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 1964 >>

A third channel made it's Christmas day debut today between 4.25pm and 11.15pm.


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	REDIFFUSION
	09.00	Christmas Morning Carol Service
	09.45	Small Time
			The Adventures of Twizzle
	09.55	Chaplin Carnival
	10.10	University Challenge
	10.40	Mahalia Jackson Sings
	11.00	Christmas Morning Service
	11.45	Chaplin Carnival
			The Vagabond
	12.00	Willum's Christmas
	12.15	Last Programme
	12.30	Sing Along with Santa
	13.00	News and Weather
	13.05	Quick Draw McGraw
	13.30	Just Dennis
			The Fifteen Foot Christmas Tree
	14.00	Once a Jolly Swagman....
	15.00	The Queen
			Her Majesty's Message to the Commonwealth
	15.07	Richard Whittington Esquire
	16.30	Don't Say a Word
	17.00	Five O'Clock Club
	17.30	Ready, Steady, Go!
	18.25	News and Weather
	18.30	Petticoat Junction
			Cannonball Christmas
	18.58	Meet Romeo
	19.00	Take Your Pick
	19.28	Meet Romeo
	19.30	Emergency-Ward 10
	19.58	Meet Romeo
	20.00	The Pride and the Passion (1957)
			Part 1
	20.55	News
	21.10	The Pride and the Passion (1957)
			Part 2
	22.38	Meet Romeo
	22.40	Stars and Garters
	23.25 - 00.15	Black Nativity

	BBC ONE
	00.40	Closedown
	09.15	The Brave Little Tailor
			A German film based on a story by the Brothers Grimm Killing seven flies at one stroke was good practice for unicorn-baiting, boar-hunting, and giant-kining. so the Little Tailor found. Commentary by Johnny Morris
	09.50	Welcome Christmas!
			Words and music for this Festive morn with IVOR EMMANUEL JACQUELINE DELMAN OWEN BRANNIGAN and CY GRANT BBC Midland Light Orchestra Leader, JAMES HUTCHEON Conductor, Gilbert Vinter Designed by Neil Parkinson Assistant producer, Reg Perrin Produced by PHILIP LEWIS
	10.30	The World of the Penguin
			Whether they breed on Antarctic ice or African sand, the penguin's true home is the sea. Master swimmers, they cannot fly, yet some travel miles inland. Sometimes comic, sometimes graceful, to millions they are the most fascinating birds in the world Commentary written and spoken by Alan Gibson Research by John Sparkes Film editor. Betty Block Sound mixer, Jack Robottom Produced by CHRISTOPHER PARSONS A BBC Natural History Unit presentation *
	11.15	Christmas Morning Service
			played by the AMADEUS STRING Quartet Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin) Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)
	12.00	Leslie Crowther
			invites you to MEET THE KIDS in hospital at Christmas with Peter Glaze Harold Taylor and The Bert Hayes Trio An Outside Broadcast from the Children's Ward of Hackney Hospital, London Produced by Robin SCOTT Leslie Crowther is appearing In Tbe Brack and White Minstrel Show ' at the Victoria Palace. London
	12.45	Hob Y Deri Dando
			What does it mean? Does it matter? Sing it out, loud and clear, with a group of singers from Bangor, North Wales Meredydd Evans introduces Ivor Emmanuel Margaret Williams, Olwen Jones Eiri Jones. Caryl Owens Ryan Davies, David Reynolds Jim Howells, Justin Smith Aled Hughes, Reg Edwards Derek Boote and The Proclaimers Joining in the fun are some young people from Anglesey and Caernarvonshire Designer, Alan Taylor Producer, MEREDYDD EVANS Directed by RUTH PRICE
	13.30	Temple Houston
			Last Full Moon
			A Western film series starring JEFF HUNTER as the young Texas lawyer who finds action and adventure in his fight for individual rights and frontier justice and JACK ELAM as Marshal George Taggart In spite of powerful and dangerous opposition, Temple helps an Indian chief who is determined to prove that his people are . entitled to legal defence for criminal charges brought against them
	14.20	Pinky and Perky
			in Christmas Pig-tale with JIMMY THOMPSON as Asst. General, P.P.C.T.V. Presented by JAN and VLASTA DALIBOR Additional manipulators, Philip and Elizabeth Rose and John Parks We Belong Together words and music by NORMAN NEWELL and ALYN AINSWORTH Written by ROBERT GRAY Design by Stuart Furber Produced by STAN PARKINSON From the North of England
	14.30	Compact
			piano plays
	15.00	The Queen
	15.05	Billy Smart's Circus
			A special performance for Europe from the ring of the world's largest tenting circus Frank Bough behind the bars of the big cage introduces Eleven huge Polar Bears gently presented by CHARLES ILLENEB Mexico's star aerialists THE FIVE IBARRAS on the flying trapeze Comedy in a box HUGONY AND PARTNER Sprinoboard, trampoline. and clowning blended by SPAIN'S SIX ALCARAZ Four-footed footballers from Vienna CONRAD NELLO AND HIS SOCCER DOGS Teeth-held slack wire A unique presentation, defying description and gravity, by THE FOUR CUELLAS Double-bass buffoonery (or who put the soup in the timpani?) by JOE, JAC, AND JOHNNIE FIFTEEN ELEPHANTS TEN CIRCUS Show-girls BIRMA'S WALK OF DEATH BABY ELEPHANT LEAP-FROG THE BEATLE-ELEPHANTS all presented by BILLY SMART JR. The world's greatest solo trapeze artist GERARD SOULES THE GRAND CAROUSEL A salute from performers around the world Also appearing: CLOWNS AND AUGUSTES Spuggy-Alby Austin-Harty Pompeu-Abdeslam and The Robertis FIRE-EATING GENIE Barry Walls Ringmaster. ALFRED DELBOSQ Musical director, JOHN MULDOON Associate and conductor KEN GRIFFIN Singer, Mike Redway Circus presentation, RONNIE and DAVID SMART Produced by DEREK BURRELL-DAVIS Billy Smart's Winter Circus is appearing at the Queen's Hall, Leeds
	16.10	Disney Time
			Julie Andrews introduces this year's Walt Disney programme with the emphasis on comedy with scenes from: PLUTO'S CHRISTMAS TREE SHOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS LIVING DESERT EMIL AND THE DETECTIVES. VANISHING PRAIRIE PETER I AN THE MONKEY'S UNCLE THREE CABALLEROS BON VOYAGE THE LEGEND OF LOBO PINOCCHIO THOSE CALLOWAYS LADY AND THE TRAMP MARY POPPINS Films by courtesy of Walt Disney Presented by Richard Evans
	17.10	NEWS HEADLINES followed by ROBERT DOUGALL
			who appeals for The Royal National Institute for the Deaf Contributions, preferably by crossed cheque or postal order, will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to: [address removed] To those who never hear or utter a recognisable sound in their lives, who cannot even read because they scarcely know what language is, vision is as essential as hearing is to the blind. It is to explain how serious and important television is for the deaf that Robert Dougall appeals this evening.
	17.15	Robinson Crusoe
			starring NORMAN WISDOM with MARION GRIMALDI, EDDIE LESLIE BILLY WHITTAKER, PATRICIA STARK LEN LOWE, BETTY WHEELER TERRY KENDALL, DAVID FALLON HAROLD HOLNESS The Dancers JEAN CRAGG, MAGGIE LEE SANDRA BLAIR, PAULINE WALL PAT HUGHES, ANN BULLEN ELAINE Skelton, SALLY GILPIN KEN MARTYNE, Guy LUTMAN JOHN FARRELL, TOM MERRIFIELD Choreography by TOMMY SHAW The George Mitchell Singers MICHAEL CLARKE, KEN FRASER HENRY BUSH, RICHARD DUNCAN FRANK DAVIES, ALAN COOPER LES RAWLINGS, EDWARD BROOKS Book by HARRY BRIGHT Adapted for television by EDDIE LESLIE and LEN LOWE Orchestra directed by ERIC TANN Television presentation by Travers Thorneloe and Bryan Sears Robinson Crusoe presented by arrangement with Tom Arnold and Bernard Delfont
	19.15	Christmas Night with the Stars
			including The Black and White Minstrels, Roy Castle, Billy Cotton, Ralph Reader's Gang Show, Dick Emery, Benny Hill, Terry Scott and Hugh Lloyd, Kathy Kirby, Thora Hird and Freddie Frinton, Andy Stewart, The Barron Knights, The Likely Lads, Richard Briers and Prunella Scales
	20.45	Laughter from the Whitehall
			BRIAN RIX presents Simple Spymen by JOHN CHAPMAN Settings by Stanley Moore Â» Directed by WALLACE DOUGLAS Brian Rix. Leo Franklyn, Larry Noble. Peter Gray. Sheila Mercier. and Hr'en Jessop are in ' Chase Me Comrade ' at the Whitehall: Roger Delgado and Derek Royle in Diplomatic Baggage ' at Wyndham's; Rex Garner is in ' Instant Marriage at the Piccadilly Theatre. London
	22.15	The News
	22.25	The Great War
			Part 2
	23.05	Mexican Fiesta
			The Ballet Folklorico of Mexico in a programme of Latin-American folk dance Choreography by AMALIA HERNANDEZ Producer, PATRICIA Foy First transmission on July 31
	23.45	Postscript to Christmas Day
			with The Rev. R. T. Brooks
	23.50	THE WEATHER: Close Down

	BBC TWO
	16.25	Christmas Carols
			from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge A programme for the Festival of Christ's Nativity First transmission on BBC-1 on Christmas Eve
	17.10	Slask
			(pronounced Schlonsk) The world-famous SONG AND DANCE COMPANY on the stage of The Theatre Royal. Drury Lane Introduced by Dame Marie Rambert, D.B.E. ft Bialy Mazur The White Mazurka from 1830 Chustkowy A handkerchief dance Greensleeves Mazurka from the opera Halka Krakowiana A song. Mary, Mary and a dance, The Peasant Triangle from the Cracow region in southern Poland Krakowiak The en'ire company in a national dance, based on the Tartars' attack on Cracow in 1281 Kolysanka A lullaby Kujawiak and Oberek A song and dance from the Kujawy region Czary A young girl weaves a spell of witch-craft in the moonlight-and a mountaineer warns her of the dangers in Hie Wywoluj Ballad ot the Robbers who sing of a murder-the murder of a rooster! Tatra Mountain Dances The entire company in an exhilarat ing song-and-dance finale Soloist dancers, Barbara Brandt, Michael Jarczyk Choreographer and ballet mistress ELWIRA KAMINSKA Artistic and musical director. STANISLAW HADYNA Presented for television by Derek Burrell-Davis The Polish State Song and Dance Company " Slash ' appeared by arrangement wtth Victor Hochhauser, Ltd
	18.00	The Cat and the Canary (1939)
			starring Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard A comedy-thriller Produced by Arthur Hornblow Jr. Directed by Elliot Nugent
	19.10	News
	19.15	The Little Sweep
			by BENJAMIN BRITTEN Libretto by ERIC CROZIER starring JOHANNA PETERS NORMAN LUMSDEN STEPHEN MANTON with Alan Baulch as Sammy Cast in order of appearance: FINCHLEY CHILDREN'S MUSIC GROUP Costumes by Joan Ellacott Make-up supervised by Eileen Culligan Film cameraman, Bill Munn Film editor, Michael Johns Drawings by Ruth Brown Designer, Marilyn Taylor Associate conductor, David Lloyd-Jones Associate producer, Lionel Salter Producer, CEDRIC MESSINA Musical director, JOHN ANDREWES Directed by HERBERT WISE Johanna Peters appears by arrangement with the English Opera Group
	20.05	Muses with Milligan
			Poetry and Jazz Introduced by SPIKE MILLIGAN with CLEO LAINE THE FIVE WORTHIES STEVE BEN BOW KINGSLEY AMIS CHARLES CAUSLEY and JOAN GREENWOOD Produced by JOHN FURNESS
	20.45	Kiss Me, Kate
			Music and lyrics by COLE PORTER Play by SAM and BELLA SPEWACK starring PATRICIA MORISON and HOWARD KEEL and MILLICENT MARTIN with REGINALD BECKWITH IRVING DAVIES DANNY GREEN, BILL OWEN and ERIC BARKER also featuring Peter Regan, Tony Adams Isabelle Lucas. David Healy and Monty Landis The Dancers: RAY DALZIEL, SIDONIE DARRELL FRED EVANS, JANET HALL NITA HOWARD, IAN KAYE CONEL MILES, JOAN PALETHORPE The Singers under the direction of FRED TOMLINSON Additional orchestrations by Dennis Wilson and Peter Knight The Orchestra conducted by HARRY RABINOWITZ Make-up by Maureen Winslade Costumes by Maureen Muggeridge Musical numbers staged and choreographed by Paddy Stone Designer, Eileen Diss Directed by DAVID ASKEY Producer, JAMES GILBERT t. First transmission on April 22
	22.20	Francis Durbridge Presents...
			Melissa starring TONY BRITTON with Kerry Jordan Helen Christie Brian McDermott Melissa Foster has been murdered. Her husband Guy visits Elvingdale. believing that he will meet an ex-lover oi his wife's called Peter Antro bus. But Peter Antrobus is not the sort of person Guy expected. EPISODE3 Previously shown on Monday
	22.45	Swann, Wallace and Betjeman
			People, Places, and Animals at Christmas Ian Wallace and Donald Swann sing to some friends-while John Betjeman adds his comments Producer, CHRISTIAN SIMPSON
	23.15	Closedown
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