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
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.
Arnold Ridley
/ Private Godfrey - Dad's Army segment Ian Lavender
/ Private Pike - Dad's Army segment Bill Pertwee
/ Chief Warden Hodges - Dad's Army segment Peter Greene
/ Radio Engineer - Dad's Army segment Michael Knowles
/ Radio Producer - Dad's Army segment (voice) Mike Yarwood
/ Various - Look, Mike Yarwood! segment Adrienne Posta
/ Actress - Look, Mike Yarwood! segment Polly James
/ Beryl Hennessy - The Liver Birds segment Nerys Hughes
/ Sandra Hutchinson - The Liver Birds segment Mollie Sugden
/ Mrs. Hutchinson - The Liver Birds segment Sheila Fay
/ Mrs. Hennessy - The Liver Birds segment Nosher Powell
/ Milkman - The Liver Birds segment Sally James
/ Shop Assistant - The Liver Birds segment Tim Brooke-Taylor
/ Tim Brooke-Taylor - The Goodies segment Graeme Garden
/ Graeme Garden - The Goodies segment Bill Oddie
/ Bill Oddie - The Goodies segment Denise Distel
/ Fairy - The Goodies segment Paul Ellison
/ Urchin - The Goodies segment Alyn Ainsworth
/ Self - and his Orchestra The Breakaways
/ Themselves - Vocal Backing
