BBC CHRISTMAS TV 1966

  Christmas Eve Saturday 24th December 1966

  BBC1

11.50am  The Weather Man and Announcements

 11.55am  Adventure
                 From Yarmouth to Paradise

12.45pm  Grandstand 
                 (Moto-Cross from Tweseldown:
                 fourth round of the Grandstand Trophy,
                 Snooker from Manchester: 
                 Williams v Pullman, Rugby League: 
                 Leeds v Hull KR, Boxing: Spike McCormack  
                 v Antonio Paiva)

  3.50pm  Film : Davy Crockett, Indian Scout (1950)
                  starring George Montgomery

  5.00pm  Today's Sport 
                  introduced by David Coleman bringing you
                  the day's Football and Rugby League results,
​                  and news of other sporting events

  5.10pm  Juke Box Jury
                 presented by David Jacobs

  5.40pm  The News and The Weather Man

  5.50pm  Doctor Who 
                 The Highlanders, part 2
                 starring Patrick Troughton

  6.15pm  Dixon of Dock Green 
                 The Golden Year starring Jack Warner

  7.00pm  High Adventure 
                 Fire Down Below 
                 starring Rita Hayworth, Robert Mitchum

  8.50pm  The Val Doonican Show
                 with special guests, Frank Ifield, 
                 Millicent Martin, Ray Alan 

  9.35pm  The News and The Weather

  9.45pm  Peter Ustinov and Peter Jones
                 In All Directions

10.30pm  Match of the Day
                 Kenneth Wolstenholme reports with outside
                 broadcast cameras from a well-known Football
                 League ground 

11.17pm  The Weather Man

11.20pm  See the Children Sing 
                A programme of Christmas Carols sung by a
                special schools' choir and the audience at a
                recent Ernest Read Children's Concert in the
                Royal Festival Hall, London​

11.50pm  Midnight Mass 
                 from Tewkesbury Abbey

  1.05am  Closedown


  Christmas Day Sunday 25th December 1966 

  BBC1

  9.30am Welcome Christmas 
                Judith Chalmers and Michael Aspel bring you
                morning greetings in songs and words 

10.10am  Mak the Sheep-Stealer 
                opera for children by Holland Park School

11.00am  Christmas Morning Service 
                 from Christ Church, Cotham, Bristol

12.00       Leslie Crowther 
                invites you to Meet the Kids in hospital at                            Christmas with George Chisholm. Tony Hart
                and The Bert Hayes Trio 

12.44pm  The Weather Man

12.45pm  The Lucy Show 
                 starring Lucille Ball

  1.10pm  The Andy Williams Show
                Christmas greetings from the series featuring
                song. music, and comedy and the best from the
                world of entertainment 

 2.00pm  The Royal Palaces of Britain
                 their history, and their art treasures, are
                 presented for the first time on television 

  3.00pm  The Queen

  3.05pm  Billy Smart's Circus

  4.00pm  Disney Time 
                  Rolf Harris with the help of Coojeebear

  4.40pm  Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp 
                 starring Arthur Askey, Angela Richards 
                 and Roy Castle

  6.05pm  The News and The Weatherman

  6.10pm  Robert Dougall 
                 appeals for the Royal National Institute
                 for the Deaf

  6.15pm  Journey to Bethlehem 
                 John Betjeman has just returned from his first
                 visit to the Holy Land.
                 This film is a record of what he saw 

  6.45pm  Christmas Carols 
                 from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge

  7.25pm  The Black and White Minstrel Show

  8.00pm  The Ken Dodd Show
                  with the Bachelors

  8.45pm  Film : The Comancheros (1961)
                 starring John Wayne

10.25pm  The News and Weather

10.30pm  Dr Finlay's Casebook 
                 The Gifts of the Magi

11.20pm  The Weather Man
               
11.22pm  The Christmas Story 
                the birth of Christ illustrated by
                Italian pictures and music


  Boxing Day Monday 26th December 1966

  BBC1

  9.30am  The Munsters
                 Far-out Munsters join a way-out party,
                 and feel with it at last!

  9.55am  The News and the Weather

10.00am  Watch with Mother : Joe

10.15am   The Wild Stallion 
                 Crin Blanc 
                 The prize-winning French film

10.50am  Film : Life is a Circus (1960) 
                 starring The Crazy Gang

12.10pm  Daktari
                 An animal adventure series starring aided and
                 abetted by Clarence and Judy Adventures of
                 Lion Cubs

  1.00pm  Grandstand 
                 introduced by David Coleman featuring
                 Racing from Wolverhampton

  3.45pm  When Comedy Was King
                 A pageant of the screen's most famous
                 laughter-makers 

  5.05pm  Today's Sport
                  introduced by David Coleman bringing you                          today's Football, Racing, Rugby League, and
                  Rugby Union results, and reports
                  on other sporting events

   5.15pm  Sooty
                 assisted by Sweep Corbett and Harry Corbett
                 in Sooty's Christmas Show

  5.30pm  The Three Musketeers 
                  7/10 At Night all Cats are Grey 
                  starring Jeremy Brett

  5.55pm  The News and The Weather

  6.05pm  Cartoon Time 
                  Trojan Horse

  6.15pm  Top of the Pops '66 
                 Part 1- January to June with Jimmy Savile,
                 Pete Murray 

  7.00pm  Till Death Us Do Part  
                 Peace and Goodwill

  7.30pm  Brian Rix 
                 presents One for the Pot

  9.00pm  The News and The Weather

  9.10pm  The Monroes
                 Western

10.00pm  Sports Results
                  including today's Football results and
                  League tables introduced by David Coleman

10.05pm  Gala Performance 
                 introduced James Robertson Justice

10.55pm  The Weather Man

10.57pm  Film : Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes
                 (1938)
               


  Bank Holiday Tuesday 27th December 1966

  BBC1

  9.30am  The Munsters 
                 Movie Star Munster

  9.55am  The News and The Weather

10.00am  Watch with Mother : Andy Pandy

10.15am    Film : Beau Chumps (1931)
                  starring Laurel and Hardy

10.50am  Look
                 Bringing up Benbow 
                 Benbow is an orphan seal. Cast ashore on the
                 beaches of the Wash, he is rescued by the
                 R.S.P.C.A. and finds a home with Tony Soper

 11.15am  Film : Make Mine a Million (1959)
                 starring Arthur Askey, Sidney James

12.35pm  Grandstand
                 (Racing from Wolverhampton and 
                 Motor Racing from Brands Hatch)

  2.45pm  Film : The Corsican Brothers (1941)
                 starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr

  4.30pm  Jackanory 
                 Harlequinade and Black Beard the Pirate read
                 by Bernard Cribbins

  4.45pm  Jonny Quest 
                 Dr Zin's Robot Spy

  5.10pm  Today's Sport
                 introduced by David Coleman bringing you
                 the day's Football, Racing, and Rugby League
                 results 

  5.20pm  Babar the Elephant
                 by Jean De Brunhoff performed by children 
                 Music by Antony Hopkins who also tells the
                 story 

  5.49pm  The Weather Man

  5.50pm  News

  5.58pm  Town and Around
                 News and views from 
                 London and the South-East 
                 introduced by Corbet Woodall 
                 Weather

  6.17pm  Top of the Pops '66
                with top D.J's Alan Freeman and Simon Dee 

  7.00pm  The Newcomers 
                 Angleton is suffering from a surfeit of
                 Christmas.
                 Maria learns that appearances can be
                  deceptive, and Sydney offers Arnold advice. 

  7.30pm  Hugh and I 
                 Hold the Tiger

  8.00pm  Film : The Love Affair - This Above All (1942) 
                  starring Tyrone Power, Joan Fontaine

  8.50pm  The News and The Weather

  9.05pm  Film : The Love Affair - This Above All
                  (continued)

10.00pm  Sports Results
                  including today's Football results and
                  League tables introduced by David Coleman

10.05pm  The Abbey of the English
                 celebrating the 900th anniversary of
​                 Westminster Abbey

11.15pm  The Weather Man

11.17pm  That's Me 
               An amusing encounter with Alan Arkin in
               New York`s Central Park

  Christmas Eve Saturday 24th December 1966

  BBC2 

   6.15pm  Rugby Special:
                  South-Eastern Counties XV v An Australian XV
                  Peter West reports from The Athletic Centre.
                  Kings Park, Bournemouth

  6.50pm  The News and Sport

   7.00pm  The Danny Kaye Christmas Show
                   in which Danny Kaye and his special
                   guests, Jean Simmons, Laurence Harvey, 
                   John Gary entertain to the music of
                   Paul Weston and his Orchestra 

  7.50pm   I Gotta Shoe 
                  or Cindy-Ella a musical starring 
                  Cleo Laine, Elisabeth Welch, Cy Grant

  8.50pm  This Man Craig 
                  The Pirate Cut

  9.45pm  Francis Durbridge Presents...
                 Bat Out of Hell, part 5

10.00pm  Late Night Line-Up
                  A late look around the world of television 
                  Criticism, Discussion, Diversion

10.40pm  Midnight Movie :
                 The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958)
                 starring Ingrid Bergman





 



















 






 


  Christmas Day Sunday 25th December 1966 

  BBC2

  3.00pm  The Queen

  3.05pm  The World of Jacques-Yves Cousteau
​                 The incredible world of that famous French
                  underwater explorer and inventor-55 fathoms
                  beneath the Mediterranean

  4.00pm  Film : Oh, Mr Porter! (1937) 
                  starring Will Hay

  5.20pm  The Leningrad State Kirov Ballet
                 Three pieces from the programme danced
                 by the oldest ballet company in the world
                 during their recent visit to The Royal Opera
                 House Covent Garden 

  6.10pm  Newsyear '66
                 News Review presents the story of the year
                 as filmed by cameramen all over the world 

  7.25pm  Horizon Christmas Special 
                Hand me my Sword, Humphrey by
                Richard Wade with Dudley Foster and
                Prunella Scales 

 8.00pm  Die Fledermaus 
                 the new Sadler's Wells production

 10.10pm  Meet the Swingles 
                  a programme of eighteenth century music

10.30pm  Late Night Line-up 
                 and Plunder present a special Christmas night
                 programme Reminiscences of Childhood with
                 poetry, prose, and film drawn from the BBC
                 Archives

11.30pm  Film : Monsieur Beaucaire (1946)
                 starring Bob Hope






























 


 
​
  Boxing Day Monday 26th December 1966

  BBC2

11.00am  Play School
                Useful Box Day 

11.20am  Closedown

  5.30pm  The Charlie Chaplin Comedy Theatre: 
                 presenting the film classic The Rink  (1916)

  5.55pm  Peter and the Wolf
                 with the English Chamber Orchestra
                 conducted by Dudley Simpson

  6.20pm  Music Quiz
                  A not-too-serious opportunity to match
                  your musical wits, if you have any on
                  Boxing Day, against Joyce Grenfell, 
                  Richard Baker, Paul Jennings 

  7.00pm  Film : Jules Verne's Journey to the 
                 Centre of the Earth (1959)
                  starring James Mason

  9.00pm  Not Only...But Also
                  starring Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, 
                  with John Lennon
 
  9.50pm  Carmen Jones 
                  A modern version of Georges Bizet's immortal
                  opera, Carmen  starring Harry Belafonte

 11.30pm  The News

 11.40pm  Late Night Line-Up
                  A last look around the world of
                  television Criticism, Discussion,
                  Diversion with Denis Tuohy ,
                  Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell,
                  Tony Bilbow and tonight's guests
























 



 






 


  Bank Holiday Tuesday 27th December 1966
 
   BBC2
  
11.00am  Play School
                Dressing-up Day 

11.25am  Closedown

  1.15pm  Medicine Today 
                 a monthly series of programmes for doctors

  1.45pm  Closedown

  5.00pm  The Engineer in Wonderland : 
                  The White Rabbit
                  The Royal Institution, London, 
                  Annual Christmas Lectures
                  to Young People

  6.00pm  The Glory of Sail 
                   A film story of the last hundred years of the
                   square-rigged sailing ships, the windjammers,
                   the Atlantic packets, the East India-men, the
                   incomparable clippers, the whalers, the
                   Australian grain ships, the indomitable
                   Cape-Horners

  6.45pm  The Golden Age of Comedy
                 Highlights of laughter from the studios of
                 Mack Sennett and Hal Roach featuring many
                 famous comedians of the 1920's

  8.00pm  News Summary

  8.05pm  The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
                 A film biography of America's former First Lady 

  9.30pm  Miss Julie 
                  a play by Strindberg

10.35pm  Julian Bream and John Williams
                The first of two programmes in which these
                 two guitarists appear together in concert for
                 the first time on television

11.15pm    News Summary

11.20pm   Late Night Line-Up
                  A last look around the world of television
​                  Criticism, Discussion, Diversion with
                  Denis Tuohy, Michael Dean Joan Bakewell,
                  Tony Bilbow and tonight's guests also
​                  Philip Jenkinson with more film requests

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