BBC CHRISTMAS TV 1962
Christmas Eve Monday 24th December 1962
BBCTV
1.00pm Newyddion
(News in Welsh)
(Welsh transmitters and Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield, Crystal Palace)
1.05pm Heddiw
(Today) Christmas Edition in Welsh
(Welsh transmitters and Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield, Crystal Palace)
1.25pm The News
1.30pm Table Talk
Comment : Controversy : Conversation on issues of the day.
A Monday meeting for people of opinions with Erskine Childers, Professor and Mrs A J Ayer,
Professor and Mrs Bernard Williams
2.00pm Watch with Mother : Picture Book
2.15pm Closedown
4.30pm World Zoos
The Biblical Zoo at Jerusalem introduced by David Attenborough
5.00pm Bonehead
Christmas Crackers, criminal capers with Colin Douglas, Paul Whitsun-Jones,
Douglas Blackwell (Repeat)
5.25pm Television Top of the Form
Final : Grove Park School for Boys, Wrexham v Kingston Grammar School for Boys
5.50pm The News
6.00pm Town and Around
A daily presentation of news and views from
London and the South-East, introduced by Richard Baker
Weather
6.25pm What's My Line ?
Chairman : Eamonn Andrews, Panel : Isobel Barnett, Barbara Kelly,
David Nixon, Gerald Nabarro M.P.
6.50pm The Mikado
by Gilbert and Sullivan, Sadler's Wells production
7.59pm Headline News
8.00pm Here's Harry
starring Harry Worth, The Pantomime
8.25pm Panorama
introduced by Richard Dimbleby
9.10pm Points of View
with Robert Robinson
9.15pm The News
9.25pm A Christmas Carol
an opera with Stephen Manton, Trevor Anthony
10.25pm The Dick Powell Show
presents The Clocks, starring Joan Fontaine, David Farrar and Charles Drake
11.15pm Carols Across Europe
from Austria
11.55pm Sung Eucharist
and the First Communion of Christmas Day from Exeter Cathedral
in the presence of the Bishop of Exeter
1.30am Closedown
Christmas Day Tuesday 25th December 1962
BBCTV
9.00am News Headlines
9.01am Gwyl y Geni
Awn hyd Fethlehem (The Nativity Festival)
(Welsh transmitters and Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield, Crystal Palace)
9.30am Christmas Carols
sung by the George Mitchell Singers accompanied
by the Dennis Wilson Quartet and Leon Young (organ)
10.00am School for a Seal
with star pupil Atlanta, the grey seal
10.15am Watch with Mother : Andy Pandy
10.30am Christmas Morning Service
from St Mary's Parish Church, Ashwell, Hertfordshire
11.30am Like...Music
The N.D.O. and Bernard Herrmann wish you a hippy Christmas and a Cool Yule
11.50am Go Ski-ing
with Johnny Morris on the nursery slopes of Obergurgl in Austria
12.30pm Bronco
Until Kingdom Come, Western
1.15pm The Christmas Music from Messiah
by Handel, recorded in Llandaff Cathedral, Cardiff
2.05pm Appeal
on behalf of Wireless for the Bedridden by the Archbishop of York Dr Donald Coggan
2.10pm Max Bygraves
invites you to Meet the Kids in hospital this Christmas
3.00pm The Queen
3.10pm Billy Smart's Circus
4.15pm Puss in Boots
a traditional pantomime with David Nixon, Reg Varney and Tommy Fields
5.45pm Hayley in Disneyland
Hayley Mills meets Walt Disney and
introduces clips from some of her favourite Disney films
6.50pm News including The Queen
7.00pm Christmas at Fulham Palace
with Richard Dimbleby
7.15pm Christmas Night with the Stars
introduced by Eamonn Andrews, featuring
The Billy Cotton Band Show, The Rag Trade, A Song for Everyone, Sykes and his Sister,
Adam Faith, Raise Your Glasses, Juke Box Jury, It's a Square World, Russ Conway
The Christmas Face of Jim, The White Heather Club, The Black and White Minstrel Show,
Dixon of Dock Green
8.50pm Film : The African Queen (1951) Première
starring Katharine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart
10.30pm The Good Old Days
Chairman Leonard Sachs presenting Max Wall, The Spencer Trio,
Anna Sharkey, Pifar Shang, Don Smoothey and The Flying Comets
11.15pm The News
11.20pm La Boheme
Acts I & II of Puccini's opera from Hamburg
12.20am The Weather
Boxing Day Wednesday 26th December 1962
BBCTV
11.40am Telewele
(Children's Television in Welsh)
(Welsh transmitters, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield, Crystal Palace)
12.10pm Headline News
12.12pm The Weather
12.15pm Watch with Mother : The Flowerpot Men
12.30pm Grandstand
(12.35, 2.15, 3.15 Motor Racing from Brands Hatch,
1.00, 1.30, 2.00, 3.00 Racing from Kempton Park, Amateur Boxing from Cardiff,
Motor Sport- The Titans, History of Motor Racing, Sports Results and News Service)
5.00pm Dial Rix
No Plums in the Pudding, a farce starring Brian Rix
5.50pm Today's Sport
introduced by Kenneth Wolstenholme
A summary of today's sporting highlights and the classified football results
5.55pm The News
6.05pm Whicker on Top of the World
The Hard Land
6.40pm Film : Gulliver's Travels (1939)
a cartoon feature film
7.55pm Z Cars
When a child is reported missing on Christmas Day P.C's Smith and Weir are first in what becomes a
country-wide hunt for him, searching all day and into the night in a desperate attempt to find him
8.45pm Benny Hill
5: The Secret of Planet Seven
9.10pm Film : Moulin Rouge (1952)
starring Jose Ferrer, Colette Marchand, Zsa Zsa Gabor
11.05pm Late Night News
11.10pm Dancing Club
presenting Victor Silvester and featuring the Ballroom Orchestra
11.50pm The Weather
Closedown
