Christmas Eve Thursday 24th December 1964
BBC1 10.45am Watch with Mother Rag, Tag, and Bobtail 11.00am Closedown 1.05pm Heddiw Topical items in Welsh 1.25pm The News 1.30pm Watch with Mother Andy Pandy 1.45pm Closedown 3.40pm TE Lawrence (1888-1935) An extraordinarily vivid picture of a perennially enigmatic figure 4.40pm Film : The Yellow Slippers (1961) film from Poland 6.00pm The News 6.10pm Town and Around News and views from London and the South-East introduced by Richard Baker Weather 6.35pm Mr Magoo's Christmas Carol cartoon musical based on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 7.25pm Top of the Pops '64 with Jimmy Savile, David Jacobs Alan Freeman, Peter Murray 8.25pm Frankie Howerd stars in a series of unlikely situations 8.50pm Film : Holiday Inn (1942) starring Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire 10.25pm News followed by The Weather 10.40pm Christmas Carols from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge 11.25pm The Christmas Midnight Communion, from the Church of St Mary, Redcliffe, Bristol 12.40am Closedown Christmas Day Friday 25th December 1964 BBC1 9.15am The Brave Little Tailor a German film based on a story by the Brothers Grimm 9.50am Welcome Christmas! words and music for this Festive morn 10.30am The World of the Penguin Whether they breed on Antarctic ice or African sand, the penguin's true home is the sea 11.15am Christmas Morning Service from Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church 12.00 Leslie Crowther invites you to Meet the Kids in hospital at Christmas with Peter Glaze Harold Taylor and The Bert Hayes Trio 12.45pm Hob y Deri Dando music and song from Wales 1.30pm Temple Houston Last Full Moon Western 2.20pm Pinky and Perky in Christmas Pig-tale 2.30pm Compact A Surprise for Christmas 3.00pm The Queen 3.05pm Billy Smart's Circus 4.10pm Disney Time with Julie Andrews 5.10pm News Headlines followed by Robert Dougall appeals for the Royal National Institute for the Deaf 5.15pm Robinson Crusoe starring Norman Wisdom 7.15pm Christmas Night with the Stars introduced by Jack Warner, featuring the Black and White Minstrels, Roy Castle, Billy Cotton Band Show, Dick Emery, Benny Hill, Hugh and I, Kathy Kirby, The Likely Lads, Marriage Lines, Meet the Wife,Andy Stewart, Top of the Pops 8.45pm Laughter from Whitehall Brian Rix presents Simple Spymen 10.15pm The News 10.25pm The Great War A twenty-six-part history Part 11: Hell cannot be so terrible 11.05pm Mexican Fiesta The Ballet Folklorico of Mexico in a programme of Latin-American folk dance 11.45pm Postscript to Christmas Day with The Rev. R.T. Brooks 11.50pm The Weather Closedown Boxing Day Saturday 26th December 1964 BBC1 10.45am Watch with Mother The Woodentops 11.00am Closedown 11.30am The Next Place Jim Phelan on a journey through Wales 12.15pm Grandstand (Motor Racing from Brand`s Hatch, Racing from Kempton Park, International Ice Skating from Garmisch) 4.10pm Film : Black Beauty (1946) A film based on the novel by Anna Sewell 5.20pm Today's Sport introduced by David Coleman with all the day's results 5.30pm Juke Box Jury A new disc—a Hit or a Miss? Comments and opinions on the latest pop releases This week's panel: Alan Freeman Nyree Dawn Porter William Rushton Susannah York In the chair, David. Jacobs 5.55pm Doctor Who Flashpoint, starring William Hartnell 6.20pm The News and Weather 6.30pm Dixon of Dock Green Routine 7.15pm Film : Frenchman's Creek (1944) starring Joan Fontaine 9.05pm The Good Old Days Christmas edition of Old-Time Music-Hall from the stage of the Famous City Varieties Theatre, Leeds 10.00pm R3 Ministry of Research Centre No 3- The Short Cut starring John Robinson Elizabeth Sellars, Richard Wordsworth 10.50pm News and Sport 11.00pm Danny Kaye Show with guests Nat King Cole, Mary Tyler Moore 11.40pm The Weather Closedown Sunday 27th December 1964 BBC1 10.30am Solemn High Mass from St Mary's Roman Catholic Cathedral, Edinburgh 11.30am Closedown 2.30pm Farming The Crofters of Skye 3.00pm Commander Cousteau The House Under the Sea The extraordinary story of Claude Wesly and Albert Falco who lived and worked for a week under the sea 3.55pm Z Cars a second showing of Welcome Home, Jigger 4.45pm Pinky and Perky in The Pig-Star Show 5.00pm The Royal Ballet Coppelia Ballet in three acts by C. Nuitter and A.Saint-Leon 6.10pm The News and The Weather 6.15pm Meeting Point The Confession Stone 6.45pm Sunday Story Billie Whitelaw tells three stories for Christmas 6.50pm Songs of Praise from Netherlee Parish Church, Glasgow 7.25pm Film : The Heiress (1949) starring Oliver de Havilland 9.15pm Kipling The Man Who Was 10.05pm The News 10.15pm Fred Hoyle's Universe No literary genius could have invented a story one-hundredth part as fantastic as the sober facts which have been unearthed by astronomical science 11.05pm Meeting Point First transmission at 6.15pm 11.35pm The Weather Closedown Bank Holiday Monday 28th December 1964 BBC1 10.45am Watch with Mother Picture Book 11.00am Closedown 12.40pm The News 12.45pm Racing at Kempton Park (Kenton Handicap Steeplechase, Christmas Handicap Hurdle, Oatlands Handicap Steeplechase, Novice's Steeplechase) 2.40pm Watch with Mother Tales of the Riverbank 2.55pm Closedown 5.05pm Blue Peter with Christopher Trace and Valerie Singleton 5.30pm Ripcord series of film adventures about two parachutists 5.55pm The News 6.05pm Town and Around News and views from London and the South-East introduced by Richard Baker Weather 6.30pm Singalong with Ray and Archie Fisher, Paddie Bell The Seekers, Martin Carthy, The Settlers Nadia Cattouse, The Corrie Folk Trio 7.00pm Tonight introduced by Cliff Michelmore 7.35pm Look with the Sign Readers at the tracks, trods and traces of various animals on the Cumberland coast 8.00pm Bewitched A Vision of Sugar Plums 8.25pm European Journal, No 4 Three Television Networks in Europe look at Europe and its people 9.15pm The News 9.25pm Perry Mason The Case of the Arrogant Arsonist 10.15pm Come Dancing Judge, Jive, or Just join.... 11.00pm News Extra 11.10pm Weather Closedown |
Christmas Eve Thursday 24th December 1964 BBC2 11.00am Play School presented by Rick Jones. Virginia Stride 11.30am Closedown 7.07pm The News 7.10pm The Heart of Christmas An old theme and a new beat The Salvation Army Joy Strings visit one of the Dr. Barnado's Homes to sing the Christmas story to and with the children 7.35pm Music 625 : Handel's Messiah Sir Malcolm Sargent conducts the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra 8.50pm The Young Elizabeth starring Valerie Gearom as Elizabeth Tudor and Katharine Blake as Mary Tudor 10.25pm Jungle Green film of a detachment of British soldiers in a remote border stronghold 10.55pm News followed by The Weather 11.00pm Tom, Dick and Mary Broadway Comes to Valley General 11.25pm Late Night Line-Up Round off the day with Denis Tuohy , Michael Dean, Nicholas Tresilian and tonight's guests Christmas Day Friday 25th December 1964 BBC2 4.25pm Christmas Carols from the Chapel of King`s College, Cambridge 5.10pm Slask (pronounced Schlonsk) The world-famous Song and Dance Company on the stage of The Theatre Royal. Drury Lane 6.00pm Film : The Cat and the Canary (1939) starring Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard 7.10pm News 7.15pm The Little Sweep by Benjamin Britten 8.05pm Muses with Milligan Poetry and Jazz 8.45pm Film : Kiss Me, Kate (1953) starring Patricia Morison, Howard Keel and Millicent Martin 10.20pm Francis Durbridge Presents... Melissa starring Tony Britton 10.45pm Swann, Wallace and Betjeman People, Places and Animals at Christmas 11.15pm Closedown Boxing Day Saturday 26th December 1964 BBC2 5.27pm News 5.30pm Film : Way Out West (1937) starring Laurel and Hardy 6.30pm The Beat Room Non-stop beat and shake 7.00pm Match of the Day A top League football match Today's match will be announced on BBC-tv from 4pm onwards 7.50pm Roy Castle's Show with his guests Bernard Cribbins, Paddy Stone, The Don Riddell Four, The Paddy Stone Dancers 8.35pm Six 3: Don't I Look Like a Lord's Son 9.05pm Cinema 625: Le Notti di Cabiria (1957) Italian film (with subtitles) 10.50pm Jazz 625 Steve Race introduces a special edition featuring some of the many American stars who have appeared in this series 11.55pm Closedown Sunday 27th December 1964 BBC2 7.25pm News 7.30pm Lady by the Sea This ballet is based on Ibsen's play The Lady from the Sea (1888), one of his earliest psychological dramas 8.05pm Il Travatore Sir David Webster introduces highlights from the new production of Verdi's opera at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden 9.10pm Landmarks of life from birth to old age in six documentary films 3: The Factory The Raleigh works, Nottingham 9.40pm Best of Both Worlds leading British and American conductors present the music they arrange and compose 10.15pm The Brothers Karamazov part 3 : Corruption 11.00pm News followed by Late Night Line-Up Round off the day with Denis Tuohy , Michael Dean, Nicholas Tresilian and tonight's guests Bank Holiday Monday 28th December 1964 BBC2 11.00am Play School presented by Terence Holland, Marian Diamond 11.30am Closedown 6.57pm News 7.00pm The Beat Room Thirty minutes of non-stop beat and shake 7.30pm Pick the Winner and beat the panel 8.00pm The Virginian The Small Parade 9.15pm Lorin Maazel plays Bach and Mozart with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra 10.05pm Francis Durbridge presents Melissa, episode 4 10.30pm Newsroom followed by Weather 10.55pm Late Night Line-Up Round off the day with Denis Tuohy , Michael Dean, Nicholas Tresilian and tonight's guests |