Advent Calendar 2019 Day 13: Family Fortunes, 1989

You'd think this of all shows would extend the 'family' remit to pantomimes every year but as far as can be told they only did it twice, here and the following year, though it was surely only ever going to happen comfortably with Les Dennis at the heln. Les as Buttons hosts Peter Howitt, Lisa Maxwell, Bella Emberg, Jim Bowen and John Inman against Christopher Biggins, Paul Shane, Jessica Martin, Windsor Davies and Cheryl Baker, with Frank Bruno as a surrogate genie, all carefully annotated in the credits with where they're appearing in panto so as not to wear out the continuity announcer. One of the Big Money round questions is "name part of a turkey", which would have confused the hell out of Bob Johnson.

OUR SURVEY SAYS: this is the Advent Calendar's first Family Fortunes but not its first encounter with Les Dennis