#45: All Star Comedy Carnival 1972

Jimmy Tarbuck dons his best mustard-coloured jacket and invites the viewers into his TV studio soundstage house for ITV's portmanteau centrepiece. Alongside the jokes about Sir Gerald Nabarro and duet with a moustachioed Tony Jacklin comes special episodes of Love Thy Neighbour, Nearest And Dearest with the cast dressed as children to an alarming audience reaction, Father Dear Father, Thirty Minutes Worth, On the Buses recorded on handheld film as if it’s The Thick Of It or something and The Fenn Street Gang. The absolute highlight, though is surely the festive version of Lunchtime With Wogan, in which Terry’s "thrilled skinny" to act as straight man in an extended and involved routine variously involving Noele Gordon, Lynda Bellingham, Leslie Crowther in a yellow stetson, Peggy Mount, Sylvia Sims, Hugh Lloyd, Larry Grayson and Anne Aston. Also happening by: the Syd Lawrence Orchestra, Rod Hull and Emu, Moira Anderson, The Wandsworth School Choir, David Nixon, Les Dawson, and a climactic chorus of White Christmas during which Tarby passes out drinks for the house.