Christmas Eve TV Highlights

8am

SKY ONE Terry Prathett’s Hogfather

9am

FIVE Stargate Atlantis “Childhood’s End”

9.20am

UKTV GOLD Doctor Who “The Idiot’s Lantern”

10am

TROUBLE Kyle XY “Lockdown”

LIVING2 Wonder Woman – TV pilot movie

11am

SCI FI Firefly “Serenity”

TROUBLE Charmed “Imaginary Fiends”

VIRGIN 1 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine “Emissary” – pilot episode

11.30am

ZONE HORROR The Collector

Noon

SCI FI Firefly “Serenity, Part II”

VIRGIN 1 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine “Emissary, Part II”

12.30pm

SKY ONE Futurama “Leela’s Homeworld”

12.30pm

ZONE HORROR Dark Shadows

1pm

SKY ONE Futurama “Where the Buggalao Roam”

SCI FI A Town Called Eureka

VIRGIN 1 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine “A Man Alone”

1.30pm

ZONE HORROR Dark Shadows

2pm

VIRGIN 1 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine “Past Prologue”

2.30pm

LIVING Ghost Whisperer “The Curse of the Ninth”

ZONE HORROR The Twilight Zone

3pm

SKY ONE Anonymous Rex – TV movie

FX Buffy the Vampire Slayer “Helpless”

VIRGIN 1 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine “Babel”

3.30pm

ZONE HORROR The Collector

4pm

FX Buffy the Vampire Slayer “The Zeppo”

SKY TWO Futurama “A Tale of Two Santas”

VIRGIN 1 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine “Captive Pursuit”

4.30pm

SKY TWO Futurama “Anthology of Interest”

ZONE HORROR Dark Shadows

5pm

FX Buffy the Vampire Slayer “Bad Girls”

VIRGIN 1 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine “Q Less” – the episode which proved that DS9 didn’t really gel well with the rest of the Trek universe. Not that that was any great problem.

5.30pm

ZONE HORROR Dark Shadows

6pm

ITV4 Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) “When Did You Start To Stop Seeing Things?”

FX Buffy the Vampire Slayer “Consequences”

7pm

BBC3 Doctor Who “Last of the Time Lords” – just in time to serve as an intro to the Christmas special tomorrow.

FX Buffy the Vampire Slayer “Doppelgangland” – they really are showing a right old random bunch of Buffy episodes, aren't they?

LIVING Ghost Whisperer “The Curse of the Ninth”

SKY TWO Stargate SG-1 “Redemption”

7.30pm

ZONE HORROR The Twilight Zone

8pm

ITV4 Andromeda “For Who the Bell Tolls”

SKY TWO Stargate SG-1 “Redemption”

TROUBLE Charmed “Death Becomes Them”

VIRGIN 1 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine “Heart of Stone”

9pm

TROUBLE Kyle XY “Lockdown”

VIRGIN 1 Star Trek: Enterprise “Silent Enemy”

10pm

SCI FI Heroes “Genesis” – the pilot

11.10pm

SCI FI Heroes “Don’t Look Back”

Midnight

FIVE Stargate Atlantis “Poisoning the Well”

LIVING The X-Files “Pilot” – blimey, is this Living’s Christmas present to us… NOT having Charmed on at midnight?

12.45am

BBC2 Red Dwarf “The End”

1am

SKY TWO Threshold “Trees Made of Glass, Part I” – pilot episode

1.30am

SKY ONE Mutant X “A Normal Life”

1.50am

SKY TWO Threshold “Trees Made of Glass, Part 2” – pilot episode

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