepid Inspector Wexford's suspicions are aroused
when Carmargue's estranged daughter arrives to claim her inheritance; and further when the
fiancee tells him of the doubts her future husband expressed about the identity of his daughter
11.00pm ITN News, ITV National Weather
11.15pm After Henry
A Quiet Christmas, starring Prunella Scales (Repeat)
11.45pm Midnight Mass
from St Augustine's Roman Catholic Church, Daventry
12.40am Christmas Eve at the Movies : Grandview USA (1984)
starring Jamie Lee Curtis, C. Thomas Howell, Patrick Swayze
2.30am Christmas Eve at the Movies : The Electric Horseman (1979)
starring Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Valerie Perrine
followed by ITN News Headlines
4.40am Closedown
Christmas Day Tuesday 25th December 1990
ITV LONDON
4.40am Film : A Christmas Carol (1985)
An Australian cartoon adaption of Charles Dickens' Classic tale about miserly Ebenezer Scrooge
5.55am ITN Morning News
6.00am TV-am
News Bulletin
6.05am Cartoon Carnival
including
The Adventures Of Parsley
Little Misses
Grumblie Grimlies
Portland Bill
plus many more
7.00am News Bulletin
7.05am Top Banana Special
Mike Brosnan with more fun and games for children in a special Christmas edition
7.57am Thought for Christmas
8.00am Cliff Richard Christmas Day Special
Cliff sings, tells the Christmas story, shows some clips from his latest tour and
introduces the Choirboy of the Year
9.00am Alvin and the Chipmunks
Another amusing adventure
9.25am Cartoons at Christmas
Three Tweety-Pie cartoons (Repeat)
9.50am Telethon - Thanks to You
Find out how your donations to Telethon '90 have made it an extra special
Christmas for people in need all over Britain
10.45am Find a Family Update
The children featured in ITV's campaign to find permanent homes for youngsters
in care spend their first Christmas with their new families at a party being held
specially for them by Lord Montagu at his home in Beaulieu, in the New Forest
11.00am Christmas Family Communion
from All Saints Church, Fulham, West London
12.00 The Disney Club Christmas Special
Snow, log fires, presents, seasonal songs and cartoons - all the right ingredients for Christmas Day.
Gordon Inglis, John Eccleston, and Andrea Boardman are in the mountain resort of Aspen in
Colorado together with Dannii Minogue and the British band Breathe.
Join them for the show which also includes two festive cartoons
1.00pm Ronn Lucas Special - Who's in Charge Here?
Ventriloquist Ronn Lucas live on stage, plus the adventures of puppet Buffalo Billy as he goes to Hollywood
2.00pm Torvill & Dean with the Russian Allstars
An ice spectacular from Nottingham ice rink
3.00pm The Queen
3.05pm The James Bond Film : Moonraker (1979)
Roger Moore as James Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle and
discovers a plot to commit global genocide
5.25pm ITN News and ITV National Weather
5.30pm Strike It Lucky Christmas Special
Specially for Christmas all the contestants in this game show are children.
Hosted by Michael Barrymore
6.15pm Ken Dodd at the London Palladium
Ken Dodd is joined by his Diddymen and Roby Gasser with his performing seals Adolph and Dixie
7.30pm Coronation Street
While Alf reaches for his stomach pills, the Duckworths seek refuge, Curly finds a soulmate,
Alec bites off more than he can chew, and Gail has some news for the family
8.00pm Film : Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)
Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills to help Taggart and Rosewood investigate
Chief Bogamil's near-fatal shooting and the series of "alphabet crimes" associated with it Première
10.00pm French Fields
Noel Noel
When it comes to Christmas the French can take it or leave it. Hester is determined to make them take it.
However when her own family arrives in France they want to leave again by the earliest ferry
10.45pm ITN News and ITV National Weather
11.00pm Christmas Night at the Movies : What's Up Doc? (1972)
The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid over-night bags leads to a series of
increasingly wild and wacky situation starring Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Madeline Kahn
12.50am Christmas Night at the Movies : Murder Me, Murder You (1983)
Mickey Spillane's private eye Mike Hammer (Stacy Keach) probes his long-lost love's death
while seeking their daughter. starring Stacy Keach, Tanya Roberts, Don Stroud
2.40am Christmas Night at the Movies : Feel the Motion (1986)
Tina Lehmann is an auto mechanic who dreams of becoming a pop star.
One day after work she sneaks onto the set of the TV music programme 'Formel Eins'
with her demo tape, and lands a job as a go-fer. Her boyfriend Stevie Dromberger,
who has been drafted into the army, doesn't like the attention she's receiving from
the celebrity guests, and goes AWOL whehe thinks she is dating the singer Limahl
starring Sissy Kelling, Frank Meyer-Brockmann, Ingolf Lück
ITV Central.................Film : Scorpio (1973)
4.35am Sounds Like Christmas
a documentary about the business of selling records at Christmas.
It focuses on tracks deliberately made for Christmas release
Boxing Day Wednesday 26th December 1990
5.35am Cartoon Time
animated double bill (Repeat)
5.55am ITN Morning News
6.00am TV-am
6.00am News Bulletin
6.05am Animated Classic
an episode from Black Beauty
7.00am News Bulletin
7.05am Timmy Mallet's World Travel Special
Timmy explores New York
7.30am Alvin and the Chipmunks
another cartoon caper
8.00am Top Banana
with Mike Brosnan
9.00am Denver the Last Dinosaur
animated adventures
9.25am Christmas Duckula
A Christmas Quacker
Duckula's "Tremendous Terence Bumper Book" leads him into a space adventure
9.50am T-Bag's Christmas Ding-Dong
T-Bag finds herself out in the cold when her cousin Vanity Bag decides she
wants to be the star of a new opera
10.20am Daffy Duck
Stork Naked (Repeat)
10.30am Disney Christmas Première : Candleshoe (1977)
Small-time crook Harry Bundage discovers that the old manor house where
Lady St. Edmund resides, with three orphans and her butler, Priory is the resting
place for a hoard of treasure. Unfortunately, he doesn't know where it is. Bundage
recruits urchin Casey Brown to dupe Lady St. Edmund into thinking that she is
her long-lost granddaughter, so she can search for clues to the location of the treasure.
Unbeknownst to Bundage and her ladyship, Lady St. Edmund is flat broke, and Priory
and the children help her ladyship try to keep her home and pride.
Joined by Casey, they do all the chores and Priory acts as the butler, gardener, chauffeur
and an old major all at the same time!
starring Jodie Foster, David Niven, Helen Hayes Première
12.25pm ITN News, ITV National Weather
12.30pm The Disney Christmas Première : Return to Oz (1985)
Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, is somehow called
back to Oz when a vain witch and the Nome King destroy everything that makes the
magical land beautiful.
Starring Fairuza Balk, Nicol Williamson, Jean Marsh Première
2.30pm Beatrix Potter : The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
The magical Beatrix Potter tale about the adventures of a young pig.
The idea for the tale, shot in Cornwall, came to the author in 1894 when
she saw a pig loaded on board a ship in Falmouth.
Starring Tim Spall, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French,Thora Hird, Geoffrey Bayldon
3.30pm Film : Lorna Doone (1990)
John Ridd was just a boy when the villainous Carver Doone callously murdered his father.
Now a young man, John has two driving passions: his thirst for revenge against the outlaw
Doones, and his love for the beautiful Lorna, daughter of his sworn enemies
starring Sean Bean, Polly Walker
5.15pm ITN News and Sport,
ITV National Weather with Sian Lloyd
5.30pm The Krypton Factor Special
stars of some of the best loved TV dramas take part in this special to try
and win £5000 for their chosen charity.
Jon Isles (DC Dashwood in The Bill)
Glenda McKay (Rachel Hughes in Emmerdale)
Philip Middlemiss (Des Barnes in Coronation St)
Annie Miles (Sue Sullivan in Brookside)
Host is Gordon Burns with guest Gwyneth Strong
6.00pm Christmas Cluedo
Your chance to play armchair detective. Santa arrives at Arlington Grange with a
sackful of surprises for the assembled guests which reminds them all of dirty deeds
that they would rather forget. One guest has murder in mind. But who did it?
What was the weapon? And in which room did it take place?
Celebrities in the studio cross examine the likely culprits to discover the truth
6.45pm This Is Your Life
Whose story is in the big red book tonight?
A specially extending Boxing Day edition with Michael Aspel
7.30pm Coronation Street
Vera takes a hand in patching up a broken relationship, while lodger Curly comes
clean about his intentions
8.00pm Movie Première : Dirty Dancing (1987)
Spending the summer in a holiday camp with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman
falls in love with the camp's dance instructor Johnny Castle
starring Patrick Swayze Première
9.50pm The Bill
Safe as Houses
Sun Hill CID are babysitting supergrass Lennie Powell but Burnside's snout has news from all of them
10.20pm ITN News, ITV National Weather
10.30pm Boxing Night at the Movies
Police Academy 2 : Their First Assignment (1985)
When a new gang moves into town it's up to the screwball police team to stop them
Steve Guttenberg, Bubba Smith, David Graf
followed by ITN News Headlines
12.10am Boxing Night at the Movies : Return of the Seven (1966)
Chico one of the remaining members of The Magnificent Seven now lives in the town
that they (The Seven) helped.
One day someone comes and takes most of the men prisoner. His wife seeks out Chris,
the leader of The Seven for help. Chris also meets Vin another member of The Seven.
They find four other men and they go to help Chico
starring Yul Brynner, Robert Fuller, Julián Mateos
2.00am Boxing Night at the Movies : Robbery Under Arms (1985)
Fourth adaptation and first made for television of the classic Australian bushranger novel
"Robbery Under Arms" by Rolf Boldrewood.
Made by the South Australian Film Corporation during the mini-series boom of the 1980s
and lensed in the Flinders Ranges, it stars Sam Neill as the infamous Captain Starlight
4.00am America's Top 10
Top 10 Acts of the Sixties (until 4.30am)
ITV LONDON
5.10am Christmas Comes to Pacland
Santa Claus develops sleigh trouble on Christmas Eve and crash-lands in Pacland,
home of Pac-Man, the video game character, and his family in this story (Repeat)
5.40am Cartoon Time
Animated fun from some favourite cartoon characters
5.55am ITN Morning News
6.00am TV-am
Good Morning Britain
presented by Martin Frizell for the first hour and by Lorraine Kelly and Mike Morris from 7.00am
8.50am Wacaday
presented by Timmy Mallett
9.25am Disney Cartoon Time
The Cookie Carnival
The Grasshopper and the Ant
The Ant and the Merbabies
(Repeat)
9.55am Thames News and Weather
10.00am The New Adventures of He-Man - the Movie (1990)
A feature-length edition of the series in which cartoon hero He-Man and his friends
defend the Universe. Transported to the Triax system, He-Man must battle against
his old enemy, Skeletor (TV Movie)
11.45am Disney Cartoon
Donald Duck in The Art of Self Control
12.00pm Christmas Eve with Dana
Dana is celebrating Christmas Eve or Heilige Nacht, Austria's Holy Night, with the
Aschauer family in the mountain village of Hallstatt in Austria.
Join her as she shares the religious traditions that make Christmas Eve a reflective,
holy and joyous celebration
12.25pm Home and Away
Adam conceives a dastardly plan to keep Grant out of the iron-man competition.
Bobby and Matt discover the identity of Shane's murderer
12.55pm Thames News and Weather
1.00pm ITN News at One
presented by John Suchet
ITV National Weather
Trish Williamson
1.20pm Disney Cartoon
Old King Cole
Characters from Mother Goose attend King Cole's party (Repeat)
1.30pm Film : A Very Brady Christmas (1988)
starring Robert Reed, Florence Henderson (TV Movie)
3.15pm ITN News Headlines
3.20pm Thames News Headlines
3.25pm Families
Mrs Grandby's unfounded suspicions about Mike look as though they might possibly
have some grounding in truth. Mike discovers that Andrew and Amanda are romantically
involved and in his ignorance is very pleased for her
3.55pm Rolf Meets Bugs & Friends in Hollywood
Rolf Harris goes to Hollywood to the home of many of the world's favourite cartoon characters
such as Bugs Bunny, Wile E Coyote, Tweety Pie, Pepe Le Pew.
He meets the creators of many of the Warner Brothers cartoon greats - Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng.
A group of children join Rolf for some drawing and a sneak preview of the newest cartoon blockbuster -
Steven Spielberg's "Tiny Toons"
5.10pm Blockbusters
with Bob Holness
5.40pm ITN News at 5.40
ITV National Weather
6.00pm Home and Away (Repeat)
6.30pm Thames News
7.00pm Wish You Were Here . . . ?
Judith Chalmers celebrates Christmas in a showpiece Cotswold village
John Carter reports on summer holidays in an all-too-often overlooked part of France and
Anneka Rice goes underwater to take a diving course off the island of Gozo
7.30pm Coronation Street
Jack has some last-minute preparations for Christmas and comes up with the ideal present for Vera
8.00pm Des O'Connor Tonight
with guests Bob Monkhouse, Sir Robin Day, Susan Hampshire, Bananarama, Jethro, and Bernie Clifton
9.00pm The Ruth Rendell Mystery
Put on by Cunning
World-renowned flautist Manuel Carmargue is about to marry his 30 year old fiancee when
tragedy strikes.He is found drowned in a lake in the grounds of his house. Although
"death by misadventure" is recorded the intrepid Inspector Wexford's suspicions are aroused
when Carmargue's estranged daughter arrives to claim her inheritance; and further when the
fiancee tells him of the doubts her future husband expressed about the identity of his daughter
11.00pm ITN News, ITV National Weather
11.15pm After Henry
A Quiet Christmas, starring Prunella Scales (Repeat)
11.45pm Midnight Mass
from St Augustine's Roman Catholic Church, Daventry
12.40am Christmas Eve at the Movies : Grandview USA (1984)
starring Jamie Lee Curtis, C. Thomas Howell, Patrick Swayze
2.30am Christmas Eve at the Movies : The Electric Horseman (1979)
starring Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Valerie Perrine
followed by ITN News Headlines
4.40am Closedown
Christmas Day Tuesday 25th December 1990
ITV LONDON
4.40am Film : A Christmas Carol (1985)
An Australian cartoon adaption of Charles Dickens' Classic tale about miserly Ebenezer Scrooge
5.55am ITN Morning News
6.00am TV-am
News Bulletin
6.05am Cartoon Carnival
including
The Adventures Of Parsley
Little Misses
Grumblie Grimlies
Portland Bill
plus many more
7.00am News Bulletin
7.05am Top Banana Special
Mike Brosnan with more fun and games for children in a special Christmas edition
7.57am Thought for Christmas
8.00am Cliff Richard Christmas Day Special
Cliff sings, tells the Christmas story, shows some clips from his latest tour and
introduces the Choirboy of the Year
9.00am Alvin and the Chipmunks
Another amusing adventure
9.25am Cartoons at Christmas
Three Tweety-Pie cartoons (Repeat)
9.50am Telethon - Thanks to You
Find out how your donations to Telethon '90 have made it an extra special
Christmas for people in need all over Britain
10.45am Find a Family Update
The children featured in ITV's campaign to find permanent homes for youngsters
in care spend their first Christmas with their new families at a party being held
specially for them by Lord Montagu at his home in Beaulieu, in the New Forest
11.00am Christmas Family Communion
from All Saints Church, Fulham, West London
12.00 The Disney Club Christmas Special
Snow, log fires, presents, seasonal songs and cartoons - all the right ingredients for Christmas Day.
Gordon Inglis, John Eccleston, and Andrea Boardman are in the mountain resort of Aspen in
Colorado together with Dannii Minogue and the British band Breathe.
Join them for the show which also includes two festive cartoons
1.00pm Ronn Lucas Special - Who's in Charge Here?
Ventriloquist Ronn Lucas live on stage, plus the adventures of puppet Buffalo Billy as he goes to Hollywood
2.00pm Torvill & Dean with the Russian Allstars
An ice spectacular from Nottingham ice rink
3.00pm The Queen
3.05pm The James Bond Film : Moonraker (1979)
Roger Moore as James Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle and
discovers a plot to commit global genocide
5.25pm ITN News and ITV National Weather
5.30pm Strike It Lucky Christmas Special
Specially for Christmas all the contestants in this game show are children.
Hosted by Michael Barrymore
6.15pm Ken Dodd at the London Palladium
Ken Dodd is joined by his Diddymen and Roby Gasser with his performing seals Adolph and Dixie
7.30pm Coronation Street
While Alf reaches for his stomach pills, the Duckworths seek refuge, Curly finds a soulmate,
Alec bites off more than he can chew, and Gail has some news for the family
8.00pm Film : Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)
Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills to help Taggart and Rosewood investigate
Chief Bogamil's near-fatal shooting and the series of "alphabet crimes" associated with it Première
10.00pm French Fields
Noel Noel
When it comes to Christmas the French can take it or leave it. Hester is determined to make them take it.
However when her own family arrives in France they want to leave again by the earliest ferry
10.45pm ITN News and ITV National Weather
11.00pm Christmas Night at the Movies : What's Up Doc? (1972)
The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid over-night bags leads to a series of
increasingly wild and wacky situation starring Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Madeline Kahn
12.50am Christmas Night at the Movies : Murder Me, Murder You (1983)
Mickey Spillane's private eye Mike Hammer (Stacy Keach) probes his long-lost love's death
while seeking their daughter. starring Stacy Keach, Tanya Roberts, Don Stroud
2.40am Christmas Night at the Movies : Feel the Motion (1986)
Tina Lehmann is an auto mechanic who dreams of becoming a pop star.
One day after work she sneaks onto the set of the TV music programme 'Formel Eins'
with her demo tape, and lands a job as a go-fer. Her boyfriend Stevie Dromberger,
who has been drafted into the army, doesn't like the attention she's receiving from
the celebrity guests, and goes AWOL whehe thinks she is dating the singer Limahl
starring Sissy Kelling, Frank Meyer-Brockmann, Ingolf Lück
ITV Central.................Film : Scorpio (1973)
4.35am Sounds Like Christmas
a documentary about the business of selling records at Christmas.
It focuses on tracks deliberately made for Christmas release
Boxing Day Wednesday 26th December 1990
5.35am Cartoon Time
animated double bill (Repeat)
5.55am ITN Morning News
6.00am TV-am
6.00am News Bulletin
6.05am Animated Classic
an episode from Black Beauty
7.00am News Bulletin
7.05am Timmy Mallet's World Travel Special
Timmy explores New York
7.30am Alvin and the Chipmunks
another cartoon caper
8.00am Top Banana
with Mike Brosnan
9.00am Denver the Last Dinosaur
animated adventures
9.25am Christmas Duckula
A Christmas Quacker
Duckula's "Tremendous Terence Bumper Book" leads him into a space adventure
9.50am T-Bag's Christmas Ding-Dong
T-Bag finds herself out in the cold when her cousin Vanity Bag decides she
wants to be the star of a new opera
10.20am Daffy Duck
Stork Naked (Repeat)
10.30am Disney Christmas Première : Candleshoe (1977)
Small-time crook Harry Bundage discovers that the old manor house where
Lady St. Edmund resides, with three orphans and her butler, Priory is the resting
place for a hoard of treasure. Unfortunately, he doesn't know where it is. Bundage
recruits urchin Casey Brown to dupe Lady St. Edmund into thinking that she is
her long-lost granddaughter, so she can search for clues to the location of the treasure.
Unbeknownst to Bundage and her ladyship, Lady St. Edmund is flat broke, and Priory
and the children help her ladyship try to keep her home and pride.
Joined by Casey, they do all the chores and Priory acts as the butler, gardener, chauffeur
and an old major all at the same time!
starring Jodie Foster, David Niven, Helen Hayes Première
12.25pm ITN News, ITV National Weather
12.30pm The Disney Christmas Première : Return to Oz (1985)
Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, is somehow called
back to Oz when a vain witch and the Nome King destroy everything that makes the
magical land beautiful.
Starring Fairuza Balk, Nicol Williamson, Jean Marsh Première
2.30pm Beatrix Potter : The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
The magical Beatrix Potter tale about the adventures of a young pig.
The idea for the tale, shot in Cornwall, came to the author in 1894 when
she saw a pig loaded on board a ship in Falmouth.
Starring Tim Spall, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French,Thora Hird, Geoffrey Bayldon
3.30pm Film : Lorna Doone (1990)
John Ridd was just a boy when the villainous Carver Doone callously murdered his father.
Now a young man, John has two driving passions: his thirst for revenge against the outlaw
Doones, and his love for the beautiful Lorna, daughter of his sworn enemies
starring Sean Bean, Polly Walker
5.15pm ITN News and Sport,
ITV National Weather with Sian Lloyd
5.30pm The Krypton Factor Special
stars of some of the best loved TV dramas take part in this special to try
and win £5000 for their chosen charity.
Jon Isles (DC Dashwood in The Bill)
Glenda McKay (Rachel Hughes in Emmerdale)
Philip Middlemiss (Des Barnes in Coronation St)
Annie Miles (Sue Sullivan in Brookside)
Host is Gordon Burns with guest Gwyneth Strong
6.00pm Christmas Cluedo
Your chance to play armchair detective. Santa arrives at Arlington Grange with a
sackful of surprises for the assembled guests which reminds them all of dirty deeds
that they would rather forget. One guest has murder in mind. But who did it?
What was the weapon? And in which room did it take place?
Celebrities in the studio cross examine the likely culprits to discover the truth
6.45pm This Is Your Life
Whose story is in the big red book tonight?
A specially extending Boxing Day edition with Michael Aspel
7.30pm Coronation Street
Vera takes a hand in patching up a broken relationship, while lodger Curly comes
clean about his intentions
8.00pm Movie Première : Dirty Dancing (1987)
Spending the summer in a holiday camp with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman
falls in love with the camp's dance instructor Johnny Castle
starring Patrick Swayze Première
9.50pm The Bill
Safe as Houses
Sun Hill CID are babysitting supergrass Lennie Powell but Burnside's snout has news from all of them
10.20pm ITN News, ITV National Weather
10.30pm Boxing Night at the Movies
Police Academy 2 : Their First Assignment (1985)
When a new gang moves into town it's up to the screwball police team to stop them
Steve Guttenberg, Bubba Smith, David Graf
followed by ITN News Headlines
12.10am Boxing Night at the Movies : Return of the Seven (1966)
Chico one of the remaining members of The Magnificent Seven now lives in the town
that they (The Seven) helped.
One day someone comes and takes most of the men prisoner. His wife seeks out Chris,
the leader of The Seven for help. Chris also meets Vin another member of The Seven.
They find four other men and they go to help Chico
starring Yul Brynner, Robert Fuller, Julián Mateos
2.00am Boxing Night at the Movies : Robbery Under Arms (1985)
Fourth adaptation and first made for television of the classic Australian bushranger novel
"Robbery Under Arms" by Rolf Boldrewood.
Made by the South Australian Film Corporation during the mini-series boom of the 1980s
and lensed in the Flinders Ranges, it stars Sam Neill as the infamous Captain Starlight
4.00am America's Top 10
Top 10 Acts of the Sixties (until 4.30am)
