Christmas Eve Sunday 24th December 1961
BBCTV
10.00am Ar Gyger
Heddiw'r Bore
10.30am Morning
Service
from
Monmouth Street Methodist Church, Bridgwater
11.30am Elsa, the
Lioness
with
Joy and George Adamson
12.00 On the
Twelfth Day
a
film produced by George K. Arthur devised and directed by Wendy Toye with sets
and costumes
designed by Ronald Searle, an amusing fantasy based on the traditional
Christmas song
12.20pm Seeing and
Believing
The
Divine Guest
A
Christmas theme illustrated by Margaret Tyzack
John Breslin , Philip Latham and The
Galliards with Robin Hall and Jimmie Macgregor
12.40pm Mountain
Pastures
second
showing of the documentary film from Italy
1.00pm Welcome Christmas
with
David Hughes, Doreen Hume, Howell Glynne, Osian Ellis, The Fenland Singers
1.30pm No Room for Wild Animals
What
hope is there for wild life in the face of advancing civilisation? A second
showing of this notable film
2.30pm The Singing Years
songs
of the century
3.00pm Brian Rix presents...
"Flat Spin" a farce
4.25pm Quillow and the Giant
starring Jeannie Carson also starring
Cardew
Robinson, Dick Emery and Biff McGuire who wrote the story for television
5.20pm Overland Trail
Vigilantes of Montana
6.10pm The News
6.15pm A Festival of Carols
from
Britain, Denmark, Finland, Germany and Holland
7.05pm What Manner of Child...
a
Christmas film
7.25pm What's My Line?
Chairman, Eamonn Andrews
Panel
: Isobel Barnett , Barbara Kelly, Arthur Askey
Maurice Edelman, M.F. and a mystery guest celebrity
7.55pm Billy Cotton Band Show
with
Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques
8.40pm Sunday Night Play
The
Barretts of Wimpole Street
10.25pm The News
10.30pm Peter Ustinov
Another chance to see an After Supper Conversation with Cliff Michelmore
Derek
Hart, Kenneth Allsop
11.30pm Tibor Varga
violin
recital with Geoffrey Parsons (piano), presented by Patricia Foy
11.55pm Midnight Mass
of the Nativity
from
the Roman Catholic Church of St Francis of Assisi, Gorton
1.30am Closedown
Christmas Day Monday
25th December 1961
BBCTV
9.00am Gwyl y Geni-
a
Christmas Service in Welsh
9.29am Headline News
9.30am Good Christian Men, Rejoice
A
programme of Christmas carols, hymns, and music presented by the boys of
Chethams Hospital School, Manchester
10.00am Sambo and the
Snow Mountains
second
showing of the BBC film of a story by Walter De La Mare with music specially
composed by John Addison
10.30am O Come, All
Ye Faithful
morning service from St Werburgh's Parish Church, Derby
11.30am Max Bygraves
invites you to Meet the Kids in hospital this Christmas
12.20pm Citizen James
starring Sidney James
12.50pm Be My Guest
says
Joan Regan
1.25pm Tenderfoot
Stranger in the Town
2.10pm Appeal
on
behalf of the Royal National Institute for the Deaf, by Sir Malcolm Sergeant
2.15pm The Christmas Music
from
Messiah by Handel recorded at Llandaff Cathedral, Cardiff
3.00pm The Queen
Her
Majesty's recorded Christmas Message to the Commonwealth
3.07pm Billy Smart's Circus
4.05pm The World of Walt Disney
introduced by David Jacobs
5.15pm Film : Just William's Luck (1947)
with
William Graham as William
6.45pm The News
6.55pm Christmas at Canterbury
The
Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Michael Ramsey gives a Christmas address in a
Service of Lessons and
Carols from the Cathedral Church of Christ, Canterbury
7.25pm This Is Your Life
with
Eamonn Andrews
8.00pm The Black and White Minstrel Show
starring the Mitchell Minstrels
9.00pm Film : Rebecca (1940)
starring Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine
11.05pm Late Night
News
11.10pm Television
Dancing Club
special Christmas edition
11.55pm The Power of
Gentleness
postscript to Christmas by the Dean of Trinity College, Cambridge
12.00 The
Weather Man
Closedown
Boxing Day Tuesday
26th December 1961
BBCTV
10.55am Telewele
11.20am Headline News
11.22am The Red Balloon
another showing of this prize-winning film from France
11.55am Juke Box Jury
a new
disc-a Hit or a Miss?
Comments and opinions on the latest pop releases
12.30pm Boxing Day
Grandstand
including Motor Racing from Brands Hatch,
Racing
from Kempton Park, Amateur Boxing from from Cardiff,
Ice
Skating from Garmisch, Sports Results and News Service
5.00pm The Princess and the Pea
musical play based on Hans Andersen 's story "The Real
Princess"
5.50pm The News
5.55pm Today's Sport
introduced by Kenneth Wolstenholme
Today's sporting headlines and the classified football results
6.00pm Town and Around
news
magazine for South-East England
Weather
6.05pm Here's Harry
starring Harry Worth
This
week:
The
Last Train with Harold Goodwin, Reginald Marsh, Patrick Connor, Gerald Andersen
Stuart
Saunders, Tony Melody, Jack Woolgar, Leslie Clark
6.30pm Cinderella
from
the Wimbledon Theatre, London starring Dickie Valentine and Jill Day
8.00pm Brian Rix presents...
"Will Any Gentlemen?" a farce
9.30pm The News
9.40pm Maigret
A
Crime for Christmas
10.30pm Film: I'll Be
Seeing You (1944)
starring Ginger Rogers Joseph Gotten with Shirley Temple
11.55pm The Weather
Man
Closedown
