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
Having had an extremely boring and non-eventful Christmas Day, George and Mildred spend next day with the Fourmiles where George and Jeffrey become addicted to Tristram's present, a video game, which sees George losing money. Ethel and Humphrey arrive for an exchange of presents but George and Mildred don't have any presents for them.
Year: Release Date: Rating: Video Type:
1978
12/27/1978
Approved
TV Series Episode 25 minutes
A
Jeffrey is directing the neighbourhood's Christmas pantomime - 'Cinderella' - and Mildred is only too happy to be playing one of the Ugly Sisters. Unfortunately on the opening night she loses her voice and is unable to go on stage so,inevitably, George is called upon to replace her.
Year: Release Date: Rating: Video Type:
1977
12/26/1977
Approved
TV Series Episode 24 minutes
B
Jeffrey gets an invite to the Young Conservatives' Dinner Dance but Ann will be away so she persuades him to take Mildred instead. A jealous George chats up widowed barmaid Beryl, telling her he is single and arranging to meet with her on the night of the dance whilst he is alone in the house. However Mildred feels out of her depth and returns home early,forcing George to tell Beryl the truth. The Ropers go to bed and,whilst Mildred declares that she loves George for all his faults, his response is less assured - he calls her Beryl.
Year: Release Date: Rating: Video Type:
1979
12/25/1979
Approved
TV Series Episode 25 minutes
C
