Friday 30 November 2018

Festive road - WDYT? at Christmas 2018

Twenty. Five. Years. Ago.



Back on 1st December 2015 that was the first video on 100 Clips Of Christmas, the feature that kicked off our blogging Advent adventures. This year from tomorrow right up to at least Christmas Eve we're making our usual contribution to the spirit of generosity to which even the meanest heart falls victim. To be accurate we're having festive countdown adventures in quadruplicate, if that's a word (and it's not coming up as underlined in the Blogger editor so it must be):

- Work Advent Calendar: 24 days of continuity, previews, trailers and suchlike for short viewing during hours when you're supposed to be earning corn instead

- Home Advent Calendar: full length festive specials, from the great to the Laughter Show

- TV Cream Advent Calendar: we've popped next door for a daily revised version of last year's On This Day posts...

- On This Day II: ...and then we've found a few more covering most of the days over the period, plus a second look at New Year's Eve and our usual thirty years ago Christmas Day round-up


Just one more thing before we forget - our annual audit of the 172 videos posted to this blog previously has found far more than we expected that are still there (or replaceable), but such is YouTube that a lot aren't, and as of mid-November these are the clips missing that we'd like help finding and re-uploading if at all possible (as long as they don't contravene released material, of course, we know at least three of these are out on DVD):

100 Clips Of Christmas

No. 42 Kenny Everett's Christmas Carol
45 All Star Comedy Carnival 1972
51 Tyne Tees continuity, Christmas Day 1989
57 On Safari, 1982
58 Runaround On Ice
62 Larry Hagman and Linda Gray on Wogan, Christmas Eve 1986
74 All Star Comedy Carnival 1973
90 Channel 4 startup with Tom Noddy, 27th December 1982

2016 Advent Calendar

Day 1 Gone Live! 1990

2017 Home Advent Calendar

Day 12 The Kenny Everett Christmas Show, 1984
Day 17 Tomorrow's World Christmas Special, 1975