Christmas Eve Thursday 24th December 1970
BBC1 10.00am Shetland Pony (b&w) The life story of one of the toughest little horses in the world-filmed over several years in its native islands in the far north of Scotland. As ponies for children, circus performers and once as pit-ponies the breed is now valued throughout the world. Narrated by Tom Fleming 10.30am 4472- Flying Scotsman (repeat) Another chance to see this unique film of the Flying Scotsman's dramatic non-stop run from London to Edinburgh. It was 40 years from the day of its first non-stop run that this famous old engine, now privately owned by Alan Pegler , took some 300 railway enthusiasts on a never-to-be- repeated journey. 11.10am Tom and Jerry Mice Follies 11.15am On Top of the World international ice champions entertain at the Queens Ice Club London 12.00 Movin' Along with Andy Williams and his star guests Burt Bacharach , Diahann Carroll Roy Clark , Jose Feliciano, Lome Greene , Liza Minnelll and Bill Medley 12.50pm A Spoonful of Sugar from The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital in Oswestry with Michael Aspel and Sheila Tracy 1.30pm Watch with Mother : The Herbs 1.45pm News, Weatherman Bert Foord 1.50pm Hansel and Gretel A puppet version of the famous fairytale 3.00pm Play School 3.15pm Jackanory with John Bird, Paddington's Christmas from More About Paddington 3.30pm Film : Misty (1961) with David Ladd and Arthur O' Connell 4.55pm Blue Peter with Valerie Singleton John Noakes , Peter Purves 5.20pm Scooby-Doo, Where Are You ? 5.44pm The Magic Roundabout Pancakes When Dougal starts cooking there are plenty of offers of help from his friends 5.50pm National News and Weather 6.00pm Regional News 6.15pm Tomorrow's World Raymond Baxter introduces a special edition in which you can see how the ideas, inventions, and discoveries of today may brighten your Christmas tomorrow ... and the New Year 6.45pm Joy to the World A musical film based on the popular carols of Christmas with each piece of music illustrating a different aspect of the season: from the freezing of the Thames in 1684 to the commercialisation of Christmas in 1970 7.30pm The Cliff Richard Show A Christmas Eve Special starring Cliff Richard, Una Stubbs, Hank Marvin and Olivia Newton-John 8.20pm The Gang Show Gala with Peter Sellers, Dick Emery, Graham Stark, Cardew Robinson, Reg Dixon and David Lodge 9.00pm The Nine O'Clock News with Kenneth Kendall, Weather 9.20pm Play of the Month: Five Finger Exercise with Margaret Lockwood, Paul Rogers 10.50pm Just Pet starring Petula Clark accompanied by Johnny Harris and the Orchestra 11.40pm A Story for Christmas John Slater reads The Gift of the Magi 11.50pm First Communion of Christmas from Worcester Cathedral 1.05am Closedown Christmas Day Friday 25th December 1970 BBC1 9.00pm Christmas Carols with the Wandsworth School choir 9.30pm Basil's Christmas Morning with Basil Brush and Derek Fowlds 10.00pm Christmas Crackers a cartoon parade with Michael Aspel 10.25pm News Summary and Weather 10.30pm A Family Service from Netherlee Parish Church, Glasgow 11.40pm A Christmas Appeal by Alvar Lidell on behalf of the Wireless for the Blind Fund 11.45pm Rolf Harris: Meet the Kids in hospital this Christmas 12.35pm The Story of the Silver Skates a musical starring Eleanor Parker, Richard Baseheart 2.15pm Top of the Pops 70 introduced by Jimmy Savile and Tony Blackburn 3.00pm The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth and introduces a special Christmas Day film 3.25pm Billy Smart's Circus Spectacular 4.30pm Disney Time with Harry Worth Special features include: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, That Darn Cat, Smoke, Jungle Book, The Aristocats, Charlie the Lonesome Cougar 5.10pm Robinson Crusoe BBC Television's Christmas pantomime 6.40pm The Main News with Kenneth Kendall Weather 6.45pm Christmas Night with the Stars introduced by Cilla Black, featuring Bob Hope, Mary Hopkin, Graham Kerr, Jerry Lewis, Nana Mouskouri, Clodagh Rodgers, Frank Sinatra, Jack Warner, Dad's Army, Stanley Baxter, Dick Emery, Bachelor Father,Terry Scott and June Whitfield 8.15pm The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show A laughter-packed holiday special with a star-studded array of guests. Peter Cushing , William Franklyn Nina, Eric Porter Edward Woodward, Kenny Ball & his Jazzmen 9.15pm Film : Charade (1963) starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn 11.00pm The Good Old Days starring Danny La Rue 11.50pm But Seriously... Joyce Grenfell, Cyril Fletcher, Ernie Wise At the end of another Christmas Day three entertainers explain what the story of the Nativity means to them. 12.00 Closedown Boxing Day Saturday 26th December 1970 BBC1 9.45am Ken Dodd and The Diddymen in His Doddyness the Mayor 9.55am News, Weatherman Jack Scott 10.00am Banana Splits 10.40am Film : The Son of Robin Hood (1958) starring Al Hedison and June Laverick 12.00 Boxing Day Grandstand featuring Racing from Kempton Park (12.05 Football Preview, 12.15 Rugby League:Leeds v Castleford, 12.55, 1.20, 1.50 Racing from Kempton Park, 1.40, 2.10 Motor Racing from Lydden) 2.25pm It's a Knock-Out! for the BBC Boxing Day Challenge Trophy Great Britain v Holland from Leiden, Holland 3.15pm Cartoon Capers Donald Duck and Tom and Jerry 3.30pm Top of the Pops '70 A special Boxing Day edition featuring hits of 1970 introduced by Jimmy Savile and Tony Blackburn 4.15pm The Virginian With Help from Ulysses 5.30pm The News and Sports Results; Weather 5.45pm The Black and White Minstrel Show Christmas Special A new Television Spectacular starring The Mitchell Minstrels Guest stars Leslie Crowther Jimmy Jewell , George Chisholm 6.30pm Dixon of Dock Green The Lags' Brigade starring Jack Warner 7.15pm The Rolf Harris Show starring Rolf Harris in a programme recorded in Germany and including a visit to the ancient city of Rothenburg with The Young Generation 8.05pm Film : North West Frontier (1959) starring Kenneth Moore, Lauren Bacall 10.10pm News with Richard Baker, Weather 10.20pm Sinatra Sings at the Royal Festival Hall Introduced by HRH The Princess Grace of Monaco 11.10pm Match of the Day Two First Division matches; the December ' Goal of the Month' parade; top news and views from the holiday fixture list. 12.00 Weatherman, Closedown Sunday 27th December 1970 BBC1 9.00am Nai Zindagi- Naya Jeevan (b&w) A magazine for viewers from Pakistan and India including discussions, review of recent news, music and, stories from the communities 9.30am Closedown 10.30am Sung Mass from from the Roman Catholic Church of St Augustine, Manchester 11.30am Closedown 12.45pm Weather 12.50pm Film : Blockheads (1938) starring Laurel and Hardy 1.45pm The Great Unknown Grand Canyon by kayak and raft, John Wesley Powell 2.35pm Golden Silents The King of Comedy The first of two special programmes on Mack Sennett introduced by Michael Bentine 3.00pm Wide World of Entertainment A kaleidoscope of international performances introduced by Michael Aspel 3.50pm Film : The Jolson Story (1946) starring Larry Parks 5.55pm Ken Dodd and The Diddymen in "Harry Cott , Superman" 6.05pm News, Weatherman Jack Scott 6.15pm Malcolm Muggeridge asks The Question Why A topical programme which questions the issues behind the news 6.50pm Songs of Praise for Christmastide from the Ulster Hall, Belfast Introduced by Edgar Boucher (b&w) 7.25pm Dr Finlay's Casebook A Question of Values 8.15pm Film : Shenandoah (1965) starring James Stewart 9.55pm News with Richard Baker, Weather 10.10pm Omnibus presents I Regret Nothing a musical biography of Edith Piaf 11.25pm Weatherman (b&w), Closedown Bank Holiday Monday 28th December 1970 BBC1 9.50am The Spanish Riding School of Vienna The world-famous white stallions in a spectacular and varied programme showing the beauty of supreme horsemanship 10.30am The Longest Drive in the World introduced by Maxwell Boyd The Daily Mirror World Cup Rally from London to Mexico was the longest, roughest, richest event of its kind in the history of motor sport. Ninety-six cars set out from Wembley Stadium. Six weeks and 16,000 miles later, 23 dented, dirt-covered survivors reached the Aztec Stadium in Mexico City with a British Ford Escort driven by Hannu Mikkola and Gunnar Palm outright winners of the £10,000 first prize. 11.20am The Silent World of Jacques Cousteau The Silent World is the most spectacular underwater film ever made. The combined talents of Jacques-Yves Cousteau and his divers, cameraman Edmond Sechan and Louis Malle produced this remarkable and subtly poetic picture of life on the ocean bed 12.40pm Golden Silents The King of Comedy The second of two special programmes on Mack Sennett 1.05pm Grandstand (1.30 & 2.00Racing from Kempton Park, 2.30 racing from Fairyhouse) 2.55pm The Quiet Stars A non-stop feast of free skating featuring International Ice Skating Stars of today and tomorrow. 3.45pm Jackanory with Alan Bennett Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A.Milne 4.00pm The Magic Roundabout 4.05pm Film : A Hard Day's Night (1964) starring the Beatles 5.30pm News, Weatherman Bert Foord 5.40pm Tom and Jerry Tom's Photo Finish 5.45pm Ask the Family introduced by Robert Robinson 6.05pm The Spinners with Esther Ofarim 6.35pm Not in Front of the Children No Man at the Helm 7.05pm The Coward Revue a tribute to Noel Coward 8.00pm A Year to Remember ? Panorama reviews 1970 9.00pm The Nine O'Clock News Robert Dougall Weather 9.15pm The Jack Benny Show Jack Benny stars with Frank Sinatra , Bob Hope and Dinah Shore in Jack Benny 's 20th Anniversary Show 10.05pm Film : On the Waterfront (1954) starring Marlon Brando 11.50pm Weatherman (b&w) 11.52pm Regional News Headlines; Weather | Christmas Eve Thursday 24th December 1970 BBC2 11.15am Play School Today's story is "The Twelve Days of Christmas" 11.35am Closedown 4.55pm Christmas on 2 preview A look at some of the programmes over the Christmas holiday 5.00pm The Edwin Hawkins Singers A recording of their concert for the Lanchester Arts Festival from Coventry Cathedral earlier this year. 5.50pm Film : Heaven Knows, Mr Allison (1957) with Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum 7.30pm Newsroom with Peter Woods, Weather 8.00pm Oisin hero of ancient Irish mythology 8.20pm Choir Practice musical play by Elwyn Jones and John Lloyd 9.20pm Mantovani and his Concert Orchestra 10.05pm An Evening with Sir John Betjeman His choice of poetry and prose with Prunella Scales given before an invited audience at the Collegiate Theatre, London 10.35pm News on 2, Weather 11.00pm Film : Under Capricorn (1949) starring Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotten Christmas Day Friday 25th December 1970 BBC2 10.30am Play School Science Day Today: "The Christmas Story" 11.00am Closedown 1.30pm Film : Sammy Going South (1963) with Edward G Robinson 3.25pm The Royal Ballet in Cinderella Music by Serge Prokofiev 5.10pm The Great Inimitable Mr Dickens A biography of Charles Dickens based on scenes from his novels 6.40pm It's a Terrible Waste of an Egg An Edwardian After-Dinner Christmas Entertainment with Dudley Foster 7.10pm Julian Bream Britain's most prominent concert guitarist plays Bach, Diabelli and Villa-Lobos 7.20pm The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth and introduces a special Christmas Day film. 7.44pm News Summary 7.45pm Whom God Hath Joined by Arnold Bennett 9.15pm Bird's-Eye View from Bishop Rock to Muckle Flugga, an aerial journey of some of Britain's 400 islands 10.05pm Thirty-Minute Theatre: Waugh on Crime by Arden Winch part 4 : In Which Inspector Waugh Observes the Truth of an Old Music-Hall Song 10.35pm News on 2 Weather 10.40pm The Pentangle songs from a country church 11.00pm Film : Kiss Me Kate (1953) with Kathryn Grayson and Howard Keel Boxing Day Saturday 26th December 1970 BBC2 1.30pm Cucumber Castle A medieval musical starring The Bee Gees with Eleanor Bron, Pat Coombs and Julian Orchard and special guest stars Blind Faith Frankie Howerd , Lulu Spike Milligan , Vincent Price 2.25pm Siberia to Severnside Wild Swans and Polar Bears 3.15pm Film : The Constant Husband (1955) starring Rex Harrison 4.40pm It's Nice to Remember with Nana Monskouri and The Athenians Special guest stars Margot Fonteyn 5.30pm The Rubbish Olympics or How to Keep Pretoria Clean 5.55pm Take It or Leave It 6.25pm News on 2, Weather 6.30pm "Wilton's" the Handsomest Hall in Town, An evening at Wilton's Musio-Hall, Grace's Alley, Wellclose Square, London. 1860 starring Peter Sellers , Spike Milligan, Keith Michell , Pat Kirkwood Warren Mitchell , Ronnie Barker, Bill Fraser, Gina Astralita Eric Robinson. Introduced by Billy Russen Tonight, 90 years after it closed, this famous Music Hall opens again to bring you a picture of the stars, the singers.the dancers, and the people who once went there. 7.15pm To Build a Fire the Klondike in 1898 8.05pm Tales of Hoffmann by Jaques Offenbach Libretto based on the English version by Edward Agate with Geraint Evans , Elizabeth Harwood and Michel Molese 10.20pm The Roads to Freedom by Jean-Paul Sartre: a second chance to see this dramatisation in 13 parts by David Turner starring Michael Bryant, Daniel Massey 11.05pm News on 2, Weather 11.10pm Film : Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) with Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis Sunday 27th December 1970 BBC2 7.00pm News Review The best of the week's news film from all over the world, together with other subjects of interest Weather 7.25pm Rowan and Martin invite you to their Laugh-In 8.15pm The World About Us The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau Tragedy of the Red Salmon 9.05pm Music on 2 Profile in Music Montserrat Caballe 10.20pm The Roads to Freedom by Jean-Paul Sartre dramatised in 13 parts by David Turner starring Michael Bryant 13/13 10.55pm Michael Flanders and Donald Swann in At the Drop of Another Hat 11.40pm News on 2 Weather Bank Holiday Monday 28th December 1970 BBC2 11.00am Play School Useful Box Day Today's story is "Angelo" 11.20am Closedown 5.30pm Film : The Alamo (1960) starring John Wayne , Richard Widmark 6.50pm News on 2 and Weather 7.00pm Film : The Alamo (1960) continued 8.25pm Romeo and Juliet A ballet danced to the music of the Fantasy Overture by Tchaikovsky with Natalia Bessmertnova and Mikhail Lavrovsky and artists of the Bolshoi Ballet (Repeat) 8.45pm Call My Bluff A duel of words and wit between Frank Muir, Katharine Whitehorn, Graham Hill and Geoffrey Wheeler, Wendy Craig, Ian Wallace Referee Robert Robinson 9.15pm Horizon : The Gargantuan Triumph of Science story of the Tay Bridge 10.05pm Tom Paxton in Concert 10.35pm News on 2 and Weather 10.40pm Line-up 70 A look back at a year's Line-Ups with, among others, Norman Mailer , Barbara Castle , Sir Laurence Olivier, Gore Vidal , John Osborne, Pink Floyd |
