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ITV CHRISTMAS TV 1961


  Christmas Eve Sunday 24th December 1961
​
  ATV

11.00am  Christmas Sunday Service 
                from Heaton Moor Congregational Church, Stockport
, Cheshire


12.05pm  Closedown

  2.20pm  Interpol Calling

  2.45pm  Tempo
                 
A fortnightly look at the arts, edited by Kenneth Tynan & introduced
                 by Clive Goodwin and Isaac Stern


  3.35pm  Film : The Crowded Day (1954)
                 
starring Joan Rice, Josephine Griffin, Freda Jackson

  5.05pm  Sir Francis Drake
                 
"Boy Jack"
                  starring Terence Morgan as Sir Francis Drake and
                  Jean Kent as Queen Elizabeth


   5.35pm  Supercar  
                  Gerry Anderson puppet series

  6.05pm  News from ITN

  6.15pm    Journey of a Lifetime
                 
"A Child is Born"
                  starring Ann Lawson and John Bonney


  6.30pm  The Sunday Break
                 
"No Room at the Inn"
                  introduced by Barry Westwood


  7.00pm  About Religion

  7.25pm   News from ITN


  7.30pm  77 Sunset Strip
                 
"The Antwerp Caper"
                 starring Efrem Zimbalist Jr and Roger Smith


  8.25pm  Ring Out the Bells 
                 
starring Jo Stafford with special guest Harry Secombe

  9.25pm  News

  9.35pm  Drama '61 : The Face of the Enemy 
                 
starring Thorley Walters, Avice Landon, Michael Aldridge and Dinsdale Landen

10.35pm  Blondes for Danger with Gordon Harker
                 followed by
Weather Forecast

11.50pm  First Communion of Christmas 
​                
from Guildford Cathedral

  1.20am  Closedown


  ABC Midlands and Northern (as ATV except)

12.05pm  Yuletide Festival of Carols and Music 
                 
from Liverpool Cathedral

12.50pm  Motor Cycle Scramble
                 
The Yorkshire Centre A.C.U. Scramble

  1.35pm  Christmas on the Other Man's Farm

  2.20pm  SOS Rhino
 (until 2.45)
                  introduced by Aubrey Buxton 

  3.35pm  Sir Francis Drake

  4.05pm  The Film Show presents : April Showers
 (1948) 
                  
with Ann Southern and Jack Carson

  5.20pm   Where Shall We Go ?
                   
ABC Holiday Advertising Magazine

  5.45pm   Meet Foo Foo

  5.50pm  Seeing Christmas Stars 
(until 6.05)
                 including Harry Belafonte, Ella Fitzgerald, Mel Torme, Lionel Blair

 
  7.00pm  Living Your Life (until 7.25)
                 "Tomorrow Shall be My Dancing Day"


10.35pm  Tales of Dickens : Mr Pickwick's Dilemma 
                 
starring John Salew, Harry Fowler and James Donald, introduced by Fredric March

11.00pm  Time to Remember

11.25pm   The Word in Season
 (until 11.50)

  
  Christmas Day Monday 25th December 1961

  Associated Rediffusion

11.15am  High Mass 
               
from St Dominic's Priory Church, Southampton Road, London

12.30pm  Closedown

  1.00pm  News

  1.05pm  Christmas Box
               
 A festive family programme introduced by Noele Gordon

  2.00pm  The Cyril Stapleton Show
                 
starring Cyril Stapleton and his Orchestra

  3.00pm  Her Majesty The Queen
                 
A Christmas message to the Commonwealth

  3.07pm  Chipperfield's All Star Christmas Circus
                 
Ringmaster : Shaw Taylor with guest stars Arthur Haynes and Richard Hearne

  4.20pm  Close-Up
                 
presents highlights from musicals past and present

  5.00pm  For Children

  5.55pm    News from ITN

  6.05pm   His Grace The Archbishop of Canterbury

  6.15pm     Weather Forecast

  6.17pm    Christmas Alone

  6.45pm   Here and Now

  7.00pm  All Our Yesterdays 
                 
Christmas 1936 presented by Brian Inglis

  7.30pm  Coronation Street
                 
Christmas Day in Coronation Street

  8.00pm  Gunsmoke

  8.55pm    News

  9.05pm    A Merry Max
  with Max Bygraves

10.05pm    Film :  The Pickwick Papers (1952) 
                   
starring James Hayter, Nigel Patrick, James Donald, Kathleen Harrison
                   including at 11.10pm News Headlines
​
11.57pm      The Epilogue

  Granada (as Associated Rediffusion except)

12.30pm   Music for Christmas (until 1.00)
                  with the Choir of Durham Cathedral

  5.00pm  Cartoon Time (until 5.55)
                  Huckleberry Hound, The Flintstones, Popeye 

  6.15pm   People and Places (until 7.00)
                  A special Christmas edition of the Northern magazine
                  programme introduced by Bill Grundy and Gay Byrne


  8.00pm  Bonanza (until 8.55)
                  "The Thunderhead Swindle"
                   starring Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts,
                   Dan Blocker, Michael Landon 


  11.15pm  Popeye
                 
a series of cartoons

 
11.45pm  Goodnight

  Boxing Day Tuesday 26th December 1961

  Associated Rediffusion

  1.25pm   Racing from Wetherby

  3.30pm  Pencil and Paper
                 
The quiz show which allows viewers to compete
                  among themselves to test general knowledge and IQ
                  presented by Shaw Taylor and Lisa Finlayson


  4.00pm  Sport of the Year 1961
                 
A filmed report of the highlights in British Sport
                  during the past year written and narrated by
                  Noel Phillips-Browne


  4.35pm    Wally and the Ivy
                   
A Boxing Day fantasy with Wally whyton

  4.55pm    Sports Results
                   
from the Sports Desk of ITN

  5.00pm   For Children

  5.55pm    News

  6.06pm   Weather Forecast

  6.08pm   The Steve Race Four

   6.15pm   Mess Mates
                 
 "The Fur Thieves"
                    starring Sam Kydd, Archie Duncan, Ronald Hines 


  6.45pm  Film : Honeymoon for Three (1941)

  8.00pm  The Dickie Henderson Show

  8.30pm  Val Parnell presents All Kinds of Music

  9.25pm  News

  9.35pm  Film : Svengali 
 (1954) 
                  
starring Donald Wolfit, Hildegarde Neff and Terence Morgan

11.05pm  This Wonderful World

11.35pm  Epilogue



  Granada (as Associated Rediffusion except)

  5.00pm  Tuesday Rendezvous (until 5.55)
                  Boxing Day Party presented by Muriel Young and Bert Weedon


  6.05pm  Granada Newsbrief (until 6.15)

  6.45pm  Film : Once Upon a Time  (1944) 
                 
starring Cary Grant, Janet Blair (until 8.00)

11.00pm  News Headlines
                 
followed by Northern Newscast
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