Sunday 21 December 2014

Radio Times Christmas Cover 1986 - What Was On

Christmas Eve Wednesday 24th December 1986

  BBC1
  6.00am  Ceefax AM

  6.30am  News followed by The Flintstones

  6.55am  Weather

  7.00am  Breakfast Time
                with Frank Bough and Jeremy Paxman

  9.00am  News and Weather

  9.05am  Paddington narrated by Michael Hordern

  9.10am  Play Chess : the bishop with Bill Hartston
  9.20am  Babar and Father Christmas

  9.45am  London Snow part 2 of Paul Theroux's tale,
                with Elizabeth Spriggs


10.00am  News and Weather

10.05am  Neighbours

10.25am  Children's CBBC
                Phillip Schofield with birthdays and 
                programme news

10.30am  Play School with Stuart Bradley 
                and Elizabeth Watts

10.50am  Henry`s Cat

10.55am  Five Minutes with Joanna Lumley

11.00am  News and Weather

11.05am  Keith and Orville's Christmas Circus
                with Dana

11.45am  Cartoon : The Tender Tale of
                Cinderella Penguin

11.55am  Junior Kick Start : the final, with 
                Peter Purves and Jack Stites

12.20pm  A Song for Christmas  the final

12.55pm  Regional News and Weather

  1.00pm  One O'Clock News with Martyn Lewis

  1.25pm  Neighbours

  1.50pm  Little Misses

  2.00pm  Rolf Harris Cartoon Time

  2.25pm  Film : The Wizard of Oz (1939)

  4.05pm  Daffy Duck

  4.20pm  The Box of Delights
                third and final double-length edition
  5.20pm  Jim`ll Fix It

  6.00pm  News with Andrew Harvey

  6.15pm  Regional News

  6.20pm  Film : Mr Mum (1983)
                starring Michael Keaton and Teri Garr
  7.50pm  Childwatch Update with Esther Rantzen

  8.00pm  The Two Ronnies a repeat of the special
                with Elaine Paige and Peter 
Wyngarde

  9.00pm  Nine O'Clock News with Andrew Harvey 
                Weather

  9.20pm  Dallas

10.10pm  Wogan with Larry Hagman and Linda Gray

10.45pm  Christmas Eve with Val Doonican
                with guests Dennis Taylor and 
                Evelyn Glennie

11.30pm  The First Mass of Christmas
                from Clifton Cathedral, Bristol

12.35am  Weather

  Christmas Day Thursday 25th December 1986

  BBC1     
  8:00am  Play School

  8:20am  The Muppet Babies

  8:45am  Roland Rat - The Series

  9:10am  Papa Panov's Special day

  9:25am  This is the Day

  9:55am  Weather

10:00am  Film : The Pure Hell of St Trinians (1960)

11:30am  Christmas Morning with Noel

  1:25pm  Every Second Counts

  2:00pm  The Top of the Pops Christmas Party   
                 
  3:00pm  The Queen

  3:10pm  Film : Annie (1981) Première 

  5:15pm  News and Weather
 
  5:25pm  Russ Abbot Christmas Show

  6:00pm  Just Good Friends

  6:35pm  EastEnders

  7:05pm  Only Fools and Horses

  8:25pm  Miss Marple : The Murder at the Vicarage

10:00pm  EastEnders

10:30pm  News and Weather

10:40pm  Film : Educating Rita (1983) Première

12:30am  Weather

12:35am  Closedown



  Boxing Day Friday 26th December 1986

  BBC1

  8.00am  Ceefax

  8.35am  Play School

  8.55am  The Muppet Babies

  9.20am  It's Your Move

  9.45am  Take Two Christmas Special

10.30am  Film : Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
                starring Dick Van Dyke
                and Sally Ann 
Howes

12.45pm  Junior Kick Start the final

  1.15pm  News with Jan Leeming ; Weather

  1.30pm  Film : The Guns of Navarone (1961)
                starring Gregory Peck

  4.00pm  Disney Time

  4.45pm  Final Score

  5.05pm  Blankety Blank with Les Dawson 
                and Lynda Baron, Frank Carson,
                Samantha Fox, Little and Large
                and Wendy Richard


  5.40pm  Barnum starring Michael Crawford  
                (6.50-7.00pm News ; Weather)

  7.45pm  'Allo 'Allo

  8.30pm  Bergerac

10.00pm  News with Jan Leeming Weather

10.15pm  Film : The Verdict (1982)
                starring Paul Newman

12.20am  Film : The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
                starring James Stewart and 
                Margaret Sullivan

  2.00am  Weather

 Christmas Eve Wednesday 24th December 1986

  BBC2
  

  9.00am  Ceefax

12.50pm  Film : Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1920) (b&w)
                silent version starring John Barrymore

  1.50pm  Names and Games
                four teams of celebrities compete
                for the Butlins Trophy, presented by  

                Lennie Bennett and Kathy Taylor, 
                from Somerwest World, Minehead

  2.40pm  Horowitz in Moscow  a documentary by 
                John Tusa that includes a concert of  
                works by Scriabin, Rachmaniniv, Mozart, 
                Scarlatti, Schubert, Liszt and Chopin     

  4.35pm  News , Regional News and Weather

  4.45pm  Film : The Seven Year Itch (1955)
                starring Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell

  6.35pm  International Snooker
                David Vine with highlights of the
                world championship


  8.00pm  Kiri Te Kanawa at Christmas
                from the Barbican Hall,
                with the Philharmonia 
Orchestra

  9.00pm  Season's Greetings by 
                Alan Ayckbourn with Anna Massey,
                Nicky Henson, 
Geoffrey Palmer, Peter 
                Vaughan and Barbara Flynn 

10.50pm  Harty's Christmas Party at Giggleswick 
                Ian Botham, Ken Livingstone, Sue Lawley, 
                Ned Sherrin and Fred Trueman

11.45pm  Film : Meet Me in St Louis (1944)
                starring Judy Garland and
                Margaret O'Brien


  1.35am  Weather
  
 


















































  Christmas Day Thursday 25th December 1986

  BBC2

12:20pm  Film : The Pirate (1948)

  2:00pm  The Christmas Day Concert

  3:20pm  Film : Hoppity Goes to Town (1941)

  4:35pm  Comic Roots
                                            
  5:15pm  Film : The Fortune Cookie (1966)

  7:20pm  Aaron Copland : A Self Portrait

  8:20pm  Film : Edith and Marcel (1983) Première

10:55pm  Classic Ghost Stories

11:10pm  Film : Fedora (1978)

  1:00am  Weatherview

  1:10am  Closedown




   






















 Boxing Day Friday 26th December 1986

  BBC2

  9.00am  Ceefax

12.25am  Popeye the Sailor cartoon

12.45am  Film : Gulliver's Travels (1977)
                animation

  2.00pm  Tchaikovsky Competition 1986
                from Moscow

  3.20pm  Surfers Do It Standing Up
                Newquay at the time of the
                World Championships


  4.00pm  Film : The Band Wagon (1953)
                starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse

  5.50pm  The Most Swirling, Swinging,
                Sliding, Spinning, Up-and-Down Ride of
                Your Life : the thrills of the rollercoaster

  6.20pm  Choir of the Year 1986
                second semi-final from Buxton
                Opera House


  7.00pm  Cricket: Fourth Test day 1 from Melbourne

  7.25pm  Laurens van der Post at 80

  8.30pm  Onegin  
                a ballet by John Cranko to Tchaikovsky's 
                music danced by the National Ballet 
                of Canada

 10.05pm  Film : Some Like It Hot (1959)
                 starring Marilyn Monroe,
                 Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon


12.00       Classic Ghost Stories : The Ash Tree
                told by Robert Powell

 12.15am  Weather