Home Advent Calendar 2018 Day 20: Russ Abbot's Madhouse, 1984

Still in its ITV 'teddy boys are inherently amusing' phase with the Dennis/Gee/Emberg/Holland/Blake/Hewson team, who at one point all turn into Abbot's dancers. Alyn Ainsworth must have been working union hours. Cooperman and Basildon Bond both turn up, Dustin Gee blacks up twice (and, notably, nobody else), and because it's 1984 Abbot ends with a rendition of Atmosphere, far from the only time he sings straight during the show. He must have fancied his chances of a second career.