Christmas Eve Saturday 24th December 1966
BBC1 11.50am The Weather Man and Announcements 11.55am Adventure From Yarmouth to Paradise 12.45pm Grandstand (Moto-Cross from Tweseldown: fourth round of the Grandstand Trophy, Snooker from Manchester: Williams v Pullman, Rugby League: Leeds v Hull KR, Boxing: Spike McCormack v Antonio Paiva) 3.50pm Film : Davy Crockett, Indian Scout (1950) starring George Montgomery 5.00pm Today's Sport introduced by David Coleman bringing you the day's Football and Rugby League results, and news of other sporting events 5.10pm Juke Box Jury presented by David Jacobs 5.40pm The News and The Weather Man 5.50pm Doctor Who The Highlanders, part 2 starring Patrick Troughton 6.15pm Dixon of Dock Green The Golden Year starring Jack Warner 7.00pm High Adventure Fire Down Below starring Rita Hayworth, Robert Mitchum 8.50pm The Val Doonican Show with special guests, Frank Ifield, Millicent Martin Ray Alan 9.35pm The News and The Weather 9.45pm Peter Ustinov and Peter Jones In All Directions 10.30pm Match of the Day Kenneth Wolstenholme reports with outside broadcast cameras from a well- known Football League ground 11.17pm The Weather Man 11.20pm 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 11.50pm Midnight Mass from Tewkesbury Abbey 1.05am Closedown Christmas Day Sunday 25th December 1966 BBC1 9.30am Welcome Christmas Judith Chalmers and Michael Aspel bring you morning greetings in songs and words 10.10am Mak the Sheep-Stealer opera for children by Holland Park School 11.00am Christmas Morning Service from Christ Church, Cotham, Bristol 12.00 Leslie Crowther invites you to Meet the Kids in hospital at Christmas with George Chisholm. Tony Hart and The Bert Hayes Trio 12.44pm The Weather Man 12.45pm The Lucy Show starring Lucille Ball 1.10pm The Andy Williams Show Christmas greetings from the series featuring song. music, and comedy and the best from the world of entertainment 2.00pm The Royal Palaces of Britain their history, and their art treasures, are presented for the first time on television 3.00pm The Queen 3.05pm Billy Smart's Circus 4.00pm Disney Time Rolf Harris with the help of Coojeebear 4.40pm Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp starring Arthur Askey, Angela Richards and Roy Castle 6.05pm The News and The Weatherman 6.10pm Robert Dougall appeals for the Royal National Institute for the Deaf 6.15pm Journey to Bethlehem John Betjeman has just returned from his first visit to the Holy Land. This film is a record of what he saw 6.45pm Christmas Carols from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge 7.25pm The Black and White Minstrel Show 8.00pm The Ken Dodd Show with the Bachelors 8.45pm Film : The Comancheros (1961) starring John Wayne 10.25pm The News and Weather 10.30pm Dr Finlay's Casebook The Gifts of the Magi 11.20pm The Weather Man 11.22pm The Christmas Story the birth of Christ illustrated by Italian pictures and music Boxing Day Monday 26th December 1966 BBC1 9.30am The Munsters Far-out Munsters . .. join a way-out party, and feel with it at last! 9.55am The News and the Weather 10.00am Watch with Mother Joe 10.15am The Wild Stallion Crin Blanc The prize-winning French film 10.50am Film : Life is a Circus (1960) starring The Crazy Gang 12.10pm Daktari An animal adventure series starring aided and abetted by Clarence and Judy Adventures of Lion Cubs 1.00pm Grandstand introduced by David Coleman featuring Racing from Wolverhampton 3.45pm When Comedy Was King A pageant of the screen's most famous laughter-makers 5.05pm Today's Sport introduced by David Coleman bringing you today's Football, Racing, Rugby League, and Rugby Union results, and reports on other sporting events 5.15pm Sooty assisted by Sweep Corbett and Harry Corbett in Sooty's Christmas Show 5.30pm The Three Musketeers 7/10 At Night all Cats are Grey starring Jeremy Brett 5.55pm The News and The Weather 6.05pm Cartoon Time Trojan Horse 6.15pm Top of the Pops '66 Part 1- January to June with Jimmy Savile, Pete Murray 7.00pm Till Death Us Do Part Peace and Goodwill 7.30pm Brian Rix presents One for the Pot 9.00pm The News and The Weather 9.10pm The Monroes Western 10.00pm Sports Results including today's Football results and League tables introduced by David Coleman 10.05pm Gala Performance introduced James Robertson Justice 10.55pm The Weather Man 10.57pm Film : Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1938) Bank Holiday Tuesday 27th December 1966 BBC1 9.30am The Munsters Movie Star Munster 9.55am The News and The Weather 10.00am Watch with Mother Andy Pandy 10.15am Film : Beau Chumps (1931) starring Laurel and Hardy 10.50am Look Bringing up Benbow Benbow is an orphan seal. Cast ashore on the beaches of the Wash, he is rescued by the R.S.P.C.A. and finds a home with Tony Soper 11.15am Film : Make Mine a Million (1959) starring Arthur Askey, Sidney James 12.35pm Grandstand (Racing from Wolverhampton and Motor Racing from Brands Hatch) 2.45pm Film : The Corsican Brothers (1941) starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr 4.30pm Jackanory Harlequinade and Black Beard the Pirate read by Bernard Cribbins 4.45pm Jonny Quest Dr Zin's Robot Spy 5.10pm Today's Sport introduced by David Coleman bringing you the day's Football, Racing, and Rugby League results 5.20pm Babar the Elephant by Jean De Brunhoff performed by children Music by Antony Hopkins who also tells the story 5.49pm The Weather Man 5.50pm News 5.58pm Town and Around News and views from London and the South-East introduced by Corbet Woodall Weather 6.17pm Top of the Pops '66 with top D.J's Alan Freeman and Simon Dee 7.00pm The Newcomers Angleton is suffering from a surfeit of Christmas. Maria learns that appearances can be deceptive, and Sydney offers Arnold advice. 7.30pm Hugh and I Hold the Tiger 8.00pm Film : The Love Affair - This Above All (1942) starring Tyrone Power, Joan Fontaine 8.50pm The News and The Weather 9.05pm Film : The Love Affair - This Above All (continued) 10.00pm Sports Results including today's Football results and League tables, introduced by David Coleman 10.05pm The Abbey of the English celebrating the 900th anniversary of Westminster Abbey 11.15pm The Weather Man 11.17pm That's Me An amusing encounter with Alan Arkin in New York`s Central Park | Christmas Eve Saturday 24th December 1966 BBC2 6.15pm Rugby Special: South-Eastern Counties XV v An Australian XV Peter West reports from The Athletic Centre. King Park, Bournemouth 6.50pm The News and Sport 7.00pm The Danny Kaye Christmas Show in which Danny Kaye and his special guests, Jean Simmons, Laurence Harvey, John Gary entertain to the music of Paul Weston and his Orchestra 7.50pm I Gotta Shoe or Cindy-Ella a musical starring Cleo Laine, Elisabeth Welch Cy Grant 8.50pm This Man Craig The Pirate Cut 9.45pm Francis Durbridge Presents... Bat Out of Hell, part 5 10.00pm Late Night Line-Up A late look around the world of television Criticism, Discussion, Diversion 10.40pm Midnight Movie : The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958) starring Ingrid Bergman Christmas Day Sunday 25th December 1966 BBC2 3.00pm The Queen 3.05pm The World of Jacques-Yves Cousteau The incredible world of that famous French underwater explorer and inventor-55 fathoms beneath the Mediterranean 4.00pm Film : Oh, Mr Porter! (1937) starring Will Hay 5.20pm The Leningrad State Kirov Ballet Three pieces from the programme danced by the oldest ballet company in the world during their recent visit to The Royal Opera House Covent Garden 6.10pm Newsyear '66 News Review presents the story of the year as filmed by cameramen all over the world 7.25pm Horizon Christmas Special Hand me my Sword, Humphrey by Richard Wade with Dudley Foster and Prunella Scales 8.00pm Die Fledermaus the new Sadler's Wells production 10.10pm Meet the Swingles a programme of eighteenth century music 10.30pm Late Night Line-up and Plunder present a special Christmas night programme Reminiscences of Childhood with poetry, prose, and film drawn from the BBC Archives 11.30pm Film : Monsieur Beaucaire (1946) starring Bob Hope Boxing Day Monday 26th December 1966 BBC2 11.00am Play School Useful Box Day 11.20am Closedown 5.30pm The Charlie Chaplin Comedy Theatre: presenting the film classic The Rink (1916) 5.55pm Peter and the Wolf with the English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Dudley Simpson 6.20pm Music Quiz A not-too-serious opportunity to match your musical wits, if you have any on Boxing Day, against Joyce Grenfell, Richard Baker Paul Jennings 7.00pm Film : Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1959) starring James Mason 9.00pm Not Only...But Also starring Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, with John Lennon 9.50pm Carmen Jones A modern version of Georges Bizet's immortal opera, Carmen starring Harry Belafonte 11.30pm The News 11.40pm Late Night Line-Up A last look around the world of television Criticism, Discussion, Diversion with Denis Tuohy , Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell , Tony Bilbow and tonight's guests Bank Holiday Tuesday 27th December 1966 BBC2 11.00am Play School Dressing-up Day 11.25am Closedown 1.15pm Medicine Today a monthly series of programmes for doctors 1.45pm Closedown 5.00pm The Engineer in Wonderland : The White Rabbit, The Royal Institution, London, Annual Christmas Lectures to Young People 6.00pm The Glory of Sail A film story of the last hundred years of the square-rigged sailing ships, the windjammers, the Atlantic packets, the East India-men, the incomparable clippers, the whalers, the Australian grain ships, the indomitable Cape-Horners 6.45pm The Golden Age of Comedy Highlights of laughter from the studios of Mack Sennett and Hal Roach featuring many famous comedians of the 1920's 8.00pm News Summary 8.05pm The Eleanor Roosevelt Story A film biography of America's former First Lady 9.30pm Miss Julie a play by Strindberg 10.35pm Julian Bream and John Williams The first of two programmes in which these two guitarists appear together in concert for the first time on television 11.15pm News Summary 11.20pm Late Night Line-Up A last look around the world of television Criticism, Discussion, Diversion with Denis Tuohy , Michael Dean Joan Bakewell , Tony Bilbow and tonight's guests also Philip Jenkinson with more film requests |