27 December 1937
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BBC Television
Source: Radio Times December 24, 1937.
- 11.00-12.00 Demonstration Film
- 15.00 Cartoon Film
- Hunting Season
- 15.05 'Hansel And Gretel'
- The story of Hansel and Gretel: a masque to the music of Humperdinck: choreography by Andree Howard. The BBC Television Orchestra, leader Boris Pecker, conductor Hyam Greenbaum. Production by Stephen Thomas. The actors : Gretel- Muriel Pavlow. Hansel- Jean Haines. The Mother- Lilla Healing. The Father- Alured Weigall. The Witch- H. D. C. Pepler. The singers : Jane Vowles, Charlotte Leigh, Edith Coates, Bernard Ross, Vivienne Chatterton. The dancers led by Andree Howard. A section of the BBC Singers
- 15.55-16.00 News Film
- British Movietonews
- 21.00 Russell Swann
- 21.10 Starlight
- 21.20 News Film
- Gaumont-British News
- 21.30-22.00 'Dick Whittington And His Cat'
- Television's First Grand Christmas Pantomime. Book by Arthur Askey. Ensembles arranged by Carrie Graham. Ballets arranged by Quentin Tod. Scenery designed by Peter Bax. Dick Whittington- Queenie Leonard. Tiddles, his cat- Brenda Perry. Alderman Fitzwarren- Dudley Rolph. Alice, his daughter- Olive del Mar. Idle Jack- William Stephens. Emperor of Morocco- Cyril Fletcher. Full Chorus and Augmented Orchestra under the direction of Hyam Greenbaum ; entire production by Reginald Smith
