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Christmas 1961

 Christmas Eve 1961 - Sunday 24th December 1961
BBC Television
10:30am Morning Service from Monmouth Street Methodist Church, Bridgwater
11:30am Elsa the Lioness (film)
12noon On the Twlfth Day (film) Fantasy
12:20pm Seeing Believing - The Divine Guest: a Christmas theme
12:40pm Mountain Pastures: film from Italy
1pm Welcome Christmas: light music
1:30pm No Room for Wild Animals (film)
2:30pm The Singing Years: songs of the century
3pm Brian Rix presents Flat Spin Farce
4:25pm Quillow and the Giant: musical show
5:20pm Overland Trail (western film series)
6:10pm The News
6:15pm Festival of Carols from Britain, Denmark, Finland, Germany and Holland
7:5pm What Manner of Child ... Christmas film
7:25pm What's My Line?
7:55pm The Billy Cotton Band Show
8:40pm Sunday Night Play: The Barretts of Wimpole Street
10:25pm The News
10:30pm Peter Ustinov in an After Supper Conversation
11:30pm Tibor Varga: violin recital
11:55pm-1:30am Midnight Mass of the Nativity from the Roman Catholic Church of St. Francis of Assisi, Gorton

Christmas Eve 1961 - Sunday 24th December 1961
ITA - Associated Television (ATV London)
11am-12.5am Christmas Sunday Service from Heaton Moor Congregational Church, Stockport
2:20pm Interpol Calling
2:45pn Tempo
3:35pm The Crowded Day
5:5pm Sir Francis Drake
5:35pm Supercar
6:5pm News
6:15pm Journey of a Lifetime
6:30pm The Sunday Break
7pm About Religion
7:25pm News
7:30pm 77 Sunset Strip
8:25pm Ring Out the Bells with Jo Stafford
9:25pm News
9:35pm Drama '61: The Face of the Enemy
10:35pm Blondes for Danger with Gordon Harker, followed by Weather Forecast
11:50-1:20am First Communion of Christmas from Guilford Cathedral

Christmas Day 1961 - Monday 25th December 1961
BBC Television
9:29am Headline News
9:30am Carols, Hymns and Music
10am Sambo and the Snow Mountains: film
10:30am Morning Service for Christmas Day, from St Werburgh's Parish Church, Derby
11:30pm Max Bygraves invites you to Meet the Kids in hospital
12:20pm Citizen James
12:50pm Be My Guest
1:25pm Tenderfoot (Western film series)
2:10pm Appeal on behalf of the Royal National Institute for the Deaf
2:15pm The Christmas Music from Messiah, by Handel
3pm The Queen's recorded Christmas Message to the Commonwealth
3:7pm Billy Smart's Music
4:5pm The World of Walt Disney
5:15pm Just William's Luck: film
6:45pm News
6:55pm Service of Lessons and Carols, from the Cathedral Church of Christ, Canterbury
7:25pm This is Your Life
8pm The Black and White Minstrel Show
9pm Rebecca (film)
11:5pm Late Night News
11:10pm Television Dancing Club
11:55pm The Power of Gentleness: talk
12midnight Weather

Christmas Day 1961 - Monday 25th December 1961
ITA - Associated Rediffusion (London)
11:15am-12:30pm High Mass from St. Dominic's Priory Church, N.W.5
1pm News
1:5pm Christmas Box
2pm The Cyril Stapleton Show
3pm The Queen's recorded Christmas Message to the Commonwealth
3:7pm All Star Christmas Circus
4:20pm Close Up
5pm For Children
5:55pm News
6:5pm The Archbishop of Canterbury
6:15pm Weather
6:17pm Christmas Alone
6:45pm Here and Now
7pm All Our Yesterdays
7:30pm Coronation Street
8pm Gunsmoke
8:55pm News
9:5pm A Merry Max, starring Max Bygraves
10:5pm The Pickwick Papers, starring James Hayter
11:57pm Epilogue

Boxing Day 1961 - Tuesday 26th December 1961
BBC Television
11:20am Headline News
11:22am The Red Balloon, film from France
11:55am Juke Box Jury
12:30-5pm Boxing Day Grandstand:
Motor Racing from Brands Hatch, Horse Racing from Kempton Park, Amateur Boxing from Cardiff,
Ice Scating from Garmisch, Sports Results
5pm The Princess and the Pea, musical play
5:50pm News
5:55pm Today's Sport
6pm Town & Around
6:5pm Here's Harry
6:30pm Cinderella
8pm Brian Rix presents Will Any Gentleman?
9:30pm News
9:40pm Maigret (crime series) A Crime for Christmas
10:30pm I'll be Seeing You
11:55pm Weather

Boxing Day 1961 - Tuesday 26th December 1961
ITA - Associated Rediffusion (London)
1:25pm Horse Racing from Wetherby
3:30pm Pencil and Paper
4pm Sport of the Year
4:35pm Wally and the Ivy
4:55pm Sports Results
5pm For Children
5:55pm News
6:6pm Weather Forecast
6:8pm The Steve Race Four
6:15pm Mess Mates
6:45pm Our Girl Friday (film)
8pm The Dickie Henderson Show
8:30pm Val Parnell presents All Kinds of Music
9:25pm News
9:35pm Svengali presenting Hildegarde Neff and Sir Donald Wolfit
11:5pm This Wonderful World
11:35pm The Epilogue

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