Home Advent Calendar 2017 Day 8: Noel's Christmas Presents, 1995

A good example of the family tearjerker that lasted for more than a decade after the Queen's speech on BBC1, and incorporated within a handy invocation of the Victoriana that used to go hand in hand with popular Christmas imagery. The emotional crux ties in with the WWII anniversary, before which Noel and Chris Jarvis take kids to Lapland to meet Santa, as everyone does these days, and Noel lays territorial claim on behalf of the show to Antarctica. If you want more, the previous day Noel's Christmas Past looked back at the previous five years, the Hollies one that everybody remembers included.