Christmas Eve Thursday 24th December 1959
Associated
Rediffusion
4.45pm Small Time
5.00pm Canadian Friends
5.25pm The Cisco Kid
5.55pm News
6.15pm Close Up on Herbert Lom
6.45pm Children's Carol Service from Winchester
Cathedral
7.00pm Rawhide
8.00pm Dotto
8.25pm This Week
8.55pm The Deputy
9.25pm News
9.35pm Merry with Medwin
10.30pm Dial for
Music
11.00pm News
Headlines
11.02pm Dick and the
Duchess
11.25pm Crooked Path
11.50pm The First
Communion of Christmas- Midnight Mass, from the Parish Church of St Paul,
Knightsbridge, London
Granada (as Associated
Rediffusion except)
4.20pm News A bulletin in Welsh
4.25pm Hynt a Helynt 1959 (until 5.00pm)
5.25pm Ivanhoe (until 5.55pm)
6.05pm Northern Newscast (until 6.15pm)
6.45pm Christmas Piano Pops (until 7.00pm)
8.55pm Highway Patrol (until 9.25pm)
11.02pm Glencannon
11.25pm Sword of
Freedom (until 11.50pm)
1.05am Goodnight
ATV Midlands (as Associated Rediffusion except)
12.45pm Thought for
the Day
12.47pm Lunch Box
1.22pm Closedown (until 5.00pm)
5.25pm Lassie
6.05pm Midlands News
6.15pm William Tell
6.45pm A Card for Christmas
8.55pm The Four Just Men
10.30pm Midland
Montage
11.02pm Interplay
presents The Eye-Opener Man
1.05am Closedown
Christmas Day Friday
25th December 1959
Associated
Rediffusion
10.45am The Nativity
11.10am Christmas
Morning Service from the Methodist Central Hall, Westminster
12.00 This
Wonderful World Christmas Special
12.30pm Jack Hylton
presents The Dickie Henderson Half-Hour
12.55pm News
1.00pm Christmas Box
2.00pm Cyril Stapleton and his Orchestra
3.00pm Her Majesty The Queen
3.05pm Film : A Girl in Every Port starring Groucho Marx
4.15pm Happy Christmas
4.45pm Richard Todd presents extracts from British
films of the last ten years and some new releases
5.30pm Educating Archie
6.00pm Once Upon a Christmas, starring Mavis Traill
6.30pm News and Sports Results
6.45pm The Christmas Hour with Hughie Green
7.45pm Emergency-Ward 10
8.15pm The Army Game
8.45pm Take Your Pick
9.15pm Film : The Macomber Affair
10.45pm News
10.50pm The Turn of
the Screw (Act I), followed by the Weather Forecast
11.45pm The Epilogue
Granada (as
Associated Rediffusion except)
10.40am The Nativity
(until 11.10am)
12.30pm People and
Places Part 1 (until 12.55pm)
1.00pm People and Places Part 2 (until 2.00pm)
3.05pm Film : Night and Day starring Cary Grant and
Alexis Smith
5.00pm Richard Todd presents extracts from British
films of the last ten years and some new releases
5.30pm Happy Christmas
6.00pm Huckleberry Hound (until 6.30pm)
6.40pm Piano Pops (until 6.45pm)
9.15pm Wyatt Earp starring Hugh O'Brien
9.45pm Film : Charge of the Light Brigade starring Errol Flynn
10.45pm News
10.50pm Film :
Charge of the Light Brigade continued
11.50pm Goodnight
ATV Midlands (as Associated Rediffusion except)
10.25am Thought for
the Day
10.30am Christmas
Stocking
3.05pm Film : Night and Day starring Cary Grant and
Alexis Smith
5.00pm The Highwayman
6.00pm Fury
9.15pm Film : The Wagons Roll at Night starring
Humphrey Bogart
Boxing Day Saturday
26th December 1959
ATV
1.10pm News
1.15pm Let's Go:
Ballroom Dancing, Horse Racing, Ice Show, Wrestling, with Sports Results
5.00pm Patrick O'Hagan (sings)
5.15pm Robin Hood
5.45pm News
6.00pm Cannonball
6.30pm Boy Meets Girls
7.00pm Wyatt Earp
7.29pm Saturday Spectacular presents Tommy Steele in
This Particular Show
8.25pm The Saturday Serial The Voodoo Factor,
episode 3
8.55pm News
9.00pm Four Just Men
9.30pm Movietime: Counterblast, with Robert Beatty
11.15pm Invisible
Man, followed by
Weather Forecast and the
Epilogue
ABC Midlands and Northern (as ATV except)
5.00pm Torchy Gerry Anderson puppet series
5.15pm Where Shall We Go? (until 5.45pm)
7.00pm International Detective (until 7.30pm)
9.00pm Maverick (until 9.55pm)
9.55pm 77 Sunset Strip
10.50pm M Squad
11.20pm The Epilogue
Sunday 27th December
1959
ATV
11.15am Church :
Processional Carol Service from Peterborough Cathedral
12.15pm Pinpoint on
Malta
12.25pm Interplay
1.15pm Motor Cycle Scramble
2.20pm The Book Man
2.45pm Music Shop
3.25pm Film Festival: The Ghost Goes West
4.55pm Carroll Levis Junior Discoveries
5.20pm William Tell
5.50pm It Can Happen Tomorrow
6.05pm News
6.15pm Sunday Break
7.00pm About Religion
7.25pm News
7.30pm Interpol Calling
8.00pm Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London
Palladium
9.00pm News
9.05pm ABC Armchair Theatre : The Last Tycoon
10.35pm Highway
Patrol
11.00pm Sunday
Serenade
11.30pm Play Gems: A
Likely Story, followed by
Weather
Epilogue
ABC Midlands and
Northern (as ATV except)
12.15pm Christmas on
the Other Man's Farm
1.20pm Motor-Cycle Scramble, from Bentley Springs
Circuit
2.00pm The Book Man
2.45pm Frederic Marsh introduces A Dickens Christmas
The Runaways and A Christmas Carol
3.45pm Disneyland The Story of the Silly Symphony
4.30pm For Love or Money
5.00pm What's Cooking
5.15pm Tomahawk
5.45pm (North only) Winter Fashions (Midlands)
Torchy (until 6.05pm)
7.30pm The Flying Doctor (until 8.00pm)
10.35pm Lawman (until
11.00pm)
11.30pm Errol Flynn
Theatre
12.00 The
Epilogue
Bank Holiday Monday
28th December 1959
Associated
Rediffusion
3.55pm Commonwealth Journey
4.45pm Small Time
5.00pm Seeing Sport Table Tennis
5.25pm Popeye
5.55pm News
6.10pm Who Goes Next ?
6.30pm Cool for Cats
7.00pm Douglas Fairbanks presents 'Fool Notions'
7.30pm Double Your Money
8.00pm Putting on the Donegan
8.30pm Wagon Train
9.25pm News
9.35pm Probation Officer
10.30pm Five
Revolutionary Painters- van Gogh, with Sir Kenneth Clark
11.00pm News
Headlines
11.02pm Turn of the
Screw (Act II), by Benjamin Britten; followed by the
Weather Forecast
12.00 Epilogue
Granada (as
Associated Rediffusion except)
3.30pm Commonwealth Journey
4.20pm News A bulletin in Welsh
4.25pm Dewch I Mewn (until 5.00pm)
6.05pm Northern News (until 6.10pm)
6.30pm Holidays Ahead
6.35pm I Love Lucy
7.00pm Sea Hunt (until 7.30pm)
11.02pm Monday's
Feature Film : Smart Alec (1951) starring Peter Reynolds, Leslie Dwyer
12.00 Goodnight
