List of United Kingdom Christmas television episodes & specials

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The following is a list of United Kingdom, Christmas television specials, as well as Christmas-themed episodes of regular television series.

Contents

[edit] Bands

[edit] Children's

[edit] The Basil Brush Show

  • The Basil Brush Show: Molly Christmas (2002)
  • The Basil Brush Show: Basil's Christmas Turkey (2003)
  • The Basil Brush Show: It's a Wonderful Brush (2004)
  • The Basil Brush Show: Santa Brush (2005)
  • The Basil Brush Show: There's No Business Like Snow Business (2006)
  • The Basil Brush Show: Basil's Christmas Dinners (2007)

[edit] ChuckleVision

  • ChuckleVision: Traditional Christmas (1987)
  • ChuckleVision: Christmas Special (1988)
  • ChuckleVision: Messy Xmas/Christmas Chuckle (2002)
  • ChuckleVision: The Mystery Of Little-Under-Standing (2008)

[edit] CBeebies

[edit] Fireman Sam

  • Fireman Sam: Snow Business (1988)
  • Fireman Sam: The Big Freeze/Let it Snow (2005)

[edit] Postman Pat

  • Postman Pat Goes Sledging/Letters on Ice (1982)
  • Postman Pat's Magic Christmas (2003)
  • Postman Pat and the Ice Ladder/the Rocket Rescue (2004)
  • Postman Pat's Christmas Eve (2006)

[edit] The Teletubbies

  • The Teletubbies: Teletubbies and the Snow (1997)
  • The Teletubbies: Happy Christmas from the Teletubbies (1997)

[edit] Gerry Anderson productions

[edit] My Parents Are Aliens

  • My Parents Are Aliens: First Christmas: Part 1/First Christmas: Part 2 (2000)
  • My Parents Are Aliens: The Naughty List Part 1/The Naughty List: Part 2 (2004)
  • My Parents Are Aliens: Winter Blunderland (2006)

[edit] Raymond Briggs

[edit] Robbie the Reindeer

  • Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire (1999)
  • Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe (2002)
  • Robbie the Reindeer: Close Encounters of the Herd Kind (2007)

[edit] Thomas and Friends

  • Thomas and Friends: Thomas' Christmas Party (1984)
  • Thomas and Friends: Thomas and the Missing Christmas Tree (1986)
  • Thomas and Friends: Thomas, Percy and the Christmas Adventure (1991)
  • Thomas and Friends: It's Only Snow (2002)
  • Thomas and Friends: Not So Hasty Puddings (2003)
  • Thomas and Friends: Don't Tell Thomas (2004)

[edit] Drama

[edit] All Creatures Great and Small

  • All Creatures Great and Small: Merry Gentlemen (1978)
  • All Creatures Great and Small: Brotherly Love (1990)

[edit] The Bill

  • The Bill: Twanky (1997)
  • The Bill: Christmas Star (1998)
  • The Bill: When the Snow Lay Round About (1999)
  • The Bill: The Night Before (2000)
  • The Bill: Santa's Little Helper (2008)

[edit] Bad Girls

  • Bad Girls Christmas Special (2005)
  • Bad Girls Christmas Special (2006)

[edit] Casualty / Holby City

  • Casualty: Survival/Closure (1986)
  • Casualty: These Things Happen (1987)
  • Casualty: Silent Night (1992)
  • Casualty: Comfort and Joy (1993)
  • Casualty: Talking Turkey (1994)
  • Casualty: Lost Boys (1995)
  • Casualty: Do You Believe in Fairies? (1996)
  • Casualty: The Golden Hour (1997)
  • Casualty: New Year and all that (1998)
  • Casualty: Peace on Earth (1999)
  • Holby City: Tidings of Comfort and Joy (1999)
  • Casualty: Merry Christmas Dr Spiller (2000)
  • Holby City: A Christmas Carol, Part I/A Christmas Carol, Part II (2000)
  • Casualty: Life and Soul (2001)
  • Holby City: 'Twas the Night (2001)
  • Casualty: Some Comfort, No Joy, Little Peace, Bit Too Much Love (2002)
  • Holby City: Sinners And Saints (2002)
  • Casualty: Eat, Drink and Be Merry (2003)
  • Holby City: In The Bleak Midwinter (2003)
  • Casualty@Holby City: (Part One)/(Part Two) (2004)
  • Casualty: Do They Know It's Christmas? (2005)
  • Casualty@Holby City: Deny Thy Father part 1/Deny Thy Father part 2 (2005)
  • Casualty: Silent Night (2006)
  • Holby City: The Good Fight (2006)
  • Casualty: What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love and Understanding (2007)
  • Holby City: Elliot's Wonderful Life (2007)
  • Casualty: This Will Be Our Year/Took a Long Time to Come (2008)
  • Holby City: Maria's Christmas Carol (2008)
  • Casualty: All I Want for Christmas/Tidings of Comfort and Joy (2009)
  • Holby City: Stand By Me (2009)
  • Casualty: Season of Goodwill/Winter Wonderland (2010)
  • Holby City: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year (2010)
  • Casualty: Next of Kin (2011)
  • Holby City: Wise Men (2011)

[edit] Doctor Who

[edit] Grange Hill

  • Grange Hill: Christmas Special (1981)
  • Grange Hill: Christmas Special (1985)

[edit] Heartbeat

  • Heartbeat: A Winter's Tale (1994)
  • Heartbeat: The Queen's Message (1997)
  • Heartbeat: Echoes of the Past (1998)
  • Heartbeat: Cold Turkey (2000)
  • Heartbeat: No Hiding Place (2001)
  • Heartbeat: Many Splendoured Thing (2002)
  • Heartbeat: In the Bleak Midwinter (2004)
  • Heartbeat: Christmas Album (2005)
  • Heartbeat: Auld Acquaintance (2005)

[edit] Jonathan Creek

  • Jonathan Creek: Black Canary (1998)
  • Jonathan Creek: Satan's Chimney (2001)
  • Jonathan Creek: The Grinning Man (2009)

[edit] Northern Lights

[edit] Upstairs, Downstairs

  • Upstairs, Downstairs: Whom God Hath Joined (1972)
  • Upstairs, Downstairs: Goodwill to All Men (1973)

[edit] Comedies

[edit] 2point4 children

  • 2point4 children: Misery (1992)
  • 2point4 children: Babes in the Wood (1993)
  • 2point4 children: Relax-ay-voo (1994)
  • 2point4 children: Porky's (1995)
  • 2point4 children: Two Years Before the Mast (1996)

[edit] After You've Gone

  • After You've Gone: And So This Is Christmas (2007)
  • After You've Gone: There Will Be Pud (2008)

[edit] 'Allo 'Allo!

[edit] Are You Being Served?

  • Are You Being Served?: Christmas Crackers (1975)
  • Are You Being Served?: The Father Christmas Affair (1976)
  • Are You Being Served?: Happy Returns (1978)
  • Are You Being Served?: The Punch and Judy Affair (1979)
  • Are You Being Served?: Roots? (1981)

[edit] Birds of a Feather

  • Birds of a Feather: Sailing (1989)
  • Birds of a Feather: Falling in Love Again (1990)
  • Birds of a Feather: We'll Always Have Majorca (1991)
  • Birds of a Feather: The Chigwell Connection (1992)
  • Birds of a Feather: It Happened in Hollywood (1993)
  • Birds of a Feather: Christmas in Dreamland (1994)
  • Birds of a Feather: Reservoir Birds (1997)

[edit] Bread

  • Bread: Christmas with the Boswells (1988)
  • Bread: A Quiet Christmas (1989)
  • Bread: Another Christmas with the Boswells (1990)

[edit] The Brittas Empire

  • The Brittas Empire: In the Beginning (1994)
  • The Brittas Empire: Surviving Christmas (1996)

[edit] Carry On

  • Carry on Christmas (1969)
  • Carry on Again Christmas (1970)
  • Carry on Christmas: Carry on Stuffing (1972)
  • Carry on Christmas (1973)
  • Carry on Laughing's Christmas Classics (1983)

[edit] The Catherine Tate Show

  • The Catherine Tate Show: Christmas Special (2005)
  • Nans Christmas Carol (2009)

[edit] Creature Comforts

  • Merry Christmas (2003)
  • Merry Christmas Everybody! (2005)

[edit] Dad's Army

[edit] The Detectives

  • The Detectives: Thicker Than Water (1995)
  • The Detectives: Go West, Young Man (1997)

[edit] Fresh Fields / French Fields

  • Fresh Fields: A Dickens of a Christmas (1985)
  • French Fields: Noel, Noel (1990)

[edit] George and Mildred

  • George and Mildred: No Business Like Show Business (1977)
  • George and Mildred: On the Second Day of Christmas (1978)
  • George and Mildred: The Twenty Six Year Itch (1979)

[edit] The Green Green Grass

[edit] Happy Ever After / Terry and June

  • Happy Ever After: Christmas (1976)
  • Happy Ever After: Terry's Parents (1977)
  • Terry and June: The Christmas Show (1980)
  • Terry and June: Christmas (1981)
  • Terry and June: Christmas with Terry and June (1982)
  • Terry and June: Pantomania (1985)

[edit] Keeping Up Appearances

  • Keeping Up Appearances: The Father Christmas Suit (1991)
  • Keeping Up Appearances: Sea Fever (1993)
  • Keeping Up Appearances: Angel Gabriel Blue (1994)
  • Keeping Up Appearances: The Pageant (1995)

[edit] Last of the Summer Wine

  • Last of the Summer Wine: Small Tune On A Penny Wassail (1978)
  • Last of the Summer Wine: And A Dewhurst Up A Fir Tree (1979)
  • Last of the Summer Wine: Whoops (1981)
  • Last of the Summer Wine: All Mod Conned (1982)
  • Last of the Summer Wine: Merry Christmas, Father Christmas (1986)
  • Last of the Summer Wine: Big Day at Dream Acres (1987)
  • Last of the Summer Wine: Crums (1988)
  • Last of the Summer Wine: What's Santa Brought For Nora Then? (1989)
  • Last of the Summer Wine: Barry's Christmas (1990)
  • Last of the Summer Wine: Situation Vacant (1991)
  • Last of the Summer Wine: Stop That Castle (1992)
  • Last of the Summer Wine: Welcome to Earth (1993)
  • Last of the Summer Wine: A Leg Up For Christmas (1995)
  • Last of the Summer Wine: Extra! Extra! (1996)
  • Last of the Summer Wine: There Goes the Groom (1997)
  • Last of the Summer Wine: Potts in Pole Position (2001)
  • Last of the Summer Wine: A Musical Passing for a Miserable Muscroft (2002)
  • Last of the Summer Wine: A Short Blast of Fred Astaire (2003)
  • Last of the Summer Wine: Variations on a Theme of the Widow Winstanley (2004)
  • Last of the Summer Wine: Merry Enthwhistle and Jackson Day (2005)
  • Last of the Summer Wine: A Tale of Two Sweaters (2006)

[edit] The Morecambe and Wise Show

  • The Morecambe & Wise Show: Christmas Special (1969)
  • The Morecambe & Wise Show: Christmas Special (1970)
  • The Morecambe & Wise Show: Christmas Special (1971)
  • The Morecambe & Wise Show: Christmas Special (1972)
  • The Morecambe & Wise Show: Christmas Special (1973)
  • The Morecambe & Wise Show: Christmas Special (1975)
  • The Morecambe & Wise Show: Christmas Special (1976)
  • The Morecambe & Wise Show: Christmas Special (1977)
  • The Morecambe & Wise Show: Christmas Special (1978)
  • The Morecambe & Wise Show: Christmas Special (1979)
  • The Morecambe & Wise Show: Christmas Special (1980)
  • The Morecambe & Wise Show: Christmas Special (1981)
  • The Morecambe & Wise Show: Christmas Special (1982)
  • The Morecambe & Wise Show: Christmas Special (1983)

[edit] My Family

  • My Family: Ding Dong Merrily (2002)
  • My Family: Sixty Feet Under (2003)
  • My Family: Glad Tidings We Bring (2004)
  • My Family: ...And I'll Cry If I Want To (2005)
  • My Family: The Heart of Christmas (2006)
  • My Family: Ho Ho No (2007)
  • My Family: Have An Unhappy Christmas (2008)
  • My Family: 2039: A Christmas Oddity (2009)
  • My Family: Mary Christmas (2010)

[edit] Nearest and Dearest

  • Nearest and Dearest: The Ghost Of Picklers Past (1969)
  • Nearest and Dearest: Cindernellie/All Star Comedy Carnival (1972)

[edit] Not Going Out

  • Not Going Out: Murder at Christmas (2007)
  • Not Going Out: Absent Father Christmas (2009)

[edit] On the Buses

  • On the Buses: Christmas Duty (1970)
  • On the Buses: Boxing Day Social (1971)

[edit] One Foot in the Grave

  • One Foot in the Grave: Who's Listening? (1990)
  • One Foot in the Grave: The Man In The Long Black Coat (1991)
  • One Foot in the Grave: One Foot in the Algarve (1993)
  • One Foot in the Grave: The Man Who Blew Away (1994)
  • One Foot in the Grave: The Wisdom of the Witch (1995)
  • One Foot in the Grave: Starbound (1996)
  • One Foot in the Grave: Endgame (1997)

[edit] Only Fools and Horses / Rock & Chips

[edit] Outnumbered

  • Outnumbered: Christmas Special (2009)
  • Outnumbered: The Broken Santa (2011)

[edit] Porridge

  • Porridge: No Way Out (1975)
  • Porridge: The Desperate Hours (1976)

[edit] QI

  • QI: Advent (2003)
  • QI: Birth (2004)
  • QI: December (2006)
  • QI: Empire (2007)
  • QI: Elephants (2007)
  • QI: Fire and Freezing (2008)
  • QI: Groovy (2009)
  • QI: Hocus Pocus (2010)
  • QI: Icy (2011)

[edit] Rab C. Nesbitt

  • Rab C. Nesbitt: Seasonal Greet (1988)
  • Rab C. Nesbitt: Clean (2008)

[edit] Robin's Nest

  • Robin's Nest: Christmas at Robin's Nest (1979)
  • Robin's Nest: No Room at the Inn (1980)

[edit] Rowan Atkinson

[edit] The Royle Family

  • The Royle Family: Christmas with the Royle Family (1999)
  • The Royle Family: The Royle Family at Christmas (2000)
  • The Royle Family: The New Sofa (2008)
  • The Royle Family: The Golden Egg Cup (2009)
  • The Royle Family: Joe's Crackers (2010)

[edit] Shelley

  • Shelley: Christmas with Shelley (1980)
  • Shelley: Cold Turkey (1989)

[edit] Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em

  • Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em: Jessica's First Christmas (1974)
  • Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em: Learning to Drive (1975)
  • Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em: Learning to Fly (1978)

[edit] Steptoe and Son

  • Steptoe and Son: The Party (1973)
  • Steptoe and Son: A Perfect Christmas. (1974)

[edit] Still Game

  • Still Game: Christmas Special - Cold Turkey (2005)
  • Still Game: Hogmanay Special - The Party (2006)
  • Still Game: Christmas Special - Plum Number (2007)
  • Still Game: Hogmanay Special - Hootenanny (2007)

[edit] Sykes

  • Sykes: Christmas Party (1975)
  • Sykes: Sykes at Christmas (1977)

[edit] Till Death Us Do Part / In Sickness and in Health

  • Till Death Us Do Part: Peace and Goodwill (1966)
  • Till Death Us Do Part: Christmas Special (1972)
  • In Sickness and in Health: Christmas Special (1985)
  • In Sickness and in Health: Christmas Special (1986)
  • In Sickness and in Health: Christmas Special (1987)
  • In Sickness and in Health: Christmas Special (1989)
  • In Sickness and in Health: Christmas Special (1990)

[edit] To the Manor Born

  • To the Manor Born: Christmas Special (1979)
  • To the Manor Born: Christmas Special (2007)

[edit] The Two Ronnies

  • The Two Ronnies: 'Old-Fashioned Christmas Mystery (1973)
  • The Two Ronnies: Christmas Special (1980)
  • The Two Ronnies: Christmas Special (1981)
  • The Two Ronnies: Christmas Special (1982)
  • The Two Ronnies: Christmas Special (1984)
  • Christmas with the Ronnies (1985)
  • The Two Ronnies: Christmas Special (1987)
  • The Two Ronnies Sketchbook: The Christmas Sketchbook (2005)

[edit] The Vicar of Dibley

  • The Vicar of Dibley: The Christmas Lunch Incident (1996)
  • The Vicar of Dibley: Winter (1999)
  • The Vicar of Dibley: Merry Christmas (2004)
  • The Vicar of Dibley: The Handsome Stranger/The Vicar in White (2006)

[edit] Victoria Wood

[edit] Waiting for God

  • Waiting for God: Christmas at Bayview (1992)
  • Waiting for God: Another Christmas at Bayview (1993)

[edit] You're Only Young Twice

  • You're Only Young Twice: Christmas at Paradise Lodge (1979)
  • You're Only Young Twice: Twas the Night Before Christmas (1980)

[edit] General entertainment shows

[edit] Cookery Shows

TBA

[edit] Music/Dancing

  • Top of the Pops Christmas Specials (1964-present) - There has been a Christmas edition of Top of the Pops every year since 1964 and even past the shows cancelation.
  • Supersonic Christmas Show Special (1975, 1976 & 1983) - Mike Mansfield production.
  • Dancing on Ice at Christmas (2008)
  • Strictly Come Dancing Christmas specials (2004-present)

[edit] Gameshows

  • Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?: Celebrity Special (1998-present) -- Since the show first started each year ITV will dedicate a few episodes at Christmas, where celebrities will try to win money for charity.
  • Deal or No Deal: Scrooge vs Santa/Christmas Star (2007-present)
  • Bruce Forsyth's Generation Game (1973)

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