A German film based on a story by the Brothers Grimm.
Killing seven flies at one stroke was good practice for unicorn-baiting, boar-hunting, and giant-kining. so the Little Tailor found.
Commentary by Johnny Morris.

Words and music for this Festive morn.
with Ivor Emmanuel, Jacqueline Delman, Owen Brannigan and Cy Grant.
BBC Midland Light Orchestra
Leader, James Hutcheon
Conductor, Gilbert Vinter

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.
A BBC Natural History Unit presentation

from Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church.

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.

(Leslie Crowther is appearing in "The Black and White Minstrel Show" at the Victoria Palace, London)

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, Margaret Williams, Olwen Jones, Eiri Jones, Caryl Owens, Ryan Davies, David Reynolds, Jim Howells, Justin Smith, Aled Hughes, Reg Edwards, Derek Boote and The Proclaimers.
Joining in the fun are some young people from Anglesey and Caernarvonshire.

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.
and Jack Elam as Marshal George Taggart

In spite of powerful and dangerous opposition, Temple helps an Indian chief who is determined to prove that his people are entitled to legal defence for criminal charges brought against them.

With Jimmy Thompson as Asst. General, P.P.C.T.V.
From the North of England

A series by Hazel Adair and Peter Ling.

Camilla has a surprise, Ian has a warning, everybody has a party, and David has a shock.
Film sequences made with the co operation of the staff and children of Dr. Barnardo's Homes

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

Eleven huge Polar Bears gently presented by Charles Illeneb

Mexico's star aerialists The Five Ibarras on the flying trapeze

Comedy in a box
Hugony and Partner

Springboard, trampoline, and clowning blended by Spain's Six Alcaraz

Four-footed footballers from Vienna Conrad Nello and his Soccer Dogs

Teeth-held slack wire
A unique presentation, defying description and gravity, by The Four Cuellas

Double-bass buffoonery (or who put the soup in the timpani?)
by Joe, Jac, and Johnnie

Fifteen Elephants, Ten Circus Show-girls, Birma's Walk of Death, Baby Elephant Leap-Frog, The Beatle Elephants all presented by Billy Smart Jr.

The world's greatest solo trapeze artist Gerard Soules

The Grand Carousel
A salute from performers around the world.

Also appearing:
Clown and Augustes
Spuggy-Alby Austin-Harty Pompeu-Abdeslam
and The Robertis

Fire-Eating Genie
Barry Walls

(Billy Smart's Winter Circus is appearing at the Queen's Hall, Leeds)
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Julie Andrews introduces this year's Walt Disney programme with the emphasis on comedy.
With scenes from: Pluto's Christmas Tree, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Living Desert, Emil and the Detectives, Vanishing Prairie, Peter Pan, The Monkey's Uncle, Three Caballeros, Bon Voyage, The Legend of Lobo, Pinocchio, Those Calloways, Lady and the Tramp, Mary Poppins
Films by courtesy of Walt Disney
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who appeals for The Royal National Institute for the Deaf
Contributions, preferably by crossed cheque or postal order, will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to: [address removed]
To those who never hear or utter a recognisable sound in their lives, who cannot even read because they scarcely know what language is, vision is as essential as hearing is to the blind. It is to explain how serious and important television is for the deaf that Robert Dougall appeals this evening.

Book by Harry Bright.
Adapted for television by Eddie Leslie and Len Lowe.
Starring Norman Wisdom
with Marion Grimaldi, Eddie Leslie, Billy Whittaker, Patricia Stark, Len Lowe, Betty Wheeler, Terry Kendall, David Fallon, Harold Holness

(Robinson Crusoe presented by arrangement with Tom Arnold and Bernard Delfont)
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A specially recorded programme featuring your favourite light entertainment artists.
Introduced by Jack Warner.
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The Black and White Minstrels
Starring The Mitchell Minstrels
with John Boulter, Dai Francis, Tony Mercer, Benny Garcia, Margaret Savage, The Television Toppers

Roy Castle

The Billy Cotton Band Show
[Starring] Billy Cotton and his Band
with Kathie Kay, Alan Breeze The Cotton Singers and Dancers
and Ralph Reader and the London Boy Scout Gang Show

Dick Emery
with Glen Mason

Benny Hill
with Alex Macintosh

Hugh and I
[Starring] Terry Scott and Hugh Lloyd
with Patricia Hayes, Charles Dyer, Jack Haig, Vi Stevens, Molly Sugden, Jill Curzon, Maurice Podbrey.

Kathy Kirby

The Likely Lads
Written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.
Starring James Bolam as Terry, Rodney Bewes as Bob
with Sheila Fearn as Audrey

Marriage Lines
[Starring] Richard Briers and Prunella Scales
with Denzil Ellis

Meet the Wife
[Starring] Thora Hird and Freddie Frinton
with Darryl Read

Andy Stewart
Ian Powrie and his Band

Top of the Pops
Greet the Groups with The Barron Knights.

The Black and White Minstrels are appearing at the Victoria Palace, London, and the Theatre Royal, Newcastle; Freddie Frinton is appearing at the Wimbledon Theatre, London; The Barron Knights are appearing in Bertram Mills Circus Super Show at Olympia, London

by John Chapman.
Brian Rix, Leo Franklyn, Larry Noble, Peter Gray, Sheila Mercier, and Helen Jessop are in 'Chase Me Comrade' at the Whitehall; Roger Delgado and Derek Royle in 'Diplomatic Baggage' at Wyndham's; Rex Garner is in 'Instant Marriage' at the Piccadilly Theatre, London
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A twenty-six-part history.

With the intention of bleeding France to death, Germany attacks the sacred fortress town of Verdun, and the two nations become locked in the "grimmest racial feud in the history of human savagery."

With the voices of Sir Michael Redgrave as Narrator, Sir Ralph Richardson as Haig, Emlyn Williams as Lloyd George, Marius Goring, Cyril Luckham, Sebastian Shaw
BBC Northern Orchestra
Conducted by George Hurst
Series produced in collaboration with the Imperial War Museum, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Broadcasting Commission
A BBC Tonight production
(First transmission on BBC-2, Aug. 8)

The Ballet Folklorico of Mexico in a programme of Latin-American folk dance.
(First transmission on July 31)

with The Rev. R. T. Brooks.