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Christmas 1959

 Christmas Eve 1959 - Thursday 24th December 1959
BBC Television
2:30pm Watch with Mother
2:45pm "The Man from 1997", comic fantasy with Charles Ruggles
3:30pm Faraway Look
4:40pm "The Apple Tree with the Golden Apples", a Czechoslovak film
5pm Children's Newsreel
5:10pm Crackerjack
5:55pm News and Weather
6:25pm Christmas Fare
6:30pm Carols from Canterbury
7:5pm James Stewart in the film "Trail to Christmas"
7:30pm Julie Andrews in "The Gentle Flame", by Francis Essex
8:15pm Menotti's Christmas Story with "Amahl and the Night Visitors"
9pm News Summary
9:5pm Rosalind Russell in the film "Sister Kenny"
10:55pm-12midnight Midnight Mass of the Nativity, from the Roman Catholic Bergkirche, Eisenstadt, Austria

Christmas Eve 1959 - Thursday 24th December 1959
ITA - Associated Rediffusion (London)
4:45pm For Children - Small Time
5pm For Children - Canadian Friends
5:55pm News
6:15pm Close Up with Herbert Lom
6:45pm Children's Carol Service
7pm Rawhide (western series)
8pm Dotto
8:25pm This Week
8:55pm The Deputy (western series)
9:25pm News
9:35pm Merry With Medwin
10:30pm Dial for Music
11pm News
11:2pm Dick and the Duchess
11:25pm Crooked Path
11:50pm-1:5am The First Communion of Christmas - Midnight Mass

Christmas Day 1959 - Friday 25th December 1959
BBC Television
8:30am George Mitchell Glee Club and Dennis Wilson Quartet
9-9:3am The Queen's recorded Christmas Message to the Commonwealth (sound only)
11pm Morning Service from St. George's Parish Church, Stockport
11:45pm Programme from the International Pestalozzi Children's Villages
12:15pm "Meet Mr. Kringle" film comedy
1pm News Summary
1:5pm Max Jaffa's Trio, Alicia Markova and the Linden Singers
1:35pm "Day's Before Christmas" Canadian film
2pm Boots and Saddles (western series)
2:25pm While Angels Watch
3pm Chipperfield's Circus Festival
4pm Billy Cotton's Christmas Party
4:45pm Barrie's "A Kiss for Cinderella"
6:15pm News Summary
6:20pm Christmas Night with the Stars
7:35pm Harry Belafonte in "Songs of Many Lands"
8:20pm Gary Cooper in "High Noon"
9:45pm News Summary
9:50pm "Bleak House" (part 11)(final episode)
10:20pm Make May for Music
10:50pm Epilogue followed by Weather Report

Christmas Day 1959 - Friday 25th December 1959
ITA - Associated Rediffusion (London)
10:45am The Nativity
11:10am Christmas Morning Service from the Methodist Central Hall, Westminster
12noon This Wonderful World
12:30pm The Dickie Henderson Half-Hour
12:55pm News
1pm Christmas Box
2pm Cyril Stapleton and his Orchestra
3pm The Queen
3:5pm "A Girl in Every Port" starring Groucho Marx
4:15pm Happy Christmas
4:45pm Richard Todd presents
5:30pm Educating Archie
6pm "Once Upon a Christmas" starring Mavis Traill
6:30pm News and Sports Results
6:45pm The Christmas Hour with Hughie Green
7:45pm Emergency - Ward 10
8:15pm The Army Game
8:45pm Take Your Pick
9:15pm The Macomber Affair
10:45pm News
10:50pm The Turn of the Screw (Act 1) followed by the Weather
11:45pm The Epilogue

Boxing Day 1959 - Saturday 26th December 1959
BBC Television
12noon-5pm Grandstand
- Boxing
- Horse Racing from Kempton Park
- Motor Racing from Brands Hatch
- Football and Racing Summaries
5pm Whirlybirds
5:25pm "The Three Princes" by Rex Tucker
6:15pm News Summary and Weather
6:22pm Laramie
7:10pm Dixon of Dock Green
7:40pm Mother Goose with Frankie Howard
9:10pm News Summary
9:15pm Quatermass and the Pit (Part 1)
10:45pm Old-Time Music Hall
11:45pm Weather

Boxing Day 1959 - Saturday 26th December 1959
ITA - Associated Television (ATV London)
1:10pm News
1:15pm Ballroom Dancing, Horse Racing, Ice Show, Wrestling & Sports Results
5pm Patrick O'Haggan (songs)
5:15pm Robin Hood
5:45pm News
6pm Cannonball
6:30pm Boy Meets Girls
7pm Wyatt Earp
7:30pm Tommy Steele in This Particular Show
8:25pm The Voodoo Factor (Episode 3)
8:55pm News
9pm The Four Just Men
9:30pm Movie Time: "Counterblast" with Robert Beatty
11:15pm The Invisible Man, followed by Weather Forecast and Epilogue

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