Monday 22 December 2014

TV Times Christmas Cover 1982 - What Was On

Christmas Eve Friday 24th December 1982

  ITV London

  9.30am  Sesame Street

10.30am  A Handful of Songs

10.40am  Once Upon a Time

10.55am  The Dollar Bottom  starring Robert Urquhart

11.30am  A Christmas Treat  read by Edna O'Brien

12.00       Aldabra-Island of Giant Tortoises

  1.00pm  News at One

  1.20pm  Thames News

  1.30pm  The Journey 

  2.00pm  We Six Kings  The King's Singers from Nostell Priory

  2.30pm  Film : Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood

  4.15pm  Strawberry Ice  spectacular fantasy on ice

  5.15pm  The Goodies Christmas Special  Snow White part 2

  5.45pm  ITN News

  6.00pm  Thames Weekend News

  6.15pm  Cartoon Time

  6.30pm  Punchlines! with Lennie Bennett

  7.00pm  A Christmas Lantern  with Cliff Richard, Una Stubbs, Robert Hardy,
                Christopher Timothy, Mike Reid and Wayne Sleep


  8.00pm  In Loving Memory  God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
  8.30pm  The Stanley Baxter Hour

  9.30pm  ITN News

  9.45pm  A Christmas Carol  Thea Musgrave operatic version

11.45pm  Watchnight Service  from St Andrew's and St George's Church of Scotland, Edinburgh

12.30am  Closedown

  ITV Yorkshire (as ITV London except)
  1.20pm  Calendar News, Weather

  6.00pm  Calendar, Weather


  Christmas Day Saturday 25th December 1982

  ITV London

  9.00am  Film : Journey Back to Oz  cartoon

10.30am  Christmas Morning Service  from the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady, St John's Wood

11.30am  Film : Enid Blyton's Island of Adventure  with Wilfrid Brambell and Norman Bowler

  1.00pm  Film Fun at Christmas  with Derek Griffiths

  2.00pm  Andy Williams' Christmas Special

  3.00pm  The Queen

  3.05pm  Film : The Parent Trap  starring Hayley Mills, Maureen O'Hara & Brian Keith

  5.25pm  ITN News

  5.35pm  3-2-1  with Ted Rogers

  6.35pm  Game for a Laugh

  7.25pm Bruce Forsyth's Play Your Cards Right

  8.00pm  Film : The Black Hole  starring Maximillian Schell, Anthony Perkins and Robert Forster

  9.50pm  Chas and Dave's Christmas Knees-Up

10.50pm  ITN News

10.55pm  Cleo and John  Cleo Laine and John Dankworth
11.55pm  Christmas at Radio GOSH  at Great Ormond Street Hospital

12.05am  Closedown

  ITV Yorkshire (as ITV London)



  Christmas Sunday 26th December 1982

  ITV London

  9.00am  A Snow White Christmas, animated sequel to the fairy tale

  9.50am  Day of Days, Dr Robert Runcie looks back to the historic Canterbury service with the Pope

10.20am  The Birth of Christ, with Dr John Newton, past-president of the Methodist Conference

10.50am  FILM: The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie

12.30pm  Survival Special: Tiger !, Tiger !

  1.30pm  University Challenge

  2.00pm  Film : Benji, with Edgar Buchanan and Peter Breck

  3.30pm  The Krankies Christmas Club

  4.15pm  The Pyramid Game

  4.45pm  Pop Goes Christmas  with David Essex, Shakin' Stevens, Toyah and many others

  5.40pm  Bullseye

  6.10pm  ITN News

  6.15pm  Children Sing Christmas  introduced by Nanette Newman, from Salisbury Cathedral

  7.15pm  FILM: Bear Island  starring Donald Sutherland, Vanessa Redgrave & Richard Widmark

  9.25pm  Secombe at Christmas  with Gemma Craven and Christopher Gable

10.25pm  ITV News

10.30pm  Rod Stewart- Tonight He's Yours  at the Los Angeles Forum last Christmas

12.10am  Closedown : Peace on Earth  with Barbara Leigh-Hunt

12.20am  Closedown

  ITV Yorkshire (as ITV London except)


12.10am  Five Minutes

12.15am  Closedown


  Boxing Day Monday 27th December 1982

  ITV London

  9.30am  Cockleshell Bay

  9.40am  Rainbow

  9.55am  Stainless Steel and the Star Spies

10.45am  Dangermouse

11.05am  Film : Black Beauty with Mark Lester

  1.00pm  ITN News

  1.05pm  Racing from Kempton (1.10, 1.40, 2.15 races)

  2.30pm  Film : Hollywood : The Gift of Laughter

  5.15pm  ITN News and Sport

  5.30pm  Give Us a Clue, presented by Michael Aspel

  6.00pm  Coronation Street

  6.30pm  The James Bond Film : Moonraker  starring Roger Moore, Richard Kiel and Lois Chiles

  9.00pm  The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show

10.00pm  ITN News

10.15pm  Film : California Suite  starring Michael Caine, Alan Alda, Maggie Smith,
                Walter Matthau, Jane Fonda and Elaine May


12.15am  Closedown : Sit Up & Listen with Barbara Leigh-Hunt

  ITV Yorkshire (as ITV London except)

12.10am  Closedown