TV schedule for 16th December 2015 (full list)

6am (repeat)

The Medicine Man

Story of a poor youth who impersonates a doctor to provide him with an alibi.

6:10am (repeat)

George & Mildred. Image shows from L to R: Mildred Roper (Yootha Joyce), George Roper (Brian Murphy). Copyright: Thames Television

Following her latest social failing, Mildred considers emigrating to Australia. Jeffrey is only too delighted to put aside his lamp-post campaign and help out in the process, but is George as keen, and will Australia want them?

7:05am (repeat)

dinnerladies

Series 1, Episode 6 - Nightshift

With Tony too ill to come into work, and his cover so bad-mannered, ill-tempered, horrible and bossy that everyone save Brenda walks out, it's not the best time to have to be open for a rare night shift!

7:35am (repeat)

The Thin Blue Line

Series 2, Episode 6 - Road Rage

Gasforth's new bypass is causing problems for Fowler as his girlfriend Patricia has taken a fortnight's leave to join the protesters and he and his officers have to "enforce the law". When they arrive PC Goody falls for one of the protesters and decides to save the planet. Meanwhile, Patricia is rescued by the "green avenger".

7:45am (repeat)

Minder

Series 3, Episode 5 - Dreamhouse

Terry finally gets the chance to taste the high life when he has to mind a singing star's dream home. Arthur, as usual, has other ideas.

7:45am (repeat)

Horrible Histories

Hit sketch show based on surprising facts from world history, inspired by the hit children's book series.

8am (repeat)

Desmond's

Series 3, Episode 4 - Smokeless Fuming

Sean is behaving increasingly oddly, and when his diary falls into the wrong hands, the reason why becomes clear.

8am (repeat)

Monarch Of The Glen

Series 5, Episode 8

Comedy drama set in the Scottish Highlands, based on the comic novels of Compton Mackenzie.

8:15am (repeat)

Last Of The Summer Wine

Series 22, Christmas Special - Potts In Pole Position

In avoiding his wife, Potts's training for a South Pole expedition in Yorkshire becomes invaluable.

8:20am (repeat)

Wussywat The Clumsy Cat

Episode 21 - Tweet

Wussywat wants to know how to whistle so he can copy Ird's tweeting. He's not doing so well, until he recruits the help of Duckadile, a pinwheel and some new birdy friends!

8:25am (repeat)

Timmy Time

Spin-off from Shaun The Sheep for the CBeebies channel, featuring Timmy the baby lamb and his friends.

9am (repeat)

Open All Hours

Series 2, Episode 5 - Arkwright's Mobile Store

Arkwright proves his ambition by expanding the business... he buys an old ice-cream van.

9:35am (repeat)

Twirlywoos

Series 1, Episode 3 - Round And Round

The Twirlywoos are in a park where they watch a little girl and her dad playing on a roundabout. Back in the boat, the Twirlywoos are visited by the Stop-Go Car, who they chase round and round in circles.

9:40am (repeat)

Porridge

Series 2, Episode 5 - Happy Release

Fletch arrives in the prison hospital with a broken ankle to find that old man Blanco has lost his treasured possessions to soon-to-be-released Norris. Worried he's nearing death, Blanco offers Fletch his last item: a map...

9:45am (repeat)

4 O'Clock Files

Episode 3 - Rules

Mr Bell is keen to emphasise school discipline in his latest video, but the pupils are more interested in the unwritten school rules by which they live their lives.

9:55am (repeat)

The Darling Buds Of May

Comedy drama series about H.E. Bates's eccentric Larkin family.

10am (repeat)

Desmond's

Series 3, Episode 7 - The Waiting Game

While Desmond and Shirley get ready for a plush evening out at the Hilton, Gloria plans to take advantage of her parents' absence to help Louise carry out a pregnancy test.

10:20am (repeat)

The Thin Blue Line

Series 2, Christmas Special - The Green Eyed Monster

Fowler is battling Grim for promotion, who tells him that he needs to be married to be promoted. Raymond proposes to Patricia but in such an unromantic way that she leaves him. Goody and Boyle take Fowler for a night on the town to cheer him up but they choose the same place that Habib has taken Patricia.

10:30am (repeat)

Desmond's

Series 3, Episode 8 - Driving Me Crazy

It's a testing time for Michael and Patricia when she decides to take a holiday without him. And Desmond is encouraged to take his driving test again, with disastrous consequences.

11am (repeat)

dinnerladies

Series 2, Episode 1 - Catering

It's Friday 9th April 1999, the date to conceive a 'millennium baby'. Whilst Tony attempts to humour a rather dim-witted work-experience girl, Bren's main concern is having workmen in to paint the canteen without closing for the duration.

11am (repeat)

Mr Bean

Series 2, Episode 25 - Opera Bean

Mr Bean's car has broken down and he is late meeting Irma at the opera. Bean finally arrives, but is refused entry because of his filthy attire. Forced to borrow some clothes from the local launderette, Bean is mistaken for the star of the show, and ends up on the stage giving the operatic performance of a lifetime!

11:15am (repeat)

Mr Bean

Series 2, Episode 26 - Taxi Bean

Mr Bean takes a taxi to his local toy shop, but a dodgy cabbie thinks he can take Bean for a ride. After a mix-up Mr Bean finds himself driving the taxi.

11:40am (repeat)

Only Fools And Horses

Series 7, Episode 4 - The Class Of 62

A school reunion has unexpected repercussions for the Trotter family, as events threaten to disrupt Del's glorious path to fatherhood.

12:55pm (repeat)

Minder

Series 3, Episode 6 - Another Bride, Another Groom

The shady dealings of a loveable rogue. The last thing Arthur wants to do on his niece's wedding day is shift a consignment of pornographic magazines.

1pm (repeat)

Goodnight Sweetheart

Series 6, Episode 8 - Something Fishie

Life becomes explosive when Gary and Phoebe have to deal with a protection racket. Yvonne receives a rude surprise.

1:20pm (repeat)

The Two Ronnies

Christmas Special - Christmas Night with the Two Ronnies

Hugely popular and long-running sketch show that established Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker as two of the biggest names in British comedy.

1:25pm (repeat)

4 O'Clock Files

Episode 3 - Rules

Mr Bell is keen to emphasise school discipline in his latest video, but the pupils are more interested in the unwritten school rules by which they live their lives.

1:35pm (repeat)

Twirlywoos

Series 1, Episode 3 - Round And Round

The Twirlywoos are in a park where they watch a little girl and her dad playing on a roundabout. Back in the boat, the Twirlywoos are visited by the Stop-Go Car, who they chase round and round in circles.

1:40pm (repeat)

To The Manor Born

Series 3, Episode 1

The local Scout group are busy raising funds for a new hut, but DeVere is reluctant to sponsor their raft-building scheme. However, he does have a picnic in mind.

2:20pm (repeat)

Birds Of A Feather

Series 6, Episode 9 - In At The Deep End

Tracey receives a letter addressed to Darryl requesting a quotation for the installation of a swimming pool. Sharon decides it would be a good idea to start up a pool business of their own, especially when she discovers that there is profit of at least £5,000 to be made. Meanwhile, Garth is depressed and wants to know the meaning of life, and Dorien is sponsoring a child in the Gambia - but she sends him a pair of gloves and matching scarf from Harrods.

2:25pm (repeat)

My Family

Series 6, Christmas Special - The Heart Of Christmas

The Harpers are looking forward to another Christmas - except for Ben, who comes up with a cunning plan, feigning a mystery illness to escape the festivities.

2:30pm (repeat)

Desmond's

Series 2, Episode 10 - Here Comes De Sun

Porkpie makes his opposition to the Channel Tunnel known when the required rail link looks set to mean the demolition of his flat. Gloria, meanwhile, has the results of her exams in hand.

2:45pm (repeat)

The Joke Machine

Episode 47

St Bride's goes up against Fox Primary.

2:50pm (repeat)

Shaun The Sheep

Series 2, Episode 29 - Whistleblower

Bitzer loses his precious whistle and tests out a trumpet as a replacement. Before long, the power of the trumpet goes to his head and his fanfares and jazz styled bugling drives the flock around the bend.

2:55pm (repeat)

Shaun The Sheep

Series 2, Episode 30 - The Big Chase

When Timmy drives off on the farmer's brand new quad bike, Shaun, Bitzer and the flock have to give chase by any means available. Very soon half the animals on the farm have joined in the chase. Can the sheep rescue Timmy and return the quad bike before the farmer finds out?

3pm (repeat)

Monarch Of The Glen

Series 5, Episode 8

Comedy drama set in the Scottish Highlands, based on the comic novels of Compton Mackenzie.

3pm (repeat)

Mr Bean

Series 2, Episode 1 - Home Movie

Bean attempts to make his own home movie - a horror thriller with Mrs Wicket as the star!

3:15pm (repeat)

Mr Bean

Series 2, Episode 2 - Fish Sitting

Mr Bean has to look after Mrs Wicket's goldfish, but Scrapper the cat is keen to help.

3:25pm
15 min

Scream Street

Series 1, Episode 11 - The Brown Lagoon

Mr Watson is still terrified of the monsters in Scream Street, so Luke and Mrs Watson decide to take him on a relaxing weekend camping.

3:30pm (repeat)

Last Of The Summer Wine

Series 22, Christmas Special - Potts In Pole Position

In avoiding his wife, Potts's training for a South Pole expedition in Yorkshire becomes invaluable.

3:40pm (repeat)

Danger Mouse

Series 1, Episode 15 - Quark Games

The heroes find themselves fighting for their lives on an alien world in Quark's latest money-spinning sports event.

3:55pm (repeat)

Boj

Episode 35 - Sports G'Day

It's sports day in Giggly Park, and Boj mistakenly wins all the medals. With only one race left, can Boj think of a boj-a-boom idea that will help his buddies all win a medal?

4:15pm (repeat)

Open All Hours

Series 2, Episode 6 - Shedding At The Wedding

Arkwright's wedding suit smells of mothballs. Hanging his trousers out of Gladys' car was never going to be a good idea...

4:15pm (repeat)

On The Buses

Series 5, Episode 12 - The New Telly

When the Christmas Club payout arrives, Stan and the family decide to buy a colour television. But they have a problem disposing of their old set - especially when Blake buys it!

4:30pm (repeat)

Horrible Histories

Christmas Special - Horrible Christmas

Farting jesters, Christmas cards full of bacon, and having the festive meal confiscated by Oliver Cromwell... welcome to Christmas, Horrible Histories style.

4:45pm
5 min

Wussywat The Clumsy Cat

Episode 29 - String

Wussywat learns how to play conkers - but then his string gets caught in a tree. He spots a trail of string and picks it up, only to be dragged through some mistletoe and holly when Oggy races off with the other end.

4:50pm (repeat)

On The Buses

Series 5, Episode 9 - Lost Property

Stan and Jack find two portions of fish and chips on the bus and, to cut a long story short, eat them. When a woman comes into the depot to report the loss, Blakey institutes a heavy crackdown on the reporting of lost property.

4:55pm (repeat)

Porridge

Series 2, Episode 6 - The Harder They Fall

Godber has reached the inter-wing boxing tournament finals and is a favourite to win. However, for Grouty's gambling syndicate, the opportunity to make a profit outweighs any concern for following the Marquess of Queensberry rules.

5pm
30 min

The Dog Ate My Homework

Christmas Special

Iain Stirling is joined by team captains Oscar and Sade, as well as special guests Hacker T Dog, Ashleigh and Pudsey, The One Show's Alex Riley and comedian Pippa Evans.

5:15pm (repeat)

The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery

Frankie Howerd falls foul of the infamous schoolgirls in their fourth outing. The girls confront a hapless gang of crooks trying to retrieve stashed loot.

5:20pm (repeat)

George & Mildred

Series 5, Episode 4 - A Driving Ambition

After seeing her in a car in town with another man, George suspects that Mildred may be having an affair and sets out to bring some romance back to their lives.

5:30pm (repeat)

The Green Green Grass

Series 3, Special - The Special Relationship

Boycie is asked to turn detective when an unexpected visitor arrives at Winterdown Farm with a secret from the past that, if confirmed, will have massive consequences for one member of the staff.

5:30pm
25 min

Danger Mouse

Series 1, Episode 16 - The Snowman Cometh

It's Christmas and DM and Penfold are tasked with protecting Santa from the villainous clutches of the festive season-destroying Snowman.

5:35pm (repeat)

My Parents Are Aliens

Long-running children's sitcom following the lives of three orphaned children. Their new foster parents are secretly aliens.

5:35pm (repeat)

The Darling Buds Of May

Comedy drama series about H.E. Bates's eccentric Larkin family.

5:55pm (repeat)

Strange Hill High

Series 2, Christmas Special - A Strange Hill Christmas

As Mitchell attempts to escape school and bring his Christmas holidays to an early start, the entirety of the staff and students become locked inside.

6pm (repeat)

To The Manor Born

Series 3, Episode 1

The local Scout group are busy raising funds for a new hut, but DeVere is reluctant to sponsor their raft-building scheme. However, he does have a picnic in mind.

6:40pm (repeat)

Last Of The Summer Wine

Series 29, Episode 6 - Eva's Back In Town

When a worldly-wise old acquaintance of Alvin's makes an appearance, she proves to be just the woman to make Howard's life more complicated.

7pm (repeat)

Steptoe And Son

Series 7, Christmas Special

Albert Steptoe and his son Harold run a rag and bone business. Harold wants to move on in the world and leave home but his plans are always thwarted.

7:20pm (repeat)

Goodnight Sweetheart

Series 6, Episode 8 - Something Fishie

Life becomes explosive when Gary and Phoebe have to deal with a protection racket. Yvonne receives a rude surprise.

8pm (repeat)

Desmond's

Series 3, Episode 8 - Driving Me Crazy

It's a testing time for Michael and Patricia when she decides to take a holiday without him. And Desmond is encouraged to take his driving test again, with disastrous consequences.

8pm (repeat)

Miranda

Series 2, Episode 6 - The Perfect Christmas

Miranda tries to have the perfect Christmas in the final episode of the comedy series but, with a mum and dad like hers, it's not easy.

8pm (repeat)

Desmond's

Series 2, Episode 10 - Here Comes De Sun

Porkpie makes his opposition to the Channel Tunnel known when the required rail link looks set to mean the demolition of his flat. Gloria, meanwhile, has the results of her exams in hand.

8:30pm (repeat)

Desmond's

Series 3, Episode 9 - Daydreams

Desmond catches Shirley looking at house brochures, and despite her assurances that she was just allowing herself a little daydream, insists that the Ambroses will not move until they retire to Guyana.

8:40pm (repeat)

Only Fools And Horses

1996 Christmas Trilogy, Christmas Special - Time On Our Hands

This third 1996 special was at the time thought to be last that would be made. Rodney's doing a stock take in the garage and has found an artificial leg, some Showaddywaddy LPs and an old watch. They get the watch valued and get just a little shock when it sells at Sotherby's for £6.2 million pounds. After all these years their finally millionaires!

9pm (repeat)

Da Ali G Show

Episode 3

Ali investigates American television and interviews Labour politician Roy Hattersley. The Message looks at issues surrounding family, and Chrissie Hynde performs.

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9pm
50 min version (repeat)

8 Out Of 10 Cats

Series 10, Christmas Special

Jimmy Carr hosts a Christmas edition of Channel 4's hit comedy panel show. Featuring special guests Jack Dee, Lorraine Kelly, Josie Long and Britain's favourite pantomime Dame, Christopher Biggins.

9pm
60 min version (repeat)

QI. Image shows from L to R: Alan Davies, Stephen Fry. Copyright: TalkbackThames

QI

Series L, Episode 13 - Lucky Losers

With Danny Baker, Sandi Toksvig and Jeremy Clarkson.

9pm (repeat)

Love Actually

Romantic comedy by Richard Curtis, charting a multitude of relationships across a Christmas period.

9:30pm (repeat)

Bo' Selecta!

Sketch comedy series starring Leigh Francis as Avid Merrion, Transylvania's biggest celebrity fan.

9:50pm (repeat)

Bad Robots

Series 1, Episode 3

Holiday-makers in Cardiff face a tourist information machine that's full of nonsense facts, commuters keen to get across town are driven nuts trying to order a taxi with Cab B.O.T, and the Construct-a-Bear machine gets saucy in Brighton.

10pm (repeat)

Bo' Selecta!

Sketch comedy series starring Leigh Francis as Avid Merrion, Transylvania's biggest celebrity fan.

10pm
60 min

Legends Of Stand-Up And Bernard Righton

Christmas Special

It's the Christmas episode which highlights the work of Les Dawson, Bill Hicks, Max Wall, Emo Phillips, The Multichords, Frankie Howerd, Bob Monkhouse, Rita Rudner, Tommy Cooper and Victoria Wood.

10pm (repeat)

Mock The Week

Series 7, Episode 10

With David Mitchell and Sarah Millican.

10pm (repeat)

Russell Howard's Good News

Series 10, Episode 8

Russell looks at storm Desmond, a mysterious story about missing Welsh apples and a weird story about Shakespeare getting baked.

10pm
30 min

Peep Show

Series 9, Episode 6 - Are We Going To Be Alright?

The El Dude Brothers are bowing out on a high - a strange, complicated and definitely slightly illegal - high.

10:20pm (repeat)

Bad Robots

Series 1, Episode 4

B.O.T enforces strict security protocols on clients trying to enter TezCorp HQ.

10:30pm
30 min

Josh

Series 1, Episode 6 - Suited & Booted

It's Josh's birthday, so Kate and Owen decide to organise him a fancy dress party.

10:30pm
30 min

Toast Of London

Series 3, Episode 5 - Man Of Sex

Toast has to deal not only with his nemesis Ray Purchase but Ray's 'even worse' twin brother.

10:40pm (repeat)

Mock The Week

Series 11, Episode 3

More topical comedy with Dara O'Briain, Hugh Dennis, Andy Parsons and Chris Addison. The guests are Marcus Brigstocke, Gary Delaney and Zoe Lyons.

10:50pm
50 min version (repeat)

8 Out Of 10 Cats

Series 11, Episode 10

The boys and their guests thrash out the hot topics of the week by examining surveys, opinion polls and statistics; from the silly to the serious, from celebrity gossip to world politics. With guests Dr Christian Jessen, Russell Kane, Kimberley Walsh and Josh Widdicombe.

11pm (repeat)

The Vicar Of Dibley

2006/2007 Specials, Christmas Special - The Handsome Stranger

Yet another Dibley cottage has been sold to a Londoner, and Geraldine's not happy about the breakdown of the community. Setting out to confront the new stranger, she is struck by his immediate charm and good looks - but is he all he seems?

11:05pm (repeat)

8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown

Series 6 (Channel 4: Series 7), Episode 17

Sean Lock and Greg Davies take on Jon Richardson and Holly Walsh. Susie Dent is joined by Vic Reeves in Dictionary Corner, while Rachel Riley looks after the numbers and letters.

11:20pm (repeat)

Birds Of A Feather

Series 6, Episode 9 - In At The Deep End

Tracey receives a letter addressed to Darryl requesting a quotation for the installation of a swimming pool. Sharon decides it would be a good idea to start up a pool business of their own, especially when she discovers that there is profit of at least £5,000 to be made. Meanwhile, Garth is depressed and wants to know the meaning of life, and Dorien is sponsoring a child in the Gambia - but she sends him a pair of gloves and matching scarf from Harrods.

11:20pm (repeat)

Hunderby

Episode 1

Over dinner, the vicar John announces that any homosexual men in the area are being identified and hanged, spelling disaster for the pastor.

11:20pm (repeat)

QI

Series D, Episode 11 - Denial And Deprivation

With Roger McGough, Mark Steel and Vic Reeves.

11:40pm (repeat)

Bad Robots

Series 1, Episode 5

A tourist information machine feeds eager London visitors with a load of nonsense.

Midnight
60 min version (repeat)

QI

Series L, Episode 14 - Little And Large

With Phill Jupitus, Richard Osman and Lucy Porter.

12:10am (repeat)

Bad Robots

Series 1, Episode 6

It's the last episode of the series and the robots are going out with a bang.

12:10am (repeat)

The Rebel

Comedy starring Tony Hancock as a bored London office clerk who begins to make waves on the Parisian art scene.

12:15am (repeat)

Not The Nine O'Clock News

Popular satirical sketch show of the late 70s and early 80s starring Rowan Atkinson, Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones and Pamela Stephenson.

12:30am (repeat)

Josh

Series 1, Episode 6 - Suited & Booted

It's Josh's birthday, so Kate and Owen decide to organise him a fancy dress party.

12:50am (repeat)

Absolutely Fabulous

Series 1, Episode 4 - Iso Tank

With Bubble now surprisingly efficient at the office, Edina feels surplus to her own life. Forbidden by Safron from attending her sixth form's open day, she decides that adopting a Romanian baby would be a good idea...

1am (repeat)

Russell Howard's Good News

Series 10, Episode 8

Russell looks at storm Desmond, a mysterious story about missing Welsh apples and a weird story about Shakespeare getting baked.

1:15am (repeat)

Da Ali G Show

Episode 3

Ali investigates American television and interviews Labour politician Roy Hattersley. The Message looks at issues surrounding family, and Chrissie Hynde performs.

1:30am (repeat)

Outnumbered

Series 4, Episode 3

Karen is on a sleep-over and Ben is away at adventure camp. Mum and Dad are left with a Labrador to look after and a glimpse of what life will be like once the children have left home.

1:50am (repeat)

Bo' Selecta!

Sketch comedy series starring Leigh Francis as Avid Merrion, Transylvania's biggest celebrity fan.

2:10am (repeat)

'Allo 'Allo!

Series 8, Episode 4 - Awful Wedded Wife

Amidst the fall-out from the failed radio station launch, René is forced to pay out almost 67,000 francs of the café's takings. Flick and Von Smallhausen are still imprisoned, and Gruber and the Colonel are forced to impersonate Hitler and Goering once more. Meanwhile, something curious is taking place at the church.

2:10am (repeat)

Cold Feet

Comedy drama about three couples experiencing the ups-and-downs of romance.

2:25am (repeat)

Cuckoo

Series 1, Episode 1 - The Homecoming

Ken struggles to find something to like about his new son-in-law before being pushed into a somewhat radical course of action.

2:40am (repeat)

'Allo 'Allo!

Series 8, Episode 5 - Firing Squashed

Whilst Flick and Von Smallhausen look set to face the firing squad for robbing the garrison pay truck, the Colonel and Lieutenant Gruber - still dressed as Hitler and Goering - are captured by the Communists. Michelle's Resistance wish to use the duo for their own ends, but who will win?

2:55am (repeat)

Cuckoo

Series 1, Episode 2 - Family Meeting

Ken is keen to lay down some ground rules for Cuckoo in the Thompson house and proposes a family meeting. But getting his own way turns out to have devastating knock on effects at Rachel's coming home party...

3:25am (repeat)

Josh

Series 1, Episode 6 - Suited & Booted

It's Josh's birthday, so Kate and Owen decide to organise him a fancy dress party.

TV schedule Wednesday 16th December 2015

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