Home Advent Calendar 2018 Day 13: The Likely Lads, 1974

Sleigh bells drowning out the theme! Ah, those were the days. There's some subsequent confusion about whether this went out under the Whatever Happened To...? title as that was obviously what the series that ended earlier in 1974 was called, but both the title sequence and Radio Times bill it under the shortened form, so Likely Lads it is. Bob, with a beard, and Thelma go to a fancy dress party, and Terry passes his driving test. This was the final episode, though Bolam and Bewes would take time away from badly falling out to make radio and film versions. Footnote: Bob makes a joke about watching The Great Escape on TV again when it had only debuted on BBC1 three years earlier and wouldn't next appear in the days around Christmas until 28th December 1983, which is also the earliest press reference we can find to it being on every Christmas (after that was Boxing Day 1985, Boxing Day 1987, 27th December 2003 and 23rd December 2007)