Christmas Eve Friday 24th December 1965
BBC1 1.25pm The News 1.30pm Watch with Mother The Woodentops 1.45pm Closedown 3.55pm Mr Magoo's Christmas Carol A cartoon musical based on the novel by Charles Dickens 4.45pm Jackanory Little Grey Rabbit's Christmas 5.00pm Christmas Crackerjack with Leslie Crowther, Peter Glaze 5.55pm The News 6.05pm Town and Around News and views from London and the South-East introduced by Corbet Woodall Weather 6.30pm Film : Son of Paleface (1952) starring Bob Hope 8.00pm The Julie Andrews Show with her special guest Gene Kelly 8.50pm The News 9.00pm The Epic That Never Was story of a film that was never completed 10.10pm Christmas Carols from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge 10.55pm News Summary 11.00pm Gala performance music, opera and ballet introduced by Michael Flanders 12.00 Midnight Mass from St Anne's Roman Catholic Cathedral, Leeds 1.10am The Weather Closedown Christmas Day Saturday 25th December 1965 BBC1 9.15am Welcome Christmas and Sing the Morn with Ivor Emmanuel Ursula Connors and The Morgan James Duo BBC Midland Light Orchestra 9.45am Film : Way Out West (1937) starring Laurel and Hardy 10.45am See the Children Sing A programme of Christmas Carols sung by a special schools' choir and the audience at a recent Ernest Read Children's Concert in the Royal Festival Hall, London 11.15am Morning Service from the village church of Fenny Compton, Warwickshire 12.00 Leslie Crowther invites you to Meet the Kids direct from the Princess Louise Ward of St. George's Hospital, Tooting 12.45pm Champions on Ice An international gala of free skating and interpretative dancing by the world's outstanding skaters featuring from Russia 1.25pm The Andy Williams Show Christmas greetings from the series featuring song, music, and comedy and the best from the world of entertainment 2.15pm Dixon of Dock Green Georgina, starring Jack Warner 3.00pm The Queen Her Majesty's Christmas Message to the Commonwealth 3.05pm Billy Smart's Circus 4.00pm Disney Time with Maurice Chevalier 4.50pm Mother Goose starring Norman Vaughan and Terry Scott 6.25pm News Summary 6.30pm Val Doonican appeals for Family Service Units 6.35pm Doctor Who: The Feast of Steven starring William Hartnell and Peter Purves with Jean Marsh 7.00pm Max Bygraves meets The Black and White Minstrels A Christmas Get-Together 8.00pm Film : Road to Bali (1952) starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby 9.30pm The Ken Dodd Show including special guest star Sandie Shaw 10.30pm The News and The Weather 10.35pm Top of the Pops 65 with Jimmy Savile, David Jacobs, Alan Freeman, Pete Murray 11.50pm A Christmas Reverie by Werner Pelz 12.00 Weather Christmas Sunday 26th December 1965 BBC1 9.00am In Logon Se Miliye for viewers from Pakistan and India 9.20am Closedown 9.35am Christmas Oratorio parts 1 and 2 by J S Bach recorded at Brecon Cathedral 10.30am Morning Service from the Forward Movement Presbyterian Church Mission Hall, Neath 11.30am International Balloon Race Ten passenger-carrying balloons chase each other across Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire 12.15pm Top of the Pops '65 with Jimmy Savile, David Jacobs, Alan Freeman, Peter Murray 1.30pm News Summary 1.35pm Film : Jack and the Beanstalk (1952) starring Abbott & Costello 2.50pm Dick van Dyke Show A comedy film series featuring the hilarious adventures of a happy-go-lucky scriptwriter and his family 3.15pm Film : Son of Sinbad (1955) starring Dale Robertson, Vincent Price 4.45pm Peter and the Wolf A new production for television of the musical tale for children 5.10pm The Lucy Show a musical Christmas greeting to everyone from Lucy the Choir Master 5.25pm Hereward the Wake 16: The Last of the English How Hereward gets his soul's price 6.00pm Sooty assisted by Sweep and Harry Corbett in Here we come a-wassailing 6.10pm The News and The Weather 6.15pm Meeting Point Prison Visitor 6.45pm Sunday Story The Founding of the Abbey told by Tom Fleming from the Chapel of King Edward the Confessor Westminster Abbey 6.50pm Songs of Praise for Christmas-tide from St George's Parish Church, Belfast 7.25pm Film : Oliver Twist (1948) starring Alec Guiness 9.15pm The News 9.20pm Dr Finlay`s Casebook The Vision 10.10pm Sunday Night presenting The Golden Ring, a recording of Wagner's Gotterdammerung 11.40pm Meeting Point Prison Visitor repeated from 6.15pm 12.10am The Weather Closedown Boxing Day Monday 27th December 1965 BBC1 11.10am Film : Rogues of Sherwood Forest (1950) starring John Derek Diana Lynn, George Macready 12.25pm Grandstand (Racing from Kempton Park, Motor Racing from Brand`s Hatch, International Ice Skating Gala from Garmisch) 3.00pm Film : The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957) musical version starring Van Johnson 4.25pm Blue Peter with Christopher Trace and Valerie Singleton 4.50pm Jackanory with Brian Way Today's Christmas stories are about Presents 5.00pm The Royal Ballet Coppélia Ballet in three acts by C. Nuitter and A. Saint-Léon 6.10pm The News and The Weather 6.20pm Today's Sport introduced by David Coleman All of today's football and racing results, together with news of today's sporting events 6.30pm Meet the Wife starring Thora Hird and Freddie Frinton in Journey Home 7.00pm United! Danny finds out Jean's secret. Beryl Davis gets married 7.30pm Laughter from the Whitehall Brian Rix presents Women Aren't Angels 9.05pm The News 9.15pm Perry Mason The Case of the Laughing Lady 10.05pm The Good Old Days Christmas edition of Old-Time Music-Hall from the stage of the Famous City Varieties Theatre, Leeds 10.45pm News Summary 10.50pm International Concert Hall presenting Karel Ancerl conducting the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in Dvorak's Symphony No.9 in E minor 11.35pm Weather Closedown Tuesday 28th December 1965 (Bank Holiday) BBC1 10.10am Westminster Abbey a service to inaugurate the 900th Anniversary Year, in the presence of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh 12.30pm The News 12.35pm Watch with Mother Andy Pandy 12.50pm Racing from Kempton Park (Kenton Handicap Steeplechase, Christmas Handicap Hurdle, Oatlands Handicap Steeplechase, Novice's Steeplechase) 2.40pm Closedown 4.45pm Jackanory with Brian Way Today's Christmas stories are about Lights 5.00pm Robinson Crusoe Part 12 Friday returns, and other unwelcome visitors arrive on the island 5.25pm Tom Tom New, unusual, and fascinating stories and items of interest in a modern and changing world with Jeremy Carrad and John Earle 5.50pm The Magic Roundabout Mr. Rusty meets Zebedee 5.55pm The News 6.05pm Town and Around News and views from London and the South-East introduced by Corbet Woodall Weather 6.30pm Look Living with Animals Tony Soper remembers some of the many animals which have come his way over the years 7.00pm The Newcomers devised by Colin Morris 7.30pm Roy Hudd as Hudd by George Evans and Derek Collyer 8.00pm 1940 Twenty-five years ago tonight the City of London was ablaze. The spectacular Nazi fire raid was the climax of one of the most memorable years in Britain's history J B Priestley recalls the year in a nostalgic reminiscence in five parts 1: Into the Unknown January-May 10 2:The Glare and the Shock-May 10 to June 4 9.00pm The News 9.15pm 1940 continued 3: The Dark Horizon June 4-July 10 4: The Throbbing Sky July 10-September 6 5: The Private Victory September 6- December 31 10.35pm Westminster Abbey, edited highlights of this morning's ceremony 11.20pm The Weather Closedown | Christmas Eve Friday 24th December 1965 BBC2 11.00am Play School Science Day 11.25am Closedown 5.40pm Christmas Carols from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge 6.25pm The Little Sweep opera by Benjamin Britten 7.15pm Wheelbase the world of Christmas motoring 7.35pm The Mind of the Enemy The Fatal Ship, part 5 of the thriller serial 8.00pm The Virginian Timberland 9.15pm The Bruce Forsyth Show with special guests including Millicent Martin 10.05pm News Summary 10.10pm Film : Going My Way (1944) starring Bing Crosby 12.10am Early Morning Line-Up Christmas Day Saturday 25th December 1965 BBC2 6.30pm When Comedy Was King A pageant of the screen's most famous laughter-makers 7.55pm News Summary 8.00pm The Childhood of Christ by Berlioz sung in Ely Cathedral in a new English translation by Anthony Burgess 9.35pm Island Yearbook A prizewinning film from Sweden 10.35pm Eugénie Grandet Part 2 : Gold Eugénie has fallen in love with her cousin Charles, but her father refuses to give him help or a home and he leaves for the Indies to mend his fortunes 11.20pm Late Night Line-up complete the day with the Line-Up regulars Denis Tuohy, Michael Dean, Michael Wale Joan Bakewell, Philip Jenkinson and their Christmas guests Christmas Sunday 26th December 1965 BBC2 6.30pm News Review presenting Newsyear '65 7.30pm The Christmas Story The birth of Christ illustrated by Italian pictures and music 8.00pm Theatre 625 A Piece of Resistance 9.20pm Life A fortnightly challenge to our ideas and understanding of life in the animal world introduced by Dr. Desmond Morris 10.00pm The Big Spender part 4 : The Green Table 10.25pm Call My Bluff A duel of words and wit between Robert Morley with Two guests and Frank Muir with Hayley Mills John Mills Referee, Robin Ray 10.55pm News Summary 11.00pm Late Night Line-Up presents a special edition of Plunder Tonight a raid on the archives of Late Night Line-Up introduced by Denis Tuohy Boxing Day Monday 27th December 1965 BBC2 11.00am Play School Useful Box Day 11.25am Closedown 6.30pm The Reindeer Lapps A prize-winning film from Finland A study of life among the Lapps with theIr herds of reindeer 7.00pm A Fight to Remember introduced by Harry Carpenter Jack Johnson v James J Jeffries, Jack Johnson v Jess Willard 7.30pm Patience The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company's production of the classic light opera by by Gilbert and Sullivan 9.30pm Pure Gingold starring Hermione Gingold with Hugh Paddock and Ivor Cutler at the piano 10.00pm News Summary 10.05pm Yob and Nabob by Derrick Sherwin starring Emlyn Williams and Bill Fraser 11.05pm Tonight in Person special programme presenting the international artists who have been featured in this series in 1965 11.50pm Late Night Line-Up Stay up a little longer with Denis Tuohy , Michael Dean, Michael Wale, Joan Bakewell and whoever turns up Tuesday 28th December 1965 (Bank Holiday) BBC2 11.00am Play School Dressing-up Day 11.25am Closedown 1.25pm Medicine Today A monthly series of programmes for doctors 2.00pm Closedown 7.30pm Hit and Run A mystery serial in four parts Part 1 : Accident 8.00pm Challenge Golf This week: Arnold Palmer and Gary Player v Jack Nicklaus and Mike Souchak played at Pauma Valley Country Club, California 8.45pm Museum Piece from the British Museum : Europe 1500 9.15pm Music on Two presenting Sibelius A concert recorded in Helsinki on December 8 to celebrate the centenary of the composer's birth Symphony No.7, in C Violin Concerto in D Soloist, Oleg Kagan 10.15pm Intimations A series of interviews In which Malcolm Muggeridge talks to leading artists about the influences and experiences that have contributed to their work Tonight : Robert Bolt 10.45pm Newsroom followed by The Weather 11.05pm Late Night Line-Up Stay up a little longer with Denis Tuohy , Michael Dean, Michael Wale, Joan Bakewell and Philip Jenkinson with Film Requests |
