Home Advent Calendar 2018 Day 17: Telly Addicts, 1985

They say a person can be aged by which Telly Addicts Christmas special was their first. OK, maybe not, but just as the start of a new series was a better guide than any equinox for judging when autumn truly started, so the end of season celebrity edition was for many years the show that held the last stages of TV's countdown to Christmas together. Joined in progress, this was after the end of the first series in which inaugural champions the Pains faced - do you see? - the Aches, comprising Michael Grade (making the first of three appearances on the end of year bonanza), Nina Myskow, Barry Took and Larry Grayson. And yes, there's some film of Noel when he looked slightly different.