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