BBC CHRISTMAS TV 1937
Christmas Eve Friday 24th December 1937
BBCTV
3.00pm Coffee-Stall (Christmas edition)
a light entertainment with Cyril Nash , S. E. Reynolds , Josh Cairns
3.20pm British Gaumont News
3.30pm Jack Payne with his Band
and Art Gregory, Patricia Rossborough, Billy Scott-Coomber, Teddie Foster, Marjorie Stedeford
4.00pm Closedown
9.00pm Irene Prador
in songs, accompanied by Evel Burns
9.05pm '... Drew The Pictures'
Nicolas Bentley worries Robert Hartman
9.20pm British Movietone News
9.30pm Jack Payne with his Band
(as 3.30pm)
10.00pm Closedown
Christmas Day Saturday 25th December 1937
BBCTV
11.00am Film for Demonstration Purposes
12.00 Closedown
3.00pm The King's Message
(sound only)
3.05pm The Rev Pat McCormick DSO
When the late Dick Sheppard resigned the living of St. Martin-in-the-Fields through ill-health in 1927,
Pat McCormick took on and succeeded in the difficult task of carrying on a fine tradition. He has given
many ' sound ' broadcasts, but his Christmas message to viewers today marks his first appearance in
television
3.10pm Charles Heslop in comedy and Irene Prador in Viennese songs
3.30pm Mr Gillie Potter
3.40pm Musical Farmer
cartoon film
3.45pm Alice in Wonderland
produced by George More O'Ferrall, with Ursula Hanray as Alice
4.15pm Closedown
9.00pm Music Hall Cavalcade
(Stars of Yesterday and Today) with George Mozart, Marie Kendall, Charles Lee, Daisy Dormer,
Tom Leamore, Lizzie Collins, Sable Fern, and Talbot O'Farrell , Walter Williams , Emile Boreo.
Chairman : George Benson. The Old Couple: Una Venning and Fewlass Llewellyn.
The Orchestra under Musical Director Hyam Greenbaum
10.00pm Closedown
Sunday 26th December 1937
BBCTV
No programmes
Boxing Day Monday 27th December 1937
BBCTV
11.00am Film for Demonstration Purposes
12.00 Close
3.00pm Cartoon film: Hunting Season
3.05pm Hansel and Gretel
The story of Hansel and Gretel: a masque to the music of Humperdinck: choreography by Andree Howard.
The BBC Television Orchestra, leader Boris Pecker, conductor Hyam Greenbaum.
Production by Stephen Thomas
The actors : Gretel- Muriel Pavlow. Hansel — Jean Haines. The Mother-Lilla Healing.
The Father — Alured Weigall. The Witch - H. D. C. Pepler. The singers : Jane Vowles, Charlotte Leigh,
Edith Coates, Bernard Ross, Vivienne Chatterton.
The dancers led by Andree Howard. A section of the BBC Singers
3.55pm British Movietone News
4.00pm Closedown
9.00pm Russell Swann
9.10pm Starlight
9.20pm Gaumont British News
9.30pm Television's First Grand Children's Pantomime : Dick Whittington and His Cat
Book by Arthur Askey
Ensembles arranged by Carrie Graham
Ballets arranged by Quentin Tod
Scenery designed by Peter Bax
Emperor of Morocco.....Cyril Fletcher
Full Chorus and Augmented Orchestra under the direction of Hyam Greenbaum
entire production by Reginald Smith
10.00pm Closedown
Tuesday 28th December 1937 (Bank Holiday)
BBCTV
11.00am Demonstration Film
12.00 Close
3.00pm Lisa Minghetti
(violin)
3.10pm Russell Swann
3.20pm Gaumont British News
3.30pm The Old Lady Shows Her Medals
a play by JM Barrie, directed by Moultrie R Kelsall,
with Isobel Jamieson, Jack Lambert, Margery Phipps-Walker, Ethel Ramsay,
Frances Waing and J Fisher White
4.00pm Close
9.00pm The Viennese Singing Sisters
9.10pm British Movietone News
9.20pm The Ghost Train
by Arnold Ridley, produced by Jan Bussell, with Don Gemmell,
Laura Smithson, Clifford Bean, Philip Thornley, Joan Lawson, Rani Waller, Daphne
Riggs, John Counsell, Arthur Young, Hugh Dempster, Alex McCrindle & SE Reynolds
10.00pm Closedown
BBCTV
3.00pm Coffee-Stall (Christmas edition)
a light entertainment with Cyril Nash , S. E. Reynolds , Josh Cairns
3.20pm British Gaumont News
3.30pm Jack Payne with his Band
and Art Gregory, Patricia Rossborough, Billy Scott-Coomber, Teddie Foster, Marjorie Stedeford
4.00pm Closedown
9.00pm Irene Prador
in songs, accompanied by Evel Burns
9.05pm '... Drew The Pictures'
Nicolas Bentley worries Robert Hartman
9.20pm British Movietone News
9.30pm Jack Payne with his Band
(as 3.30pm)
10.00pm Closedown
Christmas Day Saturday 25th December 1937
BBCTV
11.00am Film for Demonstration Purposes
12.00 Closedown
3.00pm The King's Message
(sound only)
3.05pm The Rev Pat McCormick DSO
When the late Dick Sheppard resigned the living of St. Martin-in-the-Fields through ill-health in 1927,
Pat McCormick took on and succeeded in the difficult task of carrying on a fine tradition. He has given
many ' sound ' broadcasts, but his Christmas message to viewers today marks his first appearance in
television
3.10pm Charles Heslop in comedy and Irene Prador in Viennese songs
3.30pm Mr Gillie Potter
3.40pm Musical Farmer
cartoon film
3.45pm Alice in Wonderland
produced by George More O'Ferrall, with Ursula Hanray as Alice
4.15pm Closedown
9.00pm Music Hall Cavalcade
(Stars of Yesterday and Today) with George Mozart, Marie Kendall, Charles Lee, Daisy Dormer,
Tom Leamore, Lizzie Collins, Sable Fern, and Talbot O'Farrell , Walter Williams , Emile Boreo.
Chairman : George Benson. The Old Couple: Una Venning and Fewlass Llewellyn.
The Orchestra under Musical Director Hyam Greenbaum
10.00pm Closedown
Sunday 26th December 1937
BBCTV
No programmes
Boxing Day Monday 27th December 1937
BBCTV
11.00am Film for Demonstration Purposes
12.00 Close
3.00pm Cartoon film: Hunting Season
3.05pm Hansel and Gretel
The story of Hansel and Gretel: a masque to the music of Humperdinck: choreography by Andree Howard.
The BBC Television Orchestra, leader Boris Pecker, conductor Hyam Greenbaum.
Production by Stephen Thomas
The actors : Gretel- Muriel Pavlow. Hansel — Jean Haines. The Mother-Lilla Healing.
The Father — Alured Weigall. The Witch - H. D. C. Pepler. The singers : Jane Vowles, Charlotte Leigh,
Edith Coates, Bernard Ross, Vivienne Chatterton.
The dancers led by Andree Howard. A section of the BBC Singers
3.55pm British Movietone News
4.00pm Closedown
9.00pm Russell Swann
9.10pm Starlight
9.20pm Gaumont British News
9.30pm Television's First Grand Children's Pantomime : Dick Whittington and His Cat
Book by Arthur Askey
Ensembles arranged by Carrie Graham
Ballets arranged by Quentin Tod
Scenery designed by Peter Bax
Emperor of Morocco.....Cyril Fletcher
Full Chorus and Augmented Orchestra under the direction of Hyam Greenbaum
entire production by Reginald Smith
10.00pm Closedown
Tuesday 28th December 1937 (Bank Holiday)
BBCTV
11.00am Demonstration Film
12.00 Close
3.00pm Lisa Minghetti
(violin)
3.10pm Russell Swann
3.20pm Gaumont British News
3.30pm The Old Lady Shows Her Medals
a play by JM Barrie, directed by Moultrie R Kelsall,
with Isobel Jamieson, Jack Lambert, Margery Phipps-Walker, Ethel Ramsay,
Frances Waing and J Fisher White
4.00pm Close
9.00pm The Viennese Singing Sisters
9.10pm British Movietone News
9.20pm The Ghost Train
by Arnold Ridley, produced by Jan Bussell, with Don Gemmell,
Laura Smithson, Clifford Bean, Philip Thornley, Joan Lawson, Rani Waller, Daphne
Riggs, John Counsell, Arthur Young, Hugh Dempster, Alex McCrindle & SE Reynolds
10.00pm Closedown
