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
