Christmas Eve Thursday 24th December 1953
BBCTV
3.15pm About the Home
Introducted by Joan Gilbert
Floral
Decorations
Frances Perry shows how to make decorations from your winter garden
Christmas Stockings
James Norbury
tells how the practice of hanging up stockings at Christmas began
Dancing
Sydney
and Mary Thompson teach the 'Sir Roger de Coverley'
Last-Minutes Hints
Margot
Lovell suggests ways of adding to the pleasures of Christmas
4.00pm Watch with Mother
Rag,
Tag and Bobtail
4.15pm Closedown
5.00pm Children's Television
Children's Newsreel
A Time
to be Born
A
Nativity play by P. D. Cummins
5.45pm Closedown
7.55pm Weather Chart
8.00pm Newsreel
8.15pm Ballet Rambert in Peter and the Wolf
Prokofiev's fairy tale
8.40pm R.C.A.F. Christmas at North Luffenham
The
Royal Canadian Air Force at North Luffenham Philip Robinson visits the Canadian
camp to meet one of the
many Canadian airmen who, with his family, is celebrating Christmas three
thousand miles from his
home town
9.10pm Ray Martin and his Orchestra
with
Joan Regan, The Television Toppers
9.40pm Animal, Vegetable, Mineral ?
A
special Christmas edition in which the chairman produces some seasonable
objects to puzzle the
experts The Experts include : Sir Mortimer Wheeler. Hugh Shortt,
Chairman : Glyn Daniel
10.10pm The Crib
The
Christmas story is retold on Christmas Eve in the quiet of a church crypt in
the heart of London
from
St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London
10.25pm News (sound
only)
Christmas Day Friday
25th December 1953
BBCTV
11.00am Christmas Day
Service
. from
the Parish Church of St. Julian the Hospitaller, Wellow, Somerset
12.00 Closedown
3.15pm Christmas Journey Round the World
A
flying journey Eastwards round the world to capture the festive spirit in which
preparations are made
immediately before Christmas
For
this filmed programme a BBC camera team travelled more than 26,000 miles in
five-and-a-half days and
made twenty-two calls from Rome to Bangkok, from the beaches of Australia to
the shores of
Honolulu, from the snows of Canada to the streets of New York
4.15pm Watch with Mother
Andy
Pandy
4.30pm Closedown
5.00pm Children's Television
The
Walt Disney Christmas Show
A film
of a Christmas party in an American Hospital
Introducing through a magic mirror artists and scenes from
Snow
White and the Seven Dwarfs
Mickey
Mouse and the Band Concert
Uncle
Remus
Donald
Duck the Plumber
Bambi
5.55pm Closedown
7.25pm Weather Chart
7.30pm Christmas Party
Your
Hosts McDonald and Leslie Michell,
Among
the guests who have accepted invitations are
Terry-Thomas, Norman Wisdom, Arthur Askey,
The
Beverley Sisters, Julie Andrews, Chan Canasta,
Shirley Abicair, John Slater and Max Bygraves
9.15pm Newsreel
9.30pm Interlude
9.40pm Dear Octopus
starring Helen Haye, Malcolm Keen and Rachel Gurney
A
comedy by Dodie Smith
11.25pm News (sound
only)
11.40pm Closedown
Boxing Day Saturday
26th December 1953
BBCTV
1.10pm Racing from Kempton Park
2.35pm Amateur Rugby League Football
Yorkshire v Lancashire
3.45pm Alpine Patrol
Swiss
film about the work of a mountain frontier patrol
5.00pm Children's Television : Toad of Toad Hall
by A.
A. Milne From Kenneth Grahame's book
"The Wind in the Willows"
Before
an invited audience of children at the Television Theatre
6.30pm Closedown
7.00pm The Week's Newsreel
This
week's Television Newsreels (shortened versions) repeated at the following
times:
Monday's edition. 7.00 app. Tuesday's edition. 7.14 app.
Wednesday's edition, 7.28 app. Thursday's edition, 7.42 app. Friday's
edition, 7.56 app.
8.10pm Weather Chart and Interlude
8.15pm Garrison Theatre
from
the a Royal Canadian Air Force Station
North
Luffenham with Lind Joyce, David Hurst, Cal McCord, Fran Dowie and Candy Kane
Tommy
Reilly, The Kordites
introduced by Bob Monkhouse
9.30pm The Teckman Biography
a
serial in six parts by Francis Durbridge, part 1- The Proposition
10.00pm Maurice
Chevalier
attends a special party in his honour at Cafe Continental
11.00pm News (sound
only)
Sunday 27th December
1953
BBCTV
5.00pm Children's Television
Muffin
the Mule with Annette Mills
You
are invited to Jack Hylton's Circus
Join
Brian Johnston at Earls Court where a special audience of children are watching
part of this exciting
show
The
Enchanted Garret
A play
for Christmas by Antonia Ridge
6.20pm Closedown
7.55pm Weather Chart
8.00pm What's My Line
with
Pat Kirkwood, Lady Barnett, Michael Denison and Gilbert Harding trying to find
the answers and
Eamonn Andrews to see fair play
8.30pm The Rose Without a Thorn
starring Basil Sydney, Barbara Jefford and Tony Britton
10.20pm Epilogue
Good
News for the New Year The Rev. Dr. Donald O. Soper, President of the Methodist
Conference,
speaks on the challenge of our time
10.30pm News (sound
only)
Monday 28th December
1953 (Bank Holiday)
BBCTV
3.15pm Film : The Phantom Shot (1948)
starring John Stuart, Olga Lindo, Howard Marion-Crawford, Louise Lord
4.00pm Salzburg, City of Festival
This
BBC television film tells the story of Salzburg, the birthplace of Mozart,
and
the festival of his music held there every year
4.15pm Closedown
5.00pm Children's Television
Laurel
and Hardy in "Swiss Miss"
6.10pm Closedown
7.55pm Weather Chart
8.00pm Newsreel
8.15pm All Your Own
A
special edition of the Children's Television programme in which children from
all over the country are
invited to take part
Edited
and arranged by Cliff Michelmore
9.00pm The Moving Spirit
cartoon film, made for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company by Halas and
Batchelor,
showing the development of the horse-less carriage
9.20pm The Carnival of the Animals
a
fantasy, with the Ballet Rambert
9.40pm International Survey
A
series of programmes on international affairs in which Alan Bullock analyses
developments in Europe
4-The
Changing Pattern in the West
10.20pm News (sound
only)
