Christmas TV

For many years now, families have gathered together on Christmas Day to enjoy Christmas lunch and Christmas telly.
Below you can find listings of every programme broadcast on British television on December 25th during the twentieth century.

<< Christmas Day 1946 >>

World War II meant no television transmissions between September 1939 and June 1946. This years broadcast started with a sound recording of the King's Christmas Speech which has been an annual feature on the radio since 1932.




	BBC TELEVISION SERVICE
	15.00	His Majesty the King
			A Christmas Message to the Commonwealth and Empire
			(sound only) God save the King
	15.10	Christmas in a Children's Hospital
			Television visits Queen Elizabeth's Hospital for Children, Hackney, where Lupino Lane and, members of his ' Sweetheart Mine ' company from the Victoria Palace are entertaining the children
	20.30	Starlights
			Marilyn Williams (songs) Jack Eden and Eddy Eden (Cabaret entertainers) Humphrey Lestocq (comedian) The Beverley Sisters (The Twins and Joy) Sherwood and Forest (comedy team) At the piano, Evel Burns
	21.00	Christmas Night
			A Fantasy A family fireside story based on Charles Dickens's ' A Christmas Carol,' with a ballet and with music by Vaughan Williams The story told by Hubert Foss Devised and produced by Philip Bate Among the old friends whom viewers meet once again are Scrooge. Bob Cratchit, the ghost of Jacob Marley, Mr. and Mrs. Fezziwig and all the guests at their famous Christmas party, and last, but not least. the Spirit of Christmas
	22.00	News (sound only)
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