| BBC1 8.00am Pages from Ceefax 8.35 Play School 8.55 Muppet Babies 9.20 Knock! Knock! 9.35 This is the Day 10.05 FILM: The Gnome-Mobile 11.28 Weather 11.30 Roland's Yuletide Binge Roland Rat celebrates his first show for the BBC. 11.55 The Noel Edmonds Live Live Christmas Breakfast Show Over two hours of Noel, live from the top of the Telecom Tower, with Mike Smith in the Hollycopter 
2.00pm Top of the Pops Christmas Party with Gary Davies, Jonathan King, Janice Long, Dixie Peach, John Peel and Steve Wright 3.00 The Queen 3.10 Children's Royal Variety Performance 4.55 All Creatures Great and Small 6.25 News 6.30 Hi-de-Hi! | 7.30 Only Fools and Horses To Hull and Back 9.00 The Two Ronnies 9.50 News 10.00 Wogan 10.40 FILM: Absence of Malice 12.35am-12.40 Weather
BBC2 9.00am Pages from Ceefax 11.30 Supercharged The Grand Prix Car (1924-39) 12.20pm FILM: The Man in the Santa Claus Suit 1.55 Christmas Day Concert live from the Concertgegoux, Amsterdam 3.30 Three in the Wild: Shak the Red Fox 4.30 FILM: Citizen Kane 6.25 A Prize Performance starring Dr Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket 7.20 The Queen 7.30 Kiri Te Kanawa at Christmas 8.20 Edge of the Wind 9.25 Film Buff of the Year 10.00 FILM: Diva 11.55 Choirs at Midnight 12.55am-1.05 Weatherview |
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8.00am Play School 8.20 Muppet Babies 8.45 Roland Rat - the Series 9.10 Papa Panov's Special Day 9.25 This is the Day 9.55 Weather 10.00 FILM: The Pure Hell of St Trinians (B/W) 11.30 Christmas Morning with Noel 
1.25pm Every Second Counts with Paul Daniels 2.00 Top of the Pops Christmas Party 
3.00 The Queen 3.10 FILM: Annie, the Musical 5.15 News | 5.25 Russ Abbot Christmas Show 6.00 Just Good Friends 
6.35 EastEnders 7.05 Only Fools and Horses 8.20 Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage 10.00 EastEnders 10.30 News 10.40 FILM: Educating Rita 12.30am-12.35 Weather
BBC2 9.00am Pages from Ceefax 12.20pm FILM: The Minnelli Musical: The Pirate 2.00 The Christmas Day Concert live from Amsterdam 3.20 FILM: Hoppity Goes to Town 4.35 Comic Roots A tribute to Billy Dainty 5.05 The Queen 5.15 FILM: The Fortune Cookie 7.20 Aaron Copland: A Self Portrait 8.20 FILM: Edith and Marcel 10.55 Classic Ghost Stories The Mezzotint told by Robert Powell 11.00 FILM: Fedora 1.00am-1.10 Weatherview |
| BBC1 7.00am Children's BBC 8.10 Umbrella 8.30 Songs of Praise 9.00 Christmas Morning with Noel Up the Telecom Tower again. No Mike Smith this year 
10.30 Christmas Readings with Laurence Olivier 10.35 Christmas Morning Service 11.45 Christmas Morning with Noel Part 2 12.30pm Porridge 1.10 Julie Andrews... The Sound of Christmas Julie's first Christmas special 2.05 Top of the Pops Christmas Party 3.00 The Queen 3.10 EastEnders 3.40 FILM: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 5.35 News 5.45 Russ Abbot Christmas Show  CU Jimmy!
6.25 Only Fools and Horses | 7.25 Christmas Night with the Two Ronnies Their last ever show 
8.15 Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington 10.05 In Sickness and in Health 10.35 News 10.45 FILM: Terms of Endearment 12.55am The Gospel According to St Luke 1.00-1.05 Weather
BBC2 9.10am FILM: The Cheaters 10.35 FILM: White Christmas 12.30pm Golf 87 - A Momentous Year 1.45 The Natural World: Icebird 2.35 Jacqueline du Pre Masterclass 3.10 FILM: La traviata 4.55 White Nights of Dance 6.10 Amsterdam Christmas Concert 7.40 Mother Teresa 8.35 Garbo 10.35 The Story of a Recluse 11.25 The Queen 11.35 Julian Lloyd Webber 12.25am-12.30 Weather |
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6.55am Now It's Christmas 10.00 Christmas Worship 11.00 Christmas Morning with Noel 
12.05pm It's a Charity Knockout 1.00 EastEnders 2.00 Top of the Pops Christmas Show 3.00 HM The Queen 3.10 FILM: Back to the Future 5.05 Only Fools and Horses 6.25 News | 6.30 A Christmas Celebration Songs of Praise special 7.15 Bread 8.30 The Russ Abbot Christmas Show 9.10 News 9.20 FILM: Silverado 11.30 The Gospel According to St Matthew 11.40 FILM: Carousel 1.45am-1.50 Weather
BBC2 10.00am FILM: Storm Boy 11.25 FILM: The Bible...in the Beginning 2.10pm Islands of the Fire Goddess 3.00 Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Concert Another chance to see five hours of music and comedy, which took place at Wembley Stadium on 11 June 8.20 HM The Queen 8.30 Once in a Lifetime Drama about the death of the Hollywood silent movie 10.15 FILM: The Family 12.20am-2.20 FILM: Some Like It Hot |
| BBC1 7.00am Christmas Children's BBC 10.00 Christmas Celebration 11.00 Noel's Christmas Presents 12.00 Christmas Comedy Cracker 12.00 Porridge 12.30pm Dad's Army 1.10 Some Mothers Do 'Ave Em 2.00 Top of the Pops Christmas Show with Jakki Brambles, Bruno Brookes and Gary Davies 3.00 The Queen 3.15 Bread 4.05 Only Fools and Horses The Jolly Boys' Outing 5.30 News 5.35 The Russ Abbot Christmas Show 6.15 FILM: Crocodile Dundee 7.50 Agatha Christie's Miss Marple A Caribbean Mystery 9.40 In Sickness and in Health 10.10 News 10.20 FILM: Clockwise 11.55 Christmas Epilogue | 12.00 FILM: Key Largo 1.40am-1.45 Weather
BBC2 8.25am The Third Man 8.50 Buck Rogers 9.10 Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe 9.30 Berlin Freedom Concert 11.00 FILM: The Prince and the Pauper 1.00pm The Boy and the Snowgoose 1.10 Fred Astaire 2.00 Amsterdam Christmas Concert 3.00 FILM: The Pagnol Trilogy: Marius 5.00 Aida from the Met 7.35 The Queen 7.50 FILM: Babette's Feast 9.30 Plum 10.40 FILM: Viva Leone! My Name is Nobody 12.30am-12.35 Weather |
