Christmas Day 1968, and among the usual Christmas fare are direct telecasts from the Apollo 8 space mission, and Christmas greetings from Australian troops in Vietnam.

Source: TV Week, 28 December 1968. The Age, 24 December 1968.

	ABV2	HSV7	GTV9	ATV0
6AM	(5.31am) Direct telecast by satellite from the capsule of Apollo 8 (5.50) Close		(5.20am) News (5.31) Direct telecast by satellite from the capsule of Apollo 8 (5.50) Close 6.55 News	(5.31am) Direct telecast by satellite from the capsule of Apollo 8 (5.50) Close
7AM			7am Apollo 8 Telecast (Rpt) 7.20 Apollo Project: Documentary 7.55 News
8AM		8.40am Apollo 8 Telecast	8am Apollo 8 Telecast (Rpt) 8.20 News 8.30 Close
9AM		9am Zig And Zag 9.30 Rin Tin Tin
10AM		10am Jungle Jim 10.30 Texas Rangers
11AM	11am Divine Service: Christmas Day	11am Circus Boy 11.30 Casey Jones 11.56 News		11.30 Christmas messages from the troops in Vietnam
12PM	12pm Close	12pm Movie: Blossoms In The Dust. 1941 [IMDB]		12pm Movie: Top O’ The Morning. 1949 [IMDB]
1PM		1.35 Movie: A Day At The Races. 1937 [IMDB]		1.30 Movie: The Little Kidnappers. 1954 [IMDB]
2PM	2.15 Christmas Messages from the troops in Vietnam		2.30pm The Drummer
3PM	3pm Jenny’s Christmas 3.30 Driftwood 3.45 Movie: Funny Things Happen Down Under [IMDB]	3.30 Christmas messages from the troops in Vietnam	3pm Going My Way	3pm Movie: Dog Of Flanders [IMDB]
4PM	4.40 The Magnificent Mountain	4pm Zig And Zag 4.30 Greenacres 4.55 The Virginian	4pm Christmas Wonderland 4.30 Movie: Jungle Book [IMDB]	4.30 Brigham Young University  Christmas
5PM	5.30 Aladdin And His Wonderful Lamp			5.30 Junior Blind Date
6PM		6.10 The Monkees 6.30 News. Geoff Raymond, David Johnston	6pm Christmas Is A Time. Eric Pearce 6.30 News. Eric Pearce, Kevin Sanders	6pm News. Barry McQueen. Includes Queen’s Christmas Message 6.30 The Flintstones
7PM	7pm News 7.15 Her Majesty The Queen’s Christmas Message 7.30 Titipu — A New Mikado	7pm Coles $6000 Question 7.30 The Jackie Gleason Show	7pm Christmas messages from the troops in Vietnam 7.30 Alice In Wonderland	7pm Bewitched 7.30 Bonanza
8PM	8.45 In All Directions	8.30 Movie: A Song To Remember. 1945 [IMDB]	8.30 Movie: An Affair To Remember. 1957 [IMDB]	8.30 Rowan And Martin’s Laugh-In
9PM	9.30 House By The Stable			9.30 Say It With Music. Barry Crocker
10PM	10.05 The World About Us 10.45 Her Majesty The Queen’s Christmas Message 10.50 Close	10.30 Late News 10.45 Sammy Davis Meets The British	10.30 News. Eric Pearce	10.30 Christmas messages from the troops in Vietnam
11PM		11.45 Close	11pm Christmas messages from the troops in Vietnam 11.30 Epilogue 11.35 Close	11.15 News. Includes Queen’s Christmas Message 11.45 Close
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