Program Preview

For the week starting Thursday, Dec. 20. Times are E.S.T., subject to change.

TELEVISION

White House Christmas (Thurs. 5:15 p.m., ABC). The President lights the tree.

Playhouse 90 (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., CBS). Nanette Fabray and Lew Ayres in The Family Nobody Wanted.

Lux Video Theater (Thurs. 10 p.m., NBC). Hollywood's Holiday Revue.

The Saturday Spectacular (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC). Sonja Henie in Holiday on Ice.

The Alcoa Hour (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). The Stingiest Man in Town, new musical version of Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

The Boing Boing Show (Sun. 5:30 p.m., CBS). UPA cartoons, including The Twelve Days of Christmas and Ludwig Bemelmans' Madeline (color).

Omnibus (Sun. 9 p.m., ABC). The Star of Bethlehem, explained astronomically by the Hayden Planetarium.

Robert Montgomery Presents (Mon. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Menotti's Christmas opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors.

RADIO

Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Tales of Hoffmann with Richard Tucker.

Christmas Sing with Bing (Mon. 9p.m., CBS). Second annual hourlong show with Bing Crosby and choral groups.

The Messiah (Mon. 10:05 p.m., ABC). Handel's oratorio, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Narrator Ronald Colman.

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