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BBC CHRISTMAS TV 1957



  Christmas Eve Tuesday December 24th 1957

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  4.25pm  Watch with Mother : Andy Pandy
               
  4.40pm  Children's Television presents The Sledge
                  How do you build a sledge when you haven't any money and there's no wood?
                  Two small boys in a Hungarian village solve the problem in a novel way-and with unexpected results


  5.00pm  Belle Vue Circus
                  visit to the 29th International Circus in King's Hall, Belle Vue , Manchester 

  5.30pm  Tufty
                  The Adventures of a Friendly Duckling, story told by Johnny Morris
                 
Filmed and directed by Bertil Danielsson for the Swedish Television Service 
                  Bertil Danielsson is a Swede who spends the summer on one of the 60,000 islands
                   in the Stockholm archipelago. In this film he shows how he found and reared a young
                   tufted duck which had become separated from its family there one spring. Tufty Is fed
                   on ants' eggs, mussels, and other delicacies, and becomes great friends with the Danielsson
                   family and their dog 

                   This film was a prizewinner at the Radio and Television Festival in Taormina. Italy, this year


  6.00pm   News, Sports News, Weather

   6.15pm   Behold the King 
                   a play about the Nativity by John Keir Cross

  7.00pm  News Summary

  7.05pm  The O. Henry Playhouse
                 Christmas by Injunction
                 Thomas Mitchell plays the part of the famous American author in the film series based 
                  on his short stories 

  7.30pm  Direct from Austria : The Vienna Boys' Choir
                 in the chapel of the great palace of Schbnbrunn this famous choir presents a programme of
                 traditional Christmas carols 


  7.50pm  Film : It's a Wonderful Life (1946)  
                 starring James Stewart with Donna Read and Lionel Barrymore

10.00pm  News and Behind the Headlines

10.20pm  The Night Before Christmas
                  programme of songs, music, comedy, and verse reflecting the festive season 
                  introduced by Terry-Thomas 

11.20pm    News Headlines

11.22pm    The Whole World Over
                   film based on three stories of love, compassion, and generosity,
                   showing that the heart is the same the whole world over-whether in Amsterdam, Montreal, or Mexico City


11.50pm   Midnight Mass of the Nativity 
                  from the Oratory, Edgbaston, Birmingham

  1.00am  Weather
                 Closedown



  Christmas Day Wednesday 25th December 1957

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10.30am  He Came Down to Earth from Heaven

                  An Act of Worship for Christmas Day from the recently re-consecrated 
                  Church of St. Andrew in the City of Plymouth

11.30am    Closedown

  2.30pm  Royal Prologue 
                  Crown and Commonwealth
                 
Twenty-five years of Christmas broadcasts


  3.00pm  Her Majesty The Queen

   3.15pm  Billy Smart's Family Party
                  A King of Circus holds Court at Christmas and his entire family invite children of all ages
                  to join them and hundreds of young guests i
n a real live family show 

  4.00pm  Children's Television presents The Sleeping Beauty
                  In this film Johnny Morris re-tells the story of the beautiful young princess who fell
                  into a deep sleep for a hundred years, to be woken by the kiss of a handsome prince 


  4.20pm  Film : Mrs Mike (1949)
                  starring Dick Powell
                 
Leaving the security of Boston far behind her, the young bride of a ' Mountie ' sergeant
                   accompanies him into the isolated but beautiful country of the Canadian north.
                   This new life proves very different in many surprising ways ...


  6.00pm  News Headlines, Weather

  6.05pm  Today's Sport
                  Today's football results and other sporting highlights introduced by Kenneth Wolstenholme

  6.15pm  Opera from Munich 
                 Mozart's "Don Juan" sung in German, Act I

  6.55pm  Christmas Appeal
                 Appeal on behalf of the British Wireless for the Blind Fund by Viscount Hailsham, Q.C. 

  7.00pm  News

   7.05pm  Gene Kelly 
                  songs and dances from his films

  7.30pm  Television's Annual Frolic: Pantomania presents The Babes in the Wood
                  with Eamonn Andrews, Derek Bond,
                  Kenneth Connor, Sam Costa, Peter Dimmock, Charlie Drake, Tony Hancock, Benny Hill,
                  Sid James, Cliff Michelmore, Jean Metcalfe, Derek Hart, Bill Maynard, Jack Payne,
                   Sylvia Peters, Ted Ray, Huw Wheldon and Peter Haigh


  8.30pm  When We Are Married  
                  by J B Priestley
                  Starring Frank Pettingell, Helena Pickard, Mark Dignam
                  The action takes place on Sept. 5, 1908, at the home of Alderman Joseph Helliwell in Clecklewyke, Yorkshire


10.00pm  Music for You
                  introduced and conducted by Eric Robinson
                  The programme includes: "The Land of Snow" from Tchaikovsky's ' Casse Noisette

11.00pm  News and Weather

  11.10pm  The Epilogue :  Unto Us a Boy is Born 
                  The Matron of Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital tells of the tremendous
                   reality which Christmas has for her and her staff


11.20pm  Closedown


  Boxing Day Thursday 26th December 1957

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  1.00pm  Racing at Kempton Park 
                  (1.15 Mistletoe Novices Steeplechase, 1.45 Heathorn Handicap Hurdle,
                  2.15 King George VI Steeplechase, 2.45 Egham Novices Hurdle)


  2.55pm  For Younger Children :   George and the Two Tiny Oxen
                  A Hungarian cartoon film about the struggle between a giant and a poor country boy.
                  Two tiny oxen come to the boy's help and together they rout the wicked ogre


  3.25pm  Film : Four Faces West (1948)  
                  starring Joel McCrea

  4.45pm  The Vienna Ice-Revue 1958
                  "Sylvia" 
                   The Adventures of a Dancer 
                   Starring champion skaters of Europe and the world 
                   You are invited to join the audience in the Messepalast, Vienna, to see the last part of the
                   matinee performance of this spectacular Christmas show 


  5.30pm  News Summary

  5.35pm  Today's Sport

                 Today's football and racing results and other sporting highlights 
                  introduced by Kenneth Wolstenholme

  5.45pm  Aladdin
                 The Arabian Nights' Tate made into a play for television and produced by Rex Tucker

  6.57pm  Weather

  7.00pm   News

  7.05pm    Film : Body and Soul (1947)
                   starring John Garfield and Lilli Palmer

  8.45pm  Billy Cotton and Vera Lynn as host and hostess at a Boxing Day Party
                 with their guest star, George Formby. Also including Eric Robinson, Alan Breeze 
                 Kathie Kay, Rodolpho, The Leslie Roberts Silhouettes 


  9.45pm  Rupert of Hentzau
                  starring Robert Shaw, Sarah Lawson, John Westbrook 

  11.15pm  The Good Old Days 
                   Christmas Edition of Old-Time Music-Hall presenting 
                   The Musketeers 
                   Allen Brothers and June 
                   Billy McComb 
                   The Dancing McKennas 
                   Bill Waddington 
                   Darlys Dogs 
                   Laurie Lupino Lane and George Truzzi 
                   Chairman, 
Leonard Sachs 


12.00          News Summary
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