UK, 25 December 1962
broadcast live, black and white, 4:3
mono, English
A British television special that includes fantasy and animated sequences.
Premise
A variety show broadcast live in Christmas night 1962. It features special short sketches and performances from the popular shows and acts of the time.
Credits
Crew
BBC
Produced by: Graeme Muir, Ronald Marsh
Continuity Written by: John Law, Eamonn Andrews
Edited by: Richard Barclay
The Billy Cotton Band Show
Directed by: Johnnie Stewart
Choreography by: Leslie Roberta
The Rag Trade
Directed by: Dennis Main Wilson
Script by: Ronald Wolfe, Ronald Chesney
A Song for Everyone
Directed by: Yvonne Littlewood
Orchestra Conducted by: Harry Rabinowitz
Sykes and his Sister
Directed by: Sydney Lotterby
Script by: Eric Sykes
Adam Sings
Directed by: Graeme Muir
Orchestra Conducted by: Harry Rabinowitz
Choreographer: Ross Taylor
Raise Your Glasses
Directed by: Bryan Sean
Written by: Alan Melville
Juke Box Jury
Directed by: David Croft
Script by: John Chapman
It’s a Square World
Directed by: John Street
Script by: Michael Bentine
Cartoon by: Biographic Cartoon Films Ltd.
Russ’s Requests
Directed by: Johnnie Stewart
The Christmas Face of Jim
Directed by: James Gilbert
Script by: Frank Muir, Denis Norden
The White Heather Club
Directed by: lain MacFadyea
Steptoe and Son
Directed by: Duncan Wood
Script by: Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
The Black and White Minstrels
Directed by: George Inns
Vocal Arrangements by: George Mitchell
Orchestra conducted by: Eric Robinson
Dance Director: Larry Gordon
Dixon of Dock Green
Directed by: Douglas Moodie
Script by: Ted Willis
Cast
Introduced by Eamonn Andrews
The Billy Cotton Band Show
Billy Cotton and His Band
Alan Breeze
Kathie Kay
The High-Lights
The Leslie Roberts Silhouettes
The Rag Trade
Peter Jones
Miriam Karlin
Reg Varney
Esma Cannon
Barbara Windsor
Sheena Marshe
Patricia Denys
Claire Davenport
A Song for Everyone
Kenneth McKellar
Tom McCall at the organ
Sykes and his Sister
Eric Sykes
Hattie Jacques
Adam Sings
Adam Faith
Susan George
Raise Your Glasses
Arthur Askey
Alan Melville
Mary Hignett
Alec Bregond
Ken Grief
Juke Box Jury
David Jacobs
Sidney James
Sydney Tafler
Terry Scott
Hugh Lloyd
Jill Curzon
It’s a Square World
Michael Bentine
Russ’s Requests
Russ Conway
The Billy Cotton Band
The Christmas Face of Jim
Jimmy Edwards
June Whitfield
Bonnie Barker
Michael Brennan
Eunice Black
The White Heather Club
Andy Stewart
The White Heather Dancers
Ian Powrie and his Band
Steptoe and Son
Harry H. Corbett
Wilfrid Brambell
The Black and White Minstrels
The Mitchell Minstrels
The Television Toppers
Dixon of Dock Green
Jack Warner
Arthur Rigby
Peter Byrne
Jeannette Hutchinson
Geoffrey Adams
Anne Ridler
John Hughes
Christopher Gilmore
Jocelyne Rhodes
References
Periodicals
- Radio Times vol.157 no. 2041 (22-28 December 1962) p.33 – credits
