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.
1969: Presented by Des O'Connor
Doctor in the House / Mr Digby Darling / Cribbins / Please Sir! / Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width / Jokers Wild / On the Buses / Father Dear Father / Two in Clover / The Dustbinmen / Coronation Street / Dear Mother...Love Albert / Mike Yarwood
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
After the enforced absence of their father, three children move with their mother to Yorkshire, where during their adventures they attempt to discover the reason for his disappearance.
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