BBC CHRISTMAS TV 1957
Christmas Eve Tuesday December 24th 1957
BBCTV
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
BBCTV
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 in 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
BBCTV
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
