A television show broadcast each Christmas night by the BBC from 1958 to 1972 (with the exception of 1961, 1965 and 1966), and returning in 1994 and 2003. The show was hosted each year by a leading star of BBC TV and featured specially made short seasonal editions (typically about 10 minutes long) of the previous year's most successful BBC sitcoms and light entertainment programs.
Kathie Kay
/ Singer - The Billy Cotton Band Show segment Alan Breeze
/ Singer - The Billy Cotton Band Show segment Ralph Reader
/ Self - The London Boy Scout Gang Show segment Dick Emery
/ Various Glen Mason
/ Interviewer - Dick Emery segment Benny Hill
/ Willie Tredder / Geography Teacher / Youth Leader / Willie's Mother / Probation Officer / Work Foreman Alex MacIntosh
/ Narrator - Benny Hill segment Terry Scott
/ Terry - Hugh and I segment Hugh Lloyd
/ Hugh - Hugh and I segment Patricia Hayes
/ Mrs. Wormold - Hugh and I segment Charles Dyer
/ Actor - Hugh and I segment Jack Haig
/ Arthur Wormold - Hugh and I segment Vi Stevens
/ Mrs. Scott - Hugh and I segment Mollie Sugden
/ Mrs. Crispin - Hugh and I segment Jill Curzon
/ Norma Crispin - Hugh and I segment Maurice Podbrey
/ Vicar - Hugh and I segment Kathy Kirby
/ Self James Bolam
/ Terry Collier - The Likely Lads segment Rodney Bewes
/ Bob Ferris - The Likely Lads segment Sheila Fearn
/ Audrey Collier - The Likely Lads segment Richard Briers
/ George Starling - The Marriage Lines segment Prunella Scales
/ Kate Starling - The Marriage Lines segment Denzil Ellis
/ Actor - Marriage Lines segment Thora Hird
/ Thora Blacklock - Meet the Wife segment Freddie Frinton
/ Freddie Blacklock - Meet the Wife segment Darryl Read
/ Actor - Meet the Wife segment Andy Stewart
/ Self Ian Powrie
/ Self - and his Band with Andy Stewart The Barron Knights
/ Themselves - Top of the Pops segment
At Miss Sophie's 90th birthday dinner, her butler James must fill in for her four departed friends - and that includes lots of drinks before every course!.
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