Talking Pictures TV Thursday

Biopic of 18th-century Irish stage actress Peg Woffington, who went from being a dancer in Dublin to one of London's biggest stars. Starring Anna Neagle and Cedric Hardwicke

Rancher Webb Crawford learns he is dying of leukaemia and robs a bank for $50,000 so that he can see his family on Christmas Eve and provide security for them once he is gone

A group of teenage misfits swallow a mysterious substance which makes them grow to enormous proportions. Fantasy musical, with Tommy Kirk, Beau Bridges and Ron Howard

A Wren is pronounced missing in action, but returns three years later to find her husband has remarried. Melodrama, starring Anna Neagle and Michael Wilding

A girl goes to live with her stern aunt after the death of her father and her sunny nature has an astonishing effect on those around her. Heart-warming tale, starring Amanda Burton

Kate Garner plays a selection of festive songs and tells the stories behind them, including the tale of how mice chewing the bellows of a church organ inspired Silent Night

A look into the business of Christmas and the individuals who spend most of the year contributing to the festivities

A boy runs away from a cruel orphanage, and falls in with a gang of young pickpockets. Period drama based on Charles Dickens' novel, starring George C Scott and Tim Curry

A special Christmas episode of the soap from 1968, in which Jack and Annie Walker introduce flashbacks to bygone years as they prepare for festivities in The Rovers Return

Pantomime TV special from 1986, starring Danny La Rue as the Wicked Stepmother to Cheryl Baker's Cinderella

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

David struggles to go through with a very unpleasant task after being told he is needlessly torturing himself. A doctor adivses Brian that his symptoms may be psychological

Plane crash survivors are left stranded in the Kalahari desert, where the stress of their predicament soon begins to take its toll. Drama, starring Stanley Baker and Stuart Whitman

A group of alcoholics works together to ensure the son of one of their number does not follow in his father's criminal footsteps. Crime drama, with Burl Ives and Shelley Winters

A sultry gangster's moll persuades her husband's chauffeur to help her leave her spouse - but the scheme spirals into disaster. Psychological thriller, starring Robert Cummings

A man is pursued by bounty hunters after finding the wreckage of a Second World War plane. Action adventure, starring Ken Wahl and George Peppard

Christmas special of the legal drama. An elderly woman takes in three guests at Christmas, and her family seek Abraham's help in getting rid of them