Advent Calendar 2023 Day 20: Basil's Christmas Cruise, 1980

Six years on from the last time we saw Basil's festive fantasia, Basil and forgotten final BBC sidekick (not counting the relaunch) Billy Boyle are on the maiden cruise of a luxury liner that thanks to a carelessly edited front page we can practically nail to the day, some time between 17th and 23rd February 1933. Being a 1930s tale there's a stolen diamond, a wrongly accused fox and in somewhat of a casting coup Michael Hordern in a number of roles, plus stage regular and TV comedy foil Dilys Watling, not to mention ragtime jazz just for the kids and a Legs & Co routine. A decade after the first this was the vulpine gagsmith's eighth and last Christmas special (again, ignore the reboot)