Christmas Eve Monday
24th December 1956
BBCTV
3.00pm Mainly for Women Christmas Party
George
Moon and Jon Pertwee with Roma Fairley, Joan Gilbert. Betty Lait, Vera
McKechnie,
Carmen
del Rio, Barry Bucknell, James Drake, Billy Milton and other regular
contributors to afternoon
programmes
3.45pm Watch with Mother
Picture Book
4.00pm Closedown
5.00pm Children's Television
presents Gerald Campion in "Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School"
by Frank Richards
"Bunter's Christmas Box"
6.30pm Loganberry Pie
Jimmy
Logan invites some young friends to fun and games behind the scenes on the
stage of the
Alhambra Theatre, Glasgow, between performances of "Babes in the
Wood"
6.40pm A Christingle for Christmas
in
Gracehill, Co. Antrim, the children of the Moravian Church join in a ceremony
which happens every
Christmas Eve
7.00pm News
Sports
News Highlight introduced by Cliff Michelmore
Weather
7.15pm Film : Stagecoach (1939)
starring Claire Trevor, John Wayne and directed by John Ford
8.45pm This Is Your Life
introduced by Eamonn Andrews
9.15pm Panorama
Richard Dimbleby brings you Television's Window on the World
10.00pm Off the
Record
Jack
Payne introduces stars and personalities who are Off The Record
together with the latest news from the record industry featuring
Anne
Shelton, Alma Cogan, Lonnie Donegan, and his Skiffle Group, Jill Day
Stanley Black, Tommy Steele with The Concert Orchestra and The George
Mitchell Singers
10.30pm The Outing
by Dylan Thomas, told by Emlyn
Williams
10.45pm News
11.00pm Amahl and the
Night Visitors
Christmas story with music by Gian-Carlo Menotti
11.50pm First
Communion of Christmas Day
celebrated in York Minster by the Very Rev. Eric Milner-White , Dean of
York
1.00am Weather
Christmas Day
Tuesday 25th December 1956
BBCTV
11.00am A Family
Service
from
Warwick Road Congregational Church, Coventry uniting with the Queen's Road
Baptist Church
2.55pm The Duke of Edinburgh's Message (sound only)
3.00pm The Queen's Christmas Message (sound only)
3.15pm Variety Theatre of China
A BBC
telerecording of some of the outstanding and unusual acts from the recent
London
stage production
3.30pm Grand Circus
Paris,
A direct relay of part of the Grand Circus from the Palais des Sports in Paris
including : aerial
acts, clowns jugglers, chimpanzees and the dance of thirty elephants
4.30pm Puss in Boots
story
for children told by Johnny Morris
4.50pm The Lone Ranger
Who is
he?
What
is he?
Why is
he masked?
In
this exciting film of the wild West the Lone Ranger and Tonto, his faithful
Indian friend, fight a gang of
bank robbers and come to the rescue of a lonely family at Christmas
5.15pm The Ice Crackers
Max
Wall in a Christmas party on ice featuring young British skating stars from
Queens Ice Club, London
introduced by David Jacobs
5.45pm Today's Sport
Kenneth Wolstenholme gives today's football and major sporting results
5.50pm Weather followed by
What's
on Tonight
with
Michael Barry, Patricia Foy and Ronnie Waldman
6.00pm Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro Act II
An
opera by Mozart to a libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte after Beaumarchais
(Sung
In German)
7.00pm News
7.10pm Christmas Disneyland
Walt
Disney brings along some old friends and invites you to meet some new ones in a
film programme
specially prepared for BBC Television's Christmas Day
7.45pm Pantomania or Dick Whittington
by
Eric Sykes, with Jean Kent, Sylvia Peters, Frankie Howerd,
Hattie
Jacques, Billy Cotton, Spike Milligan, Fred Emney and David Attenborough
8.45pm Home is the Sailor
A
comedy specially written for the BBC Television Service for Christmas Day by
Arthur Macrae
starring Brenda Bruce and Charles Victor
10.00pm Music for You
introduced by Eric Robinson
11.15pm News Summary
and Weather
Closedown
Boxing Day Wednesday
26th December 1956
BBCTV
1.30pm Racing at Kempton Park
3.00pm Film : The Kansan (1943)
starring Richard Dix, Jane Wyatt
4.30pm Watch with Mother
Andy
Pandy
4.45pm Children's Television presents The Goose Girl
fairy
tale based on the story by the Brothers Grimm by Clifford Williams and Donald
Johnson
5.45pm Today's Sport
Kenneth Wolstenholme gives today's football, racing, and major sporting
results followed by
The
Weather
7.00pm News
7.10pm At Home on Boxing Day with Bernard Braden and
Barbara Kelly
with
their Children at their home in Shepperton, Middlesex
introduced by Hywel Davies
7.40pm Bobby Howes, Sally Bazely and Leslie Phillips
in "Beauty and the Beast"
with
Inia Te Wiata and David Hughes. Musical play specially written for BBC
Television
9.00pm The Light of Heart
by
Emlyn Williams starring John Longden and Maxine Audley
10.30pm The Good Old
Days
Christmas
Edition of Old-Time Music-Hall
11.30pm News Summary,
Weather
Closedown
