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Sally Lindsay's Quiz Night - Season 1 Episode 2 -
Christmas Quiz Night
Christmas Quiz Night
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00:00:00Christmas!
00:00:15Welcome to my Christmas quiz night and to everyone who left their outdoor lights up from last year.
00:00:21Well done. Your entire street has slagged you off for 11 months, but finally you showed them.
00:00:27My wonderful guests will be wrapping presents, watching some Christmas telly and blaming each other if someone on their team gets the question wrong.
00:00:36Just like a typical Christmas in their own houses.
00:00:39You can play along at home too, so pour yourself a tea, Maria.
00:00:42Take the cling film off your vollevents and let's get started.
00:00:46With comedian and author Shafi Kosandi, we have Fairy Godmother and Birds of a Feather star,
00:00:55Leslie Joseph, and her ugly sister, Dame Christopher Biggins.
00:00:59And with actor and comedian John Thompson, we have the lovely Debbie McGee,
00:01:07and the equally lovely comedian Stephen Bailey.
00:01:16Christopher, you've never had a Christmas at home, have you, when you've not even been in Panto?
00:01:21No, I'm always doing Panto, but I did do Christmas one year at my house and we had, I think, 14 people over.
00:01:28Who?
00:01:29And we managed to cook, and we had tables all joined together,
00:01:31and a great friend of mine, his mum sat opposite me, and she wanted to go to the Luit one particular point,
00:01:36and she got up, and she was wearing a lovely paper hat, and she put her head forward,
00:01:40and hit a candle, and the whole of her head went up in flames.
00:01:43Ha, ha, ha.
00:01:44La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
00:01:47Now, Leslie, what's going on here, love?
00:01:49Biggins, actually, you and me.
00:01:50That's when we were, we were...
00:01:52We were doing Tipping Points, do you remember?
00:01:54Do you remember I do you've got a Christmas tradition don't you know I have I have I have I love doing my own
00:02:00Christmas cards, and I've been doing it for about 25 years
00:02:04So every year I find a picture that it might be me on a camel
00:02:08It might be me outside number 10 it might be me with I've did one with my head upside down in a in a bucket
00:02:16I've just everything now
00:02:19Just a quiet night at home with a few friends
00:02:24Chappie what are your Christmas memories well my mum and dad aren't
00:02:29Originally from this country, and they did not understand Christmas trees my mum decorated a and yucca plant
00:02:39You want to bring a tree in from the garden I said no you know you go to the garden center
00:02:44And you get a tree and then I was telling her about Santa
00:02:46She's like what a man's coming down the chimney and leaving you present
00:02:49It's a bit mad when you think about it is a bit mad so now that I'm an adult because there was a bit of a deficit of a traditional Christmas
00:02:56I go to town
00:02:58Right, so this is what I mean. This is our Christmases at my mom
00:03:01And dad would make an effort by taking us to a friend's house
00:03:04But nothing much would be going on and I would just sit there a bored 15 year old
00:03:09Um because I spent most of Christmas day just reading on my own really bored with no pressure literally your Christmas day
00:03:15Literally, I was there all day. No Santa nothing
00:03:18John, here's you
00:03:20Oh
00:03:25So what did the Thompsons get up to at Christmas we'd get together we're very small family
00:03:29But I used to look boxing there weren't some bananas and it was always the same bingo right beetle drive and
00:03:35Indoor fireworks that was brilliant love the 80s. Yeah, yeah, Debbie who do you have round at your house at Christmas?
00:03:42Well, it's always a big family affairs like Christmas morning. We have a big tradition. Oh, what's that whiskey porridge?
00:03:49Anyone have whiskey porridge?
00:03:51Why have I never done that?
00:03:53Years ago, what happens? Well years ago Paul and I were staying in the Lake District
00:03:57And it was at one of those hotels that you had to eat what they gave you there wasn't a choice
00:04:00And breakfast was whiskey porridge and we said right we're gonna steal that for Christmas morning
00:04:06I think we'll be doing that
00:04:08Even my darling you're named after my favorite part of Christmas Bailey's
00:04:12Any festive traditions in your family?
00:04:14Um yes when we were kids my cousin always made us dress up as elves with like a bin bag and we had to go around and give out the presents
00:04:21Oh there he is! Look! That is so cute!
00:04:24I just love that we've gone to that much effort but then with a sack we've just gone get a bag
00:04:28Do you know what we've done the costumes we'll just do a bin bag
00:04:30Yeah, yeah, yeah
00:04:32Anyway, enough of that this is supposed to be a quiz so I'm about to give you some questions and I would like to receive some correct answers
00:04:40Shappi, your team's first
00:04:42In an old style box of quality streets which one is the blue one?
00:04:47Purple! Oh, um, coconut!
00:04:49Which one is the blue one?
00:04:51Oh!
00:04:52As I'm dressed as a quality street I can confidently say coconut
00:04:56Shappi, well done!
00:04:57Thank you! What have you done, you?
00:04:59Now I sweep!
00:05:00The coconut one, a.k.a. the one that goes straight in the bin!
00:05:04Now, John's team
00:05:06What item has been made annually on TV for more than 60 years and requires
00:05:12Galvanised wire, pliers, four peppercorn canister lids, fireproof tinsel, four candles and four coat hangers
00:05:20Go on
00:05:21It's the Blue Peter Advent Crown
00:05:24Yes! Well done!
00:05:26Well done!
00:05:27The flame is uncensored
00:05:29That is team
00:05:30What has this building got to do with Christmas?
00:05:33Oh, Home Alone!
00:05:34Home Alone, yes
00:05:35Yes! It's the house from Home Alone
00:05:37And in case you want to visit it, it's on Lincoln Avenue in Chicago, Illinois
00:05:42And you'll spot it because it's the one with a massive fence outside that says
00:05:46Please, for the love of God, leave us alone!
00:05:49Since 1979, what has been released annually in time for Christmas and has sold more than 2 million copies in total
00:05:56And occasionally contains topless photos
00:05:59Is it a calendar?
00:06:00Calendar, yeah
00:06:01Which one?
00:06:02Oh
00:06:03Chippendales
00:06:04Not a bad answer
00:06:05That's not a bad answer
00:06:06Not a bad answer
00:06:07Pirelli tyres
00:06:08Oh
00:06:09Gonna have to hurry you
00:06:10Pirelli tyres
00:06:11Nearly
00:06:12Cliff Richard
00:06:13Oh
00:06:14How amazing is that?
00:06:16I thought you were going to say a different kind of tyre then
00:06:19Yeah
00:06:20Can we have half a point for calendar?
00:06:22Yes
00:06:23Okay
00:06:24Which shopping guide, first published in 1973, was at one time the most widely printed publication in Europe?
00:06:30Shopping guide
00:06:31Shopping guide
00:06:32Shopping guide
00:06:33Littlewoods
00:06:34Littlewoods
00:06:35Argos
00:06:36Argos
00:06:37Yes, it was the Argos catalogue
00:06:39Yay
00:06:40Who used to pore over the Argos catalogue when you...
00:06:42Oh, we all do
00:06:43Used to circle it all, mate
00:06:44Yes
00:06:45I used to circle it all
00:06:46It wasn't really Christmas if you didn't circle every single toy in the Argos catalogue
00:06:49Only for your parents to just laugh in your face
00:06:52Okay
00:06:53According to the rarely seen introduction to the film, this is really unusual this
00:06:58Which music legend did the little boy in the snowman apparently grow up to be?
00:07:03I didn't know this
00:07:04Don't he become Alan Jones?
00:07:06No, that's who sings on it
00:07:08I just think the clue is in the word rarely seen and I haven't seen it
00:07:15Has anybody?
00:07:16Has anyone?
00:07:17Oh, one person knows it
00:07:19Bowie
00:07:20Bowie
00:07:21David Bowie
00:07:22Yes, it was but you didn't get it
00:07:23No, we didn't
00:07:24Let's have a look at a wistful Bowie rocking a Christmas jumper
00:07:27Charmingly weaving a nostalgic tale from his old attic
00:07:31This attic's full of memories for me
00:07:36We spent all our summers by the seaside
00:07:39And in winter at home by the fire
00:07:43Frost on the window
00:07:45And snow
00:07:47Snowballs and making snowmen
00:07:51One winter I made a really big snowman
00:07:56He got this scarf for me
00:08:00You see, he was a real snowman
00:08:02Snowman
00:08:09Unbelievable now I've got to stop here because I've just heard that young Leslie Joseph here worked with him
00:08:15He was the first person I ever worked with when I left drama school in
00:08:191967 my agent there Michael Summonson said would you like to do a television which I've never done?
00:08:23I don't just left drama school and I said yes
00:08:25I'd love to he said well
00:08:26I've got somebody else who's do it with you and we used to travel out to Teddington every day
00:08:30And I went and he always used to say come and see Angie and me at the Arts Lab come and see Angie me at the Arts Lab
00:08:35And he wasn't known as David Bowie then and I always say yes
00:08:38I will and I never did and it was David Bowie who's the first person I ever worked with
00:08:42That's unbelievable first person I ever worked with was Kerry Katona
00:08:49Okay teams time for the Christmassy mystery box
00:08:57John Johnny's been
00:09:00Santa's delivered you a present John and in your box are three Christmas items
00:09:06I'd like you to reach inside and without looking you've got to describe them to your mates and you'll get a point for each one
00:09:12They correctly identify now for our viewers at home
00:09:16Here's what's in the box if you don't want to know look away now
00:09:19Okay John now and get it I've got a jar glass jar yeah a teaspoon in it so I'm guessing the number one condiment on the Christmas table
00:09:33Well done
00:09:39I was thinking John right
00:09:41It's popular it's a popular confectionary
00:09:45Confectionary
00:09:46Um
00:09:47In a pastry
00:09:49Oh mince pie
00:09:50Correct
00:09:51Mince pie
00:09:52And some cranberry sauce
00:10:08Okay
00:10:09Shappie
00:10:10The Christmasy mystery box has traveled on Santa's sleigh to your desk for our viewers at home
00:10:13Here's what's in the box
00:10:14Okay
00:10:15Shappie
00:10:16Have a feel and see if you can describe your team what the three items are
00:10:19Remember they're all Christmasy foods
00:10:20All right, there's a bowl of something
00:10:21Okay
00:10:22Ah now everyone pretends that they're like these but they're a bit like Marmite
00:10:24Sprouts
00:10:25No, I mean they're literally taste of Marmite
00:10:26Nuts
00:10:27No
00:10:28I mean they're literally taste of Marmite
00:10:29Oh
00:10:30Oh
00:10:31Oh
00:10:32Oh
00:10:33Oh
00:10:34Oh
00:10:36Oh
00:10:37Oh
00:10:38Oh
00:10:39Oh
00:10:40Oh
00:10:41Oh
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00:10:43Oh
00:10:44Oh
00:10:45Oh
00:10:46Oh
00:10:47Oh
00:10:48Oh
00:10:49I think I know that they're like they look like little sticks
00:10:51Oh
00:10:55Of course
00:10:58Yes
00:10:59Well done
00:11:01Now I'm picking up something cold
00:11:04Oh
00:11:06Also in a bowl
00:11:06Oh
00:11:07Put my hands in it, it's gonna be squashy
00:11:08Em
00:11:10That's very creamy at the top and then a bit
00:11:11Is it like trifle ?
00:11:13I think that is.
00:11:14I mean if that's not trifle, I don't want to hear your words
00:11:17Is it trifle well done
00:11:18Oh
00:11:22Right oh is another bowl. I'm really scared about my hand. Okay. Oh
00:11:27These are warm and they're round sausages. No, they're like come like little balls like little balls
00:11:34No, I'm all around my mom in it. I've put my thumb in this warm mushy
00:11:41Ball a ball. Yeah, it's like a
00:11:48Yes, it was a trifle stuffing balls and some twiglets
00:11:56Okay, who wants to see how twiglets are made? Yes, yes, me too
00:12:00But instead let's watch some illuminating footage of mr
00:12:04Bean using his trademark creative thinking to make some twiglet alternatives
00:12:18oh
00:12:20Oh
00:12:39At the end of that round John's team you've scored four and a half and Shappie's team you scored six
00:12:44It's nearly time for the break, but I'm feeling festive. So let's pull a cracker
00:12:53Shappie and biggings. Do you want to start us off? Yes indeed right behind you. Yes
00:12:58Yes, it is behind me. Oh
00:13:02That's the first one. All right, here we go. Ready? Yep. Oh, oh look I've got it here
00:13:09As if by magic
00:13:11What do you call Santa if he forgets to wear underwear? Oh, well, we'll find out the punchline after the break
00:13:20Welcome back before the break before the cracker and asked what do you call Santa if he forgets to wear underwear gone begins?
00:13:42Give us a punchline St. Nicker less
00:13:51This is a quiz about Christmas and how do you know Christmas is coming the first drop of snow the sound of Mariah Carey's annual warble
00:13:59No, the adverts
00:14:01We're going to start this round with some quickfire questions about Christmas adverts John's team you're up first
00:14:07Which hugely important Christmas store was advertised by a cartoon giraffe called Geoffrey? I know it's Toys R Us
00:14:16My dad once queued at Toys R Us from three o'clock in the morning to get me one of those power ranger morphers
00:14:23My mum made him save up all year, and then he had to queue
00:14:27And he got it
00:14:29Chappie's team which product has been advertised for 30 years by a convoy of HGVs. Oh
00:14:36Coca-Cola. Yes. Well done. I would have accepted Eddie Stobart
00:14:42John's team what is going on here in this
00:14:46Unexpectedly erotic close-up shot from a Christmas ad
00:14:50Denim aftershave for men went for the man who doesn't have to try too hard
00:14:53signature
00:15:01Steven your to the Christmas port let's have a look
00:15:04Santa's coming with
00:15:08The man who doesn't have to try too are you right?
00:15:17Chappie thought it was his crutch
00:15:19She's filth she honestly thought it was a button Why?
00:15:22Right, what was this boy adorably using to add height so he could share a Christmas kiss in this clever Christmas ad?
00:15:33Oh, I know it was either an Argos catalog or a phone book
00:15:36Or more or something it was a yellow pages
00:15:40Yes, he used a copy of the yellow pages, which is coincidentally also the last time anyone used one
00:15:47Okay, what do 80s hits electric dreams sweet child of mine and please please please let me get what I want have in common
00:15:55Electric dreams sweet child of mine and please please please let me get what I want
00:16:00They're all songs for a brand selling something. It's an advert John. Well done
00:16:05Okay, I'm gonna have to hurry you Dixon's
00:16:08It's not Dixon's. They have all been used in the John Lewis adverts
00:16:13Oh, goodness sake
00:16:16Which stores adverts were famously so massive and featured so many celebrities that they sometimes took up the whole commercial break
00:16:24Versus marks expenses. Yes, remember it doesn't have to be this recent. It doesn't have to be recent. No parents. No
00:16:32It was walrus. Whoa goodness. Hey, baby. We're so long ago. You were in one
00:16:39It was 1983 it was really
00:16:47Yeah
00:16:49They tend to keep your eyes peeled if you can spot biggings amongst the luxury assortment of the love
00:16:58Enthusiastically vlogging everything from VHS players to aftershave watch this. Oh
00:17:02Oh, spice gift pack that can't be bad
00:17:06Remington's great popcorn maker steady on their lad
00:17:10These Montempi organs are so much fun to play
00:17:14Shop mix for the girlfriend make it Cadbury's milk tray
00:17:17Big value quality street in a jar
00:17:20Hoorah! Hoorah!
00:17:21Get your phillips six pack to take your party fun
00:17:25An instant gift idea this Kodak camera is a one
00:17:29Well, I never
00:17:31What year was it?
00:17:321983
00:17:32I cannot remember that at all
00:17:35You can't remember?
00:17:36No
00:17:37Now we couldn't have biggings here without a panto based game could we?
00:17:43Oh, yes we could
00:17:45Oh, no we couldn't
00:17:47Oh, yes we could
00:17:49Perfect
00:17:50If there's one thing a British audience can nail and that's it
00:17:53Now this game is called Who's Behind You?
00:18:01Now this is a game for both teams
00:18:03We found some panto posters and we've covered up a key cast member with a biggins
00:18:09And all you have to do is tell me who's behind him
00:18:13Shappie's team
00:18:14Here's yours
00:18:15So it's 1986's Dick Whittington at the Reading Hexagon
00:18:19And it's a veritable who's who of 1980's TV talent
00:18:23We've got Bobby Davro, Brian Kant, Patricia Dean, Brian Connolly
00:18:28But which burly strongman is behind biggins as it were
00:18:33Hmm
00:18:34Difficult
00:18:35I've got my think you face like I have a clue
00:18:37Burly strongman is the is the is the clue there
00:18:40Was he a sportsman I think
00:18:42I'm gonna give you a clue
00:18:43He might arrive on stage pulling a love rig behind him
00:18:46Yeah
00:18:47Oh, is it Jeff Capes?
00:18:48Well done, well done
00:18:50The answer was Olympic shot putter and two-time world's strongest man, Jeff Capes
00:18:56Fun fact, did you know, he was also an award-winning budgie breeder
00:19:00Yeah
00:19:01Had more than 300 of them at one point
00:19:03The swimming costume
00:19:04No, not budgie smuggling
00:19:05Budgie breeding
00:19:07But maybe, maybe he bred them for smuggling
00:19:11Oh no
00:19:12Okay, John's team this one's for you
00:19:16Ready
00:19:17Oh look is our Leslie
00:19:18Another Dick Whittington from 1994
00:19:20And some top quality panto talent with you there Leslie love
00:19:24But which effervescent sports star is behind biggins?
00:19:28Oh God
00:19:29Leslie, who did you do Dick Whittington for?
00:19:31Effervescent
00:19:34Proper effervescent
00:19:35Proper effervescent
00:19:36Like their effervescent
00:19:37He might have just sprinted on stage
00:19:40Oh
00:19:41Chris Akabusi
00:19:42Yes, Debbie
00:19:43It was Olympic athlete and record-breaking presenter Chris Akabusi
00:19:47Oh
00:19:48Done, done, done, done
00:19:50Leslie was the only girl
00:19:52Oh, he was absolutely gorgeous
00:19:53Fell in love with him
00:19:54Was he?
00:19:55He was divine
00:19:56And that was in the days when you had a girl playing a man
00:19:58Yeah
00:19:59You don't have that now
00:20:00No
00:20:01When Rosemary Ford, who was absolutely brilliant, played Dick Whittington
00:20:03And they would slap their thighs and say
00:20:0512 o'clock and still no sign of Dick
00:20:07That's absolutely right
00:20:08I'm talking about you, Stephen
00:20:13Yes
00:20:14About a rumour you're dying to be in panto
00:20:16I really want to be buttons
00:20:18But no one's letting me
00:20:19I want to be like
00:20:2012 o'clock and still no dick
00:20:22Biggins, you are the queen of panto
00:20:24Can you sort it out?
00:20:25Yeah, well we've talked about it in the green room
00:20:27I've put him in touch with our producers
00:20:29Oh God
00:20:30Two years time he'll be in pantomime
00:20:32Thank you
00:20:33Now you're a panto pro
00:20:34Can you remember your first one?
00:20:35You know, we've all got a hundred panto stories
00:20:38But in my early years of panto
00:20:39I did panto in Bradford
00:20:41And we lived in Surrey
00:20:42Which is like a five-hour drive
00:20:44My dad was so amazing
00:20:45Because he was desperate
00:20:46The family got home for Christmas
00:20:48And I got a lift as far as Watford Gap
00:20:51Yeah
00:20:52But it was snowing
00:20:53And so my dad had got there at like, you know, one o'clock in the morning to meet me
00:20:59But we got there at something like four in the morning because we were stuck in the snow in the north
00:21:04And then we had to get up at five o'clock in the morning to just open Christmas presents and leave at like 6.30 and he drove me all the way back up to Bradford
00:21:16And had a cup of tea and then drove back down to the family on Boxing Day
00:21:19Oh, I mean that's so sweet
00:21:21But sort of not worth it, wasn't it?
00:21:23No
00:21:24Or was it worth it?
00:21:25It was definitely worth it
00:21:27Oh, well that's alright then
00:21:28Shaffi's team
00:21:29Very classy this one from 1988
00:21:31Barbara Windsor
00:21:33Nicholas Parsons
00:21:34Singer Julie Rogers
00:21:35But who's behind Biggins?
00:21:37I should probably tell you that he's a puppet
00:21:40Oh
00:21:41Oh
00:21:42It's a puppet
00:21:43A puppet
00:21:44But it's a puppet
00:21:45Oh
00:21:46Oh, I know, Brian Connolly
00:21:47No, no, no
00:21:48He's not a puppet
00:21:49He's a human being, I think
00:21:50But he heard that lie
00:21:51The puppet lie
00:21:52Yeah, but it's an actual puppet behind your head
00:21:54Is it? It's not sooty, Richard Cadell
00:21:56No
00:21:57Not sooty
00:21:58Right, okay
00:21:59You started out on Breakfast TV
00:22:00Oh
00:22:01Is it Roland Ratt?
00:22:02Oh, thank God for that
00:22:03Yes
00:22:04Yes
00:22:05It was Roland Ratt
00:22:06Okay
00:22:07John's team
00:22:08One more for you
00:22:09Okay
00:22:10This one's from the Bristol Hippodrome in 1992
00:22:13Emily Simmons is advertised as her character name
00:22:17Marilyn for a moment away
00:22:18Bit rude
00:22:19And there's also John Inman and Billy Pearce
00:22:22But which four characters from a kids TV show are behind Biggins?
00:22:26Teletubbies is four
00:22:28Four characters from a kids TV show
00:22:29Are um
00:22:30Sooty Sweep and Small Millers
00:22:32No
00:22:33No
00:22:34No
00:22:35It wouldn't
00:22:36No
00:22:37I think it's gotta be the Teletubbies
00:22:38In 1993
00:22:39Yeah, clue please
00:22:40Yes
00:22:41They worked a lot with Rod Jane
00:22:42Oh, right
00:22:43So it's gotta be George
00:22:45Zippy
00:22:46Bungle
00:22:47Bungle
00:22:48What was your one called
00:22:49Wasn't it Geoffrey?
00:22:50No
00:22:51Yes
00:22:52Jeffrey
00:22:53Jeffrey
00:22:54Yes
00:22:55Oh yeah
00:22:55Yes
00:22:56Yes
00:23:15monstrosity with a zipper mouth. Welcome to the UK. Right it's time for a game all about possibly
00:23:24the most famous Christmas specials of them all. The Morecambe and Wise Christmas shows.
00:23:30Let's play more more Morecambe and Wise.
00:23:38John's team you're up first and I need you to tell me more about this glamorous foot
00:23:43which unfortunately but comedically found itself stuck in a polystyrene block. Whose foot is it?
00:23:50You're drawing us towards the Rippon. No. But it's wrong. No, yeah, because I'm going to see what you
00:23:55think. I seem to remember. This is Dame Shirley Bassey. Well done. Yes, it was Shirley Bassey's foot
00:24:05in the 1971 Christmas special. Here it is with the rest of Shirley Bassey, heroically battling
00:24:12through and no perfect performance of Smoke Gets In Your Eyes.
00:24:18I lost them and I gave me love to think we could doubt.
00:24:24Oh, God.
00:24:26Oh, God.
00:24:28Oh, God.
00:24:30Oh, God.
00:24:32Oh, God.
00:24:34Oh, God.
00:24:36That's amazing.
00:24:38I mean, wasn't she? Absolutely brilliant.
00:24:50Shappies team, this one's yours. Morecambe and Wise are known for treating their guests appallingly,
00:24:56but can you remember which star ended up having to perform in front of two cleaners having been
00:25:01sent on a surreal wild goose chase to keep him from finding his way to the studio?
00:25:05I think it was the conductor.
00:25:09Oh, Andre Previn. Andre Previn, yeah. Andre Previn.
00:25:13Andre Previn. No, I'm afraid it was Elton John. Oh.
00:25:17Oh. Here he is, bless him, completely unfazed by the many bizarre twists and turns on his mission
00:25:23to perform.
00:25:25Hello, I'm Elton John. I'm here to do the Morecambe and Wise show.
00:25:28Oh, yes. Mr. Morecambe and Mr. Wise told me to give you this message.
00:25:32Oh, thank you.
00:25:37Dear elephant, please go to room...
00:25:40Please go to room four. I'm fine.
00:25:43This is time to hold you.
00:25:53A major study into the lifestyle of the dolphin.
00:25:56And one dolphin in particular.
00:25:58He's called Beaky and lives in the waters near the middle of the pond.
00:26:02Over the last few years, scientists, particularly in America...
00:26:06It's Elton John, isn't it? Eh? Elton John.
00:26:25I'm supposed to be doing the Morecambe and Wise show.
00:26:28Ooh. Is that finished? It's over.
00:26:31Well done, teams. In that round, John's team, you scored five points.
00:26:35Chef P's team, you scored four points.
00:26:38Oh. Ooh.
00:26:42It's nearly time for the break, so time to pull a cracker.
00:26:45Stephen, what have you got?
00:26:47Here we go, John Thompson.
00:26:49Hey!
00:26:50Right.
00:26:52What do you call a snowman with a six-pack?
00:26:54Oh, we'll find out the punchline after the break.
00:26:58APPLAUSE
00:27:01Welcome back.
00:27:15Before the break, we pulled a cracker and asked,
00:27:17what do you call a snowman with a six-pack?
00:27:20Go on, Stephen, give us a punchline.
00:27:21What's the punchline?
00:27:22The abdominal snowman.
00:27:23Oh!
00:27:25I like that.
00:27:26That was quite good.
00:27:27That was very good.
00:27:28Right.
00:27:29Nothing beats Christmas Day for food and drink.
00:27:32Baby shampoo breakfast, followed by your body weight in chocolate coins,
00:27:35and then saying it's the last year, I'm going to buy them nuts
00:27:38because no bugger eats them.
00:27:40As a pre-dinner nibble, let's have a little challenge.
00:27:43A game of nerves.
00:27:44You'll require a poker face and a lead stomach.
00:27:47So, let's play Chocolate or Sprouts!
00:27:55Shappie's team, you're going to go first.
00:27:57You each have a box in front of you.
00:27:59In two of the boxes, there's a delicious chocolate,
00:28:02and in one of them, there's a very thoroughly boiled sprout.
00:28:05John's team will get a point if they correctly guess
00:28:08which of you has got the sprout,
00:28:10but you will get a point if you fool them.
00:28:12Shappie's team, please pop in your mystery item.
00:28:22Okay.
00:28:23No chewing yet.
00:28:30Okay.
00:28:31Okay, you can chew now.
00:28:33This is fantastic.
00:28:34It could go away, you see.
00:28:35It's more of an acting challenge.
00:28:36It's more of an acting challenge.
00:28:37Tell me who, who's got the sprouts.
00:28:38They all look like they hate it.
00:28:39I think Lesley.
00:28:40Playing Sprout.
00:28:41I agree.
00:28:42Which one?
00:28:43We think Lesley's playing Sprout.
00:28:44We think Lesley's playing Sprout.
00:28:45But we don't think she's got the Sprout.
00:28:46She's got the Sprout.
00:28:47She's got the Sprout.
00:28:48She's got the Sprout.
00:28:49She's got the Sprout.
00:28:50She's got the Sprout.
00:28:51We think the Sprout.
00:28:52I agree.
00:28:53Which one?
00:28:54We think Lesley's playing Sprout.
00:28:55But we don't think she's got the Sprout.
00:28:56She's got the Sprout.
00:28:57We think Shappie's chocolate.
00:28:58And we think Biggins.
00:28:59We think Biggins is Sprout.
00:29:00I don't know.
00:29:01It's the Sprout.
00:29:02I don't know.
00:29:03It's the Sprout.
00:29:04Which one of you has got the Sprout?
00:29:05Me!
00:29:06Yay!
00:29:07Very good.
00:29:08Very good.
00:29:09I don't know.
00:29:10I'm with an ice sprout.
00:29:11Now, Jon's team, it's your turn.
00:29:12You know what to do.
00:29:13OK.
00:29:14Ah!
00:29:15Ah!
00:29:16Ah!
00:29:17Ah!
00:29:18Ah!
00:29:19Ah!
00:29:20Ah!
00:29:21Ah!
00:29:22Ah!
00:29:23Ah!
00:29:24Ah!
00:29:25Ah!
00:29:26Ah!
00:29:27Ah!
00:29:28Ah!
00:29:29Ah!
00:29:30Ah!
00:29:31Ah!
00:29:32Ah!
00:29:33Ah!
00:29:34I'm with Shappie's team.
00:29:35Who's got the Sprout?
00:29:36I don't think Debbie has.
00:29:38Well, I think she does.
00:29:39Oh, do you think she has?
00:29:40Yeah.
00:29:41Is she playing Sprout?
00:29:42Unless she's a very, very good actress.
00:29:44Very good actress.
00:29:45Ah!
00:29:46I feel that whatever Jon put into his mouth was very small, because he was balancing it nicely
00:29:52on his tongue.
00:29:53Ha!
00:29:54Ha!
00:29:55And trying to put his hands.
00:29:56Are you thinking it's Jon?
00:29:57I don't think...
00:29:58I think Jon's got chocolate.
00:29:59OK.
00:30:00I'm going to have to hurry you.
00:30:01I think it's Debbie, Debbie.
00:30:02I kind of feel...
00:30:03This probably...
00:30:04I just feel like...
00:30:05Oh!
00:30:06I say Stephen.
00:30:07How can they give lovely Debbie a Sprout?
00:30:10Easily.
00:30:11That's not how things work.
00:30:12Come on, guys.
00:30:13I've got Debbie, Stephen.
00:30:14I think Debbie.
00:30:15I think Debbie.
00:30:16I'll go with two against one.
00:30:17Debbie.
00:30:18Debbie, have you got the Sprout?
00:30:20No.
00:30:21Oh!
00:30:22Oh!
00:30:23She got you!
00:30:24It was a Sprout!
00:30:25I did say that, because you did it very quickly.
00:30:27I thought so.
00:30:28Yeah, well done, Debbie.
00:30:29That's a point to your team, Jon.
00:30:30Well done.
00:30:31Yeah.
00:30:32Oh, that was angin'.
00:30:33Not even a bacon lad.
00:30:34I'd have a Sprout.
00:30:35Mine was lovely.
00:30:36I've got an half spat out one if you want it.
00:30:37Right.
00:30:38Many of us would be lost without a TV cookery expert's help making Christmas dinner.
00:30:53Whether it's Delia holding our hand through a punishing timetable of prep.
00:30:57Or Nigella convincing us we can look sexy while peeling spuds.
00:31:01But some go the extra mile and provide us with something a bit surprising.
00:31:06It's time for some extra help-ins.
00:31:13Shaffi's team, this game's for you.
00:31:15Take a look at this.
00:31:17When you buy your Christmas turkey, I wonder if you'd do as I do,
00:31:21and buy one just a little on the larch size.
00:31:24There are so many delicious things can be made from leftovers,
00:31:28but also it is more economical to buy a larch turkey.
00:31:32You get more meat to bone.
00:31:34Oh.
00:31:35Wow.
00:31:36We all like more meat to bone.
00:31:38That was the very natural hosting of Dorothy Slateholm,
00:31:41giving us some kind and practical advice in making use of leftover turkey
00:31:46in a 1971 edition of ITV's long-running daytime cookery show, Farmhouse Kitchen.
00:31:52But what extra thing does Dorothy do in this Christmas episode?
00:31:57Does she, A, cough repeatedly, B, explain the best way to clean up various different kinds of spillage,
00:32:05or C, offer some cheap alternatives to traditional ingredients?
00:32:10Let's say, um...
00:32:12I think she probably clears up.
00:32:14I think because she's talking about you get more meat to the bone,
00:32:16she's already on the subject of being...
00:32:18I would say the cheap alternatives.
00:32:19Yes, I... yes.
00:32:20Right, cheap alternatives.
00:32:21Cheap alternatives.
00:32:22Cheap alternatives.
00:32:23Absolutely wrong.
00:32:24Oh, no.
00:32:25OK.
00:32:26The answer is A.
00:32:27Oh.
00:32:28She coughs.
00:32:29Repeatedly.
00:32:30Oh.
00:32:31It's very subtle, so you might not notice, but here are some examples.
00:32:34Can be prepared quite a little in advance, as you will see.
00:32:40They're delicious for a party, or just a snack over the fire.
00:32:48Excuse me.
00:32:51A warm dish.
00:32:55Excuse me.
00:32:57And now all I have to do is to tell you about our recipe leaflets.
00:33:02Oh, my goodness.
00:33:03Why bother stopping for a retake?
00:33:06Just crack on my wasting tape.
00:33:08No-one will know.
00:33:09Who are you?
00:33:10In later years, Farmhouse Kitchen was hosted by Grace Mulligan,
00:33:13and in the 1986 Christmas show, she welcomed guest chef Jocelyn Dimbleby,
00:33:18who roasts a goose.
00:33:20For a bonus point, what do you think Jocelyn suggests you do
00:33:23with leftover goose fat and dripping?
00:33:26Um, um, give it the dog.
00:33:28No.
00:33:29Spread it on toast.
00:33:30Um.
00:33:31No, perhaps you use it as some sort of thing to put on your face.
00:33:35Skincare.
00:33:36I'm going to give you that.
00:33:37Here's Jocelyn daintily fondling some goose fat, and politely offering some old-fashioned medical advice.
00:33:43And, uh, the first job you have to do is to take out the fat.
00:33:48There's lots of fat inside it, and you take out all the excess fat.
00:33:52Um, you may think it's a messy job, but in fact, just think what good it's doing to your skin, your hands.
00:33:57A wonderful hand cream.
00:33:58What I normally do is I boil down the fat, um, and keep a lot of dripping, because it's very valuable.
00:34:05You shouldn't, shouldn't throw it away, because it does make the best roast potatoes ever.
00:34:09Or you can even just rub it on your chest when you have a cold.
00:34:12Apparently it works wonders.
00:34:14Oh, hand cream.
00:34:16Rub it on your chest.
00:34:18Lag your ceilings with it.
00:34:20Everything.
00:34:21Next one.
00:34:22And food and drinks, Jilly Goulden was known for a creative description of what wine tastes like.
00:34:27I mean, it tastes like wine, doesn't it, to me, but not to Jilly.
00:34:31No.
00:34:32In a Christmas drink segment, what unnecessarily weird words does she use to describe some ruby ports?
00:34:39Is it, A, a winter's afternoon in East Sussex, B, scattered potpourri, or C, wisteria up an old cottage?
00:34:48Oh, it has to be wisteria up an old cottage.
00:34:50Oh, it has to be wisteria up an old cottage.
00:34:53I know the feeling.
00:34:58That's Christmas in Begging's House.
00:35:00Let's get along.
00:35:02At an enthusiastic Jilly, meticulously describing the taste of court.
00:35:07And I'm looking at the most junior, insignificant sort of port, if you like, that you can get.
00:35:12It's a ruby port from Portugal, but is it a wow?
00:35:165.99, but it packs all sorts of gorgeousness in.
00:35:20Do you know what that smells like?
00:35:22On a summer's day, when you've just had a little rain shower, but it's still warm enough to bring out this lovely scent to the flowers, wisteria up an old cottage.
00:35:29That's what it is.
00:35:30Yay!
00:35:31Do you think it's just made them up on the weekend?
00:35:36You know, a puddle in Bournemouth.
00:35:38I mean...
00:35:39One of my favourites is raspberries in a suede shoe.
00:35:42Oh!
00:35:43Who said that?
00:35:44She said it.
00:35:45She said it.
00:35:46That's a real one.
00:35:47Raspberries in a suede shoe.
00:35:50OK.
00:35:51John's team, the next game's for you.
00:35:53Cooking Christmas dinner is a lot of work, isn't it?
00:35:55Well, anyone who's struggled with the Christmas dinner will feel right at home with this game.
00:35:59It's all about sitcom characters who've had cooking disasters at Christmas.
00:36:03Let's play Festive Feasting Fails.
00:36:11First one, have a look at this.
00:36:13Anyway, why don't you do what I do, eh?
00:36:15You know, just put the dinner in your mouth and think of England.
00:36:19Right.
00:36:21Here we go.
00:36:29Not bad.
00:36:30Not bad, Grandad.
00:36:32Slightly underdone, maybe.
00:36:35Yeah, that was the first ever Only Films and Horses Christmas special in 1981.
00:36:40And Del and Rodney are putting on a brave face as they tuck into the very unappetising-looking turkey
00:36:46that Grandad has prepared around their cramped but festive table.
00:36:50Now, it seems to be going better than they feared.
00:36:52But then, what goes wrong with this Christmas dinner?
00:36:56I know this one.
00:36:57You know this, Grandad.
00:36:58I've left the giblets in the turkey.
00:37:02Here's Del and Rodney going from disbelief to horror to blind panic.
00:37:08Didn't throw the giblets away, did you?
00:37:12I only asked.
00:37:13I only asked.
00:37:14Because I promised to be the old girl downstairs for a cat.
00:37:17There weren't any giblets in it, Del, boy.
00:37:19It was really clean.
00:37:20Said so on the box.
00:37:21Yeah, I know it was really clean, Grandad.
00:37:23What they do is they take the giblets out, put it in a plastic bag
00:37:25and they put it back inside the turkey, don't they?
00:37:26Didn't I?
00:37:27Yeah.
00:37:28You took the bag out, didn't you?
00:37:29Oh, didn't I?
00:37:30Oh, my God.
00:37:31Did you put it with everything still in it?
00:37:32Oh, my good God.
00:37:33Blimey, it's like peering at the jaws of hell, yeah?
00:37:34Well done, Debbie.
00:37:35Next one, here's Rick Male in all his greasy-haired, over-confident glory as Richie, preparing dinner in the 1992 Christmas special of Bottom.
00:37:42And turkey a la oven.
00:37:43Yeah, that's great.
00:37:44Actually get their taste buds going.
00:37:45I don't know, Eddie.
00:37:46When it comes down to it, there's only me and Keith Floyd left.
00:37:47Oh, no.
00:37:48Oh, no.
00:37:49Oh, no.
00:37:50Oh, no.
00:37:51Oh, no.
00:37:52Oh, no.
00:37:53Oh, no.
00:37:54Oh, no.
00:37:55Oh, no.
00:37:56Oh, no.
00:37:57But what gruesome accident is Richie about to have in his head?
00:37:58I don't know.
00:37:59He's definitely going to slice something.
00:38:00The cleaver is stuck into a body part.
00:38:01This is true.
00:38:02Yeah.
00:38:03What the?
00:38:04Oh, no.
00:38:05Oh, no.
00:38:06Oh, no.
00:38:07Oh, no.
00:38:08Oh, no.
00:38:09Oh, no.
00:38:10Oh, no.
00:38:12Oh, no.
00:38:13Oh, no.
00:38:14Oh, no.
00:38:15Oh, no.
00:38:16Oh, no.
00:38:17Oh, no.
00:38:18Oh, no.
00:38:19Oh, no.
00:38:20Oh, no.
00:38:21Oh, no.
00:38:22Oh, no.
00:38:23Oh, no.
00:38:24Oh, no.
00:38:25Oh, no.
00:38:26Oh, no.
00:38:27Oh, no.
00:38:28You have to tell me.
00:38:29I think.
00:38:30That's what I would guess.
00:38:31I would guess.
00:38:32Yeah.
00:38:33Because that I'd finish here, wouldn't it?
00:38:34Yeah.
00:38:35So I think.
00:38:36And.
00:38:37Yeah.
00:38:38Okay.
00:38:39I'm going to give you that.
00:38:40He cuts his finger off.
00:38:41Yeah.
00:38:42Let's have a look at some typically grizzly Christmas carnage from Richie and Eddie.
00:38:44Oh, no.
00:38:45Oh, no.
00:38:46Eddie.
00:38:47Help.
00:38:48Help.
00:38:49Help.
00:38:50Help.
00:38:51Why?
00:38:52What have you done?
00:38:53I would have thought that was totally obvious from you.
00:38:54Oh.
00:38:55Oh.
00:38:56Hi, how are you?
00:38:57Oh.
00:38:58Hi, how are you?
00:38:59Oh.
00:39:00Oh.
00:39:01Oh.
00:39:02Hi, how are you?
00:39:03Oh.
00:39:04Oh.
00:39:05I can't even watch that.
00:39:06For a bonus point, because Eddie's drunk all the brandy, what do they decide to make instead
00:39:11of brandy butter?
00:39:12On the same lines, I'll give you a little clue.
00:39:15Gin butter.
00:39:16Do you know what, you're not far off.
00:39:19Okay.
00:39:20What is it?
00:39:21Vodka.
00:39:22Vodka butter.
00:39:23Vodka butter.
00:39:24I'm going to give you half a point.
00:39:26It was vodka margarine.
00:39:27Oh, vodka margarine.
00:39:28Oh, yeah.
00:39:29Hey, don't knock it, so you've tried it.
00:39:31At the end of that round, John's team, you have four and a half, and Shappie's team,
00:39:36you have two.
00:39:37Oh.
00:39:38Oh.
00:39:39Oh.
00:39:40Here we go, kids.
00:39:43It's nearly time for the break, so let's pull a cracker.
00:39:46Shappie, have you got one this time?
00:39:48I have, yes.
00:39:49Ready?
00:39:50Yeah.
00:39:51Oh.
00:39:52Oh.
00:39:53Hey.
00:39:54Right.
00:39:55Who hides in a bakery at Christmas?
00:39:58Oh.
00:39:59Well, we'll find out the punchline after the break.
00:40:10Welcome back.
00:40:11Before the break, we pulled a cracker and asked, who hides in a bakery at Christmas?
00:40:22Go on, Shappie.
00:40:23Immense spy.
00:40:24Oh.
00:40:25Oh.
00:40:26They're getting better.
00:40:27Excellent.
00:40:28I don't know about you, but hearing Christmas songs in the shops or on radio gets me right
00:40:35in the Christmas mood, apart from when it's November, and then it gets right on my nerves.
00:40:41Why are Carrie and Slade as much a part of Christmas for me as Santa and his reindeer?
00:40:45So your quick-fire questions this time are all about Christmas music.
00:40:50Okay.
00:40:51John's team.
00:40:52Whose face is covered by a snowball in this Christmas music video?
00:40:56Oh.
00:40:57It looks like it.
00:40:58Yeah.
00:40:59I think Shaky.
00:41:00Is it Shaky Stevens?
00:41:01It was Shaky Stevens in the music video for Merry Christmas, everybody.
00:41:05Let's have a look at Shaky in action.
00:41:08Well, our-oh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh.
00:41:09Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:41:10Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:41:11Oh.
00:41:24Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oooh-ooh-ooh-ooh.
00:41:26Snow is falling, all around us.
00:41:29Till we're playing, havin' fun.
00:41:30It's the season.
00:41:31Lovin' understanding.
00:41:32Merry Christmas.
00:41:33Everyone.
00:41:35now that was Christmas number one in 1985 but actually it was meant to go out in 84 but they
00:41:45held it back a year because a band-aid the minute band-aid came out the management went that's
00:41:49okay shappies team name three music stars who featured in the first band-aid single in 1984
00:42:00okay yeah yes Freddie Mercury um no live aid Annie Lennox no George Michael yeah and boy George yes
00:42:15which of their pop rivals did take that have to introduce as Christmas number one in 1994 when
00:42:25they presented the Christmas top of the pop special it was e17 yeah very good well it was e17
00:42:33or as I remember them that bloke who can sing and the other ones yeah yeah whose face is covered by a
00:42:39snowball in this Christmas music video oh it's a boy George Michael yeah let's have a look
00:42:55it was George Michael in one's last Christmas video okay the Christmas number one in 1992 was Whitney
00:43:22Houston I will always love you what followed in 1993 I will always love you was number one for
00:43:30about four years on it you're never gonna get it um the same she what everybody and under the moon of
00:43:41love yes no it was mr. blobby by mr. block oh I'm so I was thinking that and then I thought you're such a
00:43:49moron if you say that out loud shappies team who beat John Lennon to Christmas number one in 1980
00:43:551980 mmm is it was it Kim Wilde Kim Wilde nearly oh it was the incredibly gifted St. Minneapolis school
00:44:05quite oh and they demoted John Lennon's final single just like starting over to the number two spot yeah
00:44:15let's have a look at those adorable and hugely talented children that me and my brother Chris are
00:44:22definitely not part of honest yes we are this is me
00:44:25now what better time than Christmas
00:44:55to settle down the family watch a film then fall asleep and never ever see the last 40 minutes of
00:45:01said film it is the big box of Christmas prop corn
00:45:05now these films could be a proper hundred percent Christmassy Christmas film or they could be a classic
00:45:17always on the telly unboxing day afternoon kind of fair the usual rules apply team captains are going to
00:45:23use all the props they can to get their teammates to guess the film you can say a line from the film
00:45:30but not if it contains the title of the film John's team you're up first
00:45:36okay we've got this you've got until the jingle bells to guess as many films as you can team
00:45:43starting now okay father Christmas put that cookie down now
00:45:49I'm looking for turbo man oh the one where he's in the toy shop and he can't get the present for his son
00:45:55come on what is that called I have no idea I'm looking for turbo man come on for my son I know exactly what it is
00:46:03I don't will go to sack that we passed we passed hey come on you it's about time you pay me more
00:46:08oh Muppets Christmas Carol yes I was going to date Michael but I did have to start
00:46:12okay perfectly practical everywhere yes you're doing well they wish stuck to me basket story in my life
00:46:24there's no place like wizard of arms what is that first one again with Arnold Schwarzenegger girl
00:46:32von luger is a sworn duty of all officers to escape oh go on it's a classic
00:46:38hmm back to the future no no I do it suddenly
00:46:46shindy-lou yeah that's a sign
00:46:49above my son oh shindy-lou i'm here oh the grinch you stole christmas
00:47:01oh my god sorry are you not going to give it me i thought of that Arnold Schwarzenegger one
00:47:05go on go on all the way too late mate oh now we know you can really act yes
00:47:14and what was the other one it was a great escape it was the great escape i've never seen it oh it's
00:47:19great movie steve is very good okay shappie it's your team's turn you've got into the jingle bells to
00:47:26guess how many films you can starting now um hang on oh i'm you know you're not going to fall in love
00:47:35with me i miss the napkin head i mean who doesn't want jude law turning up at their house in the
00:47:40middle of the night no um okay oh my god my husband's living with someone else so i'm going
00:47:46to go to a little cottage in england and learn move on not a clue is it my accent oh okay um
00:47:54um we're gramo levoso it's levosa not levoso thank you well dog was there really more than one lobster
00:48:06at the birth of jesus this is the film with hugh grant um and i'm going to oh
00:48:11marriage bill gate oh no i'm going to it's oh i'm going to marry my um cleaner even though she doesn't
00:48:19speak a word of english and her sister's fat and and we're going to make lots of fat jokes
00:48:25and then we're going to do this again i love you you're my best friend's wife but i'm coming to your
00:48:30door not a clue it's amazing okay because then to work at christmas all the time that's what it is
00:48:37every time a bell rings angel gets his wings oh please yes oh it's it's a wonderful life
00:48:46well done never feed them after midnight they're all cute but if you the goonies
00:48:54no i've never seen it i'll be honest with you they're cute little things and if you put water on
00:48:58them they've grown i've seen the film you mustn't feed them after midnight oh the gremlin thank you
00:49:05oh well done oh oh oh oh oh it's santa i know him i know him he's my friend it's santa
00:49:18hey it's a jingle bell oh that's so sexy come and sit down you deserve it
00:49:24i mean if you've not seen you've not seen him i mean that's the thing all right
00:49:32love actually was the one with the signs oh and then the other one was handsome jude law in the
00:49:39holiday being missed and i actually i love that film not that much though biggie at the end of that
00:49:46round john's team you've got seven in shaffi's team you've got six
00:49:55it's nearly time for the break so let's pull a cracker john have you got one this time
00:49:59no you're not pulling me john
00:50:04why would i i'm a gentleman
00:50:08are you ready yeah go
00:50:09oh right here we go i love this one what happens when you cross a snowman
00:50:19with a vampire well we'll find out the punch line after the break
00:50:35welcome back before the break we pulled a cracker and asked what happens when you cross a snowman
00:50:43with a vampire go on devs give us a punch line and the answer is frostbite you get frostbite
00:50:51hysterical guess what causes the biggest arguments at christmas no not to wait the last
00:50:58means pie it's what to watch on the telly nothing gets us in the christmas spirit quite like a soap
00:51:04special so let's play the exceedingly festive sounding why is this person crying
00:51:18this game's for you john seem and all you have to do is tell me why a particular soap character
00:51:24is horrifically miserable in the selected clip first up why is an anguished arthur fowler sobbing
00:51:31into his dressing gown in eastenders on christmas day 1986 oh he's not in a good way is he but why
00:51:37i'll tell you why it's just pre-breakdown this he stole the christmas club money right and he just
00:51:43couldn't believe what he's done it led to him digging his own grave on the allotment you are bang on
00:51:48thompson thank you yes arthur fowler is crying because he stole the walford residence christmas club
00:51:56money to pay for his daughter michelle's wedding then faked a burglary to explain the missing money
00:52:02before confessing to the police getting arrested falling into depression then smashing up his living
00:52:09room in a violent christmas rage like you do
00:52:22can we go again please that was genuinely a properly powerful performance to be fair but come on
00:52:41guys it's christmas and by the way this was the second eastenders of the day we'd already had den
00:52:48serving angie with the divorce papers i don't know how we coped i mean double duff duff next one
00:52:56why is a desperate and tearful deirdre barlow sobbing behind those distinctly 80s glasses in the 1988
00:53:04cori special and it's not because she's found out that spec savers don't have a returns policy
00:53:09did ken find out that she was having an affair with mike i don't know if that was at christmas though but
00:53:16it feels like it could be right is that your answer or did tracy finally come down from the
00:53:21bedroom yeah and stop listening to her tapes should we go for the mike one mike baldwin let's go with
00:53:27that no completely wrong she's being held hostage in a towel block by a desperate man who's one of her
00:53:32constituents whose wife had just walked out on him when did she took some toys around for the kids
00:53:38he told her he wasn't going to spend christmas alone and barricade them into the flat here's our feisty
00:53:43deirdre giving it her all in a physically demanding festive performance i have just about all i can
00:53:49take off you and if you want to stop me you'll have to kill me what are you doing i'm going to throw
00:53:56your tv set through the windows yes to be fair corey's not usually quite as depressing at christmas
00:54:12for some other soaps although let's not forget this tragic and sadly predictable 1997 car accident
00:54:20dad a turkey's for life not just for christmas oh surely you're not still gonna go after poo a little
00:54:25thing listen chuck when les batters was on the scent there's no stopping him
00:54:30what do you think you're doing right well if we find this thing you leave it to me do you understand
00:54:44the bird no it was a head thing oh special effects steve good special effects right time for
00:55:00something altogether more cheerful shappies team this game to you and it's called which christmas sitcom
00:55:08has gone wrong i'm going to read down to christmas sitcom storyline and all you have to do is tell me
00:55:19which sitcom has gone wrong here's your first one a van delivers a huge christmas order to a customer
00:55:26including a nine foot christmas tree however the tree only measures eight foot five and three quarter
00:55:32inches so the customer returns the entire order and ends up with no food drink or decorations so
00:55:39had to spend christmas with the next-door neighbors which sitcom am i talking about only fools and horses
00:55:45now we'd never do that he's more um no it'd be someone oh it was a bird okay they live in surbiton oh um
00:55:54um um penerope keith and yes the good life well done yes it was the good life let's have a look at a
00:56:01very dowel margot steadfastly refusing to get into the spirit of tom and barbara's charmingly homemade
00:56:08christmas one two three crack not bag no i see crack as a more pertinent word it is after all the stem of
00:56:19crapper isn't it you can't argue with that well i seem to have the inside of a roll of lavatory
00:56:29inside that oh yes which you prefer willington or nelson come on mama get your hat on
00:56:37for a bonus point why doesn't margot want to wear her paper hat it's the wrong newspaper well done yes
00:56:44let's have a look at her indignant and classically margot response come on mama get your hat on this is
00:56:53the daily mirror
00:56:56i am terribly sorry margot please have the telegraph
00:57:02next one the main character an adult man is cast as an angel in a nativity play the counterweighting
00:57:11system of the theatrical wires he's attached to fails and he jerks upwards smashing through the
00:57:17church roof where he had to be rescued by a helicopter so what sitcom am i talking about
00:57:26it was some mothers do have them let's have a look at this masterpiece of perfectly timed silliness
00:57:32an extraordinary physical comedy one more bags you do it what's that
00:57:49stop looking up there you dirty shepherds
00:57:53is born innocent
00:58:03well that's ruined my christmas
00:58:06who is great not that big one
00:58:09no
00:58:21in that round john's team you've scored one point and shappie's team you scored three
00:58:34it's nearly time for the break so let's pull a cracker shappie you got another one i've got another
00:58:38one shall we yep read us a joke please um which reindeer has the worst manners we'll find out the punchline
00:58:48after the break
00:59:03welcome back before the break we pulled a cracker and asked which reindeer has the worst manners go on
00:59:09shappie give us a punchline it was rude dof see oh that's good isn't it very good excellent this final round is about those festive tv moments and special episodes that are seared into the nation's collective consciousness like the lyrics to do they know it's christmas
00:59:29what's that's good news shappie's team you're up first the lovely paul daniels delivered 15 consecutive christmas specials
00:59:36from the late 1970s to the early 1980s
00:59:38to the early 1980s but what did he make vanish in 1984 was it debbie mcgee
00:59:46well not very well because you're tonight
00:59:47it's a big ben it would be some something big okay i'm gonna have to hurry you an elephant
00:59:55no it was a million pounds oh yes and here he is being ably assisted on that illusion but is that
01:00:02robert must not debbie legey he made more than a million disappear we've got to ask debbie about
01:00:07this haven't we the brief that paul got uh you know from the we had a team um and one of them came
01:00:13up with making a million pounds vanish so the bbc agreed um paul i can remember on the way home when it
01:00:20was all with they were designing it he said yeah but they haven't said i have to bring it back
01:00:25okay john's team who hosted the christmas special of the generation game for the first time in 1978
01:00:35who was was there anyone before before bruce no but maybe 78 it might have been larry
01:00:41brucey larry and then it was jim davidson after hurry in all right i'll go for larry larry grayson
01:00:47you're right john it was larry grayson he'd taken over from bruce forsyth earlier that year
01:00:52whose legendary elaborate christmas entertainment spectaculars involved the star playing as many as
01:00:5837 different characters himself biggins you'll get this is it you no you remember 37 characters i i get
01:01:07the walrus advert but you'd remember 37 characters um 37 characters give me a clue gottish is it ross abbott oh
01:01:15no no no no no um it's i tell you who it is it's oh stanley baxter yes it was stanley baxter well done john
01:01:27next one whose circus was a christmas tv tradition shown on both bbc and itv until the final televised
01:01:34performance in 1983 billy smarts well done debbie yes it was billy smart circus it was first broadcast live
01:01:42by the bbc in 1947 wow yeah which film now a christmas viewing classic was first show on christmas
01:01:50day 1978 health would it be hell no that was much no that was much were the hills alive in it they might
01:01:58have been oh sound of music yes it was well done the bbc won a bidding war with itv for the rights to show
01:02:08the film nine times over ten year period it was a massive bidding war now what was unusual about the
01:02:15christmas special of chaotic kids show run around in 1980 well it was honestly by mike reed run around
01:02:22there mike reed from eastenders that was always that yeah what was what was special about that particular
01:02:27one oh yeah i mean i don't honestly i can't see you getting it i don't know i'd be fascinated to know it was
01:02:33on ice oh bold yeah we should have guessed that let's have a look at possibly one of the most
01:02:40ambitious christmas special ever attempted on television
01:02:48right i'm gonna try and get out of this well done warren do you do do you bob slay for the britain
01:02:53there boy i don't actually bob slay for britain but i do compete you do compete i'll tell you what it's a
01:02:59bob slay can you bob it out of here please warren give a nice round of applause young man does a run
01:03:07right well done boy well done boy right anyway uh welcome to run around this is my mother-in-law
01:03:19that's an unusually nervous mike reed there standing very still intensely clinging onto a fiberglass polar
01:03:28bear for dear life right it's time for the final game there's a prezzi and some wrapping paper on
01:03:35everybody's desk the best wrap presents after 30 seconds wins the point here we go okay three two one go
01:03:44right i can't believe i've got a hammer oh look what i've got oh what is that oh it's a snowball
01:03:53steven daily you know i love a christmas snowball for my very first one my auntie gave me when i was 10.
01:04:00god love manchester the tape is so hard oh my god john oh oh this is not bad actually nine
01:04:07perfect how long's left the field apart from steven i'm struggling
01:04:16okay put your sticky tape down and let's have a look
01:04:21biggins that is a quite a beauty that that's beautiful good and yours are very neat girls
01:04:26very neat not sure what happened there debbie but it looks it looks like a plant but i don't think it is
01:04:32it's a football let's have a look at yours love
01:04:39it's a badminton racket oh that's brilliant steven let's have a look at yours in my defense i normally
01:04:44put everything in a bag please please don't know what it is it's wrapped well you've obviously lost
01:04:50miserably john's team one point to shappies team so put your badly wrapped presses away please in fact
01:05:02feel free to keep them because they are your secret santa gift i knew you i'd have football debbie
01:05:08okay i'm going to quickly toss up the scores and i can tell you that tonight's winners are john's team
01:05:16hey happy christmas merry christmas
01:05:23god bless us everyone well done john's team congratulations shappies team you don't go away
01:05:30empty-handed you get an already out of date cliff richard calendar
01:05:41john's team you've won tonight's star prize the christmas quiz night bowl of golden sprouts
01:05:48we win should we win should we absolutely win that's not a prize thank you all at home for watching and
01:05:59a very merry christmas
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