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7.00am Children's BBC

9.30 Shout for Joy!

10.30 Noel's Christmas Presents

11.30 Christmas Comedy Cracker

11.30 'Allo 'Allo!

12.05pm The Two Ronnies

12.55 Dad's Army

1.30 Top of the Pops Christmas Special with Mark Goodier and Anthea Turner

2.30 EastEnders

3.00 The Queen

3.10 FILM: ET

5.00 News

5.10 Only Fools and Horses... Rodney Come Home

6.25 Bruce Forsyth's Christmas Generation Game

7.30 Bread

8.20 Birds of a Feather

9.35 News

9.45 FILM: Baby Boom

11.30 Yes Minister Party Games

12.30am Christmas Presence Christmas is over. Writer, poet and broadcaster Adrian Plass asks 'why do we do it?'

2.20-2.25 Weather

BBC2

8.00am FILM: Summer Holiday

9.30 FILM: Watership Down

11.00 Gotta Dance, Gotta Sing

11.45 The Famous Teddy Z

12.10pm Beethoven Symphonies

1.00 Drift, the Mute Swan

2.00 Christmas Day Concert

3.10 Animation Now

3.20 Henry Moore and Landscape

3.50 FILM: Powaqqatsi

5.25 Joyce Grenfell

6.25 The Cunning Little Vixen

8.15 The Queen

8.20 FILM: Jean de Florette

10.20 Amnesty International Benefit Concert

11.30 FILM: Notorious

1.10am-1.20 Weatherview

6.55am But First This

10.00 A Christmas Gift

10.45 Noel's Christmas Presents

11.45 Christmas Comedy Cracker

11.45 Hi-de-Hi!

12.30pm The Two Ronnies

1.25 Dad's Army

2.00 Top of the Pops Christmas 1991

3.00 The Queen

3.10 Only Fools and Horses Miami Twice pt 2

4.40 Bruce Forsyth's Generation Game

5.50 News

6.00 FILM: Batman

8.00 Birds of a Feather

8.50 Keeping Up Appearances

9.20 News

11.20 In Sickness and in Health

11.50 Just What I Always Wanted!

11.55 FILM: The Likely Lads

1.25am-1.30 Weather

BBC2

7.20am A Carol from Ely

7.25 Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe

7.45 King of the Rocket Men

8.00 FILM: White Christmas

9.55 Carols from Devon

10.00 FILM: Asterix in Britain

11.10 Animation Now

11.20 Ziggy's Gift

11.45 FILM: Elena et les hommes

1.20pm Small Objects of Desire False teeth

1.40 Murray Perahia: in Performance

3.10 FILM: The Wizard of Oz

4.50 The Staggering Year of Ferdinand de Bargos

5.20 Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods

7.50 The Queen

8.00 La Clemenza di Tito

10.20 FILM: Zero de conduite

11.00 FILM: L'Atalante

12.30am-12.40 Weatherview

6.50am Children's BBC

9.42 Weather

9.45 Follow the Star

10.30 Good Morning...with Anne and Nick

11.30 Eldorado

12.00 Christmas Comedy Cracker

12.00 Hi-de-Hi!

12.45pm The Two Ronnies

1.35 Neighbours

2.00 Top of the Pops

3.00 The Queen

3.10 FILM: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

5.10 News

5.20 Bruce Forsyth's Generation Game

6.25 EastEnders

6.55 Only Fools and Horses

8.00 Birds of a Feather

8.50 Main News

9.00 Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast

9.50 FILM: Shirley Valentine

11.35 Reflection on Christmas

11.40 FILM: Earthquake

BBC2

6.40am Christmas in Paris

7.30 FILM: Rio Bravo

9.45 FILM: Jour de fete

11.15 Advent Calendar

11.45 The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for Aids Awareness

1.15pm FILM: Top Hat

2.50 Sister Wendy's Odyssey

3.00 Nigel Mansell's 1992

3.45 The Maestro and the Diva

4.40 Life with Eliza

4.50 FILM: M Hulot's Holiday (B/W)

6.25 The Queen

6.35 Reindeer Rock

7.15 Romeo and Juliet

9.00 FILM: Dangerous Liasions

10.55 The Cry

11.05 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?

11.50 FILM: Rear Window

1.40-1.50 Weatherview

6.20am Children's BBC

8.30 Live and Kicking on Christmas Day

9.58 Weather

10.00 The Great Nativity Festivity

10.45 FILM: Scrooge

12.35pm Christmas Comedy Cracker

12.35pm The Two Ronnies

1.30 Dad's Army

2.00 Top of the Pops Christmas 1993

3.00 The Queen

3.10 Noel's Christmas Presents

4.05 FILM: Back to the Future III

5.55 News

6.05 Only Fools and Horses

7.30 EastEnders

8.00 Birds of Feathers

9.00 News

9.10 FILM: Ghost

11.10 Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show from 1977

12.20am Watching Flocks

1.50-1.55am Weather

BBC2

7.00am FILM: Rio Lobo

8.50 FILM: White Christmas

10.45 Athletics

11.45 Inside the Wrong Trousers

12.15pm The Way of the Cross in Sarajevo

12.40 FILM: The Railway Children

2.25 Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

2.50 A Tribute to Rudolf Nureyev

3.35 FILM: Romeo and Juliet

5.35 A Grand Day Out Wallace and Gromit

6.00 A Christmas Carol

7.30 FILM: American Friends

9.05 The Queen

9.15 Bookmark: Selected Exits

10.25 French and Saunders

10.55 FILM: Belle de jour

12.30am-1.50 FILM: Hangover Square

6.45am Children's BBC

10.00 Songs of Praise

11.00 FILM: Jetsons: the Movie

12.20pm Tom and Jerry

12.30 News; EastEnders Omnibus edition

2.00 Top of the Pops introduced by Take That

3.00 The Queen

3.10 Noel's Christmas Presents

4.10 Animal Hospital Christmas

4.45 News

4.55 The Wrong Trousers Repeat of Wallace and Gromit's second adventure

5.25 Keeping Up Appearances

6.15 EastEnders

6.45 FILM: Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

9.00 One Foot in the Grave

9.40 Victoria Wood: Live in Your Own Home

10.40 Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show

11.25 Christmas Spirit

11.30 FILM: Trading Places

1.20am-1.25 Weather

BBC2

7.55am FILM: That's Entertainment!

10.00 FILM: Doctor Dolittle

12.20pm Lara

1.10 D-Day Remembered

2.10 Going Underground

3.00 Tricks on Two

3.10 Hard Times

4.55 Today's the Day Christmas Special

5.25 The Carpenters at the BBC

6.00 Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In

7.00 Aida

9.35 The Queen

9.45 Siren Spirits

10.25 FILM: The Butcher's Wife

12.10am-2.05 FILM: The Haunting

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