Advent Calendar 2022 Day 14: BBC1 Christmas Eve continuity and news, 1983

Sounds familiar, doesn't it? Well, if you have granular level knowledge of our previous Advent Calendars, which not even we have, but if you do (and don't have access to our notes or Blogger's search engine) you'll know we had some BBC1 continuity from Christmas Eve 1983 on day 20 in 1983, which we're not going to link to because it's been made private for some reason. We can however confirm that this one is all new to the Advent Calendar. Unfortunately we can also confirm that it's heavy on Little & Large, with both a specific trailer which genuinely appears to have no jokes at the end and a quickie gag in the menu at the start between "the irrepressible Mike Read" and the TV premiere of Flash Gordon, which feels far more an ITV kind of thing even if the Beeb had been showing the animated New Adventures Of Flash Gordon from earlier that year. In between Nicholas Witchell, five months after transferring from Ireland reporter to anchor, reports on new leads in the Harrods bombing eight days earlier at the head of a very of its time running order including industrial action, the Falklands, South Africa (Michael Buerk reporting) and Greenham Common, plus the unusual move of Brentford moving a league game to this date. Weirdly, Witchell calls it "Channel 1" in his rounding off. Maybe he still had a push-button set.