Christmas Eve Monday
24th December 1951
BBCTV
3.00pm For Women : Leisure and Pleasure
Introduced by Jeanne Heal
I'd
like you to meet ...
Ethel
Revnell Variety star who plays Mother Goose in pantomime this year
Roll
up the Carpet!
Sydney
and Mary Thompson show how to dance the Lancers
Christmas Decorations
Jeanne
Heal shows the party decoration specially designed for this programme by John
Lawrence
I
Collect ...
T. P.
Camerer Cuss talks about his collection of watches
Dressing Up
James
Laver , with models in costume, argues the case for gayer clothes for men
Dancing Time
Sydney
and Mary Thompson dance the Fylde Waltz and invite everyone to join them in the
Progressive Barn Dance
4.00pm Closedown
5.30pm For the Children
Carols
sung by members of the choir of Tolworth County Secondary Boys' School
5.40pm A Time To Be Born
A play
for Christmas Eve by P.D.Cummins
6.30pm Closedown
8.00pm Newsreel
8.15pm Christmas Eve in Trafalgar Square
Viewers join the crowds round the Christmas Tree for a programme of
popular carols,
organised by the Daily Mail
8.45pm Picture Page
invites some new and old friends to a Christmas party
Hosts:
Joan Gilbert and Leslie Michell
9.30pm What's My Line
A
special Christmas Challenge Match of fifteen minutes each way
What's
My Liners v. Twenty Questioners
What's
My Liners : Lesley Storm, Jimmy Edwards, Elizabeth Allan, Gilbert Harding
Twenty
Questioners : Anona Winn, Jack Train, Joy Adamson , Richard Dimbleby
"Lines" men : Eamonn Andrews , Gilbert Harding and the week's
"Celebrity"
10.15pm Christmas
Story
The
Face behind the Whiskers written and told by John Slater
10.30pm The Crib
as
Christmas Eve draws to its close, Father Agnellus Andrew, O.F.M., in a short
devotional programme,
explains the meaning of the Crib
10.40pm Weather
Forecast and News (sound only)
Christmas Day
Tuesday 25th December 1951
BBCTV
10.20am Service
from
St Paul's Cathedral, London
11.40am Closedown
3.20pm Film : Wallaby Jim of the Islands (1937)
starring George Huston, Ruth Coleman. Douglas Walton
4.15pm Closedown
5.30pm For the Children
Andy
Pandy's Christmas
5.45pm The Princess and the Swineherd
by
Nicholas Stuart Gray
adapted from the story by Hans Andersen
Originally produced by the London Children's Theatre
6.45pm Closedown
7.30pm Television's Christmas Party
Join
in the fun and games and meet many television personalities who have
contributed to programmes
during 1951 including Terry-Thomas, Jewel and Warriss, Norman Wisdom
& Ethel Revnell
9.00pm When We Are Married
by JB
Priestley, with Frank Pettingell and Raymond Huntley
10.45pm Newsreel
(Repeat of Monday's edition)
11.00pm Weather
Forecast and News (sound only)
11.15pm Closedown
Boxing Day Wednesday
26th December 1951
BBCTV
1.15pm Racing from Kempton Park
2.40pm Closedown
3.00pm Film : Here's Flash Casey (1938)
with
Eric Linden, Boots Mallory, Cully Richards, Holmes Herbert
4.00pm Closedown
5.30pm
Aladdin
Christmas Pantomime by Peter Ling
7.00pm Closedown
7.30pm Newsreel
7.45pm Film : Something to Sing About (1936)
starring James Cagney, Evelyn Daw
9.00pm The Season's Greetings
from Binnie Hale, Renee Houston and Donald
Stewart
The
Beverley Sisters, Harold Warrender Goodliffe, Jan Berenska and his Orchestra
Televised from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital
9.50pm Pot Luck
with
Charlie Chester
10.35pm Weather
Forecast and News (sound only)