86 December 1967

At home…

On Christmas Day I finally got the real football I’d craved for, all shiny and new and made of real leather. I was thrilled. Then I noticed the big ugly bump where the lace was. Never mind.

On the telly…

Christmas Eve Sunday 24th December 1967

BBC 1

9.00 Apna Hi Ghar Samajhiye: for viewers from Pakistan and India
9:25 News
9:35 The Christmas People
10.00 Jackanory
10:15 Little Dog Lost
11:00 Seeing and Believing
11:30 The Monroes: Western series
12:20 John Gilpin Rides Again
12:30 The Golden Age of Comedy
1:45 News
1:50 The Sooty Show
2:00 David Copperfield (film)
4:05 Hansel and Gretal: opera
5:40 Les Miserables
6:05 News
6:15 Meeting Point: The House by the Stable
6:50 Carols from King's College, Cambridge
7:25 Steptoe and Son: Pilgrim's Progress
7:55 Dr. Finlay's Casebook: Unfit to Marry
8:45 News
8:55 The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (film)
11:25 Sir Malcolm's Carols from Stamford
11:50 Midnight Mass of Christmas from the Roman Catholic Church of St. Alban and St. Stephen, St Albans

BBC 2

3:00 Bird's Eye View of Great Britain: a film by helicopter (colour)
4:00 Villa Mon Reve: cartoon (colour)
4:30 Jack and the Beanstalk (colour)
5:20 Professor in Toyland: questions on toys of all descriptions (colour)
5:50 How the Grinch Stole Christmas: cartoon (colour)
7:25 Mr. Topaz: film (colour)
8:55 The Charlie Drake Show (colour)
9:40 Call My Bluff (colour)
10:10 New Faces: film revue (colour)
11:45 News
11:50 Late Night Line-Up: film Someone in the Lift (Colour)

ITV

11:00 Morning service from the Central Hall, Manchester
12:15 The New Three Stooges
1:15 The Royal Palaces of Britain
2:15 The Pride of the Yankees (film) starring Gary Cooper
4:30 Kelvin Hall Circus
5:30 Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
6:00 News
6:15 Village of Peace: Tree House Family In Pestalozzi
6:35 How on Earth, from Liverpool Anglican Church
7:25 Beau Brummel (film) starring Stewart Granger, Elizabeth Taylor.
9:35 News
9:45 Secombe and Friends, with Alfred Marks, Nina and Frederick,
Joan Turner, Norman Vaughan, with Special Guest Tom Jones.
11:05 The Eamonn Andrews Show, followed by Weather
11:55 Manchester Cathedral Christmas Eucharist

Christmas Day 

BBC 1

9:00 We Wish You A Merry Christmas: Children sing carols
9:30 News
9:40 Jackanory
9:55 The Sooty Show
10:05 Charlie Chaplin Comedy Theatre: The Cure
10:30 Nina and Frederik
11:00 Service from St. George's Parish Church, Stockport
11:45 Leslie Crowther invites you to Meet the Kids in hospital
12:30 Z Cars
12:55 News
1:05 A Spoonful of Sugar
1:35 Three-way Christmas Quiz
2:05 Top of the Pops 1967 (part 1)
3:00 The Queen.
3:10 Billy Smart's Circus
4:15 Disney Time with Dick Van Dyke
5:00 Cinderella: pantomime
6:30 The News
6:35 War on Want: Christmas Appeal
6:40 Christmas Night with the Stars
8:40 The Ken Dodd Christmas Show
9:40 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (film)
11:35 The News
11:40 Suliotis Sings: British debut
12:40 An Astronomer's Christmas: reflections
12:47 Weather

BBC 2

11-11:25 Play School
3:00 The Queen
3:10 The Royal Palaces of Britain (colour)
4:10 Amahl and the Night Visitors (opera)
5:00 Doctor in Love (film) (colour)
6:30 Red Skelton: Clown Alley - fun in the circus (colour)
7:20 The Flute and the Arrow (film) (colour)
8:30 The Rumanian National Dance Company and Orchestra (colour)
9:15 Coral Caverns: The John Pennekamp Coral Reef Park (film)
9:40 The Black and White Minstrel Show (colour)
10:25 The News
10:30 Bach's Christmas Oratorio: Parts 1,2 & 3 from Suffolk (colour)
12:05 Late Night Line-Up (colour)

ITV

9:00 I Saw Three Ships
9:30 Comedy Time
10:00 David and the Donkey
10:45 The Archbishop of Canterbury.
11:00 A Christmas service from the Church of St. James', Bierton, Bucks
11:45 A Christmas Stocking. Wilfred Pickles visits St Vincent's Orthopaedic Hospital, Pinner
12:30 The Beverly Hillbillies
1:00 News
1:20 The World of Roy Castle
2:00 All Kinds of Music
3:00 The Queen.
3:10 Fancy Pants (film) starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball
4:43 Mary Monons, a James Thurber fairy story
5:05 Sexton Blake: The Vanishing Snowman (Christmas Special)
5:55 News. Weather
6:00 Alice in Wonderland. Cartoon featuring the voices of Sammy Davis, Jr and Zsa Zsa Gabor
7:00 Coronation Street
7:30 Aladdin. Pantomime with Cliff Richard, The Shadows, Arthur Askey and Vanessa Howard.
9:05 The Singer Not The Song (film) starring Dirk Bogarde, John Mills.
10:00 News at Ten
10:15 The Singer Not The Song (film continued)
11:35 A Tale of Canterbury (repeat)
12:15 Songs of East and West - The Spirit of Christmas.

Boxing Day Tuesday 26th December 1967

BBC 1

9:15 Jackanory
9:30 News
9:35 Belle and Sebastian
10:00 Last of the Mohicans (film)
11:30 Green Acres (comedy series)
11:55 The Lions of Longleat
12:30 Z Cars.
12:55 Grandstand: Motor Racing, Golf, Racing, Rugby League
3:40 News
3:45 The Road to Morocco (film)
5:05 Tom and Jerry: Neapolitan Mouse
5:15 Today's Sport
5:25 Top of the Pops 1967 (part 2)
6:10 News
6:15 Brigadoon: a Scottish fantasy materializes
7:30 Frost Over Christmas: a wry look at the festive season
8:10 This is Petula Clark
8:35 The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour (film)
9:25 News
9:35 Norman Wisdom (film): The Square Peg
11:00 Peter Ustinov in A Christmas Conversation

BBC 2

11-11:25. Play School
3:00 Smiley: (film) adventures of a young boy in Australia (colour)
4:35 Spike Milligan (colour)
5:05 The Andy Williams Ice Show (colour)
5:55 Face the Music: quiz
6:40 The Danny Kaye Christmas Show
7:30 Titipu: The Mikado brought up to date (colour)
9:00 Life in the animal world (colour)
9:45 This is the Life: two international stars (colour)
10:35 Leningrad: its history and art treasures (colour)
11:25 News
11:30 Late Night Line-up (colour)

ITV

10:00 Batman
10:50 The Compliments of the Season
11:30 Scrooge (film) starring Alastair Sim
1:00 The Legend of Custer
1:55 News
2:00 World of Sport: Motor Racing, Ice Dancing, Tennis, Wrestling.
4:45 The Playtime Christmas Box
4:52 The Hunting of the Snark
5:20 Zoo Time
5:50 Sports Results
5:55 News. Weather
6:05 Crossroads
6:35 Do Not Adjust Your Set
7:00 The Benny Hill Show
8:00 Waltz of the Toreadors (film) starring Peter Sellers
10:00 News at Ten
10:30 Down at the Old Bull and Bush, among the customers:
The Bachelors, Bud Flanagan, Kenneth McKellar, Scott Walker, Kim Cordell and Aimi MacDonald
11:30 Dragnet: Harry Morgan and Jack Webb in The Shooting Board
Midnight: Songs of East and West: The Spirit of Christmas with Donald Swann.