ITV CHRISTMAS TV 1955
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 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