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Radio Times Christmas Cover 1969

 Christmas Eve Wednesday 24th December 1969

  BBC1 


10.35am  Nai Zindagi- Naya Jeevan
               
New Citizens with Christmas Cheer for the                    Old
               The Asian community in Glasgow presents a                programme of special entertainment to the                  residents of an old people's home (b&w)


11.05am  Here's Lucy
                
starring Lucille Ball (repeat)

11.30am  The Golden Age of Comedy 
                Highlights of laughter from the studios of                     Mack Sennett and Hal Roach featuring the                   most famous comedians of the                                     1920's (b&w) 
                (repeat)

12.45pm  Jackanory
                
The Minstrel and the Mountain read
                by John Stride (b&w)


  1.00pm  The Great Sleigh Robbery
               
 cartoon of the picture book by Michael                           Foreman (repeat)

  1.10pm  Boniface's Holiday
                
a cartoon from Russia

  1.30pm  Watch with Mother
               
 The Herbs

  1.45pm  The News, Weatherman
 Bert Foord

  1.50pm  A "Sky at Night" Special : 1969 -
                Year of Space
              
  "I believe 1969 may turn out the most                         famous year in all history" 
                So says Patrick Moore who, this afternoon,                   surveys the space highlights and                                   astronomical achievements of 1969. He                       shows unique film of a Russian manned                       space-flight, and interviews leading                               American space scientists. 

  2.20pm  Film : Star of India (1954)
                
starring Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, 
                Herbert Lom
       
  3.45pm  4472- Flying Scotsman 
                
An epitaph for the age of steam (repeat)

  4.25pm  Play School
                
(shown at 11.00am on BBC2)

  4.50pm  The Private Life of the Robin
              
  The robin is Britain's most popular bird; it                     strikes up friendships with humans and                         nests in the unlikeliest places. At Christmas                 the redbreast on our greetings cards is a                       messenger of peace and goodwill, but in                       reality it can be a belligerent defender of its                   back-garden territory

  5.15pm  Something Cool
                
a musical blend of ice skating artistry

  5.50pm  National News and Weather

  6.00pm  Regional News, Local Weather

  6.15pm  Carols from King's
                
A Service of Lessons and Carols from the                       Chapel of King's College, Cambridge 

  7.00pm  The Doctors
               
 starring John Barrie, Richard Leech,
                Justine Lord with Irene Hamilton 

                and guest star Wilfred Pickles 


  7.25pm  The Gang Show
               
 with a cast of 120 members of the Scout                     and Guide Movement the highlights of the                   1969 production 

  8.15pm  Cilla
                
with Cliff Richard, Dusty Spingfield and 
                Kenny Everett's "Review of Pop" 1969

  9.05pm  The Main News
                
with John Edmunds  Weather

  9.25pm  The Merry Widow
                
an operetta with Mary Costa and 
                Jeremy Brett

11.10pm  The Spinners at the Phil
               
 Tonight's programme is part of a concert                       recorded in the unique atmosphere of the                     Liverpool Philharmonic Hall

11.45pm  Christmas Midnight
                Mass
                
from the Roman Catholic Church of 
                the Sacred Heart, Westbury-on-Trym, 
                Bristol



  
Christmas Day Thursday 25th December 1969 

  BBC1

  9.00am  On Christmas Day in the Morning
                
The children of: The Christopher Wren                         School Hammersmith County School
                St Clement Danes Grammar School                             Burlington Girls' Grammar School
                Ellerslie Primary School present an                               entertainment for Christmas morning


  9.30am  A Spoonful of Sugar
                
from Stoke Mandeville Hospital
                with Michael Aspel and Sheila Tracy


10.00am  The News and Weather

10.05am  Tom and Jerry
              
  Cat Fishin'

10.15am  The Doctors
                
starring John Barrie, Justine Lord, 
                Paul Massie, Wilfred Pickles                                                             
 10.35am  Christmas Morning Service
                
from St George's Chapel,  Windsor Castle 
                in the prescence of HM The Queen, 
                HRH The Duke of Edinburgh and other  
                members of the Royal Family                                   

11.45am  Rolf Harris 
               
 invites you to Meet the Kids 
              
  who are in hospital this Christmas
                                                               
12.30pm  Royal Family
                A special Christmas showing of the historic                   documentary film by Richard Cawston                                                 
  2.15pm  Top of the Pops '69   
                
Part 1 with Pete Murray and Jimmy Savile
                                                    
  3.00pm  Billy Smart's Circus Spectacular                              
  4.10pm  Disney Time
                
introduced by Julie Andrews

  5.00pm  Cinderella
                
pantomime starring 
                Jimmy Tarbuck, Beryl Reid, Anita Harris, 
                Jack Tripp and Basil Brush


  6.30pm  The Main News 
with Robert Dougall and
                Weather

  6.40pm  Save the Children
                
a Christmas Appeal by Barbara Mullen

  6.45pm  Christmas Night with the Stars
                
introduced by Val Doonican and featuring:
                Dad's Army, Dick Emery, Marty, 
                Kenneth McKellar and Moira Anderson,
                Not in Front of the Children, 

                Monty Python's Flying Circus, 
                The Cliff Adams Singers   
              

  8.15pm  The Morecambe and Wise
                Christmas Show
                
with guests Susan Hampshire, 
                Frankie Vaughan, Nina, The Pattersons,  
                Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen 

 

  9.15pm  Film : McLintock (1963) starring 
               
 John Wayne, Stefanie Powers
                                                                                  11.15pm  Tony Bennett and the
                Count Basie Orchestra
               
 A musical spectacular with these two great                   artists     

12.05am  And Was Made Black
                At the end of the day which celebrates God's                 coming among men, we look at a modern                     "incarnation." Grace Halsell dropped out of                   prosperous White America, turned herself                     black, and went to live in Harlem and                           Mississippi


  Boxing Day Friday 26th December 1969

  BBC1 

  9.30am  Watch with Mother
                
Pogle's Wood (b&w)

  9.45am  The News, Weatherman 
George Luce

  9.50am  Tom and Jerry
               
 Johann Mouse  (repeat)

10.00am  The Conquest of Everest
              
  The dramatic story of the first successful                       climb of the world's highest mountain

11.15am  Television Brain of Britain
                
second semi-final
                Chairman : Harvey Hall (b&w)


11.35am  The Virginian
              
  starring James Drury

12.50pm  Boxing Day Grandstand
                
(12.50, 1.25, 1.50, 2.20 Racing from 
                Kempton Park 1.10, 1.40,  2.10  Motor 
                Racing from the Lydden Circuit, Kent
                1.20  Football Preview, 2.40 Rugby League)


  3.05pm  Film : Singin' in the Rain (1952)
               
 starring Gene Kelly,
                Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds


  4.45pm  Pinocchio
               
 A musical fairy tale, with Peter Noone                           (Herman of the Hermits) as the famous                       puppet, and Burl Ives as the woodcarver

  6.00pm  National News and Weather

  6.10pm  Today's Sport
               
 introduced by Frank Bough
                All the classified football, racing, and rugby                   results
                News.... comment.... action from today's top                 sporting events

  6.20pm  Top of the Pops '69
               
 part 2 with Alan Freeman and 
                Tony Blackburn

  7.00pm  Film : Doctor at Large (1957) 
                
starring Dirk Bogarde,
                Muriel Pavlow, Donald Sinden, 

                James Robertson Justice

  8.35pm  Pickwick
              
  musical based on The Pickwick Papers
                Harry Secombe, Roy Castle,
                Hattie Jacques, Aubrey Woods
                and Bill Fraser

10.05pm  The Main News 
with Richard Baker 
               
 and Weather

10.15pm  If It Moves- It`s Rude!
              
  story of the Windmill Theatre

11.05pm  Bardot Special
                
Brigitte Bardot with guests 
                Manitas de Palta, Sacha Distel

 
 
 
Christmas Eve Wednesday 24th December 1969

  BBC2 

11.00am  Play School
               
 Pets Day

11.20am  Closedown

  4.45pm  Christmas on 2
               
 A look at some of the programmes
                over the Christmas holiday


  4.50pm  The Three Princes
                
starring Timothy Dalton and Isla Blair

  5.50pm  My World...and Welcome to It
                
an invitation to step into the humorous and                 imaginative world of James Thurber

  6.15pm  Silbury Saga
              
  For three seasons, the archaeologists,                           watched by BBC cameras, camped at the                     foot of Silbury Hill in Wiltshire. Now, as                         traces of their presence fast disappear,                         Ludovic Kennedy looks back on the third and                 most publicised attempt to answer the                         multitude of questions posed by the biggest                 prehistoric man-made mound in Europe

  7.00pm  Show of the Week
                
Mantovani and his Concert Orchestra

  7.50pm  Newsroom 
and Weather

  8.15pm  Johnny Cash
                
On Christmas Eve, Man Alive hands over to                   a remarkable film made by a husband and                     wife team in America about Johnny Cash.                     The film followed him not only on a singing                   tour, but on a return to his early beginnings                 and his first background : the main                               inspiration of his haunting songs

  9.25pm  Film : Genevieve (1953)
                
starring John Gregson, Dinah Sheridan, 
                Kenneth More, Kay Kendall

10.50pm  Christmas Carols
                
introduced by Michael Flanders,
                Wandsworth School Choir


11.15pm  News Summary

11.20pm  Film : Laura(1944)
                
starring Gene Tierney,
                Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, 

                Vincent Price, Judith Anderson

































 




















  Christmas Day Thursday 25th December 1969 

  BBC2

10.15am  Play School
              
  Christmas Day

10.35am  Christmas Morning Service
                
(as BBC1)

11.45am  Kyoto
                
narrated by Sir Michael Redgrave

 12.30pm  Royal Family
                
(as BBC1)

  2.15pm  Chronicle : The Fate of the Armada
               
 introduced by
                Magnus Magnusson
 (Repeat)

  3.00pm  The Royal Ballet
               
 The Sleeping Beauty
  
   5.25pm  News Summary

   5.30pm  Call My Bluff
                 
Christmas Edition 
                 Cliff Michelmore, Kenneth More and Lance 
                 Percival v Jean Metcalfe, Eleanor  
                 Summerfield and Hilary Pritchard
                 Referee : Robert Robinson

  6.00pm  The Price of Fame or Fame at Any Price
                
starring Georgie Fame and Alan Price

  6.45pm  The Paladins of Palermo 
              
  puppet theatre, (sub-titled)

  7.10pm  Children Talking
                
That Christmas Feeling
               
 Gerald Harrison talks to boys and girls in                       North London schools about the world's                       biggest festival

  7.20pm  Jesus
                
The story of His life through the eyes of the                 young generation featuring
                The Young Generation

  8.05pm  The News and Weather

  8.15pm  Birds-Eye View
                
Beside the Seaside 
                by Sir John Betjeman

  9.05pm  This Colourful Year of Sport
                
At home in his 200-year-old Sussex                             windmill Henry Longhurst looks back in                         colour on the highspots and low-spots of                       sport in 1969

10.25pm  Barbra Streisand
               
 entertains and causes
                A Happening in Central Park

11.15pm  News Headlines

11.16pm  Film :  The Day They Robbed the
                Bank of England (1960)  
                
starring Aldo Ray, Peter O'Toole, 
                Elizabeth Sellars

















 

  
Boxing Day Friday 26th December 1969

  BBC2

11.00am  Play School  
                
Science Day

11.20am  Closedown

12.50pm  The Red Balloon
                
Albert Lamorisse's delightful award-winning                   fantasy about a little boy who makes friends                 with a red balloon

  1.25pm  Film : Bell, Book and Candle (1958)
                
starring James Stewart, Kim Novak, 
                Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs

  3.05pm  News Summary

  3.10pm  Gardeners' World
               
 from Blenheim Palace with
                Percy Thrower and guest Arthur Negus


  3.40pm  Aïda
               
 Verdi's opera conducted by 
                Edward Downes 
(repeat)

  6.10pm  The Distracted Preacher
               
 starring Stephanie Beacham 
                and Christopher Gable


  7.00pm  BBC2's Company of Comedy
               
 introduced by John Cleese :
                A choice of comedy scenes from BBC2 

                shows during 1969 including Marty, 
                Where Was Spring?,
                Cage Me a Leacock, Q5, Barry Humphries'
                Scandals, The World of Beachcomber, 

                Broaden Your Mind


  7.25pm  The Coward Revue 
               
 A musical tribute to Noël Coward

  8.30pm  News

  8.35pm  Cold Comfort Farm
                
starring Alastair Sim 1/3:  Folk

  9.20pm  Jazz Scene
               
 at the Ronnie Scott Club

10.15pm  Film :  An Affair to Remember (1957)
                
starring Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr

12.05am  News Summary