Talking Pictures TV Wednesday

Christmas special from 1958. Ada brings home a miserable guest to spend Christmas with the family, and Eddie comes up with a plan to save chopping the tree down to size

Noel Cronin shares shows and films not to be missed throughout the festive period

A miser reforms after ghosts haunt him on Christmas Eve. Adaptation of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with Seymour Hicks and Donald Calthrop.

Join the festive cheer all over the country in this short film showing how Christmases past were celebrated in London the great British countryside and a traditional British home

A farm girl develops mind-reading powers which she fears will make her an outcast. However, a kindly priest encourages her to use her abilities to do good

A coach driver gets lost in the fog transporting a motley crew of passengers and a hidden cache of stolen gold Comedy, starring Frankie Howerd and Margaret Rutherford

Christmas service from 1978, in which the choir of King's College Cambridge sing famous carols, and the lessons that tell the story of the birth of Jesus are read by John Gielgud

Short film from 1952 about a postman delivering Christmas greetings

Dramatisation of E Nesbit's novel about three Edwardian children forced to leave their middle-class London home for rural Yorkshire. Starring Jemima Rooper and Jenny Agutter

Brian travels to Dover in search of business expansion, but his ideas anger David. With his marriage already under strain, he is driven to give in temptation

A hard-hearted skinflint is taught the error of his ways by a succession of spectral visitors. Adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with Alastair Sim and Mervyn Johns

A boy's pet goose is chosen to be the lord of the manor's Christmas dinner, but Robin and Friar Tuck hatch a plan to save the bird. Guest starring Jane Asher and Jack Watling

The family returns home for Christmas, where Cousin Pearl has decided that the way to Mr Brewster's unwilling heart is through his stomach

Christmas special from 1990, with Dame Edna Everage joined by guests Mel Gibson, Charlton Heston, Julio Iglesias and Gina Lollobrigida

Sunday night duty is traditionally quiet but this time, it's too quiet for Miller's comfort

Vincent, Jimmy and Nina hide out in a chateau, but the SS arrive in force to take it over completely

The inspector arranges for a prisoner to escape, and sets out to prove the fugitive is innocent of the murder he was incarcerated for. In French

The story of how the police involved journalists in the search for a kidnapped woman in 1969, only to blame media intrusion for their failures. Starring Anne Reid

When a diamond merchant is murdered in a small town north of Paris, Maigret finds himself in opposition to the locals

Jacques is forced to leave the residence while Rose is still trapped there. Isabelle convinces him to try and free her. In French

Two detectives go hot on the heels of a bomber intent on extorting money from the city. Comedy, starring Burt Reynolds, Raquel Welch, Yul Brynner, Tom Skerritt and Jack Weston

A chorus girl performing in a West End musical investigates the mysterious death of an actor in the same theatre 40 years previously. Mystery, with Frances Day and Patricia Dainton

The Tracys mount a dangerous rescue mission to save the crew of a sunken supercraft