BBC1 Christmas Day Schedule 1963

I just thought I would post the Christmas Day schedule for BBC1 back in 1963:

9.00am Gwelson El Seren Ep.
9.30 Her Majesty the Queen.
9.35 Sing of Bright Water.
10.00 Zizou the Alpine Cat.
10.15 Watch with Mother: Andy Pandy
10.30 Morning Service
11.30 Frankie Howerd: Meet the Kids
12.15pm The Red Stallion
1.30 Carols for Christmas Day
2.00 Walt Disney
3.00 Billy Smart's Circus
4.05 FILM: Abbott & Costello Meet Captain Kidd
5.15 Sooty Sooty's Christmas Party
5.30 The News
5.40 The Mills Family John, Mary, Juliet, Hayley and Jonathan Mills appeal on behalf of Freedom from Hunger
5.45 Dick Whittington starring Terry Scott, Hugh Lloyd and Reg Varney
7.15 Z Cars
8.05 Christmas Night with the Stars introduced by Eamonn Andrews, featuring The Black and White Minstrels, Russ Conway, Dixon of Dock Green, Dick Emery and Joan Sims, Hugh and I, It's a Square World, Juke Box Jury, The Marriage Lines, Kenneth McKellar, Nina and Frederick, Andy Stewart
9.25 FILM: Charlie Chaplin in The Gold Rush
10.35 The News
10.40 The Christmas Music from Messiah
11.35 Holy Night
11.40 Weather

I couldn't believe how different the schedules looked back in the 1960's and 1970's. People talk about how much worse the schedules have got over the years, but this schedule for Christmas Day is inferior compared the modern day BBC/ITV schedules.
Still, interesting to see how the schedules used to look like years ago.

That 1963 schedule isn't actually all that different from what Christmas Day TV used to be like in the mid-70s (I know, I was there!). In fact, you could argue that the only significant difference is the scheduling of the Queen's message!

When did the Queens speech move to 3pm - and did she do it live in the early days?

I'm surprised to see that there was so much continuous television. I was given the impression that in the 1960's you would had a limit on the hours broadcast on TV, so you would have a morning programme, then closedown till an afternoon programme, then another closedown, then programmes from 5PM onwards. Maybe the GPO was being nice as it was Christmas

I remember Christmas Day 1973 or 74 on BBC1 when you had a childrens programme in the morning then closedown, and more programmes later on.