Ho-ho-holy snowballs, is it that time already? Yes, with the cheese and scotch advent calendars already suspiciously demolished, it's open house and time for the Peggy Mount Calamity Hour Christmas Special! Crackers will be pulled, bottles will be emptied, and two entertainment gems from the past will be lovingly dissected...
Professor Lionel Ziggy Zucho pops round for the first grinding of the festive conveyor belt with 1984's The Box Of Delights, which evoked days long gone even upon its first broadcast. Then that sepia glow is retained for a visit from Ozzy Bognops and a huddle round the radiogram for The Christmas Jottings Of Hinge and Bracket, bringing with them as they do a very special guest star.
Will young Kay Harker ever be magicked to a land where working-class people exist? Will footage ever be recovered of Patrick Moore and Deryck Guyler percussioning in the middle of an ice rink in a provincial leisure centre? And will Turkish Delight Vodka curdle the buttered-eggs?
Sift through that discarded wrapping paper for the hastily-ignored instruction leaflet on how to press the Play button, and find out...
WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING:
Programme: The Box Of Delights
Broadcast: Wednesday 21 November 1984, 17:00
Production/Channel: BBC One, Children's BBC
Writer: John Masefield, Alan Seymour
Music: Roger Limb
Producer/Director: Paul Stone / Renny Rye
Starring: Devin Stanfield, Patrick Troughton, Robert Stephens, John Horsley, Carol Frazer, Geoffrey Larder, Jonathan Stephens, Bill Wallis, Crispin Mair, Joanna Dukes, Heidi Burton, Flora Page, Len Edwards, Glyn Baker, Anne Dyson
Programme: The Christmas Jottings of Hinge and Bracket
Broadcast: Wednesday 24 December 1986, 22:00
Production/Channel: BBC, BBC Radio 2
Writer: Gerald Frow
Music: Gordon Langford
Producer: John Fawcett Wilson
Starring: Patrick Fyffe, George Logan, Peggy Mount, Deryck Guyler, Chris Emmet, Frances Jeater, Jean Hayward, John Carlin
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