Radio Times: 21st December 1996 to 3rd January 1997

21st December 1996 to 3rd January 1997 is a Christmas 1996 and New Year 1997 issue from Radio Times.

Saturday (December 21, 1996)[]

BBC1: Raiders of the Lost Ark
BBC2: Star Trek: Voyager - "Faces"
ITV: Splash!, Coronation Street, Heartbeat - "Old Friends", Taggart, Romancing the Stone

Children's BBC on BBC1: The Legend of Prince Valiant - "The Journey", Children's BBC Birthday Cards including birthday cards "Postman Pat", "Noddy", "Toy Story", "Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends" and "Fireman Sam", Playdays - "Christmas Decorations (Playground Stop)", The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends - "The Tale of Tom Kitten and Jemima Puddle Duck"
BBC1: All Want for Christmas
ITV: Circles of Deceit - "Sleeping Dogs", In the Dark with Julian Clary, The Beatles Anthology, Rolf
Channel 4: Trouble Along the Way

Children's BBC on BBC1: The Bears Who Saved Christmas
BBC1: Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Super Mario Bros, Neighbours, The Brittas Empire Christmas Special - "Surviving Christmas", All the Best for Christmas with Brian Conley, A Question of Sport Christmas Special, EastEnders, Cliffhanger, The Mrs Merton Show Christmas Special, Christmas Midnight Mass
BBC2: Ferngully: The Last Rainforest, Meet Me in St Louis, Being There: Antarctica, Gogs, An Audience with Charles Dickens - "A Christmas Carol: Part 1", Arena: Caesar's Writers, Blazing Saddles, Manhattan Murder Mystery
ITV: Batman: Mask of the Phantom, Emmerdale at Christmas, The Bill - "Merrily on High", For One Night Only - Tom Jones, Top Gun, Wheel of Fortune, Emmerdale, The Bill, For One Night Only - Tom Jones, Good Tidings of Joy
Channel 4: Doctor Dolittle, Father Christmas, Famous Fred, Drop Dead Fred, Brookside, The Real Christmas Show, Father Ted Christmas Special, Whose Line is it Anyway?, Lady in White
Bravo: The Medusa Touch

Children's BBC on BBC1: Fireman Sam - "Snow Business"
BBC1: The Birds, The Wizard of Oz, Brambly Hedge - "Winter Story", Jurassic Park, EastEnders, Only Fools and Horses - "Heroes and Villains", The Vicar of Dibley Christmas Special, News and Weather, The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show, NOEL’S CHRISTMAS PRESENTS 1996
BBC2: The Producers, The Simpsons Christmas Special - "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", Casablanca
GMTV Kids: Barney and Friends - "On the Move"
Children's ITV: Percy the Park Keeper - "One Snowy Night"
ITV: Pavarotti in Modena, Bite the Bullet, Bushell on the Box, The Innocents, Rouge, A Christmas Carol, Disney's Alice in Wonderland, Dennis, Heartbeat - "Charity Begins at Home", Remains of the Day
Channel 4: The Innocents, Rouge, The Snowman

Children's BBC on BBC1: Playdays - "Bells (Patch Stop)", A Flintstone Christmas Carol
BBC1: An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, Wallace & Gromit - "The Wrong Trousers", The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends - "The Tale of Two Bad Mice and Johnny Town-Mouse", Free Willy, One Foot in the Grave - Starbound
BBC2: The Italian Job
GMTV Kids: Barney and Friends - "A Welcome Home"
ITV: Cannonball Run II, Funny Farm, The Willows in Winter, The Secret Garden, Russ Abbot Christmas Special, The Lee Evans Show
Channel 4: Vanya on 42nd Street, 1492 : Conquest of Paradise, Pavarotti Returns to Llangollen
Sky One: WF Christmas Mania Live

Children's BBC on BBC1: The Legend of Prince Valiant - "The Blacksmith's Daughter"
BBC1: Grease, The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends - "The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies and Mrs Tittlemouse", Only Fools and Horses - "Modern Men"
BBC2: The Fast Show Christmas Special
ITV: The Bill - "Hat Trick", Catchphrase, Faith in the Future - Body Language

BBC1: The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: "The Tailor of Gloucester", Last of the Summer Wine - "Extra! Extra!", Songs of Praise, Antiques Roadshow - "The Next Generation", Only Fools and Horses - "Time on Our Hands", Richard Wilson Way Out West, The Frank Skinner Show, The Spirit of 66 with Alf Garnett, Alfie
BBC2: Rugby Special, Star Trek: Voyager - "Jetrel", American Visions - "The Age of Anxiety", Decisive Moments: Images from the News 1996, The Moonstone - "Ep1", Heaven and Earth
ITV: Disney's Sleeping Beauty, The Living Daylights, Mahler, The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking
Channel 4: Ride the High Country

BBC1: Funeral in Berlin, The Barefoot Executive, The Boy Who Could Fly, The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends - "The Tale of Mrs Tiggywinkle and Jeremy Fisher"
BBC2: Luck, Trust and Ketchup, Brief Encounter, The Witches, An Audience with Charles Dickens
ITV: Element of Doubt
Sky Movies: The Shawshank Redemption

BBC1: Snowball Express, Problem Child, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Shadowlands

Children's BBC on BBC1: Postman Pat - "Postman Pat's Finding Day", The Legend of Prince Valiant - "The Dream"
BBC1: Bigfoot and the Hendersons, The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends - "The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or the Roly Poly Pudding", Neighbours, ET the Extra-Terrestrial, Ronnie Barker - a Life in Comedy, The Mill on the Floss, Match of the Day,
Children's BBC on BBC2: Playdays - "Yellow Submarine (Roundabout Stop)"
BBC2: Blockade, My Darling Clementine, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Ski Sunday Special, In the Eye of the Wind, Waiting for God, University Challenge International Special: Michigan v Imperial, The Travel Show Caribbean Special, Shooting Stars, The Tony Ferrino Phenomenon, Short Cuts
ITV: Feds, Emmerdale, Coronation Street, Des O'Connor Tonight, Die Hard, Lifepod
Channel 4: I'm All Right Jack, All Steamed Up, Brookside, A Women of Independent Means, Klinik, Cows, Brubaker

Children's BBC on BBC2: The Legend of Prince Valiant - "The Journey"
BBC1: Big Jake, The Apple Dumpling Gang, The Strongest Man in the World, The X Files - "Deep Throat"
BBC2: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - "Defiant"
ITV: Are You Being Scared?, Till Death Us Do Part
Channel 4: Being There, Hoffman, Death and the Maiden

Children's BBC on BBC1: Playdays - "Shopping (Poppy Stop)"
BBC1: Return to Oz, Herbie Rides Again
BBC2: Third Rock from the Sun, Gogs, Introducing Tony Ferrino, Who and Why? - A Quest
ITV: Celebrity Squares, The Ruth Rendell Mysteries - The Double