Tis the season - TVC/WDYT?'s Advent adventures 2017

So it's coming quickly up to that time when we bring in the children's choir, dust down the crib, ready the large silver-coloured ship logo and present another year of YouTube-sourced Christmas programming and the festive bits in between. This year, starting as the calendar intended on this Friday, we're really going for it - we've gathered together so many "new" videos over the last year and a bit that we're going to have two rundowns this year, Home and Work Advent Calendars. The Work calendar door will be opened every morning at 9.30am revealing either a kids' TV clip or something shorter you can get away with watching during breaks; the Home calendar, a longform festive programme, is revealed at 5.30pm every day to luxuriate in of an evening.

But that's not all! Alongside those 48, or at least to avoid getting in their way on Twitter, half way between the two at 1pm we'll be illuminating lunchtimes and beyond with On This Day, a carry-over and extension from the @whydontyoutube account of five videos from telly broadcast on that date across the Cream Era, giving a fuller picture of this month in UK TV popular history. A real Christmas feast, a series of Christmas crackers, a Christmas selection box... whatever you want to call it, between December 1st and 24th TV Cream and Why Don't YouTube have gotta lotta fings on.


One more thing while we're here - much to our own amazement the vast majority of the 124 (plus multi-parts) videos posted here in previous years are still viewable (or at least replaceable) without being geoblocked or the uploader's account being struck out. However, at the time of our mid-November audit eight of them were gone with no sign of a like-for-like replacement. The two full All-Star Comedy Carnivals are likely lost for good as they're now out on DVD, but we wonder if anyone out there can help us locate the following (apart from the Granada one, which we've just found and replaced but are too lazy to edit the list now):