Home Advent Calendar 2017 Day 5: Russell Harty's Christmas Party, 1983

This is the third of Harty's four festive soirees, the others taking place either in a West End theatre or Giggleswick. This one took place in a residential home for the elderly in Woking. We're sure it made sense in context. Joined by regular sidekicks Susan Cuff and Mr A, a kind of first draft Mr Motivator, Russell attempts to get something out of the residents who were happy spending the evening ignoring Shakin' Stevens, who at one point gets assailed by a man on stilts, and Rod Hull. We're most interested in the Only Fools And Horses cast in a sketch written to order by John Sullivan (at 20:03), if only because it didn't turn up as a rarity being talked all over in that recent Gold series.