Sunday 14 December 2014

1964 - Radio Times - Christmas cover and Listings

  Christmas Eve Thursday 24th December 1964 

  BBC1

10.45am  Watch with Mother
               
 Rag, Tag, and Bobtail

11.00am  Closedown

  1.05pm  Heddiw
                
Topical items in Welsh

  1.25pm  The News

  1.30pm  Watch with Mother
                
Andy Pandy

  1.45pm  Closedown

  3.40pm  TE Lawrence (1888-1935)
                
An extraordinarily vivid picture of a                               perennially enigmatic figure

  4.40pm  Film : The Yellow Slippers (1961)
                
film from Poland 

  6.00pm  The News

  6.10pm  Town and Around
                
News and views from
                London and the South-East
                introduced by Richard Baker

                Weather

  6.35pm  Mr Magoo's Christmas Carol
                
cartoon musical based on A Christmas Carol
                by Charles Dickens

  7.25pm  Top of the Pops '64
                
with Jimmy Savile, David Jacobs
                Alan Freeman, Peter Murray
 

  8.25pm  Frankie Howerd
                
stars in a series of unlikely situations

  8.50pm  Film : Holiday Inn (1942)
               
 starring Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire

10.25pm  News 
followed by The Weather

10.40pm  Christmas Carols
               
 from the Chapel of
                King's College, Cambridge


11.25pm  The Christmas Midnight Communion,
                f
rom the Church of St Mary, 
                Redcliffe, Bristol 


12.40am  Closedown


  
Christmas Day Friday 25th December 1964 

  BBC1

  9.15am  The Brave Little Tailor
                a German film 
based on a story by the                         Brothers Grimm

  9.50am  Welcome Christmas!
              
  words and music for this Festive morn

10.30am  The World of the Penguin
                
Whether they breed on Antarctic ice or                         African sand, the penguin's true home
                is the sea

11.15am  Christmas Morning Service
                
from Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church

12.00       Leslie Crowther
          
      invites you to Meet the Kids  
                in hospital at Christmas with Peter Glaze
                Harold Taylor and The Bert Hayes Trio 


12.45pm  Hob y Deri Dando 
                
music and song from Wales

  1.30pm  Temple Houston
                
Last Full Moon
                Western

  2.20pm  Pinky and Perky
              
  in Christmas Pig-tale

  2.30pm  Compact
                
A Surprise for Christmas

  3.00pm  The Queen

  3.05pm  Billy Smart's Circus

  4.10pm  Disney Time
                
with Julie Andrews

  5.10pm  News Headlines 
followed by 
                Robert Dougall 
appeals for the Royal      
                National Institute for the Deaf


  5.15pm  Robinson Crusoe
                
starring Norman Wisdom

  7.15pm  Christmas Night with the Stars
               
 introduced by Jack Warner, featuring the                     Black and White Minstrels, Roy Castle,
                Billy Cotton Band Show, Dick Emery,
                Benny Hill, Hugh and I, Kathy Kirby,
                The Likely Lads, Marriage Lines,
                Meet the Wife,Andy Stewart,
                Top of the Pops


  8.45pm   Laughter from Whitehall
                 
Brian Rix presents Simple Spymen

10.15pm   The News

10.25pm   The Great War
                 
A twenty-six-part history
                 Part 11: Hell cannot be so terrible


11.05pm   Mexican Fiesta
                 
The Ballet Folklorico of Mexico in a                                programme of Latin-American folk dance 

11.45pm   Postscript to Christmas Day
                 
with The Rev. R.T. Brooks

11.50pm   The Weather
                 Closedown


  
Boxing Day Saturday 26th December 1964 


  BBC1

10.45am  Watch with Mother
                
The Woodentops

11.00am  Closedown

11.30am  The Next Place
                Jim Phelan on a journey through Wales

12.15pm  Grandstand
               
 (Motor Racing from Brand`s Hatch, 
                Racing from Kempton Park, 
                International Ice Skating from Garmisch)


  4.10pm  Film : Black Beauty (1946)
                
A film based on the novel by Anna Sewell

  5.20pm  Today's Sport
                
introduced by David Coleman with all the                     day's results

  5.30pm  Juke Box Jury
                
A new disc—a Hit or a Miss?
                Comments and opinions on the latest pop                     releases
                This week's panel: Alan Freeman
                Nyree Dawn Porter William Rushton
                Susannah York
                In the chair, David. Jacobs 


  5.55pm  Doctor Who
                
Flashpoint, starring William Hartnell

  6.20pm  The News and Weather

  6.30pm  Dixon of Dock Green
              
  Routine

  7.15pm  Film : Frenchman's Creek (1944)
                
starring Joan Fontaine

  9.05pm  The Good Old Days
                
Christmas edition of Old-Time Music-Hall                       from the stage of the Famous City Varieties                 Theatre, Leeds

10.00pm  R3
                
Ministry of Research Centre No 3- The Short                 Cut starring John Robinson 
                Elizabeth Sellars, Richard Wordsworth

10.50pm  News and Sport

11.00pm  Danny Kaye Show
                
with guests Nat King Cole, Mary Tyler Moore

11.40pm  The Weather
                Closedown


  
Sunday  27th December 1964 

  BBC1

10.30am  Solemn High Mass
                
from St Mary's Roman
                Catholic Cathedral, Edinburgh


11.30am  Closedown

  2.30pm  Farming
                
The Crofters of Skye

  3.00pm  Commander Cousteau
                
The House Under the Sea 
                The extraordinary story of Claude Wesly and                 Albert Falco who lived and worked for a                         week under the sea 


  3.55pm  Z Cars
                
a second showing of Welcome Home, Jigger

  4.45pm  Pinky and Perky
             
   in The Pig-Star Show

  5.00pm  The Royal Ballet
                Coppelia
                
Ballet in three acts by C. Nuitter and 
                A.Saint-Leon 

  6.10pm  The News and The Weather

  6.15pm  Meeting Point
                
The Confession Stone

  6.45pm  Sunday Story
               
 Billie Whitelaw tells three stories for                             Christmas

  6.50pm  Songs of Praise
                
from Netherlee Parish Church, Glasgow

  7.25pm  Film : The Heiress (1949)
                
starring Oliver de Havilland

  9.15pm  Kipling
               
 The Man Who Was

10.05pm  The News

10.15pm  Fred Hoyle's Universe
                
No literary genius could have invented a                       story one-hundredth part as fantastic as the                 sober facts which have been unearthed by                   astronomical science

11.05pm  Meeting Point
               
 First transmission at 6.15pm

11.35pm  The Weather
                Closedown


  
Bank Holiday Monday 28th December 1964  

  BBC1

10.45am  Watch with Mother
                
Picture Book

11.00am  Closedown

12.40pm  The News

12.45pm  Racing at Kempton Park
                
(Kenton Handicap Steeplechase,
                Christmas Handicap Hurdle, Oatlands 

                Handicap Steeplechase, Novice's  
                Steeplechase)


  2.40pm  Watch with Mother
                
Tales of the Riverbank

  2.55pm  Closedown

  5.05pm  Blue Peter
              
  with Christopher Trace and Valerie Singleton

  5.30pm  Ripcord
                
series of film adventures about two                               parachutists 

  5.55pm  The News

  6.05pm  Town and Around
                
News and views from
                London and the South-East
                introduced by Richard Baker

                Weather

  6.30pm  Singalong
                
with Ray and Archie Fisher, Paddie Bell
                The Seekers, Martin Carthy, The Settlers
                Nadia Cattouse, The Corrie Folk Trio


  7.00pm  Tonight
                introduced by Cliff Michelmore

  7.35pm  Look
                
with the Sign Readers  at the tracks,
                trods and traces of various animals on the
                Cumberland coast


  8.00pm  Bewitched  
                
A Vision of Sugar Plums

  8.25pm  European Journal, No 4
                
Three Television
                Networks in Europe look at Europe
                and its people


  9.15pm  The News

  9.25pm  Perry Mason
                
The Case of the Arrogant Arsonist

10.15pm Come Dancing
              
 Judge, Jive, or Just join.... 

11.00pm News Extra

11.10pm Weather
               Closedown



  
Christmas Eve Thursday 24th December 1964

  BBC2

11.00am  Play School
               
 presented by Rick Jones. Virginia Stride

11.30am  Closedown

  7.07pm  The News

  7.10pm  The Heart of Christmas
                
An old theme and a new beat 
                The Salvation Army Joy Strings visit one of                   the Dr. Barnado's Homes to sing the                             Christmas story to and with the children

  7.35pm  Music 625 : 
Handel's Messiah
                
Sir Malcolm Sargent conducts the                                 Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

  8.50pm  The Young Elizabeth
                
starring Valerie Gearom as Elizabeth Tudor                   and Katharine Blake as Mary Tudor 

10.25pm  Jungle Green
                
film of a detachment of
                British soldiers in a remote border  

                stronghold


10.55pm  News 
followed by The Weather

11.00pm  Tom, Dick and Mary
                
Broadway Comes to Valley General

11.25pm  Late Night Line-Up
                
Round off the day with Denis Tuohy ,                           Michael Dean, Nicholas Tresilian and                             tonight's guests




















 


  Christmas Day Friday 25th December 1964

  BBC2

  4.25pm Christmas Carols
               from the Chapel of King`s College, 
               Cambridge

  5.10pm  Slask
                
(pronounced Schlonsk) 
                The world-famous
                Song and Dance Company on the stage of                     The Theatre Royal. Drury Lane 


  6.00pm  Film : The Cat and the Canary (1939)
                
starring Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard

  7.10pm  News

  7.15pm  The Little Sweep
                
by Benjamin Britten

  8.05pm  Muses with Milligan
                
Poetry and Jazz

  8.45pm  Film : Kiss Me, Kate (1953)
                
starring Patricia Morison, Howard                                 Keel and Millicent Martin

10.20pm  Francis Durbridge Presents...
               
 Melissa starring Tony Britton

10.45pm  Swann, Wallace and Betjeman
                
People, Places and Animals at Christmas
 

11.15pm  Closedown












































  Boxing Day Saturday 26th December 1964


  BBC2

  5.27pm  News

  5.30pm  Film : Way Out West (1937)
                
starring Laurel and Hardy

  6.30pm  The Beat Room
                
Non-stop beat and shake

  7.00pm  Match of the Day
                
A top League football match 
                Today's match will be announced on BBC-tv                 from 4pm onwards

  7.50pm  Roy Castle's Show
                
with his guests Bernard Cribbins,
                Paddy Stone, The Don Riddell Four,
                The Paddy Stone Dancers

  8.35pm  Six
               
 3: Don't I Look Like a Lord's Son

  9.05pm  Cinema 625: Le Notti di Cabiria (1957)
                
Italian film (with subtitles)

10.50pm  Jazz 625
                
Steve Race introduces a special edition                         featuring some of the many American stars                 who have appeared in this series

11.55pm  Closedown











 

















  Sunday  27th December 1964 

  BBC2

  7.25pm  News

  7.30pm  Lady by the Sea  
               
 This ballet is based on Ibsen's play The Lady                 from the Sea (1888), one of his earliest                       psychological dramas

  8.05pm  Il Travatore  
               
 Sir David Webster introduces highlights from                 the new production of Verdi's opera at the                     Royal Opera House, Covent Garden 

  9.10pm  Landmarks
                
of life from birth to old age in six                                   documentary films
                3: The Factory
                The Raleigh works, Nottingham 


  9.40pm  Best of Both Worlds  
                
leading British
                and American conductors present
                the music they arrange and compose


10.15pm  The Brothers Karamazov 
                
part 3 : Corruption

11.00pm  News 
followed by Late Night Line-Up
               
 Round off the day with Denis Tuohy ,                           Michael Dean, Nicholas Tresilian and                             tonight's guests






























  
Bank Holiday Monday 28th December 1964  

  BBC2

11.00am  Play School
                
presented by Terence Holland,
                Marian Diamond


11.30am  Closedown

  6.57pm  News

  7.00pm  The Beat Room
                
Thirty minutes of non-stop beat and shake

  7.30pm  Pick the Winner
                
and beat the panel

  8.00pm  The Virginian
                
The Small Parade

  9.15pm  Lorin Maazel
                
plays Bach and Mozart
                with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra


10.05pm  Francis Durbridge
               
 presents Melissa, episode 4

10.30pm  Newsroom 
 followed by Weather

10.55pm  Late Night Line-Up
                
Round off the day with Denis Tuohy ,                           Michael Dean, Nicholas Tresilian and                             tonight's guests