Advent Calendar 2019 Day 6: A Christmas Runaround, 1979

This. *This* is a joy, of it very 1979 sorts. It starts with three minutes of bagpipes - kids' show, remember - before nobody but Mike Reid laughs at any of the jokes in his intro, one of which is related to his sitting next to a woman of colour, because he's still Mike Reid. He goes on to tell the child contestants they should visit Ireland in a way that suggests he's misjudged the target audience, brings on a vintage Bugatti that leaks coolant all over the studio floor and has to be pushed back out by the kids, shouts at some huskies to keep quiet at which they start making so much noise the interview with their handler has to be abandoned, and it seems the winner's prize is to sit on a horse. All this and Barbara Dickson too. Southern lost their broadcasting licence a year later.

THIS WAS GOOD, BUT I'D NOW LIKE TO SEE MUCH THE SAME THING EXCEPT WITH MORE POINTLESS PERIL: Gladly. A year later, Runaround On Ice. See Reid cling for his life onto a prop polar bear on an ice rink in Bournemouth! Wonder exactly when and why the Rolling Stones sponsored a bobsleigh! Experience the special guest right at the end give away that conditions may not be all that Arctic after all!