Advent Calendar 2022 Day 1: A Stocking Full Of Christmas Cliches

We're starting off our seventh - SEVENTH? Christ - festive collection of videos from all our telly pasts by going pleasingly self-referential, some might even say meta. On 21st December 1991 BBC2 exhibited A Classic Christmas, a marathon of festive programming starting with the Flowerpot Men at 12.10pm and ending in the early hours with The Big Sleep. In between were Dr Finlay's Casebook, the divorce papers Eastenders, the 1973 Christmas Top Of The Pops, a Queen's speech, It's A Wonderful Life, the 1974 Christmas Steptoe & Son, 1964 Christmas Night With The Stars, a festive edition of the fly on the wall documentary Strangeways, Jack Rosenthal's Evacuees, a Morecambe & Wise compilation, the first airing of a 1958 Hancock's Half Hour since original broadcast and the classic 1976 ghost story The Signalman. The one entirely new offering, as such, was A Stocking Full Of Christmas Cliches, a clip show of hits and oddities alike linked by, but of course, talking animals. Francis Wilson and the Three Bears did not take off.