TV listings for Christmas Day since 1936...

http://www.tvradiobits.co.uk/tellyyears/christmas30s.htm

Here's 1971 as a sample. Not sure the 'Black and White Minstrel Show' would get a 4.15pm slot anymore, but the rest of it looks pretty much like anything I can remember recently - minus Only Fools and Horse

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

 

Black and White minstrels would be put back to 5 oclock now.

 

RE: Black and White minstrels would be put back to 5 oclock now.

great site happy days when i was a lad

 

No No No No No

Great Escape is on every christmas!</p>

Im glad its a fantastic film at least.</p>

 

RE: Black and White minstrels would be put back to 5 oclock now.

No Black and White Minstrels would be banned as 'racist'