Advent Calendar 2020 Day 24: Channel 4, 1982

Last up on this year's Advent Calendar but first up on this pair from the fourth channel's first Christmas is a clip we've greatly enjoyed on our Twitter account but never thought to seal its place on here before. It's closedown on the 25th - not a great day, in truth, prime time being a one man telling of St Mark's Gospel, an Upstairs Downstairs repeat and the Olivier Richard III - and all Olga Hubicka has to do is preview the following day. You may notice she has a glass of wine to hand throughout and going by some of her link, especially her description of The Snowman and the film double bill's star, may have started on it early. Clock the jingle bells over Four Score too. The second video features some adverts from earlier in the day, including Freddie Laker's failed attempt to relaunch Skytrain just ten months after it had gone into receivership, plenty of exposure for the long lasting hair colouring tool Clairol Glints and one of five adverts ourselves and the mighty Neil Miles have found for Barrett's Liquor Mart and its... singular owner and frontman Freddie Barrett, who first became famous through years of radio advertising on LBC and for a short time tried to do the same on the pre-Equity agreement new network. Fat lot of good advertising your liquor wares on Christmas Day, of course, not only is the store shut but everyone will have got special booze in well before time. And that's your final reminder to do so too. Merry Christmas!