Story: The Christmas Story Presenters
Carol Chell, Johnny Ball, Lionel Morton

Reflections for Christmas morning by The Bishop of Gloucester, Rt Rev Basil T. Guy

starring
Bing Crosby , Danny Kaye
Rosemary Clooney ,
Vera-Ellen Bing and Danny are two army buddies in tonight's famous seasonal musical. After the war, they team up in a song-and-dance act and soon there is romance in the air with the glamorous Haynes sisters - played by Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen.
Director MICHAEL CURTIZ
Holiday Films: pages 17-18

Narrated by Robert Hardy
The film is the story of Violante, a beautiful German princess, and the Palio, the crazy horse race she invented to tame the hot-blooded men of Siena, deep in the Tuscan hills of Italy. The Palio is fought out in one of the most beautiful medieval squares in the world. Violante. governor of Siena for 14 years, hoped the race would channel the ferocious passions of the Sienese away from political plots.
Two centuries later, Violante's ghost still presides over the bizarre annual rite. Each city district enters its own horse. Each year the Palio claims more victims as few riders last out the race and ancient rivalry between districts remains as bitter as ever.
Music WILLIAM DAVIES
Film cameraman SEPP RIFF
Film editor ALAN CUMNER-PRICE
Written and directed by MICHAEL WEIGALL

A cartoon version of CHARLES DICKENS 'S Story of Ebenezer Scrooge, in the style of the original illustrations by ' Phiz.'
Narrated by Sir Michael Redgrave with the voices of Alastair Sim as Scrooge and Michael Hordern as Marley's Ghost
Producer and director RICHARD WILLIAMS

A special Christmas game
Chairman David Jacobs.
Panel: Isobel Barnett, Kenneth Williams, William Franklyn, Nanette Newman and a guest celebrity.

A Christmas Day programme in which The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth.
Producer RICHARD CAWSTON

A film starring
Julie Christie , Terence Stamp Peter Finch , Alan Bates
Bathsheba, a beautiful, wilful country girl, refuses the hand of honest farmer neighbour Gabriel Oak and after inheriting her uncle's farm, makes a disastrous marriage.
Screenplay by FREDERIC RAPHAEL from the novel by THOMAS HARDY Director JOHN SCHLESINGER Holiday Films: pages 17-18

starring Buster Keaton
BUSTER KEATON takes to the rails again, nearly 40 years after his masterpiece, The General. This time it's for a coast-to-coast trip across Canada on a railway trolley.
Written and directed by GERALD POTTERTON
Producer JULIAN BIGGS

Andre Tahon 's Company of the Champs-Elysees Theatre - one of the world's leading puppet theatres - has delighted audiences for a generation - including two Royal Command Performances.
A special English performance, filmed in France.
Joseph Cooper as question-master invites you to match your musical wits against
Joyce Grenfell , Richard Baker Robin Ray
Guest Eileen Joyce
A Christmas edition of television's musical quiz
Director DENIS MORIARTY Producer WALTER TODDS

Weather

starring
Margot Fonteyn , Rudolf Nureyev Music by TCHAIKOVSKY
Choreography by RUDOLF NUREYEV after PETIPA and IVANOV Scenery and costumes by NICHOLAS GEORGIADIS
At a royal palace in the 16th century Prince Siegfried is celebrating his coming-of-age, and the Queen Mother tells him the time has come to choose a bride.
This performance with Fonteyn and Nureyev of one of the most popular ballets was filmed at the Vienna Opera House in 1964 when this unique partnership was at the height of its success. Nureyev has also made a name for himself as a choreographer and this was one of the first full-length ballets he worked on. and members of the VIENNA STATE OPERA BALLET
VIENNA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA directed by JOHN LANCHBERY
Director TRUCK BRANSS A Unitel production

by LEWIS CARROLL dramatised by JAMES MACTAGGART
with
(Brenda Bruce is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: 3.0 R4

Starring James Donald, Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley, Julian Glover

When Dr Matthew Roney and his assistant Barbara Judd are called in to investigate some unusual prehistoric remains unearthed by building work on a London Underground extension, there begins a strange story involving evil visitors from the Unknown.

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