Home Advent Calendar 2018 Day 1: Windmill, 1985

Let's start this December's perambulation around the centre and outskirts alike of old festive TV with a show that did much the same itself. Windmill was a Sunday morning treat where Chris Serle acted as welcoming host to a plundering of the Windmill Road BBC archive, a Trojan horse of telly nostalgia that led so many down the path we all now tread these days. John Craven is the guest, and even if the illustrative clip of him in a boat in Panama is not entirely festive it's followed in short order by a clip from a Swap Shop pantomime and All-Star Record Breakers. Plus, Serle sings!