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
3.35pm Film : The Crowded Day (1954)
5.05pm Sir Francis Drake
5.35pm Supercar Gerry Anderson puppet series
6.05pm News from ITN
6.15pm Journey of a Lifetime
6.30pm The Sunday Break
7.00pm About Religion
7.25pm News from ITN
7.30pm 77 Sunset Strip
8.25pm Ring Out the Bells with Jo Stafford
9.25pm News
9.35pm Drama '61 : The Face of the Enemy starring Thorley Walters, Avice Landon and Michael Aldridge
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
1.35pm Christmas on the Other Man's Farm
2.20pm SOS Rhino (until 2.45)
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 ?
5.45pm Meet Foo Foo
5.50pm Seeing Christmas Stars (until 6.05)
7.00pm Living Your Life (until 7.25)
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
2.00pm The Cyril Stapleton Show
3.00pm Her Majesty The Queen
3.07pm Chipperfield's All Star Christmas Circus
4.20pm Close-Up
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
7.30pm 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
11.57pm The Epilogue
Granada (as Associated Rediffusion except)
12.30pm Music for Christmas
5.00pm Cartoon Time Huckleberry Hound, The Flintstones, Popeye (until 5.55)
6.15pm People and Places (until 7.00)
8.00pm Bonanza (until 8.55)
11.10pm News Headlines
Boxing Day Tuesday 26th December 1961
Associated Rediffusion
1.25pm Racing from Wetherby
3.30pm Pencil and Paper
4.00pm Sport of the Year 1961
4.35pm Wally and the Ivy
4.55pm Sports Results
5.00pm For Children
5.55pm News
6.06pm Weather Forecast
6.08pm The Steve Race Four
6.15pm Mess Mates
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 and Hildegarde Neff
11.05pm This Wonderful World
11.35pm Epilogue
Granada (as Associated Rediffusion except)
5.00pm Tuesday Rendezvous (until 5.55)
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, Northern Newscast
11.15pm Popeye
11.45pm Goodnight
