This year the Calendar is all about anniversaries, so let us take you back to 1964. The amazing website Genome has been launched by the BBC to catalogue its archive, including old Radio Times. So 50 years ago here's what the Christmas Day schedule looked like ... Penguins! The Great War! Welsh Singing! Repeats! Disney Time!
9.15: THE BRAVE LITTLE TAILOR
A German film based on a story by the Brothers Grimm
Commentary by Johnny Morris
9.50: WELCOME CHRISTMAS!
Words and music for this Festive morn with IVOR EMMANUEL, JACQUELINE DELMAN, OWEN BRANNIGAN and CY GRANT
BBC Midland Light Orchestra Leader, JAMES HUTCHEON
Producer: Reg Perrin
Produced By: Philip Lewis
10.30: The World of the Penguin
Whether they breed on Antarctic ice or African sand, the penguin's true home is the sea. Master swimmers, they cannot fly, yet some travel miles inland. Sometimes comic, sometimes graceful, to millions they are the most fascinating birds in the world.
Commentary written and spoken by Alan Gibson
Research by John Sparkes
Film editor, Betty Block
Produced by Christopher Parsons
11.15: CHRISTMAS MORNING SERVICE
from BLOOMSBURY CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH
Preacher, Dr. Howard Williams
Organist, GERALD BARNES , F.R.C.O.
Television presentation by Innes Lloyd
12.00: LESLIE CROWTHER
invites you to MEET THE KIDS in hospital at Christmas with Peter Glaze , Harold Taylor and The Bert Hayes Trio
An Outside Broadcast from the Children's Ward of Hackney Hospital, London
Produced by Robin SCOTT
Leslie Crowther is appearing In Tbe Black and White Minstrel Show ' at the Victoria Palace. London
12.45: HOB Y DERI DANDO
What does it mean? Does it matter?
Sing it out, loud and clear, with a group of singers from Bangor, North Wales
Meredydd Evans introduces Ivor Emmanuel and The Proclaimers
Joining in the fun are some young people from Anglesey and Caernarvonshire
Producer, MEREDYDD EVANS
Directed by RUTH PRICE
13.30: TEMPLE HOUSTON
A Western film series starring JEFF HUNTER as the young Texas lawyer who finds action and adventure in his fight for individual rights and frontier justice
14.20: PINKY AND PERKY
in Christmas Pig-tale with JIMMY THOMPSON as Asst. General, P.P.C.T.V.
Presented by JAN and VLASTA DALIBOR
We Belong Together words and music by NORMAN NEWELL and ALYN AINSWORTH
Written by ROBERT GRAY Design by Stuart Furber
Produced by STAN PARKINSON
From the North of England
14.30: COMPACT
A series by HAZEL ADAIR and PETER LING
A Surprise for Christmas
Camilla has a surprise, Ian has a warning, everybody has a party, and David has a shock
Script by ROSEMARY ANNE SISSON
Film sequences made with the co operation of the staff and children of Dr. Barnardo's Homes
Directed by MICHAEL FERGUSON
15.00: THE QUEEN
15.05: BILLY SMART'S CIRCUS
A special performance for Europe from the ring of the world's largest tenting circus
Frank Bough behind the bars of the big cage introduces
16.10: DISNEY TIME
Julie Andrews introduces this year's Walt Disney programme with the emphasis on comedy
Films by courtesy of Walt Disney
Presented by Richard Evans
17.10: NEWS HEADLINES followed by ROBERT DOUGALL
who appeals for The Royal National Institute for the Deaf
17.15: ROBINSON CRUSOE
starring NORMAN WISDOM
Book by HARRY BRIGHT
Adapted for television by EDDIE LESLIE and LEN LOWE
19.15: Christmas Night with the Stars
20.45: LAUGHTER FROM THE WHITEHALL
BRIAN RIX presents
Simple Spymen by JOHN CHAPMAN
Directed by WALLACE DOUGLAS
22.15: THE NEWS
22.25: THE GREAT WAR
A twenty-six-part history
PART 11: Hell cannot be so terrible
Written by ALISTAIR HORNE and GORDON WATKINS with the voices of SIR MICHAEL REDGRAVE as Narrator
23.05: MEXICAN FIESTA
The Ballet Folklorico of Mexico in a programme of Latin-American folk dance
Choreography by AMALIA HERNANDEZ
First transmission on July 31
Producer: Patricia Foy
23.45: POSTSCRIPT TO CHRISTMAS DAY
with The Rev. R. T. Brooks
23.50: THE WEATHER: Close Down
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