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
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 Likely Lads: A Special Christmas Edition (1974) S3.E0
Terry has passed his driving test and is working as a mini-cab driver. It's Christmas and Bob and Thelma are off to a dance and have Terry as their cab driver. However Bob and Thelma row when he meets up with an old girl-friend. She asks Terry to drive her home, unaware that Bob & his ex are hiding in the back. The ex forces Bob to drive her home, leading Terry to believe somebody has stolen his car.
