For the very young
Tog finds a musical instrument and what fun it is to blow a tune.
A pageant of comedy and cliff-hanging suspense from the golden age of film
with Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Houdini, Pearl White, Harry Langdon, Ben Turpin, Charlie Chase, Snub Pollard, Mack Sennett, Fatty Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, Ford Sterling, Boris Karloff, Warner Oland, Ruth Roland, Al St. John, The Keystone Cops, The Sennett Bathing Beauties and Cameo, The Wonder Dog
Top of the Form competes with Canada's Reach for the Top in this international series.
A joint BBC-CBC production
The London to Sydney Marathon covered 10,000 miles in ten days and there was a prize of £10,000 for the winner. Most of the world's top rally drivers set off from Crystal Palace at the end of November In a hundred cars bound for Bombay, across the mountains of Turkey and Afghanistan and the great plains of Persia and Pakistan. The liner Chusan then took the survivors over the Indian Ocean to Fremantle in Western Australia for three more days and nights of flat-out motoring across the wastes of a whole continent.
In a special Wheelbase film report from the finish at Sydney, British drivers Roger Clark, John Davenport, Peter Harper, and Paddy Hopkirk tell the story of this unrivalled road race in their own words.
Boxing Day brings a surprise visitor to the Kerrs; Turner makes plans to entertain the Cooper family; Burroughs finds Mrs. Crabtree too much under the influence of the Christmas spirit.
From the Midlands
(See panel)
Today's Timetable
12.50 Racing
1.10 Football Preview
1.20 Racing
1.40 Motor Racing
1.55 Rugby League
2.20 Racing
2.40 Motor Racing
2.55 Rugby League
These timings may be altered by events
12.45 to 3.15 Boxing Day Grandstand
Introduced by Frank Bough
and featuring Racing... Rugby LEague... Motor Racing
Racing from Kempton Park
1.0 Littleton Handicap Hurdle
1.30 Holly Handicap Steeplechase
2.30 King George VI Steeplechase - Worth over £5,000 to the winner
Rugby League from Featherstone: Featherstone Rovers v. Hunslet
Motor Racing from Lydden Hill
Featuring the Final of the Grandstand Trophy Race for Saloon Cars up to 1300 c.c. and the Final of the Wills' Trophy Race for Saloon Cars up to 850 c.c. Organised by The Thames Estuary Automobile Club
Cecil B. DeMille's epic adventure film
starring Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Paulette Goddard
with Robert Preston, Preston Foster
A Texas Ranger, sent to Canada to capture a murderer, discovers that the wanted man has organised an Indian uprising to massacre the Mounties.
Tom and Jerry playing cat and mouse in a selection from the world-famous award-winning cartoon films starring Tom the Cat and a far-from-underdog mouse called Jerry.
Mice Follies
...iced mice?
A full round-up of the day's results
Bert Foord
on ice
Musical greetings from Andy Williams and all his family
including Claudine Longet
with The Osmond Brothers
Programme recorded in America
This year's top pops
including discs by: Herb Alpert, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Bee Gees, Joe Cocker and the Grease Band, Equals, Mary Hopkin, Tommy James and the Shondells, Hugo Montenegro
Introduced by Alan Freeman and Stuart Henry
Top of the Pops Orchestra
Conducted by Johnny Pearson
Starring Benny Hill
with June Whitfield, Henry McGee
Special guest, Tammy Jones
and Jenny Lee-Wright, John Wright, Doris Rogers, Jim Tyson, Kedd Senton, Carolyn Moody, David G. March, Richard Mottau
(Henry McGee is appearing in "Uproar to the House" at the Whitehall Theatre, London)
[Starring] Norman Wisdom in the film comedy The Bulldog Breed
with Ian Hunter, David Lodge, Edward Chapman, Robert Urquhart, Liz Fraser
Crossed in love, Norman becomes a sailor-and it can't be long before the Navy's all at sea!
A Boxing Day edition of Old-Time Music-Hall from the stage of the Famous City Varieties Theatre, Leeds
By arrangement with Stanley and Michael Joseph
presenting
Billy Dainty (assisted by Len Lowe), Kim Cordell, Johnny Hackett, Freddie Sales, Joe Castor, Les Spectacles D'Animation, Jack Alban, The Taylor Twins
Chairman, Leonard Sachs
Billy Dainty is appearing in 'Aladdin' at the Empire Theatre, Liverpool; Johnny Hackett in 'The World of Jamie' at the King's Theatre, Glasgow; Freddie Sales in 'Cinderella' at the Birmingham Theatre; Kim Cordell in 'Cinderella' at the Gaumont Theatre, Southampton
with Robert Langley
and The Weather
A 1968 look at the 1967 programme
starring David Frost
with Ronnie Barker, John Cleese, Ronnie Corbett, Sheila Steafel, Julie Felix
from Hollywood
A programme of comedy and song
starring Dean Martin with his family Gail, Dino, Deana, and Claudia
and his great friend Frank Sinatra
with his family Nancy, Tina, and Frank Jr.
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