Home Advent Calendar 2017 Day 6: Roland's Yuletide Binge & Roland Rat - The Series Christmas Special

We posted in On This Day earlier today about the end of Roland Rat: The Series, but going on scheduling alone it does seem his stature deflated fairly quickly after his high-profile 1985 leap to the BBC. In the week before this first show he was targeting all markets with appearances on Breakfast Time, Blue Peter and Blankety Blank, reflecting how much he'd crossed over from being promoted as the spearhead of TV-am's revival. And then the Beeb stuck Yuletide Binge on at 11.30am and added a childrens' audience and singers. Then in 1986, after the aforementioned prime-time series, it was put on at 8.45am! Iggy Pop was thought an appropriate musical guest for the latter regardless of the time and audience, though David Claridge would get Pere Ubu booked for Roland's Rat Race and Iggy had infamously previously popped in on No.73. That Jeannette Charles appears in both shows however feels just right. Does James Saxon as D'Arcy DeFarcy look remarkably like Horrible Histories etc's Jim Howick to anyone else?