Christmas Eve Friday 24th December 1954
BBCTV
3.00pm Road Safety
Jeanne
Heal, with the help of experts, enquires into the causes of accidents to
children, and in particular
why more than a third of child road casualties are under five years old
3.30pm The Boarder
with
Amos 'n' Andy, a comedy film made for television
5.00pm Children's Television : Away in a Manger
written and produced by Dorothea Brooking
Carols recorded by boys of Canterbury
Cathedral Choir
7.00pm Ulster Mirror (Kirk O`Shotts and Glencairn
only)
A
fortnightly Northern Ireland television magazine
7.15pm Closedown
7.25pm Weather Chart
7.30pm News an Newsreel
7.45pm The Grove Family
by
Michael and Roland Pertwee
"Christmas Eve"
8.05pm Amahl and the Night Visitors
a
Christmas story with music, by Gian-Carlo Menotti
8.55pm The Spirit of Christmas
carols from St Mary's Hospital,
Paddington
9.05pm Film : Beyond Tomorrow (1940)
a
story that begins on Christmas Eve with Jean Parker
C.
Aubrey Smith, Charles Winninger and Richard Carlson
10.20pm Animal, Vegetable,
Mineral ?
Glyn
Daniel challenges a panel of experts to identify a series of unusual objects,
which he has specially
collected for Christmas Eve
The
Experts : Sir Mortimer Wheeler, Professor of Archaeology, University of London
Professor Thomas Bodkin, Former Director of the Barber Institute and
Professor of Fine Arts at Birmingham
University, Hugh de S. Shortt Curator of Salisbury Museum
10.50pm News
Headlines (sound only)
10.55pm Mass
from
Notre Dame, Paris
Viewers are invited to take part in the Midnight Mass of the Nativity
from the famous Cathedral of Paris
12.30am Closedown
Christmas Day
Saturday 25th December 1954
BBCTV
11.00am Morning
Service
for
Christmas Day from St Ann's Parish Church, Manchester
12.00 Closedown
3.15pm The Season's Greetings
from
Betty Driver, George Martin, Carole Carr, Robert Harbin Saveen, Rita Martell
Ronald
Chesney, The Charmony Three, Sidney Jerome and his Orchestra who entertain
disabled
ex-Servicemen and their families and friends at the Star and Garter
Home, Richmond
4.15pm Closedown
4.45pm Children's Television
Andy
Pandy &
A
Christmas Barnstorm : The pleasure of your company is requested at a farm near
Glasgow where
Jack
Edwardes and Charlie Drake , with some old and new friends, are celebrating at
a Christmas party
6.00pm Association Football Results
6.05pm Closedown
7.25pm Weather Chart
7.30pm News and Newsreel
7.45pm Wireless for the Blind
Jeanne
Heal appeals on behalf of the British Wireless for the Blind Fund
7.50pm Television's Christmas Party
featuring Arthur Askey, Tommy Cooper,
Fred
Emney, David Nixon, Petula Clark, Eve Boswell
Harry Secombe, Wilfred Pickles
and Bob Monkhouse,
Sooty
and Harry Corbett and Denis Goodwin
9.30pm A Party for Christmas
a
comedy in three acts by N. C . Hunter
11.00pm News (sound
only)
11.15pm Closedown
Christmas Sunday
26th December 1954
BBCTV
2.00pm Rhythm on Ice and Snow
Winter
sports from the mountain village of Gstaad in the Bernese Oberland
Commentator in Switzerland : Peter Dimmock
3.00pm Closedown
5.00pm Children's Television For Older Children :
Tom Brown's Schooldays
An
American film based on the book by Thomas Hughes with Jimmy Lydon
Freddie Bartholomew , Cedric Hardwicke
6.15pm Closedown
7.25pm Weather Chart
7.30pm News and Newsreel
7.45pm What's My Line
with
Isobel Barnett, Barbara Kelly, David Nixon and Gilbert Harding trying to find
the answers and
Eamonn Andrews to see fair play
8.25pm John Slater
"It happened to you"
8.30pm Aladdin on Ice
excerpts from Sir Arthur Elvin's pantomime starring Jacqueline Du Bief
9.45pm The Captive
adapted from Pirandello's story, with Harcourt Williams
10.30pm Sleep, Holy
Babe
a
quiet, reflective programme of music at the end of the first Sunday after
Christmas
10.38pm News (sound
only)
Boxing Day Monday
27th December 1954
BBCTV
1.30pm Racing at Kempton Park
(1.45
The Hounslow Handicap Hurdle Race,
2.15
The King George VI Steeplechase, 2.45 The Egham Novices' Hurdle Race)
2.50pm Interlude
3.00pm Alias Troubles
an
adventure film of a boy and his dog
starring Lynne Roberts. Douglass
Kennedy and Gordon Gebert
3.30pm Television Goes to Sea
The
British Railways' car ferry S.S. Lord Warden leaves Boulogne Harbour every
afternoon on her regular
Channel crossing to Dover From the bridge and decks of the s.s. Lord
Warden outside broadcast cameras show the
departure from the French port and scenes on board the ship at sea
4.00pm Closedown
5.00pm Children's Television : The Three Princes
A tale
of the thousand nights and one night
Made
into a play for television and produced by Rex Tucker
5.50pm Association Football Results
6.00pm Dynasty of the Hour Glasses
an
impression of the power of the watch in everyday life
The
programme includes : A Mimed Ridicule of Time, by Albert Mol, A Guide to the
Ticking Temples of
Time by Cruys Voorbergh, An impression of twenty-four hours in Munt Square
in the heart of Amsterdam,
"Time and Tide" by the New Dutch Ballet Group
6.45pm Closedown
7.25pm Weather Chart
7.30pm News and Newsreel
7.45pm War in the Air
A
series of BBC Television films telling the history of air power In the past
twenty years
8—Round the Clock
This
film covers the day and night bombing of Germany during 1943
8.00pm Round the Clock
8.15pm Top Town Parade
Some
of the outstanding artists who have appeared in the present "Top
Town" series
9.15pm Frankie Howerd and Eleanor Summerfield in
"Tons of Money"
a
farce by Will Evans and Valentino
10.45pm News (sound
only)
Tuesday 28th
December 1954 (Bank Holiday)
BBCTV
1.30pm Racing at Kempton Park
(1.45
Christmas Handicap Hurdle, 2.15 Kenton Handicap
Steeplechase, 2.45 Littleton Four-Year-Old Hurdle Race)
2.50pm Interlude
3.00pm For Women Leisure and Pleasure
introduced by Andrea Troubridge : I'd Like You To Meet ... Hattie
Jacques
Exhibition : Joan Rodker gives a preview of the exhibition of silver
from churches in England and Wales, organised by the Historic
Churches Preservation Trust
Film
Making : Margaret Thomson discusses with Catherine Paul the art of directing
child film actors
Sociable Songs : Singers in Consort directed by Richard Wood
4.00pm Watch with Mother
Andy
Pandy
4.15pm Closedown
5.00pm Children's Television
Spot
the Tune Another competition introduced by Eric Robinson with Margaret Good
(piano) and members of the Allegri String
Quartet
Can
You Do It? programme of tricks, stunts, and catches by Geoffrey Robinson
Junior
Soccer Skills Contest Bemrose School, Derby v. Norlington Road School, Leyton
Referee, A. E. Ellis (Scunthorpe)
Guest star, Billy Wright
5.50pm Closedown
7.25pm Weather Chart
7.30pm News and Newsreel
7.45pm Snooker
John
Pullman v John Barrie
8.15pm Music-Hall Parade
with
Les Hollywoods (Marionettes) Monsieur John (Acrobat)
Les
Eldino and Tonita and Lill (Tight-rope walkers) Don Pamphile (Singing
ventriloquist)
La Troupe Bello (Acrobats) Les Ballets de
Pacita Thomas (Spanish dancers)
Daniele Darmance (Acrobatic
dancer) Les Mains Joly (Hand ballet by Yves Jolyi)
Lyane Dayde (Premiere danseuse
of the Paris Opera) Line Renaud (songs)
Georges Ulmer (who
entertains in eight languages)
9.30pm Zoo Quest
Part 2
The
story of the recent expedition to the forests of West Africa in search of rare
birds and animals, told
by the leader, Jack Lester, of the London Zoo
10.00pm Find the Link
with
Peter Martyn in the chair and Josephine Douglas, Moira Lister, Kenneth Horne
Peter
Noble finding the links between the challengers
Special investigators, Pauline Forrester and Larry Forrester
10.30pm News (sound
only)
