All Star Comedy Carnival was an annual Christmas-special produced by ITV, containing new mini-episodes of popular British sitcoms and light entertainment programmes with some musical interludes. This was broadcast annually on 25 December on ITV, from 1969 to 1973. All Star Comedy Carnvial was a direct competitor to the BBC's Christmas Night with the Stars. All had short five-minute sketches devised and produced for transmission within the festive period, written by the original writers of each comedy series.
1970: Presented by Max Bygraves. This edition was recorded and transmitted in black-and-white due to the ITV Colour Strike.
Girls About Town / The Worker / The Des O'Connor Show / Coronation Street / The Lovers / Hark at Barker / Doctor in the House / Jokers Wild / Dear Mother...Love Albert / Albert and Victoria / For the Love of Ada / Cribbins / Father Dear Father
