Advent Calendar 2022 Day 13: Michael Bentine's Potty Time, 1973

Michael Bentine was famously an original Goon, but we almost only have his word to go on for that as only one of the 38 shows in which he appeared (and Down Among The Z Men, the 1951 film starring all four) still survives before he left to pursue solo projects, or much more likely fell out with Milligan. Although his most revered work was early 60s sketch show It's A Square World, which also incubated Dick Emery's characters, Potty Time is probably what he's best remembered for, the Pottys being hirsute puppets mostly re-enacting historical scenarios. In this festive episode it's revealed Santa has had to take on extra lookalikes to cope with the workload, taking Bentine to the secret North Pole processing centre where they've developed world-spanning computer present message networks and supersonic sleighs to back up the reindeer. Bear in mind Bentine is doing all the voices at the end singalong, having additionally channelled Leonard Sachs.