ITV CHRISTMAS TV 1960
Christmas Eve Saturday 24th December 1960
ATV
1.40pm Let's Go includes at
1.43pm News
1.48pm Senior Schoolboys' Boxing London v The Rest
2.30pm Counter Attacks
3.00pm The Cordon Bleu
3.30pm Professional Wrestling from the Tower Theatre, New Brighton, Cheshire
4.45pm Classified Football Results
5.00pm Disneyland : Killers of the High Country
5.55pm News
6.00pm Carols from Canterbury
6.30pm The Adventures of Robin Hood
7.00pm Film : Sinbad the Sailor (1947) starring Douglas Fairbanks, Maureen O'Hara
8.55pm News
9.00pm Saturday Spectacular
10.00pm Candid Camera
10.30pm At the Stroke of Nine
11.40pm News and Weather
11.50pm Pontifical High Mass of Christmas from St George's Cathedral, Southwark
ABC Midlands and Northern (as ATV except)
6.00pm For Love of Money
6.30pm The Big Top
7.00pm Family Film Hour : Gunga Din (1939) starring Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks Jnr, Joan Fontaine (until 8.55)
10.30pm Frederic March presents Uriah Heep
11.00pm Drive In
11.15pm Mantovani plays the music of Christmas (until 11.40)
1.20am (approx) Closedown
Christmas Day Sunday 25th December 1960
ATV
11.00am Christmas Communion
from Liverpool Cathedral
12.15pm The Sunday Break
introduced by Neville Barker
1.00pm A Round Dozen
1.25pm Home for a While
3.00pm The Queen
3.10pm Grand Christmas Circus
from the Kelvia Hall, Glasgow
4.05pm Sleeping Beauty
The old well loved story told in a new way with scenes from Gerald Palmer's
Ice Pantomime Spectacular at the Brighton Palladium, Sussex
4.55pm Pathfinders to Mars
Episode 3 : The Hostage
starring George Coulouris and Gerald Flood
5.25pm Seeing is Believing
5.45pm News
5.55pm Alice Through the Looking Box
starring Jeannie Carson in A Christmas Fantasy with Spike Milligan as the White Rabbit
7.25pm News from ITN
7.30pm Danger Man
8.00pm The Tommy Steele Show
with Peggy Mount, Bernard Cribbins
9.00pm News from ITN
9.05pm ABC Armchair Theatre presents
The Great Gold Bullion Robbery
starring Donald Wolfit, James Booth
10.10pm Maverick
You Can't beat the Percentage
starring Jack Kelly
11.05pm Roll Back the Carpet and Dance
to Cyril Stapleton and his orchestra
11.35pm Christmas in the Holy Land
followed by
Tomorrow's Weather
ABC Midland and Northern (as ATV except)
1.00pm Children's Christmas Party
from Langton Ward, The Royal Children's Hospital, Liverpool
1.30pm Yuletide Festival of Carols and Music
from Liverpool Cathedral
2.15pm Christmas on the Other Man's Farm (until 3.00)
3.10pm Christmas on the Other Man's Farm (until 3.15)
5.25pm Where Shall We Go? (until 5.45)
An ABC holiday advertising magazine
7.30pm Fredric March Introduces Christmas at Dingley Dell
starring James Donald (until 8.00)
Boxing Day Monday 26th December 1960
Associated Rediffusion
1.15pm For Children: Small Time
1.30pm Racing from Wetherby
3.00pm Popular Programmes of 1960
Pick of the bunch repeat showings of :
The Arthur Haynes Show
3.25pm Mess Mates
The New Broom
3.50pm No Hiding Place
The Constant Widow
4.35pm Arthur's Treasured Volumes
The History of Mr Lacey
starring Arthur Askey
5.00pm Bootsie and Snudge
starring Alfie Bass and Bill Fraser
5.27pm Popeye and Yogi Bear
cartoons
followed by
Weather Forecast
5.55pm News, Sports Results
6.10pm The Guinea Pig
7.30pm Spot the Tune
with Ted Ray and Marion Ryan
8.00pm The Dickie Henderson Show
The Diet
starring Dickie Henderson and June Laverick
8.30pm Wagon Train
9.25pm News
9.35pm Probation Officer
starring Ronald Fraser
10.30pm News Headlines
10.32pm Film : 42nd Street (1933) followed by Weather, The Epilogue
Granada (as Associated Rediffusion except)
1.15am no programme (until 1.30)
5.55pm News
6.05pm Granada News
6.10pm Together Again (until 7.30)
starring Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer
8.30pm Rawhide (until 9.25)
Incident of the Slavemaster
starring Eric Fleming and Clint Eastwood
10.30pm Film : Mr Universe (1951)
starring Jack Carson, Janis Paige
11.00pm News Headlines
Northern Newscast
11.10pm Film : Mr Universe (1951) (continued)
12.05am Goodnight
Holiday Tuesday 27th December 1960
Associated Rediffusion
1.45pm For Children: Small Time
2.00pm Racing from Wetherby
3.30pm William Comes to Town
5.00pm For Children: Lucky Dip
5.25pm The Christmas Tree
5.55pm News and Weather
6.15pm I Love Lucy
6.45pm The People of Pantomime
7.00pm Pencil and Paper
7.30pm Emergency Ward 10
8.00pm Rawhide
8.55pm The Army Game
9.25pm News
9.35pm Play of the Week: The Two Bouquets
11.05pm News Headlines
11.07pm Cool for Cats; Weather Forecast; Epilogue
Granada (as Associated Rediffusion except)
1.40pm no programme (until 2.00)
6.05pm Granada News, People and Places
6.30pm Father Knows Best (until 7.00)
8.00pm Wagon Train (until 8.55)
11.10pm Northern News
11.15pm Mark Saber
11.40pm Closedown
