Christmas Eve Sunday 24th December 1950
BBCTV
5.00pm For the Children
Including 'The Reluctant Dragon' by Kenneth Grahame;
5.30pm Santa Claus Workshop
A film
from Finland
5.45pm Christmas Cartoonists' Corner
Harry
Rutherford brings the children's television characters to the studio
8.00pm Pouishnoff
play
to you
presented by Philip Bate
8.20pm A Soldier for Christmas
with
Robert Beatty and Heather Thatcher
10.05pm The Crib
On
this Christmas Eve, in the quiet of a church crypt in the heart of London, the
Christmas story is
retold from St. Mantin-the- Fields, Trafalgar Square
10.15pm News (sound
only)
10.30pm Closedown
Christmas Day Monday
25th December 1950
BBCTV
11.30am Service
from
St Martins-in-the-Fields
12.30pm Close
5.00pm For the Children
Muffin
the Mule presents his Pantomime with Annette Mills
5.20pm Children's Christmas Party
at the
Hammersmith Palais, London
You
are invited to join in the fun with hundreds of taxi drivers and their families
6.30pm Closedown
8.00pm Newsreel
8.15pm The Season's Greetings
from
The Star and Garter Home, Richmond
starring Renee Houston and Donald Stewart
Adelaide Hall, Peter Cavanagh
The
Beverley Sisters
9.00pm A Christmas Carol
a play
starring Barbara Murray
10.30pm News (sound
only)
10.45pm Closedown
Boxing Day Tuesday
26th December 1950
BBCTV
3.00pm Canadian Carols
short
film for Christmas time
3.10pm Film : A Chump at Oxford (1940)
starring Laurel and Hardy
4.10pm Closedown
5.00pm For the Children
"The Cruise of the Toytown Belle"
Being
the adventures of Larry the Lamb, Dennis the Dachshund
and
the mayor and Citizens of Toytown
6.15pm Closedown
8.00pm Cinderella
starring Jack Hulbert
A
Christmas pantomime with Sally Ann Howes; Doris Rogers; Diana Morrison;
Eunice
Crowther; Marten Tiffen; and the George Mitchell Choir
10.00pm Newsreel
10.15pm News (sound
only)
10.30pm Closedown
