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.
Ada tricks her son-in-law Leslie into thinking he has cheated on her daughter Rita, after a boozy night out, so Rita can take advantage of Leslie's guilt.
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.
1972: Presented by Jimmy Tarbuck
Love Thy Neighbour / On The Buses / Christmas With Wogan / Nearest and Dearest / Thirty Minutes Worth / Sez Les / The Fenn Street Gang / Father Dear Father
Year: Release Date: Rating: Video Type:
1972
12/25/1972
Approved
TV Special
A
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Christmas Elements:
Cast:
Jimmy Tarbuck
/ Self - Host Moira Anderson
/ Self - Performer Anne Aston
/ Self (segment "Christmas With Wogan") Nina Baden-Semper
/ Barbie Reynolds (segment "Love Thy Neighbour") Hylda Baker
/ Nellie Pledge (segment "Nearest and Dearest") David Barry
/ Frankie Abbott (segment "The Fenn Street Gang") Lynda Bellingham
/ Nurse Hilda Price (segment "Christmas With Wogan") Lionel Blair
/ ATV Commissionaire (segment "Christmas With Wogan") Judy Buxton
/ Student Nurse Katy Shaw (segment "Christmas With Wogan") Patrick Cargill
/ Patrick Glover (segment "Father, Dear Father")
Jeremy Child
/ Timothy Tanner (segment "Father, Dear Father") Peter Cleall
/ Eric Duffy (segment "The Fenn Street Gang") The Coffee Set
/ Themselves - Performers (segment "Sez Les") Leslie Crowther
/ Clive Gibbons (segment "Christmas With Wogan") Les Dawson
/ Self (segment "Sez Les") Peter Denyer
/ Dennis Dunstable (segment "The Fenn Street Gang") Jo-Jo the Dog
/ H.G. Wells Noel Dyson
/ Nanny (segment "Father, Dear Father") Liz Gebhardt
/ Maureen Bullock (segment "The Fenn Street Gang") Ann George
/ Amy Turtle (segment "Christmas With Wogan") Tommy Godfrey
/ Arthur (segment "Love Thy Neighbour") Noele Gordon
/ Meg Richardson (segment "Christmas With Wogan") Bob Grant
/ Jack Harper (segment "On the Buses") Larry Grayson
/ Self (segment "Christmas With Wogan") Doris Hare
/ Mum (segment "On the Buses") Carol Hawkins
/ Sharon Eversleigh (segment "The Fenn Street Gang") Madge Hindle
/ Lily Tattersall (segment "Nearest and Dearest") Ann Holloway
/ Karen Glover (segment "Father, Dear Father") Rod Hull
/ Self Tony Jacklin
/ Self - Performer Jimmy Jewel
/ Eli Pledge (segment "Nearest and Dearest") Anna Karen
/ Olive Rudge (segment "On the Buses") Penny Lane
/ Self - Performer (segment "Christmas With Wogan") Stephen Lewis
/ Inspector Cyril 'Blakey' Blake (segment "On the Buses") Hugh Lloyd
/ Reg Robinson (Mr. Mole) (segment "Christmas With Wogan") Edward Malin
/ Walter Tattersall (segment "Nearest and Dearest") Keith Marsh
/ Jacko (segment "Love Thy Neighbour") Larry Martyn
/ Joe (segment "On the Buses") Malcolm McFee
/ Peter Craven (segment "The Fenn Street Gang") William Mervyn
/ Lord Charles (segment "Thirty Minutes Worth") Peggy Mount
/ Maggie Robinson (Lollipop) (segment "Christmas With Wogan") David Nixon
/ Self Natasha Pyne
/ Anna Tanner (segment "Father, Dear Father") Jack Smethurst
/ Eddie Booth (segment "Love Thy Neighbour") Sylvia Syms
/ Sylvia Gibbons (segment "Christmas With Wogan") Bob Todd
/ Milkman Rudolph Walker
/ Bill Reynolds (segment "Love Thy Neighbour") The Wandsworth School Choir
/ Themselves Mona Washbourne
/ Lady Sybil (segment "Thirty Minutes Worth") Carl Wayne
/ Self - Performer (segment "Christmas With Wogan") Kate Williams
/ Joan Booth (segment "Love Thy Neighbour") Terry Wogan
/ Self (segment "Christmas With Wogan") Harry Worth
/ William the Butler (segment "Thirty Minutes Worth")
Following a lonely Christmas spent with only Vienna as company, Rigsby is visited by the milkman, Fred, wanting his money, and post woman Gwen, who delivers a card - sent by himself - but declines to kiss him under the mistletoe. Alan and Brenda return from spending Christmas with his parents and both, separately, give him bath salts as a present. Philip comes back with a girl-friend Lucy, assuming they would be alone in the house. He tells Rigsby he has a present for him in his room and Rigsby wrongly believes this is Lucy. As she is black he imagines she has just arrived from Africa - rather than Northampton - and tries to teach her the British custom of kissing under the mistletoe. However Philip comes in to do that and gives Rigsby his actual present, a bottle of wine so strong it takes his power of speech away. Gwen and Fred return - she is now prepared to kiss Rigsby under the mistletoe but Fred gets in first!
Year: Release Date: Rating: Video Type:
1975
12/21/1975
TV-PG
TV Series Episode 22 minutes
B
