BBC CHRISTMAS TV 1960
Christmas Eve Saturday 24th December 1960
BBCTV
12.30pm Telewele
a weekly children's programme in Welsh
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield only)
12.55pm Newyddion
News in Welsh
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield only)
1.00pm Grandstand
(1.05 Boxing: Floyd Patterson, 1.55 Weightlifting: England v Scotland,
2.10 Sports Quiz, 2.40, 3.50 Snooker: Joe Davis v Fred Davis,
2.55, 3.30, 4.05 Motoring, 3.15 Weightlifting, 4.30 Sports Results)
5.00pm The Lone Ranger
An Eye for an Eye
How to save their leader from hanging is the gang's problem, and holding
the Governor's daughter as hostage seems a good plan
5.25pm Christmas with the Appleyards
special Christmas reunion featuring the original members of the former serial
5.50pm The News
5.53pm Today's Sport
introduced by Kenneth Wolstenholme
Today's sporting headlines and the classified football results
presented by the Sportsview Unit
6.00pm Juke Box Jury
presenting the latest in popular records with the opinions of Peter Sellers
Russ Conway, Catherine Boyle and a special guest.
Hosted by David Jacobs
6.28pm Your Sunday Weather
6.30pm Dixon of Dock Green
Christmas Eve at the Nick, starring Jack Warner
7.00pm Tenderfoot
A Western film series starring Will Hutchins as Tom Brewster the
young cowboy adventurer who is also a student of the law in
The Shadow Catcher
When a wilful young woman ventures alone into a hostile Indian
camp Tom has to act fast to get her out alive
7.45pm The Wakey Wakey Tavern
where Billy Cotton and his band invite you to a Christmas Eve Party
with Russ Conway, Harry Worth, Billy Fury
8.35pm The News
8.40pm The Saturday Film : The Bells of St Mary's (1945)
starring Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman
10.20pm The Polite Invasion
In Lapland with Mai Zetterling
This is the story of Mai Zetterling's first visit to Jokkmok
in the Arctic Circle for the traditional Lapp Festival at Candlemas
in early February
"Gay arrivals, great happiness in coming together for their annual meeting;
traditions of dress and dance, and customs that were still vigorous;
sights I had never seen before"
10.50pm A Festival of Carols
On this Christmas Eve four Television services combine by Eurovision
to present a programme of Christmas Carols sung by four European choirs
From Britain:
The Choir of St. George's Chapel, Windsor
From France:
The Little Singers of the Wooden Cross in the Basilica of St. Denys. near Paris
Presented by Maurice Cazeneuve
From. Germany:
The Hymnus Boys Choir of Stuttgart in the Church of St. Augustine.
Schwabisch-Gmlind, Baden-Wurttcmberg
Presented by Hans-Ulrich Reichert
From Belgium:
The Brussels Boys Choir in the Church of St. Carol Borromeus. Antwerp
Presented by Jo van Eetvelde
11.30pm Welcome Christmas
with Doreen Hume, Cy Grant
12.00 Midnight Mass
The First Communion of Christmas from All Saints, Margaret Street, London
1.00am Close Down
Christmas Day Sunday 25th December 1960
BBCTV
9.29am Headline News
9.30am On Christmas Day in the Morning
Christmas songs and carols in Welsh and English, with Osian Ellis,
Iona Jones, Rowland Jones, Shelley Singers
Meredith Edwards telling a story by Gwyn Thomas
10.00am The Perry Como Music Hall
starring Perry Como in his traditional Christmas programme featuring
Ginny Tiu, Kokomo Jnr. and a party of young guests
10.45am Christmas Morning Service
from Sandon Road Methodist Church, Birmingham
Joyful and Triumphant
The Service conducted by the Minister, the Rev. Lionel Brayton
Preacher, the Rev. W. Russell Shearer Chairman of the Birmingham
District at the Methodist Church
11.45am Max Jaffa
invites you to a Christmas party
with The Trios
Max Jaffa (violin)
Reginald Kilbey (cello)
Jack Byfield (piano) and Beryl Grey
Ted and Ursula Darling
Peter Rhodes (boy soprano)
The Linden Singers
12.05pm The Adventures of Hiram Holliday : Vanishing House
A film comedy series starring Wally Cox
While his friend Joel is busy eating eclairs in Paris, Hiram
tries to interest a gendarme in the antics of a Punch and Judy show
12.30pm Sing We Now of Christmas!
Carols for Christmas Day sung by the Orpington Junior Singers
Conductor, Sheila Mossman
1.00pm The Queen
Her Majesty 's recorded Christmas Message to the Commonwealth
1.09pm The George Mitchell Glee Club
sing a parade of popular Christmas songs from medieval to modern
times featuring John Boulter, Mary Brown, Tony Mercer, Maryetta Midgley, John O'Neill
1.44pm Wells Fargo
The exciting adventures of the Western Stagecoach Service starring
Dale Robertson in Dead Man's Street
Paradise is not the place to expect trouble, but Jim finds it there,
and stops to help his old friend the Marshal get the town back to a state
which better suits its name
2.09pm Walt Disney
The story of a man who has become a legend
Told by David Jacobs who introduces Walt Disney
at his Hollywood studios and artists from his pictures with scenes from:
"Steamboat Willie"
"Hawaiian Holiday"
"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"
"Fantasia"
"Dumbo"
"Lady and the Tramp"
"Sleeping Beauty"
"The Living Desert"
"Robin Hood"
"Davy Crockett"
"One Hundred and One Dalmatians"
"Jungle Cat"
"The Parent Trap"
"Pollyanna"
"Greyfriars Bobby"
"Swiss Family Robinson"
3.25pm Appeal
on behalf of the British Wireless for the Blind Fund
3.30pm Billy Smart's Circus
4.30pm What's My Line?
from Hammersmith Hospital, London
Chairman, Eamonn Andrews
Panel: Isobel Barnett, Barbara Kelly, Cyril Fletcher,
Lord Boothby and a mystery guest celebrity
5.00pm Tonight with Belafonte
A new filmed programme of music and song starring the great entertainer Harry Belafonte
5.50pm The News
Weather
6.00pm Christmas Night with the Stars
introduced by David Nixon
featuring The Black and White Minstrels, Sid James, Nina and Frederick,
Harry Worth, Kenneth McKellar, David Nixon and Robert Harren, Stanley Baxter
and Betty Marsden, Joan Regan, Jimmy Edwards
7.15pm Film : The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
starring Ronald Colman and Madeleine Carroll
8.50pm The Sunday Night Play : Tuppence in the Gods
starring Fay Compton
10.20pm Christmas at Dean's Yard
Ludovic Kennedy visits the Dean of Westminster at his historic house with its
private access to the Abbey
10.40pm Late Night News
10.45pm Celebrity Recital
Fou Ts'ong plays
Presented by Arthur Langford
11.05pm Weather and Closedown
Boxing Day Monday 26th December 1960
BBCTV
10.45am Cadw'n Ifanc (Staying Young)
Christmas memories, includes special contributions from
Marfaretta Thomas and Morgan Williams
A magazine for older folk in Welsh
(Wenvoe, Blaen Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield only)
11.05am Bronco : The Soft Answer
A Western film series starring
Ty Hardin as the roving cowboy adventurer
11.59am Headline News and Weather
12.00 Boxing Day Grandstand
(12.05 Motor Sport, 12.40, 2.47 Motor Racing from Brands Hatch,
1.00 Racing from Kempton Park, 3.10, 4.10 Skating from Bournemouth,
3.30 Amateur Boxing)
5.00pm The Balloon and the Baron
Film sequences at Audley End, Essex, with Derek Francis, Dorothy Holmes-Gore
6.00pm The News
6.03pm Today's Sport
introduced by Kenneth Wolstenholme
Today's sporting headlines and the classified football results
6.10pm Charlie Drake's Christmas Show
presenting highlights from his shows
6.55pm This is Your Life
with Eamonn Andrews
7.25pm Just Gracie
Gracie Fields in half-an-hour of songs and stories Accompanied by
Bert Waller at the piano and The Rita Williams Singers
7.55pm Brian Rix Presents... Boobs in the Wood
a farcical pantomime
9.25pm Maigret : The Mistake
A crime series from the novels of Georges Simenon
Professor Gouin is a brilliant surgeon, but as Maigret says, 'He just doesn't understand
what makes people tick.' Caught in the drama of murder, he finds that love at least cannot be diagnosed
10.20pm The News
10.35pm Television Dancing Club
from the Carlton Rooms, Maida Vale
11.05pm The Good Old Days
Christmas edition of Old Time Music Hall from the famous
City Varieties, Leeds
11.50pm Weather and Closedown
Bank Holiday Tuesday 27th December 1960
BBCTV
12.35pm Newyddion
News in Welsh
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield only)
12.40pm Gwraig Y Ty
Magazine for the housewife in Welsh
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield only)
12.55pm Lunchtime News
1.00pm Bank Holiday Grandstand
(1.05, 2.10, 3.05 Motor Cycling at Brands Hatch: Sidecar race,
1.30, 2.00, 2.30, 3.00 Racing at Kempton Park)
3.30pm Watch with Mother : Andy Pandy
3.45pm Laramie : Man of God
A film from the Western series starring John Smith, Robert Fuller, Robert Crawford Jnr, Hoagy Carmichael
Guest star, James Gregory
Incited by unscrupulous white traders, the Sioux are on the warpath. A crusading priest believes that the
threat can be overcome by love and understanding rather than by guns
4.30pm Sports Results and News Service
Football results from the teleprinter Racing summaries
Classified football results
5.00pm Chuk and Gek
a film from Moscow
Two small boys set out with their mother to spend the New Year with their father,
who is working two thousand miles away. They make their first long train journey and
then travel the rest of the way by sledge through the snow-covered forests
5.45pm Sooty
invites you to his Christmas party assisted by Sweep and Harry Corbett
5.53pm Today's Sport
introduced by Kenneth Wolstenholme
Today's sporting headlines and the classified football results
6.00pm The News
6.07pm Town and Around
news magazine for South-East England
News from South West (Rowridge only)
6.20pm This is the BBC
This film, which won a British Film Academy Award, is being repeated as a result of numerous requests.
It tells the story of an imaginary day in the life of the BBC.
The film takes viewers behind the scenes of both sound radio and television to show the BBC's huge
organisation at work-engineers, planners, producers, artists, musicians, personalities-a cast of 1,200 in all (Repeat)
7.25pm Whack-O!
starring Professor Jimmy Edwards and featuring Arthur Howard as Mr. Pettigrew
7.55pm Francis Durbridge Presents...The World of Tim Frazer
Episode 7 Jack Hedley as Tim Frazer, starring Ralph Michael with Gerald Cross, Redmond Phillips,
Francis Matthews, Patricia Haines, Tim Frazer's search for Harry Denston is almost over.
Returning to Hcnton, Frazer has received a call from Harry suggesting that they meet on the jetty.
After being involved in a fight for his life Frazer is aboard the cabin cruiser Anya.
Unknown to Frazer, Harry Denston is also aboard
8.25pm Film : Albert RN (1953)
starring Anthony Steel, Jack Warner
Marlag 'O' — a P.O.W. camp for Naval Officers, has the reputation of being escape-proof.
That is until Albert makes his appearance, but even with his help escape is highly dangerous.
Is Albert's creator ready to meet those dangers?
9.50pm The News
10.05pm London's Festival Ballet in Graduation Ball
A ballet by David Lichine
10.45pm The Moonlight Sonata
Mindru Katz plays Beethoven's Sonata in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2
The programme also Includes Laideronette, Empress of the Pagrodas,
from Ravel's Mother Goose Suite Presented by Arthur Langford
11.05pm Late Night News and Weather
11.12pm Ar Yr Aelwyd
Light entertainment in Welsh
BBCTV
12.30pm Telewele
a weekly children's programme in Welsh
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield only)
12.55pm Newyddion
News in Welsh
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield only)
1.00pm Grandstand
(1.05 Boxing: Floyd Patterson, 1.55 Weightlifting: England v Scotland,
2.10 Sports Quiz, 2.40, 3.50 Snooker: Joe Davis v Fred Davis,
2.55, 3.30, 4.05 Motoring, 3.15 Weightlifting, 4.30 Sports Results)
5.00pm The Lone Ranger
An Eye for an Eye
How to save their leader from hanging is the gang's problem, and holding
the Governor's daughter as hostage seems a good plan
5.25pm Christmas with the Appleyards
special Christmas reunion featuring the original members of the former serial
5.50pm The News
5.53pm Today's Sport
introduced by Kenneth Wolstenholme
Today's sporting headlines and the classified football results
presented by the Sportsview Unit
6.00pm Juke Box Jury
presenting the latest in popular records with the opinions of Peter Sellers
Russ Conway, Catherine Boyle and a special guest.
Hosted by David Jacobs
6.28pm Your Sunday Weather
6.30pm Dixon of Dock Green
Christmas Eve at the Nick, starring Jack Warner
7.00pm Tenderfoot
A Western film series starring Will Hutchins as Tom Brewster the
young cowboy adventurer who is also a student of the law in
The Shadow Catcher
When a wilful young woman ventures alone into a hostile Indian
camp Tom has to act fast to get her out alive
7.45pm The Wakey Wakey Tavern
where Billy Cotton and his band invite you to a Christmas Eve Party
with Russ Conway, Harry Worth, Billy Fury
8.35pm The News
8.40pm The Saturday Film : The Bells of St Mary's (1945)
starring Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman
10.20pm The Polite Invasion
In Lapland with Mai Zetterling
This is the story of Mai Zetterling's first visit to Jokkmok
in the Arctic Circle for the traditional Lapp Festival at Candlemas
in early February
"Gay arrivals, great happiness in coming together for their annual meeting;
traditions of dress and dance, and customs that were still vigorous;
sights I had never seen before"
10.50pm A Festival of Carols
On this Christmas Eve four Television services combine by Eurovision
to present a programme of Christmas Carols sung by four European choirs
From Britain:
The Choir of St. George's Chapel, Windsor
From France:
The Little Singers of the Wooden Cross in the Basilica of St. Denys. near Paris
Presented by Maurice Cazeneuve
From. Germany:
The Hymnus Boys Choir of Stuttgart in the Church of St. Augustine.
Schwabisch-Gmlind, Baden-Wurttcmberg
Presented by Hans-Ulrich Reichert
From Belgium:
The Brussels Boys Choir in the Church of St. Carol Borromeus. Antwerp
Presented by Jo van Eetvelde
11.30pm Welcome Christmas
with Doreen Hume, Cy Grant
12.00 Midnight Mass
The First Communion of Christmas from All Saints, Margaret Street, London
1.00am Close Down
Christmas Day Sunday 25th December 1960
BBCTV
9.29am Headline News
9.30am On Christmas Day in the Morning
Christmas songs and carols in Welsh and English, with Osian Ellis,
Iona Jones, Rowland Jones, Shelley Singers
Meredith Edwards telling a story by Gwyn Thomas
10.00am The Perry Como Music Hall
starring Perry Como in his traditional Christmas programme featuring
Ginny Tiu, Kokomo Jnr. and a party of young guests
10.45am Christmas Morning Service
from Sandon Road Methodist Church, Birmingham
Joyful and Triumphant
The Service conducted by the Minister, the Rev. Lionel Brayton
Preacher, the Rev. W. Russell Shearer Chairman of the Birmingham
District at the Methodist Church
11.45am Max Jaffa
invites you to a Christmas party
with The Trios
Max Jaffa (violin)
Reginald Kilbey (cello)
Jack Byfield (piano) and Beryl Grey
Ted and Ursula Darling
Peter Rhodes (boy soprano)
The Linden Singers
12.05pm The Adventures of Hiram Holliday : Vanishing House
A film comedy series starring Wally Cox
While his friend Joel is busy eating eclairs in Paris, Hiram
tries to interest a gendarme in the antics of a Punch and Judy show
12.30pm Sing We Now of Christmas!
Carols for Christmas Day sung by the Orpington Junior Singers
Conductor, Sheila Mossman
1.00pm The Queen
Her Majesty 's recorded Christmas Message to the Commonwealth
1.09pm The George Mitchell Glee Club
sing a parade of popular Christmas songs from medieval to modern
times featuring John Boulter, Mary Brown, Tony Mercer, Maryetta Midgley, John O'Neill
1.44pm Wells Fargo
The exciting adventures of the Western Stagecoach Service starring
Dale Robertson in Dead Man's Street
Paradise is not the place to expect trouble, but Jim finds it there,
and stops to help his old friend the Marshal get the town back to a state
which better suits its name
2.09pm Walt Disney
The story of a man who has become a legend
Told by David Jacobs who introduces Walt Disney
at his Hollywood studios and artists from his pictures with scenes from:
"Steamboat Willie"
"Hawaiian Holiday"
"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"
"Fantasia"
"Dumbo"
"Lady and the Tramp"
"Sleeping Beauty"
"The Living Desert"
"Robin Hood"
"Davy Crockett"
"One Hundred and One Dalmatians"
"Jungle Cat"
"The Parent Trap"
"Pollyanna"
"Greyfriars Bobby"
"Swiss Family Robinson"
3.25pm Appeal
on behalf of the British Wireless for the Blind Fund
3.30pm Billy Smart's Circus
4.30pm What's My Line?
from Hammersmith Hospital, London
Chairman, Eamonn Andrews
Panel: Isobel Barnett, Barbara Kelly, Cyril Fletcher,
Lord Boothby and a mystery guest celebrity
5.00pm Tonight with Belafonte
A new filmed programme of music and song starring the great entertainer Harry Belafonte
5.50pm The News
Weather
6.00pm Christmas Night with the Stars
introduced by David Nixon
featuring The Black and White Minstrels, Sid James, Nina and Frederick,
Harry Worth, Kenneth McKellar, David Nixon and Robert Harren, Stanley Baxter
and Betty Marsden, Joan Regan, Jimmy Edwards
7.15pm Film : The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
starring Ronald Colman and Madeleine Carroll
8.50pm The Sunday Night Play : Tuppence in the Gods
starring Fay Compton
10.20pm Christmas at Dean's Yard
Ludovic Kennedy visits the Dean of Westminster at his historic house with its
private access to the Abbey
10.40pm Late Night News
10.45pm Celebrity Recital
Fou Ts'ong plays
Presented by Arthur Langford
11.05pm Weather and Closedown
Boxing Day Monday 26th December 1960
BBCTV
10.45am Cadw'n Ifanc (Staying Young)
Christmas memories, includes special contributions from
Marfaretta Thomas and Morgan Williams
A magazine for older folk in Welsh
(Wenvoe, Blaen Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield only)
11.05am Bronco : The Soft Answer
A Western film series starring
Ty Hardin as the roving cowboy adventurer
11.59am Headline News and Weather
12.00 Boxing Day Grandstand
(12.05 Motor Sport, 12.40, 2.47 Motor Racing from Brands Hatch,
1.00 Racing from Kempton Park, 3.10, 4.10 Skating from Bournemouth,
3.30 Amateur Boxing)
5.00pm The Balloon and the Baron
Film sequences at Audley End, Essex, with Derek Francis, Dorothy Holmes-Gore
6.00pm The News
6.03pm Today's Sport
introduced by Kenneth Wolstenholme
Today's sporting headlines and the classified football results
6.10pm Charlie Drake's Christmas Show
presenting highlights from his shows
6.55pm This is Your Life
with Eamonn Andrews
7.25pm Just Gracie
Gracie Fields in half-an-hour of songs and stories Accompanied by
Bert Waller at the piano and The Rita Williams Singers
7.55pm Brian Rix Presents... Boobs in the Wood
a farcical pantomime
9.25pm Maigret : The Mistake
A crime series from the novels of Georges Simenon
Professor Gouin is a brilliant surgeon, but as Maigret says, 'He just doesn't understand
what makes people tick.' Caught in the drama of murder, he finds that love at least cannot be diagnosed
10.20pm The News
10.35pm Television Dancing Club
from the Carlton Rooms, Maida Vale
11.05pm The Good Old Days
Christmas edition of Old Time Music Hall from the famous
City Varieties, Leeds
11.50pm Weather and Closedown
Bank Holiday Tuesday 27th December 1960
BBCTV
12.35pm Newyddion
News in Welsh
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield only)
12.40pm Gwraig Y Ty
Magazine for the housewife in Welsh
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield only)
12.55pm Lunchtime News
1.00pm Bank Holiday Grandstand
(1.05, 2.10, 3.05 Motor Cycling at Brands Hatch: Sidecar race,
1.30, 2.00, 2.30, 3.00 Racing at Kempton Park)
3.30pm Watch with Mother : Andy Pandy
3.45pm Laramie : Man of God
A film from the Western series starring John Smith, Robert Fuller, Robert Crawford Jnr, Hoagy Carmichael
Guest star, James Gregory
Incited by unscrupulous white traders, the Sioux are on the warpath. A crusading priest believes that the
threat can be overcome by love and understanding rather than by guns
4.30pm Sports Results and News Service
Football results from the teleprinter Racing summaries
Classified football results
5.00pm Chuk and Gek
a film from Moscow
Two small boys set out with their mother to spend the New Year with their father,
who is working two thousand miles away. They make their first long train journey and
then travel the rest of the way by sledge through the snow-covered forests
5.45pm Sooty
invites you to his Christmas party assisted by Sweep and Harry Corbett
5.53pm Today's Sport
introduced by Kenneth Wolstenholme
Today's sporting headlines and the classified football results
6.00pm The News
6.07pm Town and Around
news magazine for South-East England
News from South West (Rowridge only)
6.20pm This is the BBC
This film, which won a British Film Academy Award, is being repeated as a result of numerous requests.
It tells the story of an imaginary day in the life of the BBC.
The film takes viewers behind the scenes of both sound radio and television to show the BBC's huge
organisation at work-engineers, planners, producers, artists, musicians, personalities-a cast of 1,200 in all (Repeat)
7.25pm Whack-O!
starring Professor Jimmy Edwards and featuring Arthur Howard as Mr. Pettigrew
7.55pm Francis Durbridge Presents...The World of Tim Frazer
Episode 7 Jack Hedley as Tim Frazer, starring Ralph Michael with Gerald Cross, Redmond Phillips,
Francis Matthews, Patricia Haines, Tim Frazer's search for Harry Denston is almost over.
Returning to Hcnton, Frazer has received a call from Harry suggesting that they meet on the jetty.
After being involved in a fight for his life Frazer is aboard the cabin cruiser Anya.
Unknown to Frazer, Harry Denston is also aboard
8.25pm Film : Albert RN (1953)
starring Anthony Steel, Jack Warner
Marlag 'O' — a P.O.W. camp for Naval Officers, has the reputation of being escape-proof.
That is until Albert makes his appearance, but even with his help escape is highly dangerous.
Is Albert's creator ready to meet those dangers?
9.50pm The News
10.05pm London's Festival Ballet in Graduation Ball
A ballet by David Lichine
10.45pm The Moonlight Sonata
Mindru Katz plays Beethoven's Sonata in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2
The programme also Includes Laideronette, Empress of the Pagrodas,
from Ravel's Mother Goose Suite Presented by Arthur Langford
11.05pm Late Night News and Weather
11.12pm Ar Yr Aelwyd
Light entertainment in Welsh
