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TV Times Christmas Cover 1971

 Christmas Eve Friday 24th December 1971

  ITV London

  9.30am  A Concert for Christmas from the Royal Festival Hall, London

10.20am  Anita in Jumbleland with Anita Harris

10.30am  Christmas Lift Off  with Middle of the Road, Jack Wild, Kim Jones, Ayshea Brough, Wally Whyton

11.00am  The Roadrunner Show
                More cartoon adventures

11.30am  The Hardest Way Up - Annapurna

12.30pm  Film : Tarzan Goes to India with Jock Mahoney, Mark Dana

  2.00pm  Riptide  Jump High, Land Easy
                Moss Andrews runs foul of a gang of rich teenagers. . .


  3.00pm  Junior Showtime Christmas Pantomime

  3.50pm  Laurel and Hardy

  3.55pm  The Champions   Reply Box No.666
                The Champions probe a Caribbean conundrum -
                Who wants a parrot that speaks Greek?


  4.50pm  The Cat in the Hat  cartoon

  5.20pm  Freewheelers   Pay Off!

  5.50pm  News

  6.00pm  Today...is Christmas Eve with Eamonn Andrews

  6.30pm  The New Dick Van Dyke Show   A Room with a Room

  7.00pm  The Comedians' Christmas Party

  7.45pm  The Persuaders!    Element of Risk with Tony Curtis, Roger Moore

  8.45pm  The Fenn Street Gang   When Did You Last See Your Father?

  9.15pm  Val Doonican

10.00pm  News at Ten

10.15pm  All This- and Christmas Too  with Sidney James, Kenneth Connor, Joe Gladwin

11.15pm  Aquarius    The Other Belfast

11.55pm  Midnight Mass from the Cathedral of St Nicolas, Fribourg, Switzerland

  1.00am  Closedown

 
  ITV Yorkshire (as ITV London except)

11.00am  Trade Winds to Tahiti

11.55am  The Enchanted House

12.05pm  Charlie Brown's Christmas (until 12.30pm)

  2.00pm  The Flintstones

  2.30pm  The Odd Couple (until 3.00pm)

  3.50pm  Film : Great Expectations

  5.50pm  News

  6.00pm  The Cat in the Hat

  6.30pm  The Sky's the Limit (until 7.00pm)

  
  Christmas Day Saturday 25th December 1971

  ITV London

  8.15am  Carols in Kirkgate  from the Castle Museum, York

  9.00am  Cartoons Two cartoons for today : Captain's Christmas and The Pups' Christmas

  9.15am  Christmas Morning Service a United Free Church Service from 
                Princes Street Congregational Church, Norwich

10.15am  A Merry Morning with John Alderton, Daisy May and Saveen

10.45am  Chidren's Chistmas Cinema

11.30am  Film : Captain Sinbad starring Guy Williams, Heidi Bruhl, Pedro Armendariz

  1.00pm  Christmas Singalong with. . .The Bachelors, Moira Anderson, Sacha Distel, Howard Keel, Andee Silver
  2.00pm  Kelvin Hall Circus

  3.00pm  The Queen

  3.10pm  Film : King Solomon's Mines starring Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger

  5.00pm  A Variety of Reg Varney

  6.00pm  News

  6.05pm  All Star Comedy Carnival

  8.30pm  Film : Around the World in 80 Days with David Niven, Robert Newton

10.00pm  News

10.10pm  Film : Around the World in 80 Days  (continued) 

11.40pm  It Matters to Me


  ITV Yorkshire (as ITV London except)

  9.00am  Mel-O-Toons (until 9.15am)

11.40am  Polaris- The Secret World

12.35pm  Weather



  Christmas Sunday 26th December 1971

  ITV London

11.00am  Morning Service

12.05pm  The Sky's the Limit with Hughie Green

12.30pm  Film : Heidi starring Shirley Temple, Jean Hersholt

  2.00pm  Queen's Hall Circus

  2.45pm  Film : Oklahoma !  with Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Rod Steiger, Gloria Grahame, 
                Gene Nelson, Eddie Albert

  5.15pm  The Golden Shot hosted by Bob Mobkhouse with guests Des O'Connor, Mary Hopkin

  6.05pm  News

  6.15pm  A Play for Sunday: The Crib starring Janet Key, Jenny Twigge, Ray Lonnen

  7.00pm  Stars on Christmas Sunday with Petula Clark, The Beverley Sisters, Beryl Reid, The Poole Family
                Shirley Bassey, Hughie Green, Bobby Bennett


  7.25pm  On the Buses  Boxing Day Social

  7.55pm  Film : How to Steal a Million with Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole

  9.55pm  News

10.10pm  Who Killed Santa Claus with Barbara Murray, Robert Hardy, Carolyn Seymour
                Lyndon Brook, Peter Bowles


11.25pm  It Matters to Me

11.35pm  Closedown

  ITV Yorkshire (as ITV London except)

  9.30am  Bugs Bunny

  9.40am  Out of the Shadow of the Sun

10.30am  Wendy and Me (b&w) (until 11.00)

12.00       Film : Heidi

  1.35pm  Happy Sounds (until 2.00)

10.35pm  Film : High Society

12.30pm  The World of Whicker

  1.00am  Weather



  Boxing Day Monday 27th December 1971

  ITV London

  9.05am  Happy Sounds with Ray Fell, Bryan Burdon, Julie Rogers

  9.30am  The Adventures of Rupert Bear  Rupert and the Crackerjack

  9.45am  Atom Ant cartoons
10.05am  Superman cartoon

10.25am  Lost in Space    The Flaming Planet

11.25am  Till I End My Song

12.20pm  Bank Holiday Racing

  2.15pm  Hey! Cinderella with Belinda Montgomery, Robin Ward

  3.10pm  Film : Courage of Lassie  with Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Morgan

  4.55pm  It's Ken Goodwin with Elaine Delmar, The Black Abbotts

  5.40pm  News and Sports Results

  5.55pm  Laurel and Hardy

  6.00pm  Opportunity Knocks! with Hughie Green

  6.45pm  For the Love of Ada starring Irene Handl, Wilfred Pickles

  7.30pm  Coronation Street

  8.00pm  Film : To Catch a Thief  starring Cary Grant, Grace Kelly

10.00pm  News at Ten

10.15pm  Another Edward Woodward Hour 
                guests Margaret Lockwood, Peter Jones, Julia Lockwood, Russell Hunter

11.15pm  Dowager in Hot Pants

12.10am  (approx) Outlook '72 with Allan Hargreaves, Richard Hall

12.20am  (approx) Closedown


  ITV Yorkshire (as ITV London except)

   9.05am  Pinky and Perky

   9.15am  The Sounds of Summer

 10.05am  Alice in Wonderland  cartoon

 10.55am  One Man Alone

 11.50am  The Bungaloos (until 12.00)

  2.15pm  The Mysterious Lighthouse

  3.15pm  Film : Ivanhoe starring Robert Taylor (until 4.55pm)

  5.55pm  Sylvester (until 6.00)

11.15pm  The Disappearing World

12.00       All Our Yesterdays

12.30pm  Weather


  Bank Holiday Tuesday 28th December 1971

  ITV Thames

  9.55am  The Ugly Duckling

10.15am  Bugs Bunny

10.40am  The Flintstones  The Long,Long Weekend

11.05am  Out of School

12.00       Tale of a Tower

12.25pm  Skippy Luna Park

  1.15pm  Toolbox (b&w) Floors and Ceilings

  1.45pm  Film : Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964)  with Paul Mantee, Adam West

  3.40pm  Pinky and Perky  Guide to the Stars

  3.55pm  Yoga for Health

  4.25pm  The Charlie Brown Show  It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

  4.55pm  Junior Showtime

  5.20pm  Magpie

  5.50pm  News

  6.00pm  F Troop Miss Parmenter

  6.35pm  Crossroads

  7.00pm  Mike and Bernie To Russia, With Love

  7.30pm  Film : The Train (1964) with Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau

10.00pm  News at Ten

10.30pm  Two of a Kind  documentary with Douglas Bader and Marilyn Gillies

11.05pm  Drive-In with Shaw Taylor

11.35pm  Outlook '72
 
  Yorkshire (as Thames except)

  9.55am  no programmes

12.50pm  Sean the Leprechaun

  1.05pm  Vortex

  2.00pm  Adventure in Rainbow Country

  2.35pm  Film : Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1965) starring Maureen O'Hara

  4.30pm  Survival (until 4.55pm)

  6.05pm  The Candidate  with Milton Berle, Ruth Roman and Dina Merrill (until 7.00pm)

11.05pm  Film : The Strange World of Planet X (1958)

12.30am  Weather