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1965 Radio Times - Christmas Cover and Listings


Christmas Eve Friday 24th December 1965

   BBC1

  1.25pm  The News

  1.30pm  Watch with Mother
                The Woodentops

  1.45pm  Closedown

  3.55pm  Mr Magoo's Christmas Carol
                A cartoon musical based on the novel by                       Charles Dickens

  4.45pm  Jackanory
                Little Grey Rabbit's Christmas

  5.00pm  Christmas Crackerjack
                with Leslie Crowther, Peter Glaze

  5.55pm  The News

  6.05pm  Town and Around
                News and views from
                London and the South-East 
                introduced by Corbet Woodall

                Weather

  6.30pm  Film : Son of Paleface (1952)
                starring Bob Hope

  8.00pm  The Julie Andrews Show
                with her special guest Gene Kelly

  8.50pm  The News

  9.00pm  The Epic That Never Was
                story of a film that was never completed

10.10pm  Christmas Carols
                from the Chapel of King's College, 
                Cambridge

10.55pm  News Summary

11.00pm  Gala performance
                music, opera and ballet introduced
                by Michael Flanders
12.00       Midnight Mass
                from St Anne's Roman                 Catholic Cathedral, Leeds

  1.10am  The Weather
                Closedown


  Christmas Day Saturday 25th December 1965

  BBC1 

  9.15am  Welcome Christmas
                and Sing the Morn with Ivor Emmanuel 
                Ursula Connors and The Morgan James Duo 
                BBC Midland Light Orchestra 


  9.45am  Film : Way Out West (1937)
                starring Laurel and Hardy

10.45am  See the Children Sing
                A programme of Christmas Carols sung by a                 special schools' choir and the audience at a                   recent Ernest Read Children's Concert in the                 Royal Festival Hall, London 

11.15am  Morning Service
                from the village church of Fenny Compton,                   Warwickshire

12.00       Leslie Crowther invites you to Meet the Kids
                direct from the Princess Louise Ward of St.                   George's Hospital, Tooting

12.45pm  Champions on Ice
                An international gala of free skating and                       interpretative dancing by the world's                             outstanding skaters featuring from Russia

  1.25pm  The Andy Williams Show
                Christmas greetings from the series                             featuring song, music, and comedy and the                   best from the world of entertainment 

  2.15pm  Dixon of Dock Green
                Georgina,
                starring Jack Warner

  3.00pm  The Queen
                Her Majesty's Christmas Message to the                       Commonwealth

  3.05pm  Billy Smart's Circus

  4.00pm  Disney Time
                with Maurice Chevalier

  4.50pm  Mother Goose
                starring Norman Vaughan and Terry Scott

  6.25pm   News Summary

  6.30pm   Val Doonican
                 appeals for Family Service Units

  6.35pm   Doctor WhoThe Feast of Steven
                 starring William Hartnell and Peter Purves
                 with Jean Marsh


  7.00pm  Max Bygraves meets
                The Black and White Minstrels
                A Christmas Get-Together

  8.00pm  Film : Road to Bali (1952)
                starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby

  9.30pm  The Ken Dodd Show
                including special guest star Sandie Shaw

10.30pm  The News and The Weather

10.35pm  Top of the Pops 65
                with Jimmy Savile, David Jacobs,                 Alan Freeman, Pete Murray

11.50pm  A Christmas Reverie
                by Werner Pelz

12.00      Weather

  Christmas Sunday 26th December 1965

  BBC1

  9.00am  In Logon Se Miliye
                for viewers from                 Pakistan and India

  9.20am  Closedown

  9.35am  Christmas Oratorio
                parts 1 and 2 by J S Bach recorded at
                Brecon Cathedral
10.30am  Morning Service 
                from the Forward Movement                                         Presbyterian Church Mission                  Hall, Neath

11.30am  International Balloon Race
                Ten passenger-carrying balloons chase each                 other across Oxfordshire and                                         Gloucestershire

12.15pm  Top of the Pops '65
                with Jimmy Savile, David Jacobs,
                Alan Freeman, Peter Murray

  1.30pm  News Summary

  1.35pm  Film : Jack and the Beanstalk (1952)
                starring Abbott & Costello  
  2.50pm  Dick van Dyke Show
                A comedy film series featuring the hilarious                   adventures of a happy-go-lucky scriptwriter                   and his family

  3.15pm  Film : Son of Sinbad (1955)
                starring Dale Robertson, Vincent Price

  4.45pm  Peter and the Wolf
                A new production for television of the                           musical tale for children 

  5.10pm  The Lucy Show
                a musical Christmas greeting to everyone                     from Lucy the Choir Master 

  5.25pm  Hereward the Wake
                16: The Last of the English 
                How Hereward gets his soul's price


  6.00pm  Sooty
                assisted by Sweep and Harry Corbett in Here                 we come a-wassailing

  6.10pm  The News and The Weather

  6.15pm  Meeting Point
                Prison Visitor 

  6.45pm  Sunday Story
                The Founding of the Abbey told by Tom                         Fleming from the Chapel of King Edward the                 Confessor Westminster Abbey

  6.50pm  Songs of Praise
                for Christmas-tide from 
                St George's Parish Church, Belfast


  7.25pm  Film : Oliver Twist (1948)
                starring Alec Guiness

  9.15pm  The News

  9.20pm  Dr Finlay`s Casebook
                The Vision 

10.10pm  Sunday Night
                presenting The Golden Ring,
                a recording of Wagner's Gotterdammerung


11.40pm  Meeting Point
                Prison Visitor repeated from 6.15pm

12.10am  The Weather
                Closedown


  Boxing Day Monday 27th December 1965

  BBC1

11.10am  Film : Rogues of Sherwood Forest (1950)
                starring John Derek Diana Lynn,                 George Macready

12.25pm  Grandstand
                (Racing from Kempton Park,  
                Motor Racing from Brand`s Hatch,  
                International Ice Skating Gala
                from Garmisch)


  3.00pm  Film : The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957)
                musical version starring Van Johnson

  4.25pm  Blue Peter
                with Christopher Trace and Valerie Singleton

  4.50pm  Jackanory
                with Brian Way 
                Today's Christmas stories are about 
                Presents


  5.00pm  The Royal Ballet
                Coppélia 
                Ballet in three acts by C. Nuitter and 

                A. Saint-Léon 

  6.10pm  The News and The Weather

  6.20pm  Today's Sport
                introduced by David Coleman 
                All of today's football and racing results,                       together with news of today's sporting                         events 


  6.30pm  Meet the Wife
                starring Thora Hird and Freddie                                     Frinton in Journey Home 

  7.00pm  United!
                Danny finds out Jean's secret. Beryl Davis                     gets married

  7.30pm  Laughter from the Whitehall
                Brian Rix presents Women Aren't Angels

  9.05pm  The News

   9.15pm  Perry Mason
                 The Case of the Laughing Lady

10.05pm  The Good Old Days
                Christmas edition of Old-Time Music-Hall                       from the stage of the Famous City Varieties                 Theatre, Leeds 

10.45pm  News Summary

10.50pm  International Concert Hall
                presenting Karel Ancerl conducting the                         Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in                                   Dvorak's Symphony No.9 in E minor 
11.35pm  Weather
                Closedown


  Tuesday 28th December 1965 (Bank Holiday)

  BBC1

10.10am  Westminster Abbey
                a service to inaugurate the 900th   
                
Anniversary Year, in the presence of the                  Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh

12.30pm  The News

12.35pm  Watch with Mother
                Andy Pandy

12.50pm  Racing from Kempton Park
                (Kenton Handicap Steeplechase, 
                Christmas Handicap Hurdle, 

                Oatlands Handicap Steeplechase, 
                Novice's Steeplechase)
  2.40pm  Closedown

  4.45pm  Jackanory
                with Brian Way 
                Today's Christmas stories are about
                Lights

  5.00pm  Robinson Crusoe
                Part 12 
                Friday returns, and other unwelcome                           visitors arrive on the island


  5.25pm  Tom Tom
                New, unusual, and fascinating stories and                     items of interest in a modern and changing                   world with Jeremy Carrad and John Earle 

  5.50pm  The Magic Roundabout
                Mr. Rusty meets Zebedee 

  5.55pm  The News

  6.05pm  Town and Around
                News and views from 
                London and the South-East
                introduced by Corbet Woodall 

                Weather

  6.30pm  Look
                Living with Animals 
                Tony Soper remembers some of the many                   animals which have come his way over the                   years 


  7.00pm  The Newcomers
                devised by Colin Morris 

  7.30pm  Roy Hudd
                as Hudd by George Evans and Derek Collyer

  8.00pm 1940
               Twenty-five years ago tonight the City of                      London was ablaze. The spectacular Nazi fire                raid was the climax of one of the most                          memorable years in Britain's history 
               J B Priestley recalls the year in a nostalgic                    reminiscence in five parts
               1: Into the Unknown January-May 10
               2:The Glare and the Shock-May 10 to June 4


  9.00pm  The News

  9.15pm  1940
                continued
                3: The Dark Horizon 
June 4-July 10 
                4: The Throbbing Sky July 10-September 6
                5: The Private Victory 
September 6-                             December 31

10.35pm Westminster Abbey,
               edited highlights of this morning's ceremony

11.20pm The Weather
               Closedown




 
  Christmas Eve Friday 24th December 1965

  BBC2

11.00am Play School
               Science Day 

11.25am Closedown

5.40pm Christmas Carols
             from the Chapel of
             King's College, Cambridge


6.25pm The Little Sweep
             opera by Benjamin Britten

7.15pm Wheelbase
             the world of Christmas motoring
7.35pm The Mind of the Enemy
             The Fatal Ship,
             part 5 of the thriller serial

8.00pm The Virginian
             Timberland

9.15pm The Bruce Forsyth Show
             with special guests including Millicent Martin

10.05pm News Summary

10.10pm Film : Going My Way (1944)
               starring Bing Crosby

12.10am Early Morning Line-Up

















  







  Christmas Day Saturday 25th December 1965

  BBC2 

  6.30pm  When Comedy Was King
                A pageant of the screen's most famous                         laughter-makers

  7.55pm  News Summary

  8.00pm  The Childhood of Christ
                by Berlioz sung in Ely Cathedral in a new                       English translation by Anthony Burgess

  9.35pm  Island Yearbook
                A prizewinning film from Sweden

10.35pm  Eugénie Grandet
                Part 2 : Gold
                Eugénie has fallen in love with her cousin                     Charles, but her father refuses to give him                   help or a home and he leaves for the Indies                 to mend his fortunes

11.20pm  Late Night Line-up
                complete the day with the Line-Up regulars
                Denis Tuohy, Michael Dean, Michael Wale
                Joan Bakewell, 
Philip Jenkinson and their                       Christmas guests










































  










  Christmas Sunday 26th December 1965

  BBC2
 
  
  6.30pm  News Review
                presenting Newsyear '65 

  7.30pm  The Christmas Story
                The birth of Christ illustrated by Italian                         pictures and music

  8.00pm  Theatre 625
                A Piece of Resistance

  9.20pm  Life
                A fortnightly challenge to our ideas and                         understanding of life in the animal world                 introduced by Dr. Desmond Morris 

10.00pm  The Big Spender
                part 4 : The Green Table

10.25pm  Call My Bluff
                A duel of words and wit between 
                Robert Morley with Two guests and                               Frank Muir with Hayley Mills
                John Mills
                Referee, Robin Ray 


10.55pm  News Summary

11.00pm  Late Night Line-Up
                presents a special edition of Plunder
                Tonight a raid on the archives of Late Night                   Line-Up 
                introduced by Denis Tuohy 























































  Boxing Day Monday 27th December 1965

  BBC2
11.00am  Play School
                Useful Box Day 

11.25am  Closedown

  6.30pm  The Reindeer Lapps
                A prize-winning film from Finland 
                A study of life among the Lapps with theIr                   herds of reindeer


  7.00pm  A Fight to Remember 
                introduced by Harry Carpenter 
                Jack Johnson v James J Jeffries,
                Jack Johnson v Jess Willard


  7.30pm  Patience
                The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company's                               production of the classic light opera by by                     Gilbert and Sullivan

  9.30pm  Pure Gingold
                starring Hermione Gingold with Hugh                           Paddock and Ivor Cutler at the piano

10.00pm  News Summary

10.05pm  Yob and Nabob
                by Derrick Sherwin starring 
                Emlyn Williams and Bill Fraser

11.05pm  Tonight in Person
                special programme presenting the                                 international artists who have been featured                 in this series in 1965

11.50pm  Late Night Line-Up
                Stay up a little longer with Denis Tuohy ,                     Michael Dean, Michael Wale, Joan Bakewell                   and whoever turns up



















 







  Tuesday 28th December 1965 (Bank Holiday)

  BBC2
11.00am  Play School
                Dressing-up Day 

11.25am  Closedown

  1.25pm  Medicine Today
                A monthly series of programmes for doctors

  2.00pm  Closedown

  7.30pm  Hit and Run
                A mystery serial in four parts
                Part 1 : Accident
  8.00pm  Challenge Golf
                This week: Arnold Palmer and Gary Player v                Jack Nicklaus and Mike Souchak played at                     Pauma Valley Country Club, California

  8.45pm  Museum Piece
                from the British Museum : Europe 1500

  9.15pm  Music on Two
                presenting Sibelius
                A concert recorded in Helsinki on December                   8 to celebrate the centenary of the                               composer's birth Symphony No.7, in C
                Violin Concerto in D 
                Soloist, Oleg Kagan 


10.15pm  Intimations
                A series of interviews In which 
                Malcolm Muggeridge talks to leading artists                   about the influences and experiences that                     have contributed to their work
                Tonight : 
Robert Bolt


10.45pm  Newsroom followed by The Weather

11.05pm  Late Night Line-Up
                Stay up a little longer with Denis Tuohy ,                     Michael Dean, Michael Wale, Joan Bakewell                   and Philip Jenkinson with Film Requests