| BBC1 9.15am Welcome Christmas 9.45 FILM: Laurel and Hardy in Way Out West 10.45 See the Children Sing 11.15 Morning Service 12.00 Leslie Crowther: Meet the Kids 12.45pm Champions on Ice 1.25 The Andy Williams Show 2.15 Dixon of Dock Green 3.00 The Queen 3.05 Billy Smart's Circus 4.00 Disney Time with Maurice Chevalier 4.50 Mother Goose starring Norman Vaughan and Terry Scott 6.25 News Summary 6.30 Val Doonican appeals for Family Service Units 6.35 Doctor Who starring William Hartnell in The Feast of Steven 7.00 Max Bygraves meets The Black and White Minstrels 8.00 FILM: Road to Bali | 9.30 The Ken Dodd Show 
10.30 The News 10.35 Top of the Pops 65 with Jimmy Savile, David Jacobs, Alan Freeman, Pete Murray 11.50 A Christmas Reverie 12.00 Weather
BBC2 6.30pm When Comedy Was King 7.55 News Summary 8.00 The Childhood of Christ 9.35 Island Yearbook 10.35 Eugenie Grandet 11.20 Late Night Line-up |
| BBC1 9.30am Welcome Christmas 10.10 Mak the Sheep-Stealer 11.00 Christmas Morning Service 12.00 Leslie Crowther: Meet the Kids in hospital this Christmas 12.44pm Weather 12.45 The Lucy Show starring Lucille Ball 1.10 The Andy Williams Show 2.00 The Royal Palaces of Britain 3.00 The Queen 3.05 Billy Smart's Circus 4.00 Disney Time with Rolf Harris 4.40 Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp starring Arthur Askey, Angela Richards and Roy Castle 
6.05 The News 6.10 Robert Dougall Appeals for the Royal National Institute for the Deaf 6.15 Journey to Bethlehem with John Betjeman | 6.45 Christmas Carols from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge 7.25 The Black and White Minstrel Show 8.00 The Ken Dodd Show 8.45 FILM: The Comancheros starring John Wayne 10.25 The News 10.30 Dr Finlay's Casebook 11.20 Weather 11.22 The Christmas Story followed by Weather
BBC2 3.00pm The Queen 3.05 The World of Jacques-Yves Cousteau 4.00 FILM: Oh Mr Porter 5.20 The Leningrad State Kirov Ballet 6.10 Newsyear 66 7.25 Horizon Christmas Special Hand on My Sword, Humphrey 8.00 Die Fledermaus 10.10 Meet the Swingles 10.30 Late Night Line-up 11.30 FILM: Monsieur Beaucaire starring Bob Hope |
| BBC1 9.00am We Wish You a Merry Christmas 9.30 The News 9.40 Jackanory 9.55 The Sooty Show 10.05 The Charlie Chaplin Comedy Theatre 10.30 Nina and Frederick in The Christmas Tree 11.00 Love Came Down at Christmas Worship on Christmas Day 11.45 Leslie Crowther: Meet the Kids 
12.30pm Z Cars 12.55 The News 1.05 A Spoonful of Sugar 1.35 Three-Way Christmas Quiz 2.05 Top of the Pops 67 with Jimmy Savile, Pete Murray and Alan Freeman 
3.00 The Queen 3.10 Billy Smart's Circus 4.15 Disney Time with Dick van Dyke 5.00 Cinderella BBC1's Christmas pantomime, starring Jimmy Tarbuck, Terry Scott and Hugh Lloyd 6.30 The News | 6.35 Lord Macleod of Fuinary appeals for Christian Action 6.40 Christmas Night with the Stars introduced by Rolf Harris, featuring Billy Cotton, David Nixon, Beryl Reid, Sandie Shaw, Kenneth Williams, Till Death Us Do Part, Beggar My Neighbour, The Illustrated Weekly Hudd, Steptoe and Son 8.40 The Ken Dodd Show 9.40 FILM: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 11.35 The News 11.40 Suliotis Sings 12.40am An Astronomer's Christmas 12.47-12.50 Weather
BBC2 COLOUR 11.00am-11.25 Play School (Black and white) 3.00pm The Queen 3.10 The Royal Palaces of Britain 4.10 Amahl and the Night Visitors (Black and white) 5.00 FILM: Doctor in Love starring Michael Caine 6.30 Red Skelton in Clown Alley 7.20 FILM: The Flute and the Arrow 8.30 The Rumanian National Dance Company and Orchestra 9.15 Coral Caverns 9.40 The Black and White Minstrel Show 10.25 News Summary 10.30 Bach's Christmas Oratorio 
12.05am Late Night Line Up |
| BBC1 8.45am Carol Story 9.15 The News 9.30 Apollo report 9.35 Jackanory 9.45 Professor in Toyland 10.15 A Spoonful of Sugar 10.45 Family Service 11.30 Meet the Kids with Ray Alan 12.15pm The Charlie Drake Show 1.00 The Newcomers 1.25 Top of the Pops 68 with Pete Murray and Jimmy Savile 2.10 The Black and White Minstrel Christmas Show 3.00 The Queen 3.05 Billy Smart's Circus 
4.10 Disney Time with Val Doonican 5.00 Humpty Dumpty starring Leslie Crowther and Reg Varney 6.30 The News 6.35 Christian Aid 6.40 Christmas Night with the Stars introduced by Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, featuring Not in Front of the Children, Dad's Army, Harry Worth, Ice Cabaret, Marty Feldman, Oh Brother!, All Gas and Gaiters 8.45 Doddy for Christmas 9.45 FILM: Some Like It Hot | 11.40 The News 11.50 Quiz of the Year 12.25am Of the Nativite of Oure Lorde
BBC2 COLOUR 9.15am-9.30 Apollo report 11.20 Play School 11.40 Christmas Morning at Windsor Castle 11.55-12.10 Apollo report 3.00pm The Queen 3.05 The Royal Ballet present The Nutcracker 4.45 Peace on Earth 5.00 FILM: Lords of the Forest 6.30 Dimensions A clownish exercise in perspective 6.40 FILM: Lancelot and Guinevere 8.35 The News 8.45 The Merry Widow 10.30 The Harry Secombe Show 11.25 Mr Rossi on the Beach 11.40 FILM: Anchors Aweigh starring Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, Kathryn Grayson 
The reports from Apollo 8 were not listed in Radio Times, though it was hoped that coverage from the moon trip could be provided. The original morning schedule on BBC1 was: 8.55am Carol Story, 9.25 The News, 9.30 Jackanory |
