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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 1950   >>

This year saw the first television performance of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'.

     
BBC TELEVISION SERVICE
11.30 - 12.30Christmas Day Service
from St. Martin-in-the-Fields conducted by the Vicar, the Rev. L. M. Charles-Edwards
O come, all ye faithful (S.P. 78) Call to Worship
Versicies and Responses Venite
Psalm 98
First Lesson: Isaiah 9, vv. 2-7 Te Deum
Second Lesson: St. Luke 2, vv. 1-20 Jubilate
Creed and Collects
While shepherds watched (S.P. 82)
Prayers
Once in royal David's city (S.P. 368) Sermon
Hark: the herald angels sing (S.P. 74) Blessing
It came upon the midnght clear (S.P.
76)
Master of Music, John Churchill
17.00For the Children
Muffin the Mule presents his Pantomime with Annette Mills
(who writes the songs) and Ann Hogarth (who pulls the strings)
Produced by Dorothea Brooking
17.20 - 18.30Children's Christmas Party
at the Hammersmith Palais, London
You are invited to join in the fun with hundreds of taxi drivers and their families with 'Uncle' Vic Oliver who introduces Ernie Dillon
Michael Miles with 'Forfeits'
Morton Fraser's Harmonica Gang
Animals from 'Babes in the Wood on Ice' at Empress Hall
Phyllis Haylor, inviting children to dance
Music by Lou Preager and his Orchestra
Presented for television by Keith Rogers
Children will be invited to conduct the orchestra and to be television stars
20.00Newsreel
20.15The Season's Greetings
from
Renee Houston and Donald Stewart
Adelaide Hall
Peter Cavanagh
The Beverley Sisters
Michael Howard
and
Nat Allen and his Orchestra
who are entertaining disabled ex-servicemen of both world wars and their families at the Star and Garter Home, Richmond Hill
Programme produced by Barrie Edgar
21.00A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
The play by Dominic Roche
Adapted and produced for television by Eric Fawcett
(Barbara Murray appears by permission of the J. Arthur Rank Organisation, Ltd.)
22.30 - 22.45News
(sound only)
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