Christmas Eve Sunday 24th December 1978
BBC1 9.15am Camberwick Green narrated by Brian Cant 9.30am The Sunday Gang God is with us! The gang discover the real meaning of Christmas 10.00am Nai Zindagi Naya Jeevan magazine for Asian viewers 10.30am Film : Hans Christian Andersen (1952) starring Danny Kaye 12.20pm Sunday Worship because One Child is Born There were many children born that year, but Christmas remembers the birth of only one, Jesus Christ , in Bethlehem 1.00pm News Headlines, Holiday Weatherman 1.05pm Film : Chisum (1970) starring John Wayne 2.55pm The Sleeping Beauty The Royal Ballet's production, from Covent Garden, with Merle Park and David Wall 5.20pm Pinocchio dramatised in four parts, Part 4 5.50pm News with Angela Rippon Weather Jack Scott 6.00pm Dame Margot Fonteyn appeals on behalf of the Samaritans 6.05pm Songs of Praise We wish you a Merry Christmas A choir of almost 500 nurses and doctors, together with families and friends in London's Royal Festival Hall, is linked with the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, and the people of Clare in Suffolk meeting in their Parish Church for this special Christmas Eve programme of favourite carols and hymns 7.15pm All Creatures Great and Small last episode of the series 8.05pm The Sunday Film : El Cid (1961) starring Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren and Geraldine Page 11.00pm News with Angela Rippon Weather 11.10pm André Previn's Christmas Music Night André Previn introduces and conducts the London Symphony Orchestra 11.55pm Christmas Midnight Communion from St Mary's Church, Selly Oak, Birmingham 12.55pm Weatherman/Regional News 1.00am Closedown Christmas Day Monday 25th December 1978 BBC1 8.55am Christmas Carols From Cambridge sung by The Choir of King's College 9.50am The Flumps Where's Grandfather? 10.05am Christmas Day Worship from Knutsford Methodist Church, Cheshire 11.03am Weather Ian McCaskill 11.05am The Spinners at Christmas The Spinners are joined by their audience in festive mood for a seasonal special of music and comedy 11.35am Film : Clambake (1967) starring Elvis Presley Première 1.10pm Holiday on Ice introduced by Brian Matthew 2.00pm Top of the Pops 78 introduced by Noel Edmonds 3.00pm The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth 3.20pm Larry Grayson's Christmas Generation Game special edition for Christmas Day-with lots of surprise guests and seasonal games for the contestants and the family to play at home starring Larry Grayson with Isla St Clair 4.20pm Film : The Sound of Music (1965) starring Julie Andrews Première 7.10pm Evening News with Peter Woods Weather 7.15pm Some Mother's Do 'Ave 'Em 8.00pm The Mike Yarwood Christmas Show special guest stars, the world's most popular singing group Abba with Janet Brown 8.45pm True Grit, a Further Adventure a film specially made for TV 10.20pm News with Peter Woods Weatherman 10.30pm Parkinson at the Pantomime with special guest Arthur Askey 11.35pm A Christmas Ghost Story The Ice House by John Bowen 12.10am Weather 12.15am Closedown Boxing Day Tuesday 26th December 1978 BBC1 9.05am How Do You Do ? Rainy Day 9.30am Buck Rogers in 12 episodes, starring Buster Crabbe as Buck Rogers 3: The Enemy's Stronghold 9.50am The Fantastic Journey Beyond the Mountain 10.35am Film : Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954) with Victor Mature 12.13pm Weather Ian McCaskill 12.15pm Grandstand introduced by Frank Bough (12.15 Rugby League, 1.00 Football Focus, 1.10, 1.40, 2.10 Racing from Kempton Park, 1.25, 1.55 Racing from Wincanton) 2.35pm Disney Time introduced by Paul Daniels 3.25pm It's a Christmas Knockout special festive competition from Villars, Switzerland 4.25pm Jim'll Fix It 5.05pm News with Peter Woods Weatherman 5.15pm Sport/Regional News 5.20pm Film : Walt Disney's The Boatniks (1970) with Robert Morse and Phil Silvers 7.00pm Are You Being Served ? Happy Returns 7.30pm Mastermind Final 8.05pm The Two Ronnies starring Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker and their guests The Manhattan Transfer 8.50pm News with Peter Woods Weather 9.00pm Film : The French Connection (1971) starring Gene Hackman 10.40pm Last of the Summer Wine Small Tune On a Penny Wassail 11.10pm Boxing Night at the Mill with Norman Wisdom and Libby Morris 12.00am Weatherman/Regional News 12.15am Closedown | Christmas Eve Sunday 24th December 1978 BBC2 12.15pm Leonard Bernstein at Harvard The Unanswered Question Continuing this series of six lectures given by Leonard Bernstein. 3: Musical Semantics 2.40pm Simple Faith ? 2.55pm Christmas Matinée : Custer of the West (1967) starring Robert Shaw, Mary Ure, Jeffrey Hunter, Ty Hardin 5.10pm Rugby Special The South v Edinburgh 6.05pm The Light Princess a fairy tale by George MacDonald 7.15pm The World About Us The Spell of the Orchid 8.05pm Christmas Carols from Cambridge sung by The Choir of King's College readings by Sir John Gielgud 9.00pm News on Two, Weather 9.05pm Petticoat Lane a new musical for Christmas by Cicely Herbert and Jim Parker, with Sheila Hancock, Freddie Jones and Alfred Marks 10.05pm The Old Grey Whistle Test 10cc in a special Christmas concert recorded earlier this week at the Wembley Conference Centre. 11.00pm Fred and Ginger in : Follow the Fleet (1936) starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers 12.45am- 12.55am Closedown Peter Wilson talks about Piero Della Francesco's The Nativity Christmas Day Monday 25th December 1978 BBC2 11.05am Play School Story: The Fox and the Tomten 11.30am Closedown 2.30pm Sounds of Christmas The Goldsmiths Choral Union at the Royal Albert Hall in the presence of HRH The Princess Anne 3.20pm The Snow Queen a fairytale for television 4.20pm Christmas Matinée : Dersu Uzala (1975) Russian film with English subtitles Première 6.35pm Magoo on 2 Perils of Magoo 6.40pm Baker on Board Richard Baker joins a Royal Navy Taskforce in the Pacific 7.15pm The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth 7.35pm Anne Hughes Her Boke, in wiche I Write what I Doe, When I Have thee Tyme The Diary of an 18th Century Farmer's Wife, starring Elin Jenkins, Barry Jackson and Joanne Pearce 8.35pm News on 2, Weather 8.45pm The Count of Luxembourg by Lehár, an Austrian production, with Eberhard Wachter 10.20pm The King's Singers traditional carols and music 10.50pm Fred and Ginger in : Swing Time (1936) starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers 12.30am Late Night Story third of five horror stories on the theme of childhood. Read by Tom Baker, tonight The Emissary by Ray Bradbury 12.50am Closedown Boxing Day Tuesday 26th December 1978 BBC2 11.00am Play School Story: The Pantomime 11.25am Closedown 1.45pm Christmas Matinée : Hatari! (1962) starring John Wayne 4.20pm My Kind of Movie Clive James chooses High Noon 4.25pm Home from the Sea the Ark Royal's final return to Plymouth 4.55pm And Now the Good News... Richard Stilgoe invites you to see again some of the highlights from his recent series, in which he has been taking an optimistic look at the news and events of the last two months of the year 5.20pm It's Today musical entertainment from Derek Griffiths 6.00pm The Schools Prom from the Royal Albert Hall 6.50pm News on 2 , Weather 7.00pm Verse, Worse and Baby Grand music and humour 7.30pm TV Film : The Gathering starring Edward Asner, Maureen Stapleton 9.00pm Hinge and Bracket A Gala Evening from the Royal Hall at Harrogate with Dr Evadne Hinge & Dame Hilda Bracket 9.45pm Don McLean and Friends in Concert with The Jordanaires and Elkie Brooks 10.35pm Late News, Weather 10.40pm Fred and Ginger in : Carefree (1938) starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers 12.00 Late Night Story The fourth of five horror stories on the theme of childhood. Read by Tom Baker Tonight, Nursery Tea by Mary Danby 12.20am Closedown |
