BBC CHRISTMAS TV 1950
Christmas Eve Sunday 24th December 1950
BBCTV
5.00pm For the Children : The Reluctant Dragon
by Kenneth Grahame
5.30pm For the Children : Santa Claus' Workshop
A film from Finland
5.45pm For the Children : Christmas Cartoonists' Corner
Harry Rutherford brings the children's television characters to the studio
8.00pm Pouishnoff
plays to you
8.20pm A Soldier for Christmas
with Robert Beatty and Heather Thatcher
10.05pm The Crib
On this Christmas Eve, in the quiet of a church crypt in the heart of London, the Christmas story
is retold from St. Martin-the- Fields, Trafalgar Square
10.15pm News
(sound only)
10.30pm Closedown
Christmas Day Monday 25th December 1950
BBCTV
11.30am Christmas Day Service
from St Martins-in-the-Fields conducted by the. Vicar, the Rev. L. M Charles-Edwards.
12.30pm Closedown
5.00pm For the Children : Muffin the Mule
presents his Pantomime with Annette Mills (who writes the songs)
and Ann Hogarth (who pulls the strings)
5.20pm For the Children : Children's Christmas Party
at the Hammersmith Palais, London
You are invited to join in the fun with hundreds of taxi drivers and their families
6.30pm Closedown
8.00pm Newsreel
8.15pm The Season's Greetings
from Renee Houston and Donald Stewart
Adelaide Hall
Peter Cavanagh
The Beverley Sisters
Michael Howard and Nat Allen and his Orchestra
who are entertaining disabled ex-servicemen of both world
wars and their families at the Star and Garter Home, Richmond Hill
9.00pm A Christmas Carol
a play starring Barbara Murray
10.30pm News
(sound only)
10.45pm Closedown
Boxing Day Tuesday 26th December 1950
BBCTV
3.00pm Canadian Carols
a short film for Christmas time
3.10pm Film : A Chump at Oxford (1940)
starring Laurel and Hardy
In this comedy film Laurel and Hardy arrest a bank robber and as a reward are sent to Oxford
4.10pm Closedown
5.00pm For the Children : The Cruise of the Toytown Belle
Being the adventures of Larry the Lamb, Dennis the Dachshund
and the mayor and Citizens of Toytown in search of treasure
6.15pm Closedown
8.00pm Cinderella
starring Jack Hulbert
A Christmas pantomime with Sally Ann Howes, Doris Rogers; Diana Morrison;
Eunice Crowther; Marten Tiffen; and the George Mitchell Choir
10.00pm Newsreel
10.15pm News (sound only)
10.30pm Closedown