Advent Calendar 2019 Day 15: BBC1 and BBC2, 1986

A good exercise in compare and contrast here - first of all the trailers towards the end of Christmas Eve horribly mislead as to Eastenders' intentions (this was divorce papers year, remember) and show how little the dancing holly mixes with the national anthem; then a five minute preview of BBC2's festive season goes heavy on opera, ornithology and subtitled film and not so much on the Harty's Christmas Party BBC1 trailed and which we'd obviously love to see.

WHAT ELSE WAS ON?: flicking across the regions around Christmas 1986 we find continuity of note from Thames, Granada, Tyne Tees and closedown on Channel 4