Work Advent Calendar 2017 Day 4: Southern, Christmas Day 1977

BBC1 may have had the programming - and no wonder they were enormously popular, Churchill or not that's not what families want to kick back to after a day of festivity, and it was nearly three hours long to boot - but ITV clearly had much the better trailer, in which loosely defined children eat literal mountains of jelly while Santa takes part in the Last Supper and then provides his own roof cleaning service. Unfortunately, much as we're aware it was an austere age, Bill Flynn's sparsely decorated continuity set and very deliberate phrasing doesn't resonate cheer. Nice tune, though, and good to see Vrillon's dire warnings a month earlier didn't put Southern off.