Sunday 7 December 2014

Radio Times - Christmas Cover 1949 - What was on? - Christmas Past

  Christmas Eve Saturday 24th December 1949

  BBCTV

11.00am  Newsreel (Composite Edition)

12.00      Closedown

  2.10pm  Rugby Football : Blackheath v Bedford

  3.35pm  Closedown

  7.30pm  Film : Little Men (1934)

  8.40pm  Vic Oliver introduces : Joyce Gartside, Frederick Sharp,
               Walter Gore, The British Concert Orchestra

  9.40pm  Newsreel

  9.55pm  The Coventry Nativity Play

10.40pm  News (sound only)

10.55pm Closedown


  Christmas Day Sunday 25th December 1949

  BBCTV

10.50am  Christmas Day Parade Service from the Royal Hospital Chapel, Chelsea

11.45am  Closedown

  3.20pm  For the Children : Film : Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)
                with Freddie Bartholomew and Mickey Rooney

  5.00pm  Closedown

  6.30pm  Toad of Toad Hall

  8.30pm  Closedown

  9.00pm  Miranda, a comedy by Peter Blackmore,
                with Ann Crawford and David Tomlinson

10.40pm  News (sound only)

10.55pm  Closedown


  Boxing Day Monday 26th December 1949

  BBCTV

  1.15pm  Racing from Kempton Park

  2.45pm  For the Children : Film : Whispering Smith Speaks (1935)

  3.45pm  Closedown

  8.30pm  Newsreel

  8.45pm  Christmas Pantomime : Dick Whittington

10.15pm  News (sound only)

10.30pm  Closedown


  Bank Holiday Tuesday 27th December 1949

  BBCTV

  1.15pm  Racing from Kempton Park

  2.45pm  Film : Terriers

  2.55pm  Custer's Last Stand, parts 1 & 2, a film serial

  3.40pm  Closedown

  8.30pm  The Long Christmas Dinner, a play by Thornton Wilder

  9.00pm  Cafe Continental : Grand Gala de Noel

10.00pm  News (sound only)

10.15pm  Closedown