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BBCtv

9.29am Headline News

9.30 On Christmas Day in the Morning

10.00 The Perry Como Music Hall

10.45 Christmas Day Family Service

11.45 Max Jaffa invites you to a Christmas party

12.05pm The Adventures of Hiram Holliday starring Wally Cox

12.30 Sing We Now of Christmas!

1.00 The Queen

1.09 The George Mitchell Glee Club

1.44 Wells Fargo

2.09 Walt Disney The story of a man who became a legend, told by David Jacobs

3.25 Appeal

3.30 Billy Smart's Circus

4.30 What's My Line? from Hammersmith Hospital, London

5.00 Tonight with Belafonte

6.00 Christmas Night with the Stars introduced by David Nixon, featuring The Black and White Minstrels, Citizen James, Nina and Frederick, Harry Worth, Kenneth McKellar, David Nixon and Robert Harren, Stanley Baxter and Betty Marsden, Joan Regan, Jimmy Edwards

7.15 The Prisoner of Zenda starring Ronald Colman and Madeleine Carroll

8.50 Sunday Night Play: Tuppence in the Gods

10.20 On Christmas Night A meditation

10.40 Late Night News

10.45 Celebrity Recital

11.05 Weather



BBCtv

9.00am Gwyl y Geni (Wenvoe, Blaenplwyf, Llandrindod Wells, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield only)

9.29 Headline News

9.30 Good Christian Men, Rejoice

10.00 Sambo and the Snow Mountains

10.30 O Come, All Ye Faithful

11.30 Max Bygraves: Meet the Kids at the Hospital for Sick Children in Great Ormond Street, London

12.20pm Citizen James starring Sidney James

12.50 Be My Guest says Joan Regan

1.25 Tenderfoot

2.10 Appeal on behalf of the Royal National Institute for the Deaf, by Sir Malcolm Sergeant

2.15 The Christmas Music from Messiah

3.00 The Queen

3.07 Billy Smart's Circus

4.05 The World of Walt Disney

5.15 FILM: Just William's Luck

6.45 The News

6.55 Christmas at Canterbury

7.25 This Is Your Life

8.00 The Black and White Minstrel Show

9.00 FILM: Rebecca starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine

11.05 Late Night News

11.10 Television Dancing Club

11.55 The Power of Gentleness

12.00 Weather



BBCtv

9.00am News Headlines

9.01 Gwyl y Geni

9.30 Christmas Carols

10.00 School for a Seal

10.15 Watch with Mother: Andy Pandy

10.30 Christmas Morning Service

11.30 Like...Music

11.50 Go Ski-ing

12.30pm Bronco

1.15 The Christmas Music from Messiah

2.05 Appeal on behalf of Wireless for the Bedridden

2.10 Max Bygraves: Meet the Kids

3.00 The Queen

3.10 Billy Smart's Circus

4.15 Puss in Boots A pantomime for Christmas

5.45 Hayley in Disneyland with Hayley Mills

6.50 News

7.00 The First Christmas

7.15 Christmas Night with the Stars introduced by Eamonn Andrews, featuring

The Billy Cotton Band Show, The Rag Trade, A Song for Everyone, Sykes, Adam Faith, Raise Your Glasses, Juke Box Jury, It's a Square World, The Christmas Face of Jim, The White Heather Club, The Black and White Minstrel Show, Dixon of Dock Green

8.50 FILM: The African Queen

10.30 The Good Old Days

11.15 The News

11.20 La Boheme

12.20am Weather



BBCtv

9.00am Gwelson El Seren Ef

9.30 Her Majesty the Queen

9.35 Ring of Bright Water

10.00 Zizou the Alpine Cat

10.15 Watch with Mother: Andy Pandy

10.30 Morning Service

11.30 Frankie Howerd: Meet the Kids in hospital this Christmas

12.15pm FILM: The Red Stallion

1.30 Carols for Christmas Day

2.00 Walt Disney

3.00 Billy Smart's Circus

4.05 FILM: Abbott & Costello Meet Captain Kidd

5.15 Sooty Sooty's Christmas Party

5.30 The News

5.40 The Mills Family John, Mary, Juliet, Hayley and Jonathan Mills appeal on behalf of Freedom from Hunger

5.45 Dick Whittington starring Terry Scott, Hugh Lloyd and Reg Varney

7.15 Z Cars

8.05 Christmas Night with the Stars introduced by Eamonn Andrews, featuring The Black and White Minstrels, Russ Conway, Dixon of Dock Green, Dick Emery and Joan Sims, Hugh and I, It's a Square World, Juke Box Jury, The Marriage Lines, Kenneth McKellar, Nina and Frederick, Andy Stewart

9.25 FILM: Charlie Chaplin in The Gold Rush

10.35 The News

10.40 The Christmas Music from Messiah

11.35 Holy Night

11.40 Weather



BBC1

9.15am The Brave Little Tailor A German film based on a story by the Brothers Grimm

9.50 Welcome Christmas!

10.30 The World of the Penguin

11.15 Christmas Morning Service

12.00 Leslie Crowther: Meet the Kids live from the Children's Ward of Hackney Hospital, London

12.45pm Hob y Deri Dando Music from Wales

1.30 Temple Houston

2.20 Pinky and Perky

2.30 Compact A Surprise for Christmas

3.00 The Queen

3.05 Billy Smart's Circus

4.10 Disney Time with Julie Andrews

5.10 News Headlines followed by Robert Dougall who appeals for the Royal National Institute for the Deaf

5.15 Robinson Crusoe starring Norman Wisdom

7.15 Christmas Night with the Stars introduced by Jack Warner, featuring The Black and White Minstrels, Roy Castle, Billy Cotton Band Show, Dick Emery, Benny Hill, Hugh and I, Kathy Kirby, The Likely Lads, Marriage Lines, Meet the Wife, Andy Stewart, Top of the Pops

8.45 Laughter from the Whitehall Brian Rix presents Simple Spymen

10.15 The News

10.25 The Great War Part 11

11.05 Mexican Fiesta

11.45 Postscript to Christmas Day

11.50-11.55 Weather



BBC2

4.25pm Christmas Carols

5.10 Slask Polish state song and dance company

6.00 The Cat and the Canary starring Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard

7.10 News

7.15 The Little Sweep by Benjamin Britten

8.05 Muses with Milligan Poetry and Jazz

8.45 Kiss Me, Kate by Cole Porter, starring Patricia Morrison and Howard Keel

10.20 Francis Durbridge Presents... Melissa

10.45-11.15 Swann, Wallace and Betjeman People, Places and Animals at Christmas

 



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