At some point in the mid 60s pop music started to grow up. The Beatle boys heard Dylan and realised that songs could be "deeper". Dylan heard the Beatles (and the Animals and the Byrds) and realised that there was still some mileage in rock 'n' roll. Brian Wilson heard Rubber Soul (released December 1965) and tried to top it with Pet Sounds. Macca heard Pet Sounds and felt topped. Next stop Sgt Pepper. Brian Wilson heard Sgt Pepper and retreated to the sand box for forty years.
Oasis stood on the shoulders of giants, unfortunately it was the shoulders of the Bootles at their most lumpen. Wilson was a giant, standing on the shoulders of Lennon & MacCartney who were standing on the shoulders of Dylan and they were all standing on Elvis' shoulder. Paul & Liam are pygmies.
So we're moving from She Loves You towards A Day in the Life. Where are we up to? Oh that's right, Beatles biggest hit in 1966? Yellow Submarine. Top ten singles for 1966? Number 1: Jim Reeves, 2 Frank Sinatra, 3 Yellow Submarine, then Four Tops, Nancy Sinatra, Walker Brothers, Tom Jones, Kinks, Troggs, Manfred Mann and bubbling under as the 11th best selling single of 1966 Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass with Spanish Flea.
I don't just make this stuff up. No, I do research. Well, that is to say I've been listening to a lot of music from the 60s, reading books about the 60s and watching things on youtube that I haven't seen for 40 years. Pete Doggett's excellent book about revolution and the 60s counter culture, There's a Riot Going On, describes a world that is completely different to the world of Yellow Submarine and Spanish Flea. A world of Civil Rights marches, riots, beatings and lynchings, a world of draft cards and Vietnam and marches and riots, a world of Nixon and the eve of destruction.
Which brings me to the subject of the multiverse. This wonderful way out wacky world is it. It is all there is and all there needs to be. The trick is that everyone has their own version. Existing side by side by side.
There's goth kids whose world revolves around anime, manga, D&D, Neurotic fish, The Cruxshadows, Bella Morte, Das Ich, You Shriek, Einstürzende Neubauten and Collide, black mascara and trenchcoats.
There's old folks who live for the bingo, the lottery, a mystery tour coach trip every summer, that nice Michael Buble, the price of things these days and EastEnders twice a week to keep up with what is going on in the world. And never the twain shall meet.
I've got a dozen neighbours, each with a dozen different ways of living, a dozen different outlooks, political views,favourite books, record collections, tv choices. Minimum. And there is the multiverse, everyone has a world that revolves around them. Sure you interact with other universes and if you're really lucky you get to share a new 'verse. The great thing about this is that if you don't like your world all you need to is change it. If you think you've been dealt a bad hand ask for a new deal or better still change the game.
There's goth kids whose world revolves around anime, manga, D&D, Neurotic fish, The Cruxshadows, Bella Morte, Das Ich, You Shriek, Einstürzende Neubauten and Collide, black mascara and trenchcoats.
There's old folks who live for the bingo, the lottery, a mystery tour coach trip every summer, that nice Michael Buble, the price of things these days and EastEnders twice a week to keep up with what is going on in the world. And never the twain shall meet.
I've got a dozen neighbours, each with a dozen different ways of living, a dozen different outlooks, political views,favourite books, record collections, tv choices. Minimum. And there is the multiverse, everyone has a world that revolves around them. Sure you interact with other universes and if you're really lucky you get to share a new 'verse. The great thing about this is that if you don't like your world all you need to is change it. If you think you've been dealt a bad hand ask for a new deal or better still change the game.
None of which concerned me, age 5, in 1966. If I was only writing about things I remember there would be nothing for the years 1961-66. I don't remember the World Cup or Kennedy or the Berlin Wall going up. I don't remember Frank Sinatra troubling the charts.
I think my earliest memories date from 1966, possibly earlier but not later. I have three distinct memories about my Grandad, who died in 66.
One is of Park Gate by the River Dee, a Sunday drive in his Ford Popular. Another is him in his chair, next to a standard lamp. When this memory came back to me it was not in words, not even as a picture but as a warm feeling gradually revealing itself. Does that make sense? The Ford Popular memory is like a photo which may be because it is a photo I remember. Maybe.
We used to go there before Grandad died, we carried on going there after he died. One more memory is of shortly before he died. He was in Cleaver Hospital (or maybe not), I remember sitting on my uncle's knee steering his car around the car park. A few years later (around 1972 or 73) this same uncle had a Lotus Elan and took me for a spin on the brand new M53 motorway. I have a half memory that we did a ton (although it may be that doing 70 was enough of a big deal) Coooooool.
I think my earliest memories date from 1966, possibly earlier but not later. I have three distinct memories about my Grandad, who died in 66.
One is of Park Gate by the River Dee, a Sunday drive in his Ford Popular. Another is him in his chair, next to a standard lamp. When this memory came back to me it was not in words, not even as a picture but as a warm feeling gradually revealing itself. Does that make sense? The Ford Popular memory is like a photo which may be because it is a photo I remember. Maybe.
We used to go there before Grandad died, we carried on going there after he died. One more memory is of shortly before he died. He was in Cleaver Hospital (or maybe not), I remember sitting on my uncle's knee steering his car around the car park. A few years later (around 1972 or 73) this same uncle had a Lotus Elan and took me for a spin on the brand new M53 motorway. I have a half memory that we did a ton (although it may be that doing 70 was enough of a big deal) Coooooool.
OK. Here's some Christmas tv listings from 1966. All three channels.
BBC CHRISTMAS TV 1966
Christmas Eve Saturday 24th December 1966 BBC1 11.50am The Weather Man and Announcements 11.55am Adventure From Yarmouth to Paradise 12.45pm Grandstand (Moto-Cross from Tweseldown: fourth round of the Grandstand Trophy, Snooker from Manchester: Williams v Pullman, Rugby League: Leeds v Hull KR, Boxing: Spike McCormack v Antonio Paiva) 3.50pm Film : Davy Crockett, Indian Scout (1950) starring George Montgomery 5.00pm Today's Sport introduced by David Coleman bringing you the day's Football and Rugby League results, and news of other sporting events 5.10pm Juke Box Jury presented by David Jacobs 5.40pm The News and The Weather Man 5.50pm Doctor Who The Highlanders, part 2 starring Patrick Troughton 6.15pm Dixon of Dock Green The Golden Year starring Jack Warner 7.00pm High Adventure Fire Down Below starring Rita Hayworth, Robert Mitchum 8.50pm The Val Doonican Show with special guests, Frank Ifield, Millicent Martin Ray Alan 9.35pm The News and The Weather 9.45pm Peter Ustinov and Peter Jones In All Directions 10.30pm Match of the Day Kenneth Wolstenholme reports with outside broadcast cameras from a well- known Football League ground 11.17pm The Weather Man 11.20pm See the Children Sing A programme of Christmas Carols sung by a special schools' choir and the audience at a recent Ernest Read Children's Concert in the Royal Festival Hall, London 11.50pm Midnight Mass from Tewkesbury Abbey 1.05am Closedown Christmas Day Sunday 25th December 1966 BBC1 9.30am Welcome Christmas Judith Chalmers and Michael Aspel bring you morning greetings in songs and words 10.10am Mak the Sheep-Stealer opera for children by Holland Park School 11.00am Christmas Morning Service from Christ Church, Cotham, Bristol 12.00 Leslie Crowther invites you to Meet the Kids in hospital at Christmas with George Chisholm. Tony Hart and The Bert Hayes Trio 12.44pm The Weather Man 12.45pm The Lucy Show starring Lucille Ball 1.10pm The Andy Williams Show Christmas greetings from the series featuring song. music, and comedy and the best from the world of entertainment 2.00pm The Royal Palaces of Britain their history, and their art treasures, are presented for the first time on television 3.00pm The Queen 3.05pm Billy Smart's Circus 4.00pm Disney Time Rolf Harris with the help of Coojeebear 4.40pm Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp starring Arthur Askey, Angela Richards and Roy Castle 6.05pm The News and The Weatherman 6.10pm Robert Dougall appeals for the Royal National Institute for the Deaf 6.15pm Journey to Bethlehem John Betjeman has just returned from his first visit to the Holy Land. This film is a record of what he saw 6.45pm Christmas Carols from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge 7.25pm The Black and White Minstrel Show 8.00pm The Ken Dodd Show with the Bachelors 8.45pm Film : The Comancheros (1961) starring John Wayne 10.25pm The News and Weather 10.30pm Dr Finlay's Casebook The Gifts of the Magi 11.20pm The Weather Man 11.22pm The Christmas Story the birth of Christ illustrated by Italian pictures and music Boxing Day Monday 26th December 1966 BBC1 9.30am The Munsters Far-out Munsters . .. join a way-out party, and feel with it at last! 9.55am The News and the Weather 10.00am Watch with Mother Joe 10.15am The Wild Stallion Crin Blanc The prize-winning French film 10.50am Film : Life is a Circus (1960) starring The Crazy Gang 12.10pm Daktari An animal adventure series starring aided and abetted by Clarence and Judy Adventures of Lion Cubs 1.00pm Grandstand introduced by David Coleman featuring Racing from Wolverhampton 3.45pm When Comedy Was King A pageant of the screen's most famous laughter-makers 5.05pm Today's Sport introduced by David Coleman bringing you today's Football, Racing, Rugby League, and Rugby Union results, and reports on other sporting events 5.15pm Sooty assisted by Sweep Corbett and Harry Corbett in Sooty's Christmas Show 5.30pm The Three Musketeers 7/10 At Night all Cats are Grey starring Jeremy Brett 5.55pm The News and The Weather 6.05pm Cartoon Time Trojan Horse 6.15pm Top of the Pops '66 Part 1- January to June with Jimmy Savile, Pete Murray 7.00pm Till Death Us Do Part Peace and Goodwill 7.30pm Brian Rix presents One for the Pot 9.00pm The News and The Weather 9.10pm The Monroes Western 10.00pm Sports Results including today's Football results and League tables introduced by David Coleman 10.05pm Gala Performance introduced James Robertson Justice 10.55pm The Weather Man 10.57pm Film : Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1938) Bank Holiday Tuesday 27th December 1966 BBC1 9.30am The Munsters Movie Star Munster 9.55am The News and The Weather 10.00am Watch with Mother Andy Pandy 10.15am Film : Beau Chumps (1931) starring Laurel and Hardy 10.50am Look Bringing up Benbow Benbow is an orphan seal. Cast ashore on the beaches of the Wash, he is rescued by the R.S.P.C.A. and finds a home with Tony Soper 11.15am Film : Make Mine a Million (1959) starring Arthur Askey, Sidney James 12.35pm Grandstand (Racing from Wolverhampton and Motor Racing from Brands Hatch) 2.45pm Film : The Corsican Brothers (1941) starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr 4.30pm Jackanory Harlequinade and Black Beard the Pirate read by Bernard Cribbins 4.45pm Jonny Quest Dr Zin's Robot Spy 5.10pm Today's Sport introduced by David Coleman bringing you the day's Football, Racing, and Rugby League results 5.20pm Babar the Elephant by Jean De Brunhoff performed by children Music by Antony Hopkins who also tells the story 5.49pm The Weather Man 5.50pm News 5.58pm Town and Around News and views from London and the South-East introduced by Corbet Woodall Weather 6.17pm Top of the Pops '66 with top D.J's Alan Freeman and Simon Dee 7.00pm The Newcomers Angleton is suffering from a surfeit of Christmas. Maria learns that appearances can be deceptive, and Sydney offers Arnold advice. 7.30pm Hugh and I Hold the Tiger 8.00pm Film : The Love Affair - This Above All (1942) starring Tyrone Power, Joan Fontaine 8.50pm The News and The Weather 9.05pm Film : The Love Affair - This Above All (continued) 10.00pm Sports Results including today's Football results and League tables, introduced by David Coleman 10.05pm The Abbey of the English celebrating the 900th anniversary of Westminster Abbey 11.15pm The Weather Man 11.17pm That's Me An amusing encounter with Alan Arkin in New York`s Central Park | Christmas Eve Saturday 24th December 1966 BBC2 6.15pm Rugby Special: South-Eastern Counties XV v An Australian XV Peter West reports from The Athletic Centre. King Park, Bournemouth 6.50pm The News and Sport 7.00pm The Danny Kaye Christmas Show in which Danny Kaye and his special guests, Jean Simmons, Laurence Harvey, John Gary entertain to the music of Paul Weston and his Orchestra 7.50pm I Gotta Shoe or Cindy-Ella a musical starring Cleo Laine, Elisabeth Welch Cy Grant 8.50pm This Man Craig The Pirate Cut 9.45pm Francis Durbridge Presents... Bat Out of Hell, part 5 10.00pm Late Night Line-Up A late look around the world of television Criticism, Discussion, Diversion 10.40pm Midnight Movie : The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958) starring Ingrid Bergman Christmas Day Sunday 25th December 1966 BBC2 3.00pm The Queen 3.05pm The World of Jacques-Yves Cousteau The incredible world of that famous French underwater explorer and inventor-55 fathoms beneath the Mediterranean 4.00pm Film : Oh, Mr Porter! (1937) starring Will Hay 5.20pm The Leningrad State Kirov Ballet Three pieces from the programme danced by the oldest ballet company in the world during their recent visit to The Royal Opera House Covent Garden 6.10pm Newsyear '66 News Review presents the story of the year as filmed by cameramen all over the world 7.25pm Horizon Christmas Special Hand me my Sword, Humphrey by Richard Wade with Dudley Foster and Prunella Scales 8.00pm Die Fledermaus the new Sadler's Wells production 10.10pm Meet the Swingles a programme of eighteenth century music 10.30pm Late Night Line-up and Plunder present a special Christmas night programme Reminiscences of Childhood with poetry, prose, and film drawn from the BBC Archives 11.30pm Film : Monsieur Beaucaire (1946) starring Bob Hope Boxing Day Monday 26th December 1966 BBC2 11.00am Play School Useful Box Day 11.20am Closedown 5.30pm The Charlie Chaplin Comedy Theatre: presenting the film classic The Rink (1916) 5.55pm Peter and the Wolf with the English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Dudley Simpson 6.20pm Music Quiz A not-too-serious opportunity to match your musical wits, if you have any on Boxing Day, against Joyce Grenfell, Richard Baker Paul Jennings 7.00pm Film : Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1959) starring James Mason 9.00pm Not Only...But Also starring Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, with John Lennon 9.50pm Carmen Jones A modern version of Georges Bizet's immortal opera, Carmen starring Harry Belafonte 11.30pm The News 11.40pm Late Night Line-Up A last look around the world of television Criticism, Discussion, Diversion with Denis Tuohy , Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell , Tony Bilbow and tonight's guests Bank Holiday Tuesday 27th December 1966 BBC2 11.00am Play School Dressing-up Day 11.25am Closedown 1.15pm Medicine Today a monthly series of programmes for doctors 1.45pm Closedown 5.00pm The Engineer in Wonderland : The White Rabbit, The Royal Institution, London, Annual Christmas Lectures to Young People 6.00pm The Glory of Sail A film story of the last hundred years of the square-rigged sailing ships, the windjammers, the Atlantic packets, the East India-men, the incomparable clippers, the whalers, the Australian grain ships, the indomitable Cape-Horners 6.45pm The Golden Age of Comedy Highlights of laughter from the studios of Mack Sennett and Hal Roach featuring many famous comedians of the 1920's 8.00pm News Summary 8.05pm The Eleanor Roosevelt Story A film biography of America's former First Lady 9.30pm Miss Julie a play by Strindberg 10.35pm Julian Bream and John Williams The first of two programmes in which these two guitarists appear together in concert for the first time on television 11.15pm News Summary 11.20pm Late Night Line-Up A last look around the world of television Criticism, Discussion, Diversion with Denis Tuohy , Michael Dean Joan Bakewell , Tony Bilbow and tonight's guests also Philip Jenkinson with more film requests |
BBC-1 Television
11:50am Weather and Announcements
11:55am Adventure: From Yarmouth to Paradise
12:45-3:50pm Grandstand
3:30pm Davy Crockett, Indian Scout (western film)
5pm Today's Sport: Football and Rugby Results
5:10pm Juke Box Jury
5:40pm News and Weather
5:50pm Dr Who: The Highlander, Part 2
6:15pm Dixon of Dock Green: The Golden Year
7pm High Adventure, the Saturday Film: Fire Down Below
8:50pm The Val Doonican Show
9:35pm News and Weather
9:45pm Peter Ustinov and Peter Jones - In All Directions
10:30pm Match of the Day: a top League Soccer match
11:17pm Weather
11:20pm See the Children Sing: Carols
11:50pm-1:5am Midnight Mass from Tewksbury Abbey
Christmas Eve 1966 - Saturday 24th December 1966
BBC-2 Television
6:15pm Rugby Special: South-Eastern Counties XV v. An Australian XV
6:50pm News and Sport
7pm The Danny Kaye Christmas Show
7:50pm I Gotta Shoe or Cindy-Ella: musical
9:45pm Francis Durbridge Presents ... Bat Out of Hell, Part 5
10:10pm Late Night Line-Up: Criticism, Discussion, Diversion
10:40pm Midnight Movie: The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
Christmas Eve 1966 - Saturday 24th December 1966
ITA - Associated Television (ATV London)
1pm News
1:5pm Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer, featuring Burl Ives
1:55pm Pool of London, starring Bonar Colleano, Susan Shaw, Renee Asherson, Moira Lister, Earl Cameron
3:25pm Christmas Mad Movies, presented by Bob Monkhouse
4:10pm The Rifleman: The Raid, starring Chuck Connors
4:40pm Topo Gigio Comes To Town: The School Room
5:5pm News
5:15pm Professional Wrestling
6:15pm Emergency - Ward 10: A Matter of Confidence
7:10pm George and the Dragon, starring Sid James, Peggy Mount, John Le Mesurier and Keith Marsh
7:40pm The Facts of Life, starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball
9:30pm News
9:40pm Frankie and Bruce's Christmas Show
11:15pm On The Braden Beat with Bernard Braden
11:55pm-1am Celebrated Midnight Mass, from the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street, London.
Weather Forecast
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Christmas Day 1966 - Sunday 25th December 1966
BBC-1 Television
9:30am Welcome Christmas: morning greetings - in songs and words
10:10am Mak the Sheep-Stealer: first production of his new opera for children by Holland Park School.
11am Christmas Morning Service from Christ Church, Cotham, Bristol
12noon Leslie Crowther invites you to Meet the Kids in hospital at Christmas
12:44pm Weather
12:45pm The Lucy Show: Lucy and George Burns
1:10pm The Andy Williams Show
2pm The Royal Palaces of Britain
3pm The Queen's Christmas Message to the Commonwealth
3:5pm Billy Smart's Circus
4pm Disney Time
4:40pm Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp: pantomime
6:5pm News and Weather
6:10pm Appeal for The Royal National Institute for the Deaf
6:15pm Journey to Bethlehem: film of a visit to the Holy Land
6:45pm Christmas Carols from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge
7:25pm The Black and White Minstrel Show
8pm The Ken Dodd Show
8:45pm The Commancheros (western film)
10:25pm News and Weather
10:30pm Dr. Fnlay's Casebook: The Gifts of the Magi
11:20pm Weather
11:22pm The Christmas Story: the birth of Christ illustrated by Italian pictures and music
Christmas Day 1966 - Sunday 25th December 1966
BBC-2 Television
3pm The Queen's Christmas Message to the Commonwealth
3:5pm The World of Jacque-Yves Cousteau: film of the French underwater explorer and inventor
4pm Oh Mr. Porter (comedy film classic)
5:20pm The Leningrad State Kirov Ballet
6:10pm NewsYear '66; the story of the year
7:25pm Horizon: Hand me my Sword, Humphrey
8pm Die Fledermaus, the new Sadler's Wells production
10:10pm Meet the Swingles in a programme of eighteenth-century music
10:30pm Late Night Lin-Up and Plunder: Reminiscences of Childhood
11:30pm Monsieur Beaucaire (film comedy)
Christmas Day 1966 - Sunday 25th December 1966
ITA - Associated Television (ATV London)
9:50am A Merry Christmas from Tingha and Tucker
10:20am The Light Shineth. Carols and music from Lincoln Cathedral
11am Manchester Cathedral. Christmas Eucharist
12:10pm The Royal Palaces of Britain
1:10pm Gala Opportunity Knocks
2pm Cliff Richard and the Shadows with guest stars Ivor Emmanuel and Patricia Bredin
3pm The Queen's Christmas Message to the Commonwealth
3.7pm Sabrina Fair (film) starring Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden
5:5pm Thunderbirds: Give or Take a Million
6pm News
6:15pm Weatherwise
6:35pm The Happy Birthday: Christmas song and music with orchestra from St. Albans Cathedral
7:25pm Secombe, Friends and Relations, starring Harry Secombe with many top guest stars
8:55pm Young at Heart (film) starring Doris Day and Frank Sinatra
10:15 News
10:25pm Young at Heart (continued)
11pm The Eamonn Andrews Show
11:55pm Rome, Sweet Rome starring Peggy Mount, Hughie Green, Del Moore, Lois Maxwell, Kip King
12:25am A Preview of Sport. Weather
12:55am A Last Thougth for Christmas Day
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Boxing Day 1966 - Monday 26th December 1966
BBC-1 Television
9:30am The Munsters (comedy film series) Far-Out Munsters
9:55am News. Weather
10am Watch with Mother: Joe and the Football
10:15am The Wild Stallion (Crin Blanc) Prize-winning French film
10:50am Life is a Circus
12:10pm Daktari
1-3:45pm Boxing Day Grandstand: Horse Racing from Wolverhampton
3:45pm When Comedy was King: a pageant of the screen's most famous laughter-makers
5:5pm Today's Sport
5:15pm Sooty's Christmas Show
5:30pm The Three Musketeers, Part 7
5:55pm News and Weather
6:5pm Cartoon Time: Trojan Horse
6:15pm Top of the Pops '66 (part 1)
7pm Till Death Us Do Part: (comedy series): Peace and Goodwill
7:30pm Brian Rix presents One for the Pot
9pm News and Weather
9:10pm The Monroes (western film series) Ordeal by Hope
10pm Sports Results
10:5pm Gala Performance: music, opera and ballet
10:55pm Weather
10:57pm Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (film)
Boxing Day 1966 - Monday 26th December 1966
BBC-2 Television
11-11:25pm Play School
5:30pm The Charlie Chaplin Comedy Theatre presenting the silent film classic The Rink
5:55pm Peter and the Wolf - a musical tale for children
6:20pm Music Quiz
7pm Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth (film)
9pm Not Only ... But Also: Peter Cook and Dudley Moore
9:50pm Carmen Jones: a modern version of Bizet's immortal opera Carmen
11:30pm News
11:40pm Late Night Line-Up: Criticism, Diversion, Discussion
Boxing Day 1966 - Monday 26th December 1966
ITA - Rediffusion (London)
7am Announcements and Weather
7:5am A Tour of Carols
7:45am Survival
8:10am Mad Movies, presented by Bob Monkhouse
8:35am Popeye
9:27am Announcements and Weather
9:30am The Addams Family
9:55am Richard the Lionheart - The Robbers of Ashdown Forest
10:20am Laredo - The Deadliest Kid in the West
11:20am Wayne and Shuster take an affectionate look at George Burns and Gracie Allen
12:5pm News
12:10pm Here Comes That Boy Again - Joe Brown (songs)
12:25pm Horse Racing from Wincanton
1:45pm Professional Wrestling
2:15pm Horse Racing from Wincanton
2:40pm Hippodrome with Jane Morgan and Gerry & The Pacemakers
3:30pm The Royal Palaces of Britain. Sir Kenneth Clark
4:30pm For Children - Play time
4:55pm Disney Wonderland
5:50pm News and Sports Results
6:8pm Crossroads
6:35pm Batman. Part 1 - Green Ice
7pm Tarzan and the Lost Safari (film) starring Gordon Scott
8:30pm Peyton Place
8:55pm News
9:10pm A Taste of Honey (film) starring Rita Tushingham
10:50pm The Temptation of Jezebel: An all-coloured cast in a blues version of The Prodigal Son
11:30pm Singing and Searching: Strangers at the Cradle
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Tuesday 27th December 1966 - BBC-1 Television
9:30am The Munsters (comedy film series): Movie Star Munster
9:55pm News and Weather
10am Watch with Mother: Andy Pandy
10:15am Laurel and Hardy in Beau Chumps
10:50am Look: Bring up Benbow
11:15am Make Mine a Million (comedy film)
12:35pm-2:45pm Grandstand:
- Horse Racing from Wolverhampton, Motor Racing from Brands Hatch
2:45pm The Corsican Brothers (adventure film)
4:30pm Jackanory: Harlequinade and Black Beard the Pirate
4:45pm Jonny Quest: Dr. Zin's Robot Spy
5:10pm Babar the Little Elephant
5:49pm Weather
5:50pm News
5:58pm Town and Around
6:17pm Top of the Pops '66 (part 2)
7pm The Newcomers: serial
7:30pm Hugh and I (comedy series): Hold that Tiger
8pm The Love Affair: This Above All (film)
8:50pm News and Weather
9:5pm The Love Affair, part 2
10pm Sports Results
10:5pm The Abbey of the English: film celebrating the 900th year of Westminster Abbey
11:15pm Weather
11:17pm That's Me: an amusing encounter with Allan Arkin in New York's Central
Tuesday 27th December 1966 - BBC-2 Television
11-11:25am Play School
1:15-1:45pm Medicine Today: a series of programmes for doctors
5pm The Engineer in Wonderland: The Royal Institution, London, Annual Christmas Lectures to Young People
Lecture 1 - The White Rabbit
6pm The Glory of Sail: film story of the last hundred years of the square-rigged sailing ships
6:45pm The Golden Age of Comedy, featuring many famous comedians of the 1920s
8pm News
8:5pm The Eleanor Roosevelt Story: film biography of America's former First Lady
9:30pm Miss Julie: play by Strindberg
10:35pm Julian Bream and John Williams (guitarists)
11:15pm New Summary
11:20pm Late Night Line-Up: Criticism, Discussion, Diversion and film requests
Tuesday 27th December 1966 - ITA - Rediffusion (London)
7am Announcements and Weather
7:5am The Charlie Chaplin Carnival - The Fireman
7:20am Survival
7:45am Mad Movies, presented by Bob Monkhouse
8:10am Music Mine
8:25pm John Grierson presents
8:50am Thirsty Boots
9:3am Playbill
9:30am Long John Silver - The Pink Pearl
9:55pm Sara and Hoppity
10:7am The Addams Family - Cousin Itt Visits the Addams Family
10:35am Adventures of the Sea Hawk - The Will of the Lord
11am Alexander Brothers Show
11:25am Ivoer the Engine
11:35am Stunt Man
12noon News
12:5pm The Grafters - A story about street traders
12:45pm Take Your Shoes off
1:5pm The Adventures of Twizzle
1:20pm Slag's Place
1:50pm The Flintstones - Sherriff for a Day
2:20pm A Christmas Carol on Ice from Streatham Ice Rink
3:15pm Albert R.N. (film)
4:45pm For Children - Playtime
5pm Adventures of the Seaspray
5:25pm For Children - Orlando, Sam Kydd in Stealers Keepers - Episode 3
5:55pm News and Weather
6:8pm Crossroads
6:30pm Batman Part 2 - Deep Freeze
7pm Double Your Money, starring Hughie Green
7:30pm Peyton Place
8pm Mrs. Thursday
8:55pm News
9:10pm Julie's Gone, starring Raymond Francis, with John Carson, Michele Dotrice and David Garth.
A young girl disappears from a remote country house.
10:10pm The Felony Squad. Howard Duff in Fear Below. Detective Jim Briggs is left to die, trapped in a sewer.
10:42pm This Year of Sport
11:27pm Dateline. Weather
11:37pm Singing and Searching - Leaves of Life
And here is some kind of bonus: 1936 Christmas BBC tv listing
BBC CHRISTMAS TV 1936
Christmas Eve Thursday 24th December 1936
BBCTV
3.00pm Programme Summary
followed by Bransby Williams as Scrooge
3.15pm News Reel
3.25pm Interval, Time, Weather,
followed by Christmas Party
Charlie Lee
Ada Cerito
Harry Bedford
Lottie Lennox
Tom Leamore
Chairman, Bert Terrell
The BBC Television Orchestra
Conductor, Hyam Greenbaum Presented by Harry Pringle
4.00pm Closedown
9.00pm Programme Summary
followed by Bransby Williams as Scrooge
9.15pm News Reel
9.25pm Interval, Time, Weather,
followed by Christmas Party
Charlie Lee
Ada Cerito
Harry Bedford
Lottie Lennox
Tom Leamore
Chairman, Bert Terrell
The BBC Television Orchestra
Conductor, Hyam Greenbaum Presented by Harry Pringle
Christmas Day Friday 25th December 1936
BBCTV
3.00pm Programme Summary,
followed by Christmas Turkey, a demonstration of carving by BJ Hulbert
3.15pm News Reel
3.25pm A Lonely Christmas Arctic by Ernest Shackleton
3.30pm Picture Page (fourteenth edition) Christmas Number :- a magazine programme
of topicaland general interest ; produced by
G More O'Farrell, with Joan Miller
4.00pm Closedown
9.00pm Christmas Carols: The Singing Boys from St Mary-of-the-Angels Song School
9.10pm A Seasonal Tour through the Empire, with a commentary written and spoken by
Cecil Lewis
9.20pm Some Unusual Christmases by Commander AB Campbell
9.30pm News Reel
9.35pm Television Party
Distinguished artists from the stage and screen will be the guests of the BBC. Cecil Lewis will act as host
10.00pm Closedown
Boxing Day Saturday 26th December 1936
BBCTV
3.00pm Programme Summary followed by Bruce McLeod's Punch and Judy and
Sutherland Felce (conjuror and comedian)
3.15pm News Reel
3.25pm Variety presented by Cecil Madden ; cartoons by Harry Rutherford,
variety by The Del Rios (rope-spinning), Marion and Irma (symphony in motion),
Edward Cooper (songs at the pianoforte), Nina Devitt (personality girl),
Larry Kemble, Walker and Smart (comedy jugglers)
9.00pm Programme Summary followed by Bruce McLeod's Punch and Judy
9.15pm News Reel
9.25pm Cabaret
SHERKOT
Silent Comic
O'SHEA AND
JOAN Dancers
EDWARD COOPER
Entertainer
ERNEST SHANNON
Impressions
SUZANNE McCLAY
Diseuse
MARION AND IRMA
Symphony in Motion
THE LUCERNE SKATERS Presentation by CECIL MADDEN
10.00pm Closedown
Sunday 27th December 1936
No programmes
Bank Holiday Monday 28th December 1936
BBCTV
3.00pm Programme Summary, followed by Irish Players The Workhouse Ward, a comedy by
Lady Gregory, with the Irish Players: Kathleen Drago, Fred O'Donovan & Tony Quinn
3.25pm British Movietone News
3.35pm Variety Joan Collier (singer), Rob Wilton (comedian), James Stewart,Wendy Toye &
company, with the BBCTV Orchestra, conductor Hyam Greenbaum
4.00pm Closedown
9.00pm Programme Summary, followed by Irish Players The Workhouse Ward, a comedy by
Lady Gregory, with the Irish Players: Kathleen Drago, Fred O'Donovan & Tony Quinn
9.25pm Gaumont British News
9.35pm Variety Irene Prador (singer), Rob Wilton (comedian), Harry Scott (songs),
Wendy Toye & co, with the BBCTV Orchestra, conductor Hyam Greenbaum
BBCTV
3.00pm Programme Summary
followed by Bransby Williams as Scrooge
3.15pm News Reel
3.25pm Interval, Time, Weather,
followed by Christmas Party
Charlie Lee
Ada Cerito
Harry Bedford
Lottie Lennox
Tom Leamore
Chairman, Bert Terrell
The BBC Television Orchestra
Conductor, Hyam Greenbaum Presented by Harry Pringle
4.00pm Closedown
9.00pm Programme Summary
followed by Bransby Williams as Scrooge
9.15pm News Reel
9.25pm Interval, Time, Weather,
followed by Christmas Party
Charlie Lee
Ada Cerito
Harry Bedford
Lottie Lennox
Tom Leamore
Chairman, Bert Terrell
The BBC Television Orchestra
Conductor, Hyam Greenbaum Presented by Harry Pringle
Christmas Day Friday 25th December 1936
BBCTV
3.00pm Programme Summary,
followed by Christmas Turkey, a demonstration of carving by BJ Hulbert
3.15pm News Reel
3.25pm A Lonely Christmas Arctic by Ernest Shackleton
3.30pm Picture Page (fourteenth edition) Christmas Number :- a magazine programme
of topicaland general interest ; produced by
G More O'Farrell, with Joan Miller
4.00pm Closedown
9.00pm Christmas Carols: The Singing Boys from St Mary-of-the-Angels Song School
9.10pm A Seasonal Tour through the Empire, with a commentary written and spoken by
Cecil Lewis
9.20pm Some Unusual Christmases by Commander AB Campbell
9.30pm News Reel
9.35pm Television Party
Distinguished artists from the stage and screen will be the guests of the BBC. Cecil Lewis will act as host
10.00pm Closedown
Boxing Day Saturday 26th December 1936
BBCTV
3.00pm Programme Summary followed by Bruce McLeod's Punch and Judy and
Sutherland Felce (conjuror and comedian)
3.15pm News Reel
3.25pm Variety presented by Cecil Madden ; cartoons by Harry Rutherford,
variety by The Del Rios (rope-spinning), Marion and Irma (symphony in motion),
Edward Cooper (songs at the pianoforte), Nina Devitt (personality girl),
Larry Kemble, Walker and Smart (comedy jugglers)
9.00pm Programme Summary followed by Bruce McLeod's Punch and Judy
9.15pm News Reel
9.25pm Cabaret
SHERKOT
Silent Comic
O'SHEA AND
JOAN Dancers
EDWARD COOPER
Entertainer
ERNEST SHANNON
Impressions
SUZANNE McCLAY
Diseuse
MARION AND IRMA
Symphony in Motion
THE LUCERNE SKATERS Presentation by CECIL MADDEN
10.00pm Closedown
Sunday 27th December 1936
No programmes
Bank Holiday Monday 28th December 1936
BBCTV
3.00pm Programme Summary, followed by Irish Players The Workhouse Ward, a comedy by
Lady Gregory, with the Irish Players: Kathleen Drago, Fred O'Donovan & Tony Quinn
3.25pm British Movietone News
3.35pm Variety Joan Collier (singer), Rob Wilton (comedian), James Stewart,Wendy Toye &
company, with the BBCTV Orchestra, conductor Hyam Greenbaum
4.00pm Closedown
9.00pm Programme Summary, followed by Irish Players The Workhouse Ward, a comedy by
Lady Gregory, with the Irish Players: Kathleen Drago, Fred O'Donovan & Tony Quinn
9.25pm Gaumont British News
9.35pm Variety Irene Prador (singer), Rob Wilton (comedian), Harry Scott (songs),
Wendy Toye & co, with the BBCTV Orchestra, conductor Hyam Greenbaum
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