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| | BBC1 COLOUR 9.00am Christmas Carols 9.30 Basil's Christmas Morning with Basil Brush and Derek Fowlds 10.00 Christmas Crackers A cartoon parade with Michael Aspel 10.25 News Summary 10.30 A Family Service 11.40 A Christmas Appeal by Alvar Lidell on behalf of the Wireless for the Blind Fund 11.45 Rolf Harris: Meet the Kids in hospital this Christmas 12.35pm FILM: The Story of the Silver Skates 2.15 Top of the Pops 70 3.00 The Queen 3.25 Billy Smart's Circus Spectacular 4.30 Disney Time with Harry Worth 5.10 Robinson Crusoe starring Ken Dodd, with Lyn Kennington, Peter Glaze, Arthur Mullard 6.40 The Main News 6.45 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 
| 8.15 The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show 9.15 FILM: Charade 11.00 The Good Old Days 11.50-12.00 But Seriously... with Joyce Grenfell, Cyril Fletcher, Ernie Wise
BBC2 COLOUR 10.30am-11.00 Play School 1.30pm FILM: Sammy Going South 3.25 The Royal Ballet in Cinderella 5.10 The Great Inimitable Dickens starring Anthony Hopkins as Dickens 6.40 It's a Terrible Waste of an Egg Magic with Dudley Foster 7.10 Julian Bream 7.20 The Queen 7.44 News Summary 7.45 Whom God Hath Joined 9.15 Bird's-Eye View From Bishop Rock to Muckle Flugga An aerial journey of some of Britain's 400 islands 10.05 Thirty Minute Theatre: Waugh on Crime 10.35 News on 2 10.40 The Pentangle Songs from a country church 11.00 FILM: Kiss Me Kate |
| | BBC1 COLOUR 9.00am This is Christmas Morning 9.30 Aspel's Christmas Crackers Michael Aspel introduces cartoons and a sequence from The Tales of Beatrix Potter 10.25 News Summary 10.30 A Family Service 11.30 The Order of St John A Christmas Appeal on behalf of the Order of Chivalry 11.35 The Basil Brush Show Basil in Pantoland, featuring Derek Fowlds 12.00 Rolf Harris: Meet the Kids from Queen Mary's Hospital for Children, Carshalton, Surrey 12.50pm Ken Dodd introduces We Want to Sing 1.15 Bruce Forsyth and the Generation Game 2.15 Top of the Pops 71 introduced by Jimmy Savile 3.00 The Queen 3.10 Billy Smart's Christmas Circus 
4.15 The Black and White Minstrel Show 5.00 Aladdin starring Cilla Black, with Alfred Marks, Roy Castle and Norman Vaughan 6.30 News 6.40 Christmas Night with the Stars introduced by Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker, featuring Englebert Humperdink, Lulu, Vera Lynn, Harry Secombe, The New Seekers, Till Death Us Do Part, Bachelor Father, Dick Emery, A Policeman's Lot with Eric Sykes, Look Mike Yarwood, The Young Generation | 8.00 The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show featuring Shirley Bassey, Glenda Jackson, Andre Previn 
9.05 FILM: Arabesque 10.45 The Good Old Days 11.35 The Countryman at Christmas 11.55-12.00 Reflection
BBC2 COLOUR 10.30am Play School 10.55-11.20 How the Grinch Stole Christmas 2.15pm Christmas on 2 2.20 The Man Who Loves Giants 3.10 The Royal Ballet in La Fille Mal Gardee 4.50 The Queen 5.00 I Can See It All More magic from Dudley Foster 5.30 FILM: A Distant Trumpet 7.20 News on 2 7.25 FILM: The Barretts of Wimpole Street 9.05 Laurie Lee's Cider with Rosie 10.45 The Little Angels National Folk Ballet of Korea 11.15 News on 2 11.20-1.25am FILM: Marnie |
| | BBC1 COLOUR 9.30am This is Christmas Morning 10.00 Mr Benn The Cowboy 10.15 News Summary 10.20 Born in the City 11.25 A Christmas Appeal 11.30 A Stocking Full of Stars opened by Michael Aspel and Roy Castle, featuring Bruce Forsyth and the Generation Game, Basil Brush, Blue Peter, The Goodies, Animal Magic, Laurel and Hardy, Penelope Pitstop, Tom and Jerry, Top of the Pops, Vision On, Yogi Bear 1.30pm The Black and White Minstrel Show 2.10 Top of the Pops 72 with Jimmy Savile and Ed Stewart 3.00 The Queen 3.05 Billy Smart's Christmas Circus 4.10 Dick Whittington starring Dick Emery and Peter Noone 5.45 News 5.55 Bruce Forsyth and the Generation Game 6.55 Christmas Night with the Stars introduced by Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker, featuring Cilla Black, Lulu, Dad's Army, Look - Mike Yarwood, The Liver Birds, The Goodies, The Young Generation, The Two Ronnies 
8.15 The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show with special guests Glenda Jackson, Jack Jones, Vera Lynn | 9.15 FILM: Barefoot in the Park 11.00 The Good Old Days 1953-1973 11.50 A Story for Christmas 12.00-12.05am Weather
BBC2 COLOUR 11.00am Play School 11.25 The Point 12.40pm The Vanishing Headrows 1.30 Look, Stranger 1.55 News Headlines 2.00 Golf Story 72 3.00 The Queen 3.05 FILM: Henry V starring Laurence Olivier 5.15 Call My Bluff 5.45 The Childhood of Christ 7.25 The Stallion 8.15 La Sylphide 9.25 The Stone Tape by Nigel Kneale 10.55 News on 2 11.00 America by Alistair Cooke 11.50-12.40am Fred Astaire talks to Dick Cavett |
| | BBC1 COLOUR 9.35am Along the Trail 9.50 The Selfish Giant 10.15 News 10.20 Communion for Christmas Day 11.25 Appeal Harry Secombe appeals on behalf of one-parent families 11.30 A Stocking Full of Stars with Michael Aspel and Roy Castle 1.30pm The Black and White Minstrel Show 2.15 Top of the Pops 73 
3.00 The Queen 3.15 Billy Smart's Christmas Circus 4.20 Christmas Panto: Robin Hood starring Terry Scott and Anita Harris 5.55 News 6.05 Bruce Forsyth and the Generation Game 
| 7.05 The Mike Yarwood Christmas Show 7.35 The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show with guests Vanessa Redgrave and Hannah Gordon 8.35 FILM: The Odd Couple 10.30 Gala Performance 11.35 A Ghost Story for Christmas Lost Hearts 12.10am-12.15 Weather
BBC2 COLOUR 11.00am Play School 11.30 To Earth with Heaven 11.35 FILM: White Christmas 1.30pm Palio 2.00 A Christmas Carol 2.30 What's My Line? 3.00 The Queen 3.15 FILM: Far from the Madding Crowd 5.55 The Railrodder with Buster Keaton 6.20 Les Marottes de Paris 6.50 Face the Music 7.30 News 7.35 Swan Lake Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Mureyev 9.15 Alice Through the Looking Glass 10.30-12.10am FILM: Quatermass and the Pit |
| | BBC1 8.45am Carols from Canterbury 9.25 Camberwick Green 9.40 Cartoon Christmas Box with Paul Jones 10.25 Appeal Dame Flora Robson appeals on behalf of The National Deaf Children's Society 10.30 Christmas Morning Service 11.25 A Stocking Full of Stars with Michael Aspel and Anita Harris 
12.25pm FILM: Laurel and Hardy in Way Out West 1.25 Holiday on Ice 2.15 Top of the Pops Tony Blackburn and Jimmy Savile 
3.00 The Queen 3.05 Billy Smart's Christmas Circus | 4.05 FILM: True Grit 6.10 News 6.15 Bruce Forsyth and the Generation Game 7.15 Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em Jessica's First Christmas 8.05 The Mike Yarwood Christmas Show 8.45 FILM: Bridge on the River Kwai 11.20 News 11.25 Parkinson Takes a Christmas Look at Morecambe and Wise 12.40am-12.45 Weather
BBC2 11.00am-11.25 Play School 2.55pm To You All Mankind 3.00 The Queen 3.05 Golf 74 4.05 La Traviata 6.10 FILM: Henry V 8.25 Evel Knievel 8.45 Futtock's End with Michael Hordern and Ronnie Baker 9.30 News 9.35 Face the Music 10.20 When the Angels... |
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