The purpose of this paper is to determine conditions under which equicontinuity of the family of iterates {f$^{n}$ } of a continuous function that maps the circle S$^{1}$ into itself does occur. We shall see that equicontinuity of the family of iterates {f$^{n}$ } occurs only under special cases. Actually, we will show that this happens only for rotations when degree of the function is 1, and for involutions when degree of the function is -1.