Advent Calendar 2023 Day 21: Blue Peter, 1990

You're going to have to work round this one, so go to 1:25 for the Newsround team in song, then skip an ancient cartoon that Andi Peters has to apologise for being in black and white to 10:09 where two lesser members of Beats International have glad tidings for all viewers followed by the thing we're all here for, the Yvette/John/Diane-Louise team pushed up to 3.25pm for a show that, as we've said before when we covered 1987, you can set your watch by, from opening viewer drawings to closing silver ship and crib. This year's appeal was a bring and buy for Romanian orphans, Fielding popping over there to see how the season is worshipped, while the make is John's Christmas dinner mats and napkin holders. But what about the song? A Christmas show slot that's been gradually slipped in over recent years, it entails Diane-Louise Jordan singing that festive classic You Can Do Magic. Nobody can surely have recovered from that in time for the death blow of John Leslie rapping. They've even brought prime entertainer Mark Curry back to help out, not for the last time either as a festive special returnee or in bringing Caron Keating back with him.