Christmas Eve Tuesday 24th December 1968
BBC1 11.15am Apollo report 11.20am Jackanory Ted Ray tells a traditional story for Christmas Eve called The Little Juggler 11.35am The Christmas Story ... told to the infants class of a Dorset village school by the head teacher, and acted by the older children from St. Mary's Church. Cerne Abbas 12.00 Carols and Cash Just Because It's Christmas Students from the University of York take a look at some aspects of the Christmas festival. 12.30pm When Comedy Was King Some great moments with the screen's most famous laughter-makers (b&w) 1.30pm Apollo report 1.50pm Watch with Mother Trumpton : The Greenhouse 2.05pm The News and The Weather 2.10pm Film : Captain Blood (1935) with Errol Flynn 3.45pm Bewitched Humbug Not Spoken Here ... or Santa will sleigh you! A special Christmas edition 4.10pm Play School Dressing-Up Day 4.30pm Nina and Frederick in The Christmas Tree Hans Andersen's Christmas story retold for television 5.00pm Jack and the Beanstalk starring Gene Kelly The famous seasonal fairy story with music 5.50pm The News and The Weatherman 6.00pm Town and Around introduced by John Bierman 6.15pm Carols from King's College, Cambridge A Service of Lessons and Carols 7.00pm Z Cars Blame it on Father Christmas, part 2 7.25pm The Gang Show Excerpts from the 1968 production with a cast of 120 members of the Scout and Guide Movement 8.15pm Cilla The first of a new series starring Cilla Black Among her guest stars, Michael Crawford, Shari Lewis and special guest Scott Walker 9.05pm The News with Richard Baker and The Weather 9.20pm Play of the Month Waters of the Moon by NC Hunter,with Margaret Leighton, Athene Seyler, Kathleen Harrison, Vivien Merchant, Roland Culver, Michael Gwynn 10.50pm Children Talking Gerald Harrison asks children from the Bolton and Nelson areas of Lancashire about going to the Moon 11.00pm Amahl and the Night Visitors An opera in one act 11.45pm Midnight Eucharist from St George's Parish Church, Belfast Christmas Day Wednesday 25th December 1968 BBC1 8.45am Carol Story An entertainment for Christmas morning Sung by the Choir of East Barnet Grammar School 9.15am The News and The Weather 9.25am Apollo Report 9.30am Jackanory John Stride tells The Minstrel and the Mountain 9.45am Professor in Toyland Some enchanting questions for enquiring minds asked by Professor Julius Sumner Miller on walking toys, singing toys, swimming toys, flying toys Do you own a toy? Did you ever own a toy? 10.15am A Spoonful of Sugar 10.45am Family Service from the Methodist Church, Solihull, Warwickshire 11.30am Meet the Kids in hospital at Christmas with Ray Allan, Tony Hart 12.15pm The Charlie Drake Show 1.00pm The Newcomers Christmas Day in Angleton 1.25pm Top of the Pops '68 with Pete Murray and Jimmy Savile 2.10pm The Black and White Minstrel Christmas Show 3.00pm The Queen Her Majesty's Christmas Message to the Commonwealth 3.05pm Billy Smart's Circus 4.10pm Disney Time with Val Doonican 5.00pm Humpty Dumpty starring Leslie Crowther and Reg Varney 6.30pm The News and The Weather 6.35pm Christian Aid Christmas appeal by Judi Dench 6.40pm Christmas Night with the Stars introduced by Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, featuring Not in Front of the Children, Dad's Army, Harry Worth, Ice Cabaret, Marty Feldman, Oh Brother!, All Gas and Gaiters 8.45pm Doddy for Christmas with Ken Dodd 9.45pm Film : Some Like It Hot (1959) starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis 11.40pm The News Robert Langley The Weather Man Bert Foord 11.50pm Quiz of the Year Ned Sherrin tests the wits and memories of rival teams, who might be expected to know what's been going on in 1968 12.25am Of the Nativite of Oure Lorde extracts from St Benaventura's Life of Jesus Boxing Day Thursday 26th December 1968 BBC1 9.15am Watch with Mother The Pogles 9.30am The News and The Weather 9.35am Days of Thrills and Laughter A pageant of comedy and cliff-hanging from the golden age of the silent film 11.05am Transworld Top Team United Kingdom v. Canada Top of the Form competes with Canada's Reach for the Top in this international series. Tonight's game : Match 9 London v. Toronto 11.30am A Thousand Miles a Day The London to Sydney Marathon covered 10,000 miles in ten days and there was a prize of £ 10,000 for the winner. Most of the world's top rally drivers set off from Crystal Palace at the end of November 12.20pm The Newcomers Boxing Day brings a surprise visitor to the Kerrs; Turner makes plans to entertain the Cooper family, Burroughs finds Mrs. Crabtree too much under the influence of the Christmas spirit 12.45pm Boxing Day Grandstand (including, at 1.00,1.30,2.30 Racing from Kempton Park, Rugby League: Featherstone v Hunslet, Motor Racing: Grandstand Trophy Race Final for Saloon Cars) 3.15pm Film : North-West Mounted Police (1940) with Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll 5.15pm Tom and Jerry Mice Follies 5.25pm Today's Sport A full round-up of the day's results 5.35pm The News and The Weatherman Bert Foord 5.45pm The Andy Williams Christmas Show on Ice 6.35pm Top of the Pops '68 part 2 introduced by Alan Freeman and Stuart Henry 7.15pm The Benny Hill Show starring Benny Hill with June Whitfield, Henry McGee 8.00pm Film : The Bulldog Breed (1960) starring Norman Wisdom, Ian Hunter 9.35pm The Good Old Days A Boxing Day edition of Old-Time Music-Hall from the stage of the Famous City Varieties Theatre, Leeds 10.25pm The News Robert Langley and The Weather 10.35pm Frost Over Christmas A 1968 look at the 1967 programme starring David Frost with Ronnie Barker John Cleese , Ronnie Corbett Sheila Steafel , Julie Felix 11.15pm Dean Martin Christmas Show from Hollywood |
Christmas Eve Tuesday 24th December 1968 BBC2 11.00am Play School Dressing-Up Day 11.20am Closedown 1.15pm Apollo report (b&w) 2.00pm Closedown 2.50pm Christmas is Coming featuring Brigitte Bardot, Harry Secombe Frank Sinatra , Gene Kelly Herb Alpert and his Tijuana Brass, Buddy Rich and his Orchestra 3.00pm Film : Little Women (1949) with June Allyson, Elizabeth Taylor, Janet Leigh, Margaret O`Brien, Mary Astor, Peter Lawford, Rossano Brazzi 5.00pm Herb Alpert and his Tijuana Brass close-up of the world-famous trumpet player at work and in carefree mood from Malibu to Mexico 5.50pm The Christmas Visitor cartoon 6.00pm Film : Stowaway in the Sky (960) by Albert Lamorisse Pascal's grandfather invents a balloon and the young boy stows away on a spectacular voyage 7.15pm El Sombrero cartoon 7.25pm Newsroom, Weather 7.55pm The Pistol Shot a play by Nicholas Bethell, with John Ronane, Peter Jeffrey, Ann Bell and Ilona Rodgers 9.05pm Francis Albert Sinatra invites you to the Frank Sinatra Show 9.55pm Phantasmagoria or the story of The Magic Lantern 10.25pm The Clerkes of Oxenford sing a programme of early Christmas carols 10.50pm Film : The Captain's Table (1959) starring John Gregson, Peggy Cummins, Donald Sinden, Nadia Gray Christmas Day Wednesday 25th December 1968 BBC2 9.15am Apollo Report 9.30am Closedown 11.20am Play School The Christmas Story 11.40am Christmas Morning at Windsor Castle The scene as Her Majesty The Queen and other members of the Royal Family leave St. George's Chapel after attending Morning Service 11.55am Apollo Report 12.10pm Closedown 3.00pm The Queen's Christmas Her Majesty's Christmas Message to the Commonwealth 3.05pm The Royal Ballet The Nutcracker and The Rat King with Merle Park and Rudolph Nureyev 4.45pm Peace on Earth The Christmas story illustrated by the famous alpine wood carvings 5.00pm Film : Lords of the Forest : Masters of the Congo Jungle (1958) narrated by William Warfield and Orson Welles 6.30pm Dimensions An amusing and clownish exercise in perspective 6.40pm Film : Lancelot and Guinevere (1963) with Cornel Wilde and Jean Wallace 8.35pm The News, The Weather 8.45pm The Merry Widow operetta with Mary Costa and Jeremy Brett 10.30pm The Harry Secombe Show Tonight Harry invites some of his friends from the film production of Oliver! 11.25pm Mr Rossi on the Beach cartoon 11.40pm Film : Anchors Aweigh (1945) starring Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson Boxing Day Thursday 26th December 1968 BBC2 11.00am Play School Ideas Day 11.20am Closedown 3.00pm Christmas Play The Three Princes, by Rex Tucker, with Timothy Dalton 4.00pm The Conquest of Everest The dramatic story of the successful 1953 Everest Expedition led by Sir John Hunt 5.15pm Film : The Black Shield of Falworth (1954) with Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, David Farrar 6.50pm 4472- Flying Scotsman An epitaph for the age of steam Another chance to see this unique film of the Flying Scotsman's dramatic non-stop run from London to Edinburgh on May 1, 1968 7.30pm News Summary, Weather 7.35pm How the Grinch Stole Christmas cartoon film with music and song Boris Karloff narrates this unusual and amusing Christmas story 8.00pm Iolanthe an updated version by Alan Melville, with Patrick Cargill, Joan Sims 9.35pm Bardot special In which Brigette Bardot invites you to join her in a variety of moods and settings with her guests, Manitas De Plata and Sacha Distel 10.25pm Film : The Red Shoes (1948) starring Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |

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