Christmas Eve Tuesday 24th December 1968
Thames
9.00am Moonshot
9.15am Close
4.30pm The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
4.50pm Sooty's Christmas Party
Harry,
Sooty, Sweep and Butch are spending Christmas at home and holding a party
for
all their puppet friends. With so many people to cater for, Sooty and Co.
decide
to
help Harry prepare the food.
5.15pm Thirteen Thousand and Eighty-Three Pounds
with
Elizabeth Crowther, Howard Trevor, James Hayter and Marjie Lawrence.
Poor
little rich girl, Esther, is 11 years old and has £13,083 in the bank.
Surprising, then, that she is having a horrible Christmas.
Like
all spoilt children, when she suffers
she makes sure that everyone else in sight is miserable. Danny the pageboy,
Hugo the waiter, Leo the pastry chef and her stepmother, Marion-all feel
the lash of
Esther's wicked little tongue. Until . . . . . .
Playing Esther is Elizabeth Crowther, who is far from being the spoilt
child she portrays so
convincingly, at 13 she is studying hard for her G.C.E.'s
5.50pm News
6.04pm Today
with Eamonn Andrews
6.30pm Peyton Place the last episode
7.00pm Moody
7.30pm Film : Carry On Regardless
9.00pm Whatever Happened to Christmas ? with Bruce
Forsyth and Cliff Richard
10.00pm News
10.30pm Borge
presents Borge
11.30pm Focus on St
Paul's introduced by Kenneth Robinson,
with the Very Rev
Martin
Sullivan (Dean of St Paul's), John Betjeman, Paul Paget (Architect
and
Surveyor to the Fabric- St Paul's)
11.55pm Midnight Mass
from the Church of St Mary's Star of the Sea, Largs, Ayrshire
Yorkshire (as Thames
except)
3.00pm Helter Skelter with Carol Marsh, David Tomlinson
4.15pm Jimmy Green and his Time Machine
4.25pm Crossroads (until 4.50pm)
6.05pm Calendar
6.30pm Honey Lane (until 7.00pm)
7.30pm Fast and Loose with Stanley Holloway, Kay
Kendall, Brian Reece (until 9.00)
11.30pm Carols in
Kirkgate (until 11.55pm)
1.00am Weather
Christmas Day
Wednesday 25th December 1968
Thames
9.15am Christmas Day with Tingha and Tucker
Fly
with us on a magic carpet to the land of make-believe and meet a wicked
magican,
a
genie of a lamp, a talking elephant and Prince Origami with his magic fan.
9.45am Carols from Ripon Cathedral
10.30am Holy
Communion at Southwark Cathedral
11.40am Royal Family
at St George's Chapel, Windsor
12.00
Freewheelers
The
Zander Plot-The Stones
12.30pm Film :
Tarzan's Savage Fury with Lex Barker
2.00pm All Kinds of Music
3.00pm The Queen
3.10pm Kelvin Hall Circus
4.10pm Do Not Adjust Your Stocking
starring Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, David Jason,
Denise
Coffey and the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
5.00pm Film : The Courage of Lassie with Elizabeth
Taylor, Frank Morgan, Tom Drake
5.50pm News
6.00pm Film : The Courage of Lassie continued
6.45pm Opportunity Knocks Christmas Special
7.30pm Coronation Street
8.00pm Film : Westward the Women with Robert Taylor,
Denise Darcel, John McIntyre
10.00pm News
10.15pm Christmas
Horne A'Plenty
10.45pm The Sex
Game Hippy Hippy Who Cares, by Fay
Weldon, with Julia Foster, Renee
Houston, Valerie Gearon, Julian Orchard, Frederick Jaeger
11.45pm Mountbatten
Interview
12.05am The Other
Side of the Coin Kenneth Groot talks to Marjorie Proops
Yorkshire (as Thames
except)
9.15am Moonshot
9.30am Sugarball (until 9.45am)
5.00pm Film : Yankee Buccaneer with Jeff Chandler, Scott Brady, Susan Ball
(until 5.50)
6.05pm Film : Yankee Buccaneer part two (until 6.45)
11.45pm The Flying
Angel, story of the Hull Missions to Seamen
12.05am Weather
Boxing Day Thursday 26th
December 1968
Thames
10.00am Mad Movies
10.25am Bugs Bunny
10.50am The Flying
Nun "Cyrano de Bertrille" with
Sally Field
11.15am Sugarball
11.25am Dickens at
Christmas Christmas at Dingley Dell,
introduced by Fredric March,
with
James Donald, Ambrosine Philpotts, John Salew, Jack Watling
11.50am Little Big
Time
12.15pm Film : Silver
City starring Edmond O'Brien
2.00pm Racing from Wincanton
3.55pm Professional Wrestling
4.40pm Film : Cinderfella with Jerry Lewis
5.40pm News and Sports Results
6.00pm Film : Cinderfella continued
6.30pm Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width I'm Dreaming of a Kosher Christmas,
with
John Bluthal and Joe Lynch
7.00pm Film : Hatari
starring John Wayne, with Elsa Martinelli
9.30pm The Reporters
10.00pm News
10.15pm Cinema Says
It With Music
11.00pm Eamonn
Andrews Boxing Day Special
with
Kenny Ball, Danny La Rue, Roy Hudd and Dickie Henderson
11.45pm The Other
Side of the Coin Kenneth Groot talks to Alan Brash,
director of Christian Aid
Yorkshire (as Thames
except)
9.55am Moonshot
10.00am Rudolph the
Red Nosed Reindeer
11.00am Robin Hood
11.25am Once Upon a
Time
11.35am Crossroads
12.00pm Little Big
Time
12.30pm Film : They
Rode West with Robert Francis and Donna Reed (until 2.00)
11.45pm Honey Lane
12.15pm Weather