Advent Calendar 2020 Day 11: The Big Breakfast, 1993

Horrible background hissing on some of this, such is the risk with old VHSes, but a little moment of the development of entertainment television being captured here in Chris and Gaby's second and last seasonal morning cheer. It doesn't appear to be pre-recorded either, which feels rare for the show at this time of year, and the news every twenty minutes feels not only like too much breaking up the flow but far too much for the date. Simon Bates is on the bed, the biggest cracker in the country is in the kitchen, Zig's touching Christmas song and exciting new game are in the bathroom, and Keith Chegwin is in the middle of a housing estate in Birmingham. Obviously it ends with everyone plus a brass band in the garden. Also, somewhat incredibly as it's not the ITV overnight service, an outing for the Young At Heart compilation advert. Sounds Direct would never get that to you by the following day!