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.
In this third seasonal helping of festive Carry On fun, set at an eighteenth-century banquet, the team's sketches include a pantomime performance of Aladdin, a rip-roaring Elizabethan sing-song, and biblical goings-on in the Garden of Eden.
Hattie Jacques
/ Fiona Clodhopper / Miss Harriet / Miss Molly Coddles / Fairy Godmother Joan Sims
/ Lady Rhoda Cockhorse / Miss Esmerelda / Princess Yo-Yo / Clodhopper's Mother-in-Law Barbara Windsor
/ Milk Maiden / Eve / Maid / Miss Clodhopper / Aladdin Kenneth Connor
/ Club Chairman / Lt. Bangham / Insp. Knocker / General Clodhopper / Hanky Poo Peter Butterworth
/ Captain Alistair Dripping / Sir Francis Fiddler / Admiral Rene/ Widow Holeinone Norman Rossington
/ Valet / Tardy Diner / Genie of the Lamp Jack Douglas
/ Mr. Firkin / Adam / Ringworm the Butler / Charles Burke / Demon King Brian Oulton
/ Oriental Orator Valerie Leon
/ Serving Wench Billy Cornelius
/ Waiter
In this fourth and final annual Christmas TV special, Sid is a working as saucy Santa in a department store grotto. He reflects on how Christmas has been celebrated though the ages, aided by sketches from the team set in prehistoric, Georgian, World War 1 and Robin Hood times - not to mention a dance routine that's a real nutcracker.
Sidney James
/ Santa (Mr Belcher) Sidney James
/ Seed Pod / Sir Henry Sidney James
/ Sgt Ball / Robin Hood Joan Sims
/ Virginia's Mother / Senna Pod / Bishop's Wife / Adelle / 6th Ballerina Joan Sims
/ Salvation Army Collector / Maid Marion / Traffic Warden Barbara Windsor
/ Virginia / Crompet / Fanny / Fifi / 1st Ballerina / Lady Frances Kenneth Connor
/ Mr. Sibley / Anthro Pod / Bishop / Pvt Parkin / 2nd Ballerina / Will Scarlet Bernard Bresslaw
/ Bodkin Pod / Boll / 1st Dart Player / Capt Ffing-Burke / 5th Ballerina / Little John / Policeman Jack Douglas
/ 2nd Singing Caveman / Crapper / 2nd German / 4th Ballerina/ Alan A'Dale Peter Butterworth
/ 1st Singing Caveman / Guest / 2nd Dart player / 1st German/ 3rd Ballerina / Friar Tuck
Jack Douglas
/ Various Characters (archive footage) Sally Geeson
/ Various Characters (archive footage) Anita Harris
/ Nurse Clarke (archive footage) Carol Hawkins
/ Various Characters (archive footage) Charles Hawtrey
/ Various Characters (archive footage) Sherrie Hewson
/ Carol (archive footage) Julian Holloway
/ Various Characters (archive footage) Frankie Howerd
/ Various Characters (archive footage) Hattie Jacques
/ Various Characters (archive footage) Sidney James
/ Various Characters (archive footage) Valerie Leon
/ Various Characters (archive footage) Julian Orchard
/ Various Characters (archive footage) Patsy Rowlands
/ Various Characters (archive footage) Terry Scott
/ Various Characters (archive footage) Joan Sims
/ Various Characters (archive footage)
Christmas episode of the game show, where three couples compete in a missing word game, with the winning couple going on to solve riddles left by guest performers to win prizes and avoid Dusty Bin's booby prize.
