A heartwarming tale of an English minister and his family reunited at Christmas time. Their story includes a remembrance of their World War II trials. / An English country vicar hosts his estranged adult children for Christmas.
As the Garnetts celebrate Christmas Alf berates Rita and Mike for only giving him 'Whiffs' as opposed to real cigars and second-rate socks whilst they have bought Else a dress and accuses his atheist son of hypocrisy. Rita cannot recall his gift of a doll's house when she was little - though that was because Alf fell downstairs and broke it whilst he was drunk. When the carollers call Alf is ready for then with a vase of dirty water but has to drink it when he sees the vicar heading the singers.
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.
It's Christmas Eve and Alf still has no present for Else. The black man selling cheap British watches looks like being a life saver but maybe Alf should have held back on the racist insults before buying. On Christmas Day Alf propounds his view that Jesus was English, which the others dispute. However, a meeting in the pub with the cast of 'Jesus Christ Superstar' seems to support Alf's theory.
Rita has come to stay but announces her intention to go back home on Christmas Eve. In order to persuade her to stay and help him look after Else, Alf falls off a ladder and claims to have injured his leg. However, whilst Rita does stay, the knees up at the Christmas Day party goes so well that Alf's enthusiastic participation soon exposes his supposedly bad leg as nothing more than a ruse.
Mary MacLeod
/ Mary Ball / Salvationist / Vicar's Wife Michael Bangerter
/ William / Interrogator / Assistant / Released Prisoner Wallas Eaton
/ John Stone (Coffee Factory) / Col. Steiger / Prison Warder / Meths Drinker / Film Executive Warren Clarke
/ Master of Ceremonies (Nightspot) / Warner / Male Nurse Bill Owen
/ Supt. Barlow / Insp. Carding Michael Medwin
/ Army Captain / Power station Technician / Duke of Belminster Vivian Pickles
/ Good Lady Geoffrey Palmer
/ Examination Doctor / Basil Keyes Geoffrey Chater
/ Bishop / Vicar Anthony Nicholls
/ General / Judge Brian Glover
/ Plantation Foreman / Bassett (Power Station Guard) Edward Judd
/ Oswald Pearl Nunez
/ Mrs. Naidu Jeremy Bulloch
/ Young Man / Sportscar Driver / Sandwichboard Man David Daker
/ Policeman at Accident / Man at Stag Party / Munda's Manservant / Policeman at Tenement Edward Peel
/ Policeman at Accident / Power Station Guard / Policeman in Court Alan Price
/ Alan Price
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