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BBC CHRISTMAS TV 1954

    Christmas Eve Friday 24th December 1954 

  BBCTV

  3.00pm  Road Safety
                  Jeanne Heal, with the help of experts, enquires into the causes of accidents to children, and in particular
                  why more than a third of child road casualties are under five years old
 (Repeat)


  3.30pm  The Boarder
                  with Amos 'n' Andy, a comedy film made for television

  5.00pm  Children's Television : Away in a Manger
                  written and produced by Dorothea Brooking 
                  Carols recorded by boys of Canterbury Cathedral Choir

  7.00pm  Ulster Mirror (Kirk O`Shotts and Glencairn only)
                 A fortnightly Northern Ireland television magazine

  7.15pm  Closedown

  7.25pm  Weather Chart

  7.30pm  News and Newsreel


  7.45pm  The Grove Family : Christmas Eve
                 by Michael and Roland Pertwee 
                
  8.05pm  Amahl and the Night Visitors
                 a Christmas story with music, by Gian-Carlo Menotti

  8.55pm  The Spirit of Christmas
                 carols from St Mary's Hospital, Paddington
                   

  9.05pm   Film : Beyond Tomorrow (1940)
                   a story that begins on Christmas Eve with Jean Parker 
                   C. Aubrey Smith, Charles Winninger and Richard Carlson 
                   
Even Scrooge found the spirit of Christmas infectious and the three ageing and 
                   prosperous business men who begin this film are not Scrooges. They decide to 
                    toss lightly out of the window their wallets, each containing ten dollars and cards 
                    bearing their names and addresses. Will any of the wallets be returned?


10.20pm  Animal, Vegetable, Mineral ?
                 Glyn Daniel challenges a panel of experts to identify a series of unusual objects, which he has specially
                 collected for Christmas Eve

                 The Experts : Sir Mortimer Wheeler, Professor of Archaeology, University of London 
                  Professor Thomas Bodkin, Former Director of the Barber Institute and Professor of Fine Arts at
                  Birmingham University, 
Hugh de S. Shortt 
Curator of Salisbury Museum 

10.50pm  News Headlines (sound only)
                  followed by
Interlude

10.55pm  Mass 
                  from Notre Dame, Paris 
                 Viewers are invited to take part in the Midnight Mass of the Nativity from the famous Cathedral of Paris 

12.30am  Closedown


  Christmas Day Saturday 25th December 1954

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11.00am  Morning Service 
                 for Christmas Day from St Ann's Parish Church, Manchester

12.00      Closedown

  3.15pm  The Season's Greetings
                  from Betty Driver, George Martin, Carole Carr, Robert Harbin Saveen, Rita Martell
                  Ronald Chesney, The Charmony Three, Sidney Jerome and his Orchestra who entertain disabled 

                  ex-Servicemen and their families and friends at the Star and Garter Home, Richmond 

  4.15pm  Closedown

  4.45pm  Children's Television
                 Andy Pandy &
                 
A Christmas Barnstorm : The pleasure of your company is requested at a farm near Glasgow where
                 Jack Edwardes and Charlie Drake , with some old and new friends, are celebrating at a Christmas party 

  6.00pm  Association Football Results

  6.05pm  Closedown

   7.25pm  Weather Chart

  7.30pm  News and Newsreel

  7.45pm  Wireless for the Blind

                  Jeanne Heal appeals on behalf of the British Wireless for the Blind Fund 

  7.50pm  Television's Christmas Party  
                  featuring Arthur Askey, Tommy Cooper,
                  Fred Emney, David Nixon, Petula Clark, Eve Boswell
                  Harry Secombe, Wilfred Pickles and Bob Monkhouse,
                  Sooty and Harry Corbett and Denis Goodwin


  9.30pm  A Party for Christmas  
                 a comedy in three acts by N. C . Hunter

11.00pm  News
                 (sound only)

11.15pm   Closedown


  Christmas Sunday 26th December 1954

  BBCTV

  2.00pm  Rhythm on Ice and Snow
                  Winter sports from the mountain village of Gstaad in the Bernese Oberland
                  Commentator in Switzerland : Peter Dimmock 

  3.00pm  Closedown

  5.00pm  Children's Television For Older Children : Film : Tom Brown's School Days (1940)
                  An American film based on the book by Thomas Hughes with Jimmy Lydon
                  Freddie Bartholomew , Cedric Hardwicke

  6.15pm  Closedown

  7.25pm  Weather Chart

  7.30pm  News and Newsreel

  7.45pm  What's My Line
                 with Isobel Barnett, Barbara Kelly, David Nixon and Gilbert Harding trying to find the answers
                  and Eamonn Andrews to see fair play


  8.25pm  John Slater
                 "It happened to you"

  8.30pm   Jacqueline Du Bief in 'Aladdin on Ice'
                   excerpts from Sir Arthur Elvin's pantomime 
                   
A special performance before an invited audience from the Empire Pool, Wembley


  9.45pm  Harcourt Williams in ' The Captive'
                  from a story by Luigi Pirandello

10.30pm  Sleep, Holy Babe
                  a quiet, reflective programme of music at the end of the first Sunday after Christmas

10.38pm  News
                 
(sound only)


  Boxing Day Monday 27th December 1954

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  1.30pm  Racing at Kempton Park 
                 (1.45 The Hounslow Handicap Hurdle Race,
                  2.15 The King George VI Steeplechase, 2.45 The Egham Novices' Hurdle Race)


  2.50pm  Interlude

  3.00pm  Alias Troubles
                  an adventure film of a boy and his dog
                  starring Lynne Roberts. Douglass Kennedy and Gordon Gebert 


  3.30pm  Television Goes to Sea
                 The British Railways' car ferry S.S. Lord Warden leaves Boulogne Harbour every afternoon
                 on her regular Channel crossing to Dover. 
From the bridge and decks of the S.S. Lord Warden outside
                 broadcast cameras show the departure from the French port and scenes on board the ship at sea 


  4.00pm  Closedown

  5.00pm  Children's Television : The Three Princes
                  A tale of the thousand nights and one night 
                  Made into a play for television and produced by Rex Tucker 

  5.50pm  Association Football Results

  6.00pm   Dynasty of the Hour Glasses
                   an impression of the power of the watch in everyday life
                   The programme includes : A Mimed Ridicule of Time,
                   by Albert Mol, A Guide to the Ticking Temples of Time by
                   Cruys Voorbergh, 
An impression of twenty-four hours in Munt Square in the
                   heart of Amsterdam, "
Time and Tide" by the New Dutch Ballet Group


  6.45pm  Closedown

   7.25pm  Weather Chart

   7.30pm  News and Newsreel

   7.45pm  War in the Air : 8—Round the Clock
                  A series of BBC Television films telling the history of air power In the past twenty years 
                  This film covers the day and night bombing of Germany during 1943 

  8.15pm  Top Town Parade
                 Some of the outstanding artists who have appeared in the present "Top Town" series 

  9.15pm  Tons of Money (1954)
                 a farce by Will Evans and Valentino starring Frankie Howerd and Eleanor Summerfield 

10.45pm  News
                 (sound only)


  Tuesday 28th December 1954 (Bank Holiday) 
 
  BBCTV

  1.30pm  Racing at Kempton Park 
                  (1.45 Christmas Handicap Hurdle, 2.15 Kenton Handicap
                   Steeplechase, 2.45 Littleton Four-Year-Old Hurdle Race)


  
2.50pm  Interlude

  3.00pm  For Women Leisure and Pleasure
                  introduced by Andrea Troubridge : I'd Like You To Meet ... Hattie Jacques 
                  Exhibition : Joan Rodker gives a preview of the exhibition of silver from churches in England and Wales,
                  organised by the Historic Churches Preservation Trust 
                  Film Making : Margaret Thomson discusses with Catherine Paul the art of directing child film actors 
                  Sociable Songs : Singers in Consort directed by Richard Wood
 

   4.00pm  Watch with Mother : Andy Pandy

    4.15pm  Closedown

   5.00pm  Children's Television
                   Spot the Tune Another competition introduced by Eric Robinson with Margaret Good (piano)
                   and members of the Allegri String Quartet 

                   Can You Do It? programme of tricks, stunts, and catches by Geoffrey Robinson
                   Junior Soccer Skills Contest Bemrose School, Derby v. Norlington Road School, Leyton 
                   Referee, A. E. Ellis (Scunthorpe) 
Guest star, Billy Wright 


  5.50pm  Closedown

  7.25pm   Weather Chart

  7.30pm   News and Newsreel


   7.45pm  Snooker 
                  John Pullman v John Barrie

   8.15pm  Music-Hall Parade
                  with Les Hollywoods (Marionettes) Monsieur John (Acrobat) 
                  Les Eldino and Tonita and Lill (Tight-rope walkers) Don Pamphile (Singing ventriloquist) 
                  La Troupe Bello (Acrobats) Les Ballets de Pacita Thomas (Spanish dancers) 
                  Daniele Darmance (Acrobatic dancer) Les Mains Joly (Hand ballet by Yves Jolyi) 
                  Lyane Dayde (Premiere danseuse of the Paris Opera) Line Renaud (songs) 
                  Georges Ulmer (who entertains in eight languages) 


  9.30pm  Zoo Quest : Part 2
                  The story of the recent expedition to the forests of West Africa in search of rare birds and animals,
                   told by the leader, Jack Lester, of the London Zoo 


10.00pm  Find the Link
                  with Peter Martyn in the chair and Josephine Douglas, Moira Lister, Kenneth Horne
                  Peter Noble finding the links between the challengers

                  Special investigators, Pauline Forrester and Larry Forrester 

10.30pm  News
                  (sound only)
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