ITV CHRISTMAS TV 1962
Christmas Eve Monday 24th December 1962
Associated Rediffusion
4.45pm Small Time
5.00pm Seeing Sport
Ice Skating
introduced by Peter Lloyd
5.25pm Lassie
5.55pm News
6.08pm Animal Care
6.15pm Here and Now
6.30pm The New Ark
narrated by Peter Scott and introduced by
H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh K.G.
7.30pm Coronation Street
Christmas Eve and Lady Lawson loses
8.00pm Harpers West One
life in a big store with Jan Holden, Philip Latham
9.00pm News
9.15pm Naked City
"The Rydecker Case"
starring Paul Burke and Horace McMahon
10.10pm They're Singing Our Song
10.40pm A Small Corner of Christmas
in which Joyce Grenfell talks to some people,
young and old, about their views on Christmas
11.10pm News Headlines
followed by
Carols
from the Queen's Free Chapel of St George within her Castle of Windsor
11.40pm Dateline
a special Christmas Eve edition with Reginald Bosanquet
11.50pm High Mass
from Ushaw College, Durham
1.00am Closedown
Granada (as Associated Rediffusion except)
4.30pm Tri Chryflon Byd (until 5.00)
5.25pm Friendly Giant
A fairytale programme for children
starring Robert Homme
5.40pm Animal Parade (until 5.55)
presents Beuaty Treatment
6.05pm Granada Newsbrief followed by
The Bullwinkle Show (until 6.30)
cartoon starring Rocky the flying squirrel
and Bullwinkle the moose
10.10pm There's Always Hope (until 10.40)
starring Bob Hope with guest stars Yana,
the Jack Parnell Orchestra
Christmas Day Tuesday 25th December 1962
Associated Rediffusion
10.30am The Christmas Tree
with Pussy Cat Willum, Wally Whyton and Muriel Young
11.00am Christmas Morning Service
Family Eucharist from the Church of the Ascension, Wembley, Middlesex
12.05pm The Nativity
12.30pm Cartoon Time
1.00pm News
1.05pm Christmas Box
2.00pm Christmas Fare
with Cliff Richard and the Shadows
3.00pm Her Majesty The Queen
3.10pm Chipperfield's Circus
a traditional circus in the grand manner presented
by Shaw Taylor including special guest Mr Pastry
4.10pm Close-Up
All Singing, All Dancing
introduced by Richard Attenborough
The best of the best of post-war musicals
5.00pm Christmas Rendezvous
A Fantasy for Christmas Day
with Fred Barker and Ollie Beak
Howard Williams, Muriel Young, Bert Weedon
5.55pm News and Sports Results
6.05pm A Message for Christmas
from the Archbishp of Canterbury, Dr Ramsey
6.15pm Here and Now
6.30pm The Flintstones
7.00pm All Our Yesterdays
Christmas 1937 presented by Brian Inglis
7.30pm Emergency-Ward 10
Christmas Day is celebrated in the traditional style
by both staff and patients
8.00pm The Dickie Henderson Christmas Show
starring Dickie Henderson, June Laverick
guest starts include Bernard Bresslaw, Hughie Green, Alfred Marks
9.00pm News
9.10pm No Hiding Place
"100,000 Halfpennies"
starring Raymond Francis
10.10pm Black Nativity
The original New York cast and production
11.10pm Film : Scrooge (1951)
starring Alastair Sim
12.35am Christmas Meditation
Granada (as Associated Rediffusion except)
12.00 The Adventures of Robin Hood
"The Deserted Castle"
starring Richard Greene
12.30pm The Yogi Bear Show (until 1.00)
Yogi Bear gets a show of his own and introduces new friends
Snagglepuss the Lion and Yakky Doodle Duck
Slaphappy Birthday (Yogi Bear) ,
Major Operation (Snagglepuss),
Out of Luck Duck (Yakky Doodle Duck)
1.05pm Comedy Hour (until 2.00pm)
starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz
6.05pm A Message for Christmas
from His Grace the Lord Archbishop of York,
The Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. F. D. Coggan
6.15pm Richard the Lionheart
"The Lord of Kerak"
starring Dermot Walsh
6.45pm People and Places (until 7.00)
introduced by Gay Byrne
11.10pm Colonel March Investigates
starring Boris Karloff
12.00 Goodnight
Boxing Day Wednesday 26th December 1962
Associated Rediffusion
1.05pm Small Time
presents the Musical Box
with Peter Firmin, Wally Whyton. Pusycat Willum
1.20pm, 1.50pm, 2.20pm Steeplechasing from Wincanton
1.40pm, 2.10pm Ice Skating
2.45pm Professional Wrestling
from Seymour Hall, London
3.32pm Just William's Luck
5.00pm Zoo Time
from London Zoo, Regents Park
with Desmond Morris
5.25pm The Terrible Ten
5.50pm News and Sports Results
6.08pm Sportscast
6.15pm The Well Dressed Man
6.45pm Here and Now
7.00pm Take a Letter
with Robert Holness
7.30pm Coronation Street
Christine and Frank talk it over and
Len Fairclough breaks his silence
8.00pm Rawhide
"Incident of the Reluctant Bridegroom"
starring Eric Fleming and Clint Eastwood
8.56pm Take Four
9.00pm News
9.15pm Norman and Bruce
starring Norman Wisdom and Bruce Forsyth at the London Palladium
10.10pm Film : Abdulla the Great (1955)
starring Gregory Ratoff, Kay Kendall, Marina Berti
Granada(as Associated Rediffusion except)
1.20pm Film : Old Mother Riley's Jungle Treasure (1951) (until 2.45)
starring Arthur Lucan and Kitty McShane
3.30pm Film : Dry Rot (1956) (until 5.00)
starring Brian Rix
5.25pm Fireball XL5 (until 5.50)
Planet 46
6.05pm Let's Go Shopping
Advertising Magazine with
Doug Arthur and Isobel Grieg
6.15pm Lonely Boy
a candid study of Paul Anka during a recent tour
6.40pm People and Places (until 7.00)
Boxing Day edition with Gay Byrne
10.10pm Film : Key Largo (1948)
starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson and Lauren Bacall
11.50pm Goodnight
