Sunday 7 December 2014

Radio Times - Christmas Cover 1951 - What was on? - Christmas Past

  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)