Christmas Eve Tuesday 24th December 1963
BBCTV
10.45am Watch with
Mother
Andy
Pandy
11.00am Closedown
1.00pm Newyddion
(News
in Welsh)
1.05pm Heddiw
(Today, in Welsh)
1.25pm The News
1.30pm Watch with Mother
The
Woodentops
1.45pm Closedown
4.30pm The Magic Tree
A
Persian fantasy by Gordon Murray with music composed by Richard Arnell
presented by the BBC Puppet Theatre
4.55pm The Snow Queen
second
chance to see the Russian cartoon film based on the story by Hans Christian
Andersen
6.00pm The News
6.10pm Town and Around
A
daily presentation of news and views from London and the South-East introduced
by Michael Aspel
6.35pm Compact
"Dress Rehearsal"
series
by Hazel Adair and Peter Ling
Christmas Eve is not without its last-minute crises
7.05pm The Old Man of the Mountains
the
story of William Collins
7.45pm The Lucy Show
A
comedy film series of family life with never a dull moment starring Lucille
Ball
8.10pm Elizabeth Taylor in London
The
London of Elizabeth Taylor is a London remembered mostly from childhood - a
mosaic of places,
people, and events and of the written and spoken word
9.00pm The News
9.10pm Maigret
Maigret's Little Joke
crime
series from the novels of Georges Simenon starring Rupert Davies as
Chief-Inspector Maigret
10.00pm The Good Old
Days
Christmas edition of Old-Time Music-Hall from the stage of the famous
City Varieties, Leeds
10.50pm Christmas
Carols
from
the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge
11.35pm Christmas and
a Mouse
Alan
Whicker tells the true story of the Song of Christmas-and the delight
we all
owe to a hungry church mouse
11.55pm Midnight Mass
of the Nativity,
from
Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church, Ardoyne, Belfast
1.15am Closedown
Christmas Day
Wednesday 25th December 1963
BBCTV
9.00am Gwelson El Seren Ef
We saw
his star Welsh meditation
9.30am Her Majesty the Queen
A
sound recording of The Queen's Christmas message
This
broadcast may also be heard on BBC Radio followed by The News
9.35am Ring of Bright Water
Gavin
Maxwell talks to W. Gordon Smith at Camusfearna in the Scottish Highlands, the
'embattled
position' in which he lives and writes about himself and his famous
otters
10.00am Zizou the
Alpine Cat
a film from France
10.15am Watch with
Mother
Andy
Pandy
10.30am Morning
Service
from
York Minster
11.30am Frankie
Howerd
invites you to Meet the Kids, at Great Ormond Street
12.15pm Film : The Red
Stallion (1947)
directed by Lesley Selander
1.30pm Carols for Christmas Day
introduced by Sir Malcolm Sargent who conducts the Royal Choral Society
in the famous Carol Concert they
give each Christmas at the Royal Albert Hall , London.
2.00pm Walt Disney
Walt
Disney has made many feature films and cartoons based on British stories, or
with British actors
and technicians David Tomlinson introduces scenes from some of these
3.00pm Billy Smart's Circus
4.05pm Film : Abbott & Costello Meet Captain
Kidd (1952)
5.15pm Sooty
Sooty,
Sweep and Harry Corbett invite you to
Sooty's Christmas Party
5.30pm The News
5.40pm The Mills Family
John,
Mary, Juliet, Hayley and Jonathan Mills
appeal
on behalf of Freedom from Hunger
5.45pm Dick Whittington
starring Terry Scott, Hugh Lloyd and Reg Varney
7.15pm Z Cars
It
Never Rains by John Hopkins
On
Christmas Eve Lynch and Graham are as full of good will to all men as any
police officers can be -
with a garage robbery to deal with, and with other people's celebrations
to get in the way
8.05pm Christmas Night with the Stars
introduced by Eamonn Andrews, featuring
The
Black and White Minstrels, Russ Conway, Dixon of Dock Green, Dick Emery
Joan Sims,
Hugh and I, It's a Square World, Juke Box Jury, The Marriage Lines,
Kenneth McKellar, Nina and Frederick, Andy Stewart
9.25pm Film : The Gold Rush (1925)
starring Charlie Chaplin
10.35pm The News
10.40pm The Christmas
Music
from
Messiah by Handel
11.35pm Holy Night
The
story of Christ's Birth at Bethlehem shown through the play of light and
movement of the camera
on porcelain figures made in Naples in the eighteenth century
11.40pm Weather
Closedown
Boxing Day Thursday
26th December 1963
BBCTV
10.45am Watch with
Mother
Rag,
Tag, and Bobtail
11.00am The Big
Country
a
picture of the workaday world of the cattlemen and seasonal life on the ranches
and farms revealed
against the magnificent scenic background of western Canada
11.50am The Picardy
Affair
second
chance to see the film first shown this year on the anniversary of the Battle
of Agincourt
12.40pm Boxing Day
Grandstand
(Racing from Kempton Park, Motor Racing
from
Brand`s Hatch, Boxing in America, Late Results and News Round-up)
3.20pm Film : Knickerbocker Holiday (1944)
starring Nelson Eddy, Charles Coburn
4.40pm Champions on Ice
chance
to see again the skills of the world's most exciting skaters
An
International Ice Cabaret featuring from Holland
5.20pm Boss Cat
The
Long Hot Winter
second
chance to see the film cartoon series about the gang of alley cats captained by
the ever-
resourceful and formidable Cat
5.45pm No Road Back
an
arctic adventure narrated by Derek Cooper
6.25pm The News
6.35pm Compact
"On Stage"
Backstage at the staff Christmas revue various disasters are faced-and
some are settled unexpectedly. But the most serious drama
takes place at the highest level
7.05pm Dr Kildare
starring Richard Chamberlain
7.55pm It's a Square World
with
Michael Bentine
8.20pm Who is Secombe ?
What
Is He?
Dora
Bryan, Roy Castle, Jimmy Edwards and Fenella Fielding conduct you on a tour
around
Harry
Secombe with the help of Eric Robinson, Anton Rodgers and Amanda Barrie
9.05pm Laughter from the Whitehall
Brian
Rix presents High Temperature
10.20pm The News
10.30pm Stars of the
Bolshoi Ballet
excerpts from Cinderella, Giselle, Gayaneh, Don Quixote
11.10pm The Seven
Giants of Denby Dale
The
monstrous, comical, pathetic, and occasionally tragical chronicle of one town's
unique contribution
to the history of the last 200 years: together with a prognostication by
Mr. Fyfe Robertson of the delights we may confidently expect from the
eighth giant of Denby Dale
11.25pm Josh
White
sings
folk songs and blues
11.55pm The Weather
Closedown
