Advent Calendar 2021 Day 12: Noel's Christmas Presents, 1989

We yield to few in our admiration for the annual Live Live Christmas Breakfast Show/Christmas Morning With Noel, but one who didn't was Michael Leggo, who first brought it down from the Telecom Tower into a studio and then persuaded Edmonds to do away with the format entirely. Instead he came up with Noel's Christmas Presents, a simple but effective tearjerking idea to, as Radio Times put it, "give some very unusual presents to some very special people" that ran annually for all but one year until Noel's BBC exit in 1999, then from 2007 to 2011 on Sky. This first instalment is already sending Noel on his world travels - HMS Invincible, Disney World, the Moulin Rouge where he hijacks a couple's second honeymoon, outside a house in Peterborough with a pint of homebrew to hand - but the big ones saved to the end are based around planes that aren't moving and the very first is actually initially delivered by Philip Schofield dressed, loosely, as Postman Pat.