Second Picture: Leslie Michell
Third Picture: What’s My Line Lady Isobel Barnett, ?
Barbara Kelly and Gilbert Harding.
Forth Picture: Andy Pandy and Teddy
A really fun packed hour which was followed at 4.00pm by a Closedown for an hour and a half, Lawrence, I Collect T. P. Camerer Cuss talks about his collection of watches, Dressing Up James Laver , with models in costume, argues the case for gayer clothes for men, Dancing Time Sydney and Mary Thompson dance the Fylde Waltz and invite everyone to join them in the Progressive Barn Dance .
At 5.30pm we had For the Children Carols sung by members of the choir of Tolworth County Secondary Boys' School
5.40pm For the Children : A Time To Be Born A play for Christmas Eve by P.D.Cummins
This was followed at 6.30pm by another Close down for another hour and a half
8.00pm Newsreel
8.15pm Christmas Eve in Trafalgar Square Viewers join the crowds round the Christmas Tree for a programme of popular carols, organised by the Daily Mail
8.45pm Picture Page invites some new and old friends to a Christmas party
Hosts: Joan Gilbert and Leslie Michell
9.30pm What's My Line A special Christmas Challenge Match of fifteen minutes each way What's My Liners v. Twenty Questioners. The What's My Liners were: Lesley Storm, Jimmy Edwards, Elizabeth Allan, Gilbert Harding and the Twenty Questioners were Anona Winn, Jack Train, Joy Adamson , Richard Dimbleby, "Lines" men : Eamonn Andrews , Gilbert Harding and the week's "Celebrity"
10.15pm Christmas Story : The Face behind the Whiskers written and told by John Slater
10.30pm The Crib as Christmas Eve draws to its close, Father Agnellus Andrew, O.F.M., in a short devotional programme, explains the meaning of the Crib
10.40pm Weather Forecast and News (sound only)
Christmas Day Tuesday 25th December 1951
10.20am Christmas Day Service from St Paul's Cathedral, London
This was followed at 11.40am by a Closedown for three and a half hours. This was to give the viewers time to have their dinners
3.20pm Film : Wallaby Jim of the Islands (1937) George Houston and Ruth Coleman in an exciting film set in the South Seas
At 4.15pm another Closedown. Time to open presents and have Christmas tea
5.30pm Christmas Day For the Children : Andy Pandy's Christmas (Is he really that old?)
5.45pm For the Children : The Princess and the Swineherd by Nicholas Stuart Gray adapted from the story by Hans Christian Anderson Originally produced by the London Children's Theatre. The action takes place mainly in King Agramor's Castle and the Emperor's Garden, in 1645
6.45pm Closedown Time to get the kids to bed
7.30pm Television's Christmas Party Join in the fun and games and meet many television personalities who have contributed to programmes during 1951 including Terry-Thomas, Jewel and Warriss, Norman Wisdom & Ethel Revnell
9.00pm When We Are Married A farcical comedy by J. B. Priestley. Starring Frank Pettingell and Raymond Huntley. The action takes place in Alderman Helliwell's house in the Yorkshire town of Lecklewyke, in 1908
10.45pm Newsreel
11.00pm Weather Forecast and News (sound only)
11.15pm Closedown
Boxing Day Wednesday 26th December 1951
1.15pm Racing from Kempton Park
2.40pm Closedown
3.00pm Film : Here's Flash Casey (1938) with Eric Linden, Boots Mallory, Cully Richards, Holmes Herbert
4.00pm Closedown
5.30pm For the Whole Family : Aladdin Christmas Pantomime by Peter Ling
7.00pm Closedown Time to get the kids to bed
7.30pm Newsreel
7.45pm Film : Something to Sing About (1936) starring James Cagney, Evelyn Daw
9.00pm The Season's Greetings from Binnie Hale, Renee Houston and Donald Stewart, The Beverley Sisters, Harold Warrender Goodliffe, Jan Berenska and his Orchestra Televised from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital
9.50pm ‘Cheerful’ Charlie Chester Invites you to take 'Pot-Luck' in a programme of prizes and surprises
10.35pm Weather Forecast and News (sound only)
What a difference from the multi channels of today!!!!!
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