Advent Calendar 2022 Day 9: Rainbow Christmas Party, 1975

Rainbow had a full week of festive preparation and execution in its first year, 1972 as previously featured on here, then didn't bother again until 1975, meaning this is Geoffrey and George's first Christmas in the house. They're spending it with Rod, Jane & Matthew, then into the first of their two series as resident singers, and they're collectively spending it productively with a multi-layered game of hide and seek, opening their presents a day late - Bungle got an actual crown! - some tricks by Ali Bongo and with the vocal trio having already recorded their Christmas song in a big white studio. Are those all their actual children? There's a lot of them.

LEFTOVERS: as well as that first one, we've previously visited the Hayes menagerie in 1979, where Bungle claimed to be the Angel Gabriel, and their 1987 pantomime, where we'd argue Panto Villain Bungle is just as scary as Original Bungle.