Christmas Eve
Tuesday December 24th 1957
BBCTV
4.25pm Watch with Mother
Andy
Pandy
4.40pm Children's Television presents The Sledge
How do
you build a sledge when you haven't any money and there's no wood? Two small
boys in a
Hungarian village solve the problem in a novel way-and with unexpected
results
5.00pm Belle Vue Circus
visit
to the 29th International Circus in King's Hall, Belle Vue , Manchester
5.30pm Tufty
The
Adventures of a Friendly Duckling, story told by Johnny Morris
6.00pm News, Sports News, Weather
6.15pm Behold the King
a play
about the Nativity by John Keir Cross
7.00pm News Summary
7.05pm The O. Henry Playhouse
Christmas by Injunction
Thomas
Mitchell plays the part of the famous American author in the film series based
on his
short stories
7.30pm Vienna Boys' Choir
direct
from Austria, in the chapel of the great palace of Schbnbrunn this famous choir
presents a
programme of traditional Christmas carols
7.50pm Film : It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
starring
James Stewart
10.00pm News and
Behind the Headlines
10.20pm The Night
Before Christmas
programme of songs, music, comedy, and verse reflecting the festive
season
introduced by Terry-Thomas
11.20pm News
Headlines
11.22pm The Whole
World Over
film
based on three stories of love, compassion, and generosity, showing that the
heart is the same the
whole world over-whether in Amsterdam, Montreal, or Mexico City
11.50pm Midnight Mass
of the Nativity
from
the Oratory, Edgbaston, Birmingham
1.00am Weather
Closedown
Christmas Day
Wednesday 25th December 1957
BBCTV
10.30am He Came Down
to Earth from Heaven
An Act
of Worship for Christmas Day from the recently re-consecrated
Church
of St. Andrew in the City of Plymouth
11.30am Closedown
2.30pm Royal Prologue
Crown
and Commonwealth
Twenty-five years of Christmas broadcasts
3.00pm Her Majesty The Queen
3.15pm Billy Smart's Family Party
A King
of Circus holds Court at Christmas and his entire family invite children of all
ages to join them and
hundreds of young guests in a real live family show
4.00pm Children's Television presents The Sleeping
Beauty
In
this film Johnny Morris re-tells the story of the beautiful young princess who
fell into a deep sleep for a
hundred years, to be woken by the kiss of a handsome prince
4.20pm Film : Mrs Mike (1949)
starring Dick Powell
6.00pm News Headlines, Weather
6.05pm Today's Sport
Today's football results and other sporting highlights introduced by
Kenneth Wolstenholme
6.15pm Opera from Munich
Mozart's "Don Juan" sung in German, Act I
6.55pm Christmas Appeal
Appeal
on behalf of the British Wireless for the Blind Fund by Viscount Hailsham, Q.C.
7.00pm News
7.05pm Gene Kelly
songs
and dances from his films
7.30pm Pantomania presents The Babes in the
Wood
with
Eamonn Andrews, Derek Bond,
Kenneth Connor, Sam Costa, Peter Dimmock, Charlie Drake, Tony Hancock,
Benny Hill,
Sid
James, Cliff Michelmore, Jean Metcalfe, Derek Hart, Bill Maynard, Jack Payne,
Sylvia
Peters, Ted Ray, Huw Wheldon and Peter Haigh
8.30pm When We Are Married
by J B
Priestley
10.00pm Music for You
introduced and conducted by Eric Robinson
The
programme includes: "The Land of Snow" from Tchaikovsky's ' Casse
Noisette
11.00pm News and
Weather
11.10pm The Epilogue
Unto
Us a Boy is Born
The
Matron of Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital tells of the tremendous reality
which Christmas has for
her and her staff
11.20pm Closedown
Boxing Day Thursday
26th December 1957
BBCTV
1.00pm Racing at
Kempton Park
(1.15
Mistletoe Novices Steeplechase, 1.45 Heathorn Handicap Hurdle,
2.15
King George VI Steeplechase, 2.45 Egham Novices Hurdle)
2.55pm For Younger Children
"George and the Two Tiny Oxen"
A
Hungarian cartoon film about the struggle between a giant and a poor country
boy. Two tiny oxen
come to the boy's help and together they rout the wicked ogre
3.25pm Film : Four Faces West (1948)
starring Joel McCrea
4.45pm The Vienna Ice-Revue 1958
"Sylvia"
The
Adventures of a Dancer
Starring champion skaters of Europe and the world
You
are invited to join the audience in the Messepalast, Vienna, to see the last
part of the matinee
performance of this spectacular Christmas show
5.30pm News Summary
5.35pm Today's Sport
Today's football and racing results and other sporting highlights
introduced by Kenneth Wolstenholme
5.45pm Aladdin
The
Arabian Nights' Tate made into a play for television and produced by Rex Tucker
6.57pm Weather
7.00pm News
7.05pm Film : Body and Soul (1947)
starring John Garfield and Lilli Palmer
8.45pm Billy Cotton and Vera Lynn as host and
hostess at a Boxing Day Party
with
their guest star, George Formby. Also including Eric Robinson, Alan Breeze
Kathie
Kay, Rodolpho, The Leslie Roberts Silhouettes
9.45pm Rupert of Hentzau
starring Robert Shaw, Sarah Lawson, John Westbrook
11.15pm The Good Old
Days
Christmas Edition of Old-Time Music-Hall presenting
The
Musketeers
Allen
Brothers and June
Billy
McComb
The
Dancing McKennas
Bill
Waddington
Darlys
Dogs
Laurie
Lupino Lane and George Truzzi
Chairman, Leonard Sachs
12.00 News
Summary
