Advent Calendar 2022 Day 22: The Two Ronnies, 1984

The fourth of six Christmas Ronnie gatherings - you'd have thought there'd have been more, wouldn't you? -features much of what you'd expect insomuch as a Barker monologue (which as far as can be told features no actual jokes), a wordplay based crosstalk routine in a location, a big song and dance routine by "stereo Santas" and a chair monologue. Patrick Troughton is the judge in a courtroom that becomes a game show set and the long closing film is The Ballad of Snivelling And Grudge, starring Peter Wyngarde in a Gerald Wiley-penned medieval tale. For what might be the only time the final headlines are replaced by a warmly comforting and mostly straight seasonal song with Ronnie C "at" the piano. Also, "the lovely Elaine Paige".

LEFTOVERS: we've previously spanned the history of Ron and Ron at the time of year, from their fronting and being heavily featured in Christmas Night With The Stars 1972 and a year later their Old Fashioned Christmas Mystery to straight up specials in 1982 and their final get-together, the epic 1987