Advent Calendar 2020 Day 4: Max Headroom's Giant Christmas Turkey

Something that feels odd about Mat Frewer's latex alter ego is that he had series running pretty much concurrently on both sides of the Atlantic that were completely different, Channel 4's surrealist chat and music show ending three weeks before (in fact only three months after this 1986 show) ABC's dystopian satirical sci-fi based on the original 20 Minutes Into The Future film began. Can't help feeling we got the best end of that deal given we get to hear Max's smooth croon - all the original songs were produced by Keith Strachan, who had an actual Christmas hit when co-writing Mistletoe And Wine two years later and later wrote the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? theme - as Robin Williams and Tina Turner exchange festive pleasantries, Dave Edmunds does his throwback rock'n'roll thing and the whole show climaxes with Max unveiling his Bob Geldof-penned big festive ballad Merry Christmas Santa Claus (You're A Lovely Guy). Yeah, we think he's better than Gary Crowley, frickin' liberal.