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
The village is preparing for Christmas. Marina wants Norman to smuggle a present to Howard. Seymour wants to rent Compo out as a roof top Father Christmas.
Year: Release Date: Rating: Video Type:
1986
12/28/1986
TV-PG
TV Series Episode 36 minutes
A
Compo is going to give a show in the church hall with his "performing" ferrets. Seymour and Norman take Compo last minute Christmas shopping for a present for Nora Batty. Howard attempts to give Marina a present without Pearl finding out.
Year: Release Date: Rating: Video Type:
1989
12/23/1989
TV-PG
TV Series Episode 50 minutes
A
Foggy goes out of his way to inform everyone that he now has a pager. Barry is discovered, hungover, under a table at a pub, dressed as Father Christmas. Glenda is frantic that Barry is missing and snide comments from the lady's morning coffee group is not helping calm her fears.
Year: Release Date: Rating: Video Type:
1990
12/27/1990
TV-PG
TV Series Episode 29 minutes
A
A depressed Howard tries to build himself up but, under Foggy's instruction, ends up breaking his leg. Auntie Wainwright has Smiler testing a Triumph Motorcycle, after she rents him the riding gear. Foggy intends to sneak Marina past Pearl and into Norman's house so that Howard can come over to see her. Meanwhile, the ladies morning coffee group plan to give Howard a surprise visit that same evening to cheer him up during his recovery.
Year: Release Date: Rating: Video Type:
1995
12/24/1995
TV-PG
TV Series Episode 58 minutes
A
Seymour, Compo and Norman dressed as Father Christmas go door to door collecting for church charity, but no one is interested. A fourth Father Christmas is acting suspiciously and runs away when ever seen by the trio. Edie is scandalized that Glenda wants a water bed. Auntie Wainwright is terrified that her shop is going to be burgled Christmas eve.
Year: Release Date: Rating: Video Type:
1988
12/24/1988
TV-PG
TV Series Episode 60 minutes
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