Christmas Eve Thursday 24th December 1970
ITV London
9.45am Origami
Robert Harbin demonstrates the ancient Japanese art of paper folding
9.55am Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
10.45am It's a Dog's
World
11.35am Film :
Virginia City starring Randolph Scott, Errol Flynn, Humphrey Bogart
1.45pm Timeslip
2.15pm Junior Showtime Christmas Party
3.00pm Crossroads
3.25pm Film : The Sundowners starring Deborah Kerr,
Robert Mitchum, Peter Ustinov
5.50pm News
6.00pm This is Tom Jones
7.00pm Nearest and Dearest Compliments of the Season
Christmas . . . the time for the loved ones to be gathered together. . .
.
7.30pm Film : Invitation to a Gunfighter starring Yul Brynner, George Segal, Janice
Rule
9.10pm Carry On Again Christmas Carry On Long John
10.10pm News from ITN
10.25pm Christmas Eve
at the Golden Garter
11.25pm Take One
Swann
11.50pm Concelebrated
Christmas Mass from St Gregory the Great, Seacroft, Leeds
12.45am Weather and
Closedown
ITV Yorkshire (as
ITV London except)
10.00am Origami with
Robert Harmin
10.15am Survival The
Island That Came Back to Life
10.45am Film :
Tarzan's Desert Mystery starring Johnny Weissmuller
12.00 A
Christmas Carol (b&w)
1.00pm Adventure in Rainbow Country
1.30pm Film : Clarence the Cross-Eyed Lion
3.00pm Junior Showtime Christmas Party
3.45pm Film : The Three Musketeers starring Gene
Kelly, June Allyson, Vincent Price (until 5.50pm)
11.25pm Carols in
Kirkgate (until 11.50pm)
Christmas Day Friday
25th December 1970
ITV London
8.15am Sing a Song of Christmas
9.00am Anita in Jumbleland with Anita Harris
It's
Christmas Day in Jumbleland and among the junk Anita and the
kids
discover a Christmas tree, a sleigh and surprise! surprise!
- a
present for Anita herself
9.15am Parish Communion from the Cathedral and Abbey
Church of St Alban
10.15am Christmas
Cinema with Michael Parkinson
11.00am A Merry
Morning with Leslie Crowther
11.30am Film :
Tarzan's Peril starring Lex Barker
1.00pm Kelvin Hall Circus
2.00pm A Gift from Gracie The Bachelors, Gracie
Fields, Bruce Forsyth, Harry Secombe,
Mike
and Bernie Winters
3.00pm The Queen
3.20pm Film : The Incredible Mr Limpet comedy
cartoon musical
4.45pm Cinderella with Dickie Henderson, Vince Hill,
Jack Douglas, Lionel Blair, Susan George
5.50pm News
6.00pm All Star Comedy Carnival
8.30pm On the Buses Christmas Duty
9.00pm The Val Doonican Show with guests Sandie
Shaw, Ronnie Corbett,
Flanders and Swann, Stephane Grapelli
10.00pm News at Ten
10.20pm Film :
Hush...Hush Sweet Charlotte starring Bette Davis
12.40am Church and
Fashion
ITV Yorkshire (as
ITV London except)
11.30am Film : Sands
of the Desert with Charlie Drake (until
1.00pm)
3.20pm Film : Tommy the Toreador starring Tommy Steele (until 4.45pm)
10.15pm Film : A High
Wind in Jamaica starring Anthony Quinn and James Coburn
12.10am Weather and
Closedown
Boxing Day Saturday
26th December 1970
ITV London
9.05am RAC Road Report
9.10am The Wind in the Willows
9.20am A Christmas Carol (b&w) Part One
10.10am Stewpot
10.55am Film : Tarzan
and the Amazons starring Johnny
Weissmuller
12.15am Shari's Show
12.45pm News
12.50pm World of
Sport (12.55 On the Ball, 1.20 They`re Off!
1.30,
2.00, 2.30, 3.00 Racing from Wolverhampton, 1.45, 2.15, 2.45 Racing from
Wetherby,
3.10
International Sports Special: the Year of Pele, 3.55 Results, Scores, News,
4.00
Wrestling, 4.55 Results Service)
5.10pm News
5.15pm The Beverly Hillbillies
5.45pm Pippa
film of Joy Adamson's cheetah
6.45pm Holiday Startime Maggie Fitzgibbon with guest
Peter Cook, also starring Les Dawson, Max Jaffa,
Vincent Price, Reg Varney, Thora Hird, Arthur Lowe, Ted Ray, The Bee
Gees, Kenny Ball,
Chris
Barber, Acker Bilk
8.00pm Petula
with
Peggy Lee, The Everly Brothers
David
Frost and guest star Dean Martin
9.00pm It's Tarbuck
Jimmy
Tarbuck with Peter Gordeno
Kenny Lynch and guest stars
Frankie Vaughan, Lulu, Jack Parnell and his Orchestra
9.30pm News
9.45pm Film : The Hound of the Baskervilles starring
Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee
11.15pm Aquarius
12.00 Church and
Fashion
ITV Yorkshire (as
ITV London except)
9.00am Diane's Magic Theatre
9.15am Land of the Giants
10.10am It Couldn't
Be Done
10.55am A Tale of Two
Puppies
11.45am Shari's Show
12.15pm Whicker's
Christmas (until 12.45pm)
5.15pm Film : Rhino! starring Harry Guardino, Robert
Culp, Shirley Eaton (until 6.45pm)
9.40pm Film : Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte starring
Bette Davis, Joseph Cotten, Olivia De Havilland
(until
11.55pm)
11.55pm A Reading at
Christmas
12.00 Weather
and Closedown
Sunday 27th December
1970
ITV London
11.00am The Morning
Service from Stowmarket Congregational Church, Suffolk
12.10pm Closedown
1.00pm A Christmas Carol Part Two
''Good
spirit, intercede for me,'' begged Scrooge, ''for I will honour Christmas in my
heart,
I will
live in the past, the present and the future. Oh tell me it is not too late.''
But as
Scrooge said these words, he saw an alteration in the phantom's hood and dress.
It
shrank, collapsed and dwindled down into a bedpost.
1.25pm Granny Gets the Point
1.45pm All Our Yesterdays
2.15pm University Challenge
2.45pm The Big Match
3.45pm Bonanza : Queen High
4.45pm The Golden Shot with Bob Monkhouse, Anita
Harris, Ken Dodd, Freddie Davis, Vince Hill,
Yutte
Stensgard, Anne Aston
5.35pm Whicker's Christmas
6.05pm News
6.15pm Hot Seat
Lord Soper
6.35pm Turn of the Year
6.55pm Give at Seven
7.00pm A Hymn for Children
7.25pm Please Sir!
And Everyone Came Too
7.55pm Film : The Hunchback of Notre-Dame starring
Charles Laughton
10.00pm News
10.15pm Sunday Night
Theatre The Policeman and the Cook with
Michael Crawford
11.15pm This is Tom
Jones
12.10am Church and
Fashion
ITV Yorkshire (as
ITV London except)
1.00pm Hey! Cinderella starring Belinda Montgomery,
Robin Ward
1.50pm Farming Diary
2.20pm Soccer
3.15pm Film : The Naked Truth starring Terry-Thomas and Peter Sellers
(until 4.45pm)
5.35pm Flipper Flipper's Treasure (until 6.05pm)
7.55pm The Big Film : East of Eden starring Julie Harris, James Dean, Raymond
Massey (until 10.00pm)
12.15am A Reading at
Christmas with Sir Bernard Miles
12.25am Weather and
Closedown
Bank Holiday Monday
28th 1970
Thames
10.00am Anita in
Jumbleland with Anita Harris
10.10am The Bugs
Bunny Show
10.30am Flipper
10.55am Laurel and
Hardy cartoon
11.05am Robin Hood
(b&w)
11.30am Royal Family
1.20pm Racing from Wolverhampton
3.10pm Film : Gay Purr-ee (1962)
4.10pm Charlie Brown's Christmas
4.35pm Crossroads
5.00pm Film : Worm's Eye View (1951) with Ronald Shiner & Garry Marsh
5.45pm News, Sport
6.00pm Film : Worm's Eye View (1951) (continued)
6.45pm David Nixon's Magic Box with David Nixon,
Anita Harris, The New World, Margo Henderson,
Chung Chin Foo, Howard Peters
7.30pm Coronation Street
8.00pm Mr Digby Darling with Sheila Hancock, Peter
Jones, Michael Bates
8.30pm Film : Lord Jim (1965) starring Peter O'Toole
10.00pm News at Ten
10.30pm Film : Lord
Jim (1965) (continued)
11.50pm Outlook '71
Yorkshire (as Thames
except)
10.15am Phoenix
Five Two Into One Won't Go
10.45am Film :
Blackbeard the Pirate (1952) with Robert Newton, Linda Darnell, Keith Andes,
Torin
Thatcher, William Bendix
12.25pm The
Rovers The Expert
12.50pm Timeslip Episode 14
The
Year of the Burn-Up
3.10pm The Fastest Man on Earth (until 4.10pm)
4.40pm Cartoon Christmas
Two
cartoons for the festive season - the stories of Aladdin and Pinocchio
4.55pm Film : Courage of Lassie (1946) with
Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Morgan, Tom Drake
5.45pm News and Sports Results
6.00pm Film : Courage of Lassie (1946) (continued)
(until 6.45pm)
12.00 A Reading
at Christmas
12.10am Weather and
Closedown