Christmas Eve Friday
24th December 1937
BBCTV
3.00pm Coffee-Stall (Christmas edition)
a
light entertainment with Cyril Nash , S. E. Reynolds , Josh Cairns
3.20pm British Gaumont News
3.30pm Jack Payne with his Band
and
Art Gregory, Patricia Rossborough, Billy Scott-Coomber, Teddie Foster, Marjorie
Stedeford
4.00pm Closedown
9.00pm Irene Prador
in
songs, accompanied by Evel Burns
9.05pm '... Drew The Pictures'
Nicolas Bentley worries Robert Hartman
9.20pm British Movietone News
9.30pm Jack Payne with his Band
(as
3.30pm)
10.00pm Close
Christmas Day
Saturday 25th December 1937
BBCTV
11.00am Film for
Demonstration Purposes
12.00 Closedown
3.00pm The King's Message
(sound
only)
3.05pm The Rev Pat McCormick DSO
When
the late Dick Sheppard resigned the living of St. Martin-in-the-Fields through
ill-health in 1927,
Pat McCormick took on and succeeded in the difficult task of carrying on
a fine tradition. He has given many ' sound '
broadcasts, but his Christmas message to viewers today marks his first
appearance in
television
3.10pm Charles Heslop (comedy) and Irene Prador
(Viennese songs)
3.30pm Mr Gillie Potter
3.40pm Musical Farmer
cartoon film
3.45pm Alice in Wonderland
produced by George More O'Ferrall, with Ursula Hanray as Alice
4.15pm Closedown
9.00pm Music Hall Cavalcade
(Stars
of Yesterday and Today)
with
George Mozart, Marie Kendall, Charles Lee, Daisy Dormer, Tom Leamore, Lizzie Collins,
Sable Fern - and Talbot
O'Farrell , Walter Williams , Emile Boreo. Chairman : George Benson. The Old
Couple:
Una
Venning and Fewlass Llewellyn. The Orchestra under Musical Director Hyam
Greenbaum
10.00pm Closedown
Sunday 26th December
1937
BBCTV
No programmes
Boxing Day Monday
27th December 1937
BBCTV
11.00am Film for
Demonstration Purposes
12.00 Close
3.00pm Cartoon film: Hunting Season
3.05pm Hansel and Gretel
The
story of Hansel and Gretel: a masque to the music of Humperdinck: choreography
by Andree
Howard. The BBC Television Orchestra, leader Boris Pecker , conductor
Hyam Greenbaum. Production by
Stephen Thomas. The actors : Gretel- Muriel Pavlow. Hansel — Jean
Haines. The Mother-Lilla Healing. The Father — Alured
Weigall. The Witch - H. D. C. Pepler. The singers : Jane Vowles , Charlotte
Leigh , Edith Coates
, Bernard Ross, Vivienne Chatterton. The dancers led by Andree Howard. A
section of the BBC
Singers
3.55pm British Movietone News
4.00pm Closedown
9.00pm Russell Swann
9.10pm Starlight
9.20pm Gaumont British News
9.30pm Television's First Grand Children's Pantomime
: Dick Whittington and His Cat
Book
by Arthur Askey
Ensembles arranged by Carrie Graham
Ballets arranged by Quentin Tod
Scenery designed by Peter Bax
Emperor of Morocco.....Cyril Fletcher
Full
Chorus and Augmented Orchestra under the direction of Hyam Greenbaum
entire
production by Reginald Smith
10.00pm
Closedown
Tuesday 28th December
1937 (Bank Holiday)
BBCTV
11.00am Demonstration
Film
12.00 Close
3.00pm Lisa Minghetti
(violin)
3.10pm Russell Swann
3.20pm Gaumont British News
3.30pm The Old Lady Shows Her Medals
a play
by JM Barrie, directed by Moultrie R Kelsall,
with
Isobel Jamieson, Jack Lambert, Margery Phipps-Walker, Ethel Ramsay,
Frances Waing and J Fisher White
4.00pm Close
9.00pm The Viennese Singing Sisters
9.10pm British Movietone News
9.20pm The Ghost Train
by
Arnold Ridley, produced by Jan Bussell, with Don Gemmell,
Laura
Smithson, Clifford Bean, Philip Thornley, Joan Lawson, Rani Waller, Daphne
Riggs, John Counsell, Arthur Young, Hugh
Dempster, Alex McCrindle & SE Reynolds
10.00pm Closedown
