ITV CHRISTMAS 1964
Christmas Eve Thursday 24th December 1964
Rediffusion
3.15pm Film : Tom Brown's Schooldays (1951)
stars John Howard Davies, Robert Newton, James Hayter
4.45pm Small Time
5.00pm Junior Criss Cross Quiz
5.25pm Space Patrol
5.55pm News, Weather
6.03pm Three after Six
6.30pm Mister Ed
7.00pm Double Your Money
7.30pm HMS Paradise
8.25pm The Lucy Show
8.55pm News
9.10pm This Week
9.40pm Alfred Hitchcock Hour : Behind the Door, with Gloria Swanson, James McArthur
10.35pm What the Papers Say
10.50pm News
10.52pm Dateline, Weather
11.05pm Musical Memoirs Line Renaud, the French singer
11.30pm Christmas in the Sixties
12.00 Pontifical High Mass of Midnight from St Benedict`s Abbey, Ealing
Granada (as Rediffusion except)
2.30pm Film : Girdle of Gold (1952)
starring Esmond Knight, Maudie Edwards, Meredith Edwards
3.30pm Film : William Comes to Town (1948)
starring William Graham, Garry Marsh, Jane Welsh
4.55pm Good Evening from Granada in the North (until 5.00pm)
5.25pm The Magic Boomerang (until 5.55pm)
6.05pm My Sister Eileen
6.30pm Scene at 6.30
7.30pm The Saint (until 8.25pm)
9.40pm Film : The Goldwyn Follies (1938) (until 10.35pm)
stars Adolphe Menjou, Andrea Leeds, The Ritz Brothers
10.52pm Film : The Goldwyn Follies (1938) (continued, until 11.30pm)
11.50pm Granada in the North (until 12.00)
1.15am Goodnight
ITV Tyne Tees (as Rediffusion except)
No programmes until
3.55pm Station Tuning Signal
4.00pm Children's Festival of Lessons and Carols (until 4.45pm)
5.25pm Young World (until 5.55pm)
6.05pm Mister Ed
6.35pm North East Newsview (until 7.00pm)
7.30pm Cinema
8.00pm The Beverly Hillbillies
8.25pm Have Gun Will Travel (until 8.55pm)
9.40pm Another Wall - Another Christmas (until 10.35pm)
10.52pm North East Newscast
11.05pm Looking for a King (until 11.30pm)
Christmas Day Friday 25th December 1964
Rediffusion
9.00am Christmas Morning Carol Service from St Peter's Chapel, Auckland Castle, County Durham
9.45am Small Time, The Adventures of Twizzle
9.55am Chaplin Carnival
10.10am University Challenge
10.40am Mahalia Jackson Sings
11.00am Christmas Morning Service from the Parish Church of St Mary, Balham, South London
11.45am Chaplin Carnival
12.00 Willum's Christmas
12.30pm Sing Along with Santa
1.00pm News
1.05pm Quick Draw McGraw
1.30pm Just Dennis
2.00pm Once a Jolly Swagman
3.00pm The Queen
3.07pm Richard Whittington Esquire
4.35pm Don't Say a Word
5.00pm Five O'Clock Club
5.30pm Ready, Steady, Go!
6.25pm News, Weather
6.30pm Petticoat Junction
6.58pm Meet Romeo cartoon
7.00pm Take Your Pick
7.28pm Meet Romeo cartoon
7.30pm Emergency Ward 10
7.58pm Meet Romeo cartoon
8.00pm Film : The Pride and the Passion (1957)
starring Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren
8.55pm News
9.10pm Film : The Pride and the Passion (1957) (continued)
10.38pm Meet Romeo cartoon
10.40pm Stars and Garters
11.25pm Black Nativity, Christmas play starring Marion Williams
12.15am Last Programme
ATV Midlands (as Rediffusion except)
9.45am Film : Old Mother Riley's New Venture (1949) (until 11.00am)
starring Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane
11.45am The Tingha and Tucker Club
12.00 University Challenge (until 12.30pm)
1.05pm Ready, Steady, Go! (until 2.00pm)
5.30pm Stingray
6.00pm News from ITN
6.10pm ATV Today
6.35pm Crossroads (until 7.00pm)
11.25pm Weather
followed by
The Epilogue
Closedown
Granada (as Rediffusion except)
9.45am Film : Old Mother Riley : The Headmistress (1950) (until 11.00am)
starring Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane, Willer Neal
11.45am Four Feather Falls
12.00 University Challenge (until 12.30pm)
1.05pm Ready, Steady, Go! (until 2.00pm)
5.30pm Mr Piper
5.55pm The Archbishop of York
6.00pm News
6.10pm Scene at Christmas (until 7.00pm)
11.25pm News Headlines
11.30pm Time Out of War
12.00 Goodnight
ITV Tyne Tees (as Rediffusion except)
8.55am Station Tuning Signal (until 9.00am)
10.10am The Magic Box
10.25am Funny Manns (until 10.40am)
1.05pm Ready, Steady, Go! (until 2.00pm)
5.30pm Shirley Temple's Storybook (until 6.25pm)
6.30pm North-East Newsview (until 7.00pm)
11.25pm University Challenge
11.55pm(approx) A Message from the Lord Bishop of Ripon
Boxing Day Saturday 26th December 1964
ATV
12.20pm Racing from Wetherby (12.30 and 1.00 races)
1.10pm News
1.15pm Racing from Wetherby (1.30 and 2.00 races)
2.05pm Racing Results Roundup
2.10pm Zanzabuku
3.15pm Professional Wrestling
5.00pm Sports Results
5.15pm The Forest Rangers
5.45pm News from ITN
5.50pm Thank Your Lucky Stars
6.35pm Boxing Night Out
7.35pm Bonanza : A Knight to Remember
8.30pm Arthur Haynes Show
9.05pm News
9.15pm Film : The Battle of the River Plate (1956)
starring John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, Ian Hunter
11.15pm On the Braden Beat
11.40pm News
11.45pm The Invisible Man : The Vanishing Evidence
Weather
12.09am Epilogue
ABC Midland and Northern (as ATV except)
7.35pm Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (until 8.30pm)
9.15pm Film : The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)
starring Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe
11.15pm Tempo
11.45pm Personal Column
11.50pm News ; Weather
Epilogue
ITV Tyne Tees (as ATV except)
12.15pm Station Tuning Signal (until 12.20pm)
11.15pm Shoot!
Highlights of Middlesbrough v Newcastle United (until 11.40pm)
11.45pm (approx) A Message from The Rev A Kingsley Lloyd : President of the Methodist Conference
Sunday 27th December 1964
ATV
11.00am Manchester Cathedral Festival Service from the Church of St Mary and St George
12.15pm Closedown
2.18pm The New Industrial Revolution : Computers
2.40pm News
2.45pm Tempo
3.15pm Sea Hunt
3.45pm Police Five
3.50pm Film : Blackbeard the Pirate (1952)
stars Robert Newton, Linda Darnell, William Bendix
5.35pm Stingray
6.05pm News
6.15pm Wonderworld
6.35pm About Religion : Almanac
7.05pm Voice of Melody
7.25pm News
7.28pm Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium
8.55pm Film : Trapeze (1956)
starring Burt Lancaster, Gina Lollobrigida, Tony Curtis
10.10pm News
10.20pm Film : Trapeze (1956) continued
11.05pm Eamon Andrews Show, Weather
11.50pm Epilogue
ABC Midland and Northern (as ATV except)
2.00pm Farming Comment
2.10pm Rugby League
2.45pm On the Braden Beat
3.15pm Big Beat '64
4.40pm No Time for Sergeants
5.10pm Just Jimmy
5.40pm Bugs Bunny Show (until 6.05pm)
8.55pm Film : Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) Première
starring Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson
9.55pm News
10.05pm Film : Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) continued (until 11.05)
ITV Tyne Tees (as ATV except)
10.55am Station Tuning Signal (until 11.00am)
12.05pm Closedown (until 2.25pm)
2.25pm Farming Outlook
2.40pm Sunday Cinema : It's Love I'm After
4.00pm Shirley Temple's Storybook
4.55pm Letterbox
5.05pm The R and J Roadshow
5.35pm Mr Piper (until 6.05pm)
8.55pm The Fugitive
9.55pm News
10.05pm My Favourite Martian
10.35pm Tempo (until 11.05pm)
11.50pm (approx) A Message from The Right Rev F D McConnell M A
Bank Holiday Monday 28th December 1964
Associated Rediffusion
2.00pm Out of School
2.05pm The World Around Us
2.24pm Finding Out
2.43pm Context
3.08pm Closedown
4.20pm Small Time
4.35pm Crossroads
5.00pm Seeing Sport
5.25pm Flipper
5.52pm Sports Results
5.55pm News; Weather
6.08pm Postcard from Oslo
7.00pm All Our Yesterdays
7.30pm Coronation Street
8.00pm Crane
8.55pm News
9.10pm Play of the Week : The Rise and Fall of Nellie Brown
10.30pm The Explorers
11.00pm News
11.02pm Dateline; Weather
11.15pm I Believe, but...
Granada (as Associated Rediffusion except)
2.02pm No programmes
4.50pm Good Evening from Granada (until 5.00pm)
5.25pm Robin Hood (until 5.55pm)
6.05pm The Patty Duke Show
6.30pm Scene at 6.30 (until 7.00pm)
11.00pm News
followed by
Three Men in a Boat
11.45pm Granada in the North
12.00 Closedown
ITV Tyne Tees (as Associated Rediffusion except)
1.55pm Station Tuning Signal (until 2.00pm)
3.08pm Closedown
4.45pm Small Time : Ivor the Engine (until 5.00pm)
5.25pm Movie Magazine (until 5.55pm)
6.05pm Car 54 - Where are You?
6.35pm North East Newsview
7.00pm Sportstime (until 7.30pm)
10.30pm The Talk of the Tavern (until 11.00pm)
11.05pm North East Newscast
11.17pm All Our Yesterdays
11.47pm (approx) A Message from the Rev J A Figures M.A.
