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”
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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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