Christmas Eve Saturday 24th December 1960
BBCTV
12.30pm Telewele
12.55pm Newyddion
News
in Welsh
1.00pm Grandstand
(1.05
Boxing: Floyd Patterson, 1.55 Weightlifting: England v Scotland,
2.10
Sports Quiz, 2.40, 3.50 Snooker: Joe Davis v Fred Davis,
2.55,
3.30, 4.05 Motoring, 3.15 Weightlifting, 4.30 Sports Results)
5.00pm The Lone Ranger
An Eye
for an Eye
5.25pm Christmas with the Appleyards
special Christmas reunion featuring the original members of the former
serial
5.50pm The News
5.53pm Today's Sport
introduced
by Kenneth Wolstenholme
6.00pm Juke Box Jury
presenting the latest in popular records with the opinions of Peter
Sellers
Russ
Conway, Catherine Boyle and a special guest.
Hosted
by David Jacobs
6.28pm Your Sunday Weather
6.30pm Dixon of Dock Green
Christmas Eve at the Nick, starring Jack Warner
7.00pm Tenderfoot
a
Western series starring Will Hutchins
7.45pm The Wakey Wakey Tavern
where
Billy Cotton and his band invite you to a Christmas Eve Party
with
Russ Conway, Harry Worth, Billy Fury
8.35pm The News
8.40pm The Saturday Film : The Bells of St Mary's
(1945)
starring Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman
10.20pm The Polite
Invasions
This
is the story of Mai Zetterling's first visit to Jokkmok in the Arctic Circle
for the traditional Lapp Festival at
Candlemas in early February
10.50pm A Festival
of Carols
from
Britain, France, Germany, and Belgium
11.30pm Welcome
Christmas
with
Doreen Hume, Cy Grant
12.00 Midnight
Mass
The
First Communion of Christmas from All Saints, Margaret Street, London
1.00am Closedown
Christmas Day Sunday
25th December 1960
BBCTV
9.29am Headline News
9.30am On Christmas Day in the Morning
Christmas songs and carols in Welsh and English, with Osian Ellis, Iona
Jones,
Rowland Jones, Shelley Singers
10.00am The Perry
Como Music Hall
starring Perry Como in his traditional Christmas programme
10.45am Christmas
Morning Service
from
Sandon Road Methodist Church, Birmingham
11.45am Max Jaffa
invites you to a Christmas party
12.05pm The
Adventures of Hiram Holliday
starring Wally Cox
12.30pm Sing We Now
of Christmas!
Carols
for Christmas Day sung by the Orpington Junior Singers
1.00pm The Queen's Christmas
Her
Majesty 's recorded Christmas Message to the Commonwealth
1.09pm The George Mitchell Glee Club
sing a
parade of popular Christmas songs from medieval to modem times
1.44pm Wells Fargo
The
exciting adventures of the Western Stagecoach Service starring
Dale Robertson
in Dead Man's Street
2.09pm Walt Disney
the
story of a man who became a legend, told by David Jacobs
3.25pm Appeal
on
behalf of the British Wireless for the Blind Fund
3.30pm Billy Smart's Circus
4.30pm What's My Line?
from
Hammersmith Hospital, London
Chairman, Eamonn Andrews
Panel:
Isobel Barnett, Barbara Kelly, Cyril Fletcher, Lord Boothby and a mystery guest
celebrity
5.00pm Tonight with Belafonte
A new
filmed programme of music and song starring the great entertainer Harry
Belafonte
5.50pm The News
Weather
6.00pm Christmas Night with the Stars
introduced by David Nixon
featuring The Black and White Minstrels, Sid
James, Nina and Frederick,
Harry
Worth, Kenneth McKellar, David Nixon and Robert Harren, Stanley Baxter
and
Betty Marsden, Joan Regan, Jimmy Edwards
7.15pm Film : The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
starring Ronald Colman and Madeleine Carroll
8.50pm The Sunday Night Play
Tuppence in the Gods starring Fay Compton
10.20pm Christmas at
Dean's Yard
Ludovic
Kennedy visits the Dean of Westminster at his historic house with its
private access to the Abbey
10.40pm Late Night
News
10.45pm Celebrity
Recital
Fou
Ts'ong plays
Presented by Arthur Langford
11.05pm Weather and
Closedown
Boxing Day Monday
26th December 1960
BBCTV
10.45am Cadw'n Ifanc
(Staying Young)
Christmas memories, includes special contributions from
Marfaretta Thomas and Morgan Williams
A
magazine for older folk in Welsh
11.05am Bronco
A
Western film series starring
Ty
Hardin as the roving cowboy adventurer in The Soft Answer
11.59am Headline News
and Weather
12.00 Boxing
DayGrandstand
(12.05
Motor Sport, 12.40, 2.47 Motor Racing from Brands Hatch,
1.00
Racing from Kempton Park, 3.10, 4.10 Skating from Bournemouth,
3.30
Amateur Boxing)
5.00pm The Balloon and the Baron
with Derek Francis, Dorothy
Holmes-Gore
6.00pm The News
6.03pm Today's Sport
introduced by Kenneth Wolstenholme
Today's sporting headlines and the classified football results
6.10pm Charlie Drake's Christmas Show
presenting highlights from his shows
6.55pm This is Your Life
with
Eamonn Andrews
7.25pm Just Gracie
Gracie
Fields in half-an-hour of songs and stories
7.55pm Brian Rix Presents...
Boobs
in the Wood, a farcical pantomime
9.25pm Maigret
A
crime series from the novels of Georges Simenon
10.20pm The News
10.35pm Television
Dancing Club
from
the Carlton Rooms, Maida Vale
11.05pm The Good Old
Days
Christmas edition of Old Time Music Hall from the famous
City
Varieties, Leeds
11.50pm Weather and
Closedown
Bank Holiday Tuesday
27th December 1960
BBCTV
12.35pm Newyddion
News
in Welsh
12.40pm Gwraig Y Ty
(The
Housewife) magazine in Welsh
12.55pm Lunchtime
News
1.00pm Bank HolidayGrandstand
(1.05,
2.10, 3.05 Motor Cycling at Brands Hatch: Sidecar race,
1.30,
2.00, 2.30, 3.00 Racing at Kempton Park)
3.30pm Watch with Mother
Andy
Pandy
3.45pm Laramie
Western series
4.30pm Sports Results and News Service
Football results from the teleprinter Racing summaries
Classified football results
5.00pm Chuk and Gek
a film
from Moscow
5.45pm Sooty
invites you to his Christmas party
5.53pm Today's Sport
introduced by Kenneth Wolstenholme
Today's sporting headlines and the classified football results
6.00pm The News
6.07pm Town and Around
news
magazine for South-East England
6.20pm This is the BBC
This
film, which won a British Film Academy Award, is being repeated as a result of
numerous requests. It
tells the story of an imaginary day in the life of the BBC.
7.25pm Whack-O!
starring Professor Jimmy Edwards and featuring Arthur Howard as Mr.
Pettigrew
7.55pm Francis Durbridge Presents...
The
World of Tim Frazer
8.25pm Film : Albert RN (1953)
starring Anthony Steel, Jack Warner
9.50pm The News
10.05pm London's
Festival Ballet
in
Graduation Ball, A ballet by David Lichine
10.45pm The Moonlight
Sonata
Mindru
Katz plays Beethoven's Sonata in C sharp minor
11.05pm Late Night
News and Weather
11.12pm Ar Yr Aelwyd
Light entertainment in Welsh
