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ITV - ATV - Christmas 1955 - What was on? - Christmas Past

Christmas Eve Saturday 24th December 1955

  Associated Television (ATV)

  9.30am  Week-End Magazine

10.30am  Testing

  1.00pm  Closedown

  2.00pm  Testing

  3.00pm  ATV Music Shop

  3.50pm  My Hero starring Robert Cummings

  4.20pm  The Sports Results introducing "Do It Yourself"

  4.45pm  ATV Youth Club

  5.00pm  Lassie

  5.30pm  Pinocchio

  6.00pm  Closedown

  7.00pm  News

  7.05pm  Sports News

  7.15pm  Children Are Funny

  7.45pm  Colonel March of Scotland Yard  The Deadly Gift

  8.15pm  Richard Hearne in "Saturday Showtime"

  9.00pm  Where the Rainbow Ends a play, with Anton Dolin and Violetta Elvin

10.00pm  On the Town

10.45pm  News and Newsreel

11.00pm  Closedown


  Christmas Day Sunday 25th December 1955

  ATV

  2.00pm  Christmas Afternoon

  3.00pm  The Queen's Broadcast (sound only)

  3.15pm  Alice in Wonderland

  4.00pm  Liberace

  4.30pm  Junior Television

  6.00pm  Closedown

  7.00pm  Carol Service from Paddington Green Children's Hospital

  7.30pm  Movie Magazine

  7.45pm  Sunday Night at the London Palladium

  9.00pm  Theatre Royal  A Present from Bessie, with Griffith Jones

  9.30pm  I Love Lucy with Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz

10.00pm  Jack Jackson Show

10.30pm  Celebrity Spot  Emlyn Williams

11.00pm  Closedown


  Boxing Day Monday 26th December 1955

  Associated Rediffusion


11.00am  Sixpenny Corner

11.15am  Musical : Once Upon a Bank Holiday

11.30am  Draw up a Chair with Anthony Oliver

11.43am  1-2-3 Click  panel game

11.58am  Hopalong Cassidy  New Mexico Manhunt, with William Boyd

12.25pm  News and Newsreel

12.30pm  For Under Fives : Small Time

12.45pm  Penny for a Song

  2.00pm  Motor Racing from Brands Hatch

  3.15pm  Round the World with Orson Welles

  3.45pm  Frolics on Ice from Streatham Ice Rink

  4.30pm  Children's Play : Flying Visit

  5.00pm  Italian puppets in Aladdin

  5.15pm  Juno the Home Help  a film

  5.25pm  Return Fare to to Laughter  extracts from early comedy films

  6.00pm  Closedown

  7.00pm  Time, News and Weather

  7.07pm  Visitor of the Day

  7.15pm  Quarter Measure- Jill Day

  7.30pm  Panel game- What's It About ?

  8.00pm  Drama : Our Mr Dundas

  8.30pm  Musical : Rum Punch

  9.30pm  Trudy a film, with Joan Fontaine

10.00pm  Confidentially with Reg Dixon

10.30pm  Noel Barber in "Assignment Unknown"

10.45pm  News and Newsreel

10.58pm  And So to Bed

11.00pm  Epilogue



  Holiday Tuesday 27th December 1955

  Associated Rediffusion

10.30am  Time Signal and Testing

11.00am  Sixpenny Corner

11.15am  Gardening feature : In a Pantry Garden

11.25am  Judo with Joe Robinson and Dougie Robinson

11.40am  Revue : Twenty to Twelve

12.00       Visitor of the Day

12.08pm  For Under Fives : Small Time

12.20pm  Programme Parade

12.22pm  News and Newsreel

12.30pm  Testing

  1.00pm  Closedown

  5.00pm  Tea V-Time : Bubble and Squeak

  6.00pm  Closedown

  7.00pm  Time, News and Weather

  7.07pm  Visitor of the Day

  7.15pm  One Night Stand : Ted Heath Orchestra

  7.30pm  Topper: The Avalanche, with Leo G Carroll

  8.00pm  Scarlet Pimpernel : The Flower Woman

  8.30pm  Cavalcade of Sport

  9.30pm  Melodrama : Michael Erle the Maniac Lover

10.00pm  Jack Hylton Presents Youth Takes a Bow

10.30pm  Macdonald Daly in Man's Best Friend

10.45pm  News and Newsreel

10.58pm  And So to Bed


11.00pm  Epilogue