Advent Calendar 2021 Day 7: The Good Old Days, 1974

The tinselled terpsichoreanism, this Christian celebratory coterie, had two distinct unbroken runs of festive specials, from 1956 to 1967 and then again from 1971 to 1976, with two further dressing up occasions in 1983 and its final year 1983. In a show very light on actual Christmas content, we drop in on the City Varieties to the unexpected sight of Croydon's Edward Woodward, who'd just been in the Callan film, singing the Cockney songbook, from I'm Enery The Eighth I Am to Any Old Iron. As he himself put it almost exactly a year earlier, OH GOD! OH JESUS CHR... actually, to be fair he's giving it unashamed plenty, though that a whole host of Union Jacks come out for his closing number gives it a very different air. Also getting the full Leonard Sachs treatment are The King's Singers - and they've brought kazoos! - illusionist Brahma, revivalist regular and Candid Camera cast member Sheila Bernette in her best gingham, comedy strongman Ted Durante, Australian jazz singer Wilma Reading and acrobats The Orlandos.