"Beccher decorated the house in the style of 1930s designers like Syrie Maugham and Elsie de Wolfe. The below stairs and kitchen scenes were shot at Wrotham Park in Hertfordshire. Railway scenes were filmed at the South Devon Railway between Totnes and Buckfastleigh. ""And Then There Were None"" received critical acclaim and was a ratings success for the BBC, with the first episode netting over 6 million viewers and becoming the second most watched programme on Boxing Day. Each of the two subsequent episodes netted over 5 million viewers. Despite criticism ahead of the programme's launch from the ""Daily Mail"""
"as her niece Alice Meredith and Rosamund Greenwood as Sister Dorothy Smith (whom left after the first series and was later replaced by David Daker as Brother Benjamin in the second series thereafter). A notable characteristic of the show was that every episode ended with the audience clapping once during the closing sequence throughout its year-long run. Contrary to popular belief, only 15 episodes over two series were ever made. It is unknown why many sources claim that there were three series made. This is in fact not true; there were only two series and one Christmas special shown between"
"on. Ralf Little did not appear in this episode, but his character is referenced. The hour-long special aired on Christmas Day 2008, and attracted 10,600,000 viewers, making it the fifth most watched programme on Christmas Day and the fifth most watched for the entire week ending 28 December 2008. The Royle Family returned as part of Comic Relief, on 13 March 2009. It also marked the return of Ralf Little as Antony, who joined Dave, Denise, Jim and Barbara in the one-off mini episode. Another Christmas special, ""The Golden Egg Cup"", was aired on 25 December 2009 at 9:00pm on"
"said this and would like to at least do specials in the future. Tate filmed a Christmas special which aired on 25 December 2007, with viewing figures of 6.4 million. Tate has announced that there will be no more series after the special; however, a Christmas special was shown on 25 December 2009. Another 30 minute episode involving the Nan character was shown in January 2014. Two new Christmas specials aired on 27 and 30 December 2015 again involving Nan. On 4 January 2016, Tate announced that she does not plan to make anymore specials as she is busy with"
"Christmas Crackers (Only Fools and Horses) ""Christmas Crackers"" is the first Christmas special episode of the BBC sit-com, ""Only Fools and Horses"", first screened on 28 December 1981, three days after Christmas. It is the first episode to run over 30 minutes, but not the first feature-length. It's Christmas Day and Grandad is cooking the dinner while Rodney is reading a book on body language which Mickey Pearce has lent him. Del returns and gives Grandad a Christmas present (a £20 note), however Grandad tells Del that he has not got him a present this year as ""I don't believe"
"although very little (if any) location work was actually performed and the episodes were mostly confined to the TV studio. Of the 41 episodes produced by ABC, only five are currently known to exist in television-broadcastable format—the rest being victims of the common television company policy of wiping. However, two episodes from the first series remain. In ""Nobody Kills Santa Claus"", the second episode of the first series (transmitted 30 January 1965), Marker plays comparatively little part in the plot. The episode does establish key aspects of Marker's character: his modest lifestyle arising from his modest fees for his work—the"
"to 1966. In 1978, it returned to television, but this new production did not have the spectacular success that previous ones did. TV programmes which have had special Christmas episodes in the United Kingdom include ""Top of the Pops"" (from 1960s-2006), ""Morecambe and Wise"" (1970s), ""The Two Ronnies"" (1980s), ""Stars in their Eyes"", ""Only Fools and Horses"" (both 1990s), and more recently, ""Doctor Who"", ""Top Gear"" (both 2000s) and ""Downton Abbey"" (2010s). The animated tale ""The Snowman"" has been screened for many years during the Christmas period (usually Christmas Eve or Christmas Day), and a new story, ""Father Christmas"", by"
"anecdote, Albert instead mentions the plight of the people of Africa. The show contains subtle references to Nicholas Lyndhurst and David Jason's other well-known shows, ""Goodnight Sweetheart"" and ""A Touch of Frost"" respectively. It ends with an appeal for donations from Del and Rodney. Comic Relief special The ""Comic Relief special"" was an edition of the BBC sit-com, ""Only Fools and Horses"", recorded as part of the 1997 Comic Relief appeal. It was first screened on 14 March 1997. It was chronologically set before the 1996 Christmas trilogy. This special was the final appearance of Uncle Albert. Sitting around the"
"subject. 2015 was the only year since the show began in 2005 in which a full series was not broadcast (although there have so far been no shows in 2018). Two Christmas Specials however were filmed for airing on 24 and 30 December 2015. ""8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown"" however aired for a total of 24 episodes throughout 2015. The current rounds featured on ""8 Out of 10 Cats"" are: Until series 8 there were four rounds during the game, but it has since been reduced to three. The points often do not add up correctly, as the"
"that two guys have already beat them to it. Christmas Crackers (Only Fools and Horses) ""Christmas Crackers"" is the first Christmas special episode of the BBC sit-com, ""Only Fools and Horses"", first screened on 28 December 1981, three days after Christmas. It is the first episode to run over 30 minutes, but not the first feature-length. It's Christmas Day and Grandad is cooking the dinner while Rodney is reading a book on body language which Mickey Pearce has lent him. Del returns and gives Grandad a Christmas present (a £20 note), however Grandad tells Del that he has not got"
"CBS episodes no longer exist. The network had terminated its wiping practice of shows it owned in September 1972, but Procter & Gamble continued wiping tapes for several more years. Many monochrome episodes and some color episodes of the show were kinescoped; the color kinescopes survive in black-and-white. 45 episodes of the CBS era are known to exist, the best-known of which include the Christmas Day 1974 episode and a September 1975 episode depicting the attempted murder of Geraldine. Some fans also have the second episode of the series (April 3, 1956), which featured Don Hastings, John Larkin and Teal"
"three series and one Christmas special from 30 September 1979 to 29 November 1981. Each episode is thirty minutes long. The first series aired for seven episodes on Sundays at 8.45 pm, the second series for six episodes on Sundays at 8.35 pm and the seven-episode Series Three on Sundays at 7.15 pm. The Christmas special aired at 8.00 pm. All episodes aired on BBC1. A second Christmas special, announced on 24 October 2007, aired at 9.30 pm on BBC One on 25 December 2007. Several episodes received extremely high audience figures, especially the first series. This was partly due"
"Once Upon a Sesame Street Christmas Once Upon a Sesame Street Christmas is an hour-long ""Sesame Street"" 2016 Christmas special and the first to air on HBO. This also used the PBS Kids version of this Christmas program used Wednesday, November 22, 2017. On Christmas Eve, Elmo's father Louie tells his son about how Sesame Street was a dreary place in the 19th century as its inhabitants lack the Christmas spirit enough for Santa Claus to not make a stop there and is enforced by a constable that is Mr. Johnson's ancestor. Elmo's great-great-great-grandfather of the same name has moved"
"it on Christmas Eve, the record (in 1997) being just over half the population. This special has yet to see a DVD release. In the US, the show originally aired on ABC and occasionally afterwards on NBC. The original version included Walt Disney's introduction where he has been cricket-sized, because, as Mickey and Jiminy would say, Christmas is bigger than all of them. The American version has been infrequently shown since 1980. The original American version features the following shorts: As well as clips from the following feature films, labeled in the special as ""Memorable Moments"": The special ends with"
"mistakes him for this character. Brian Cant later played Chairman Tensa in ""The Dominators"" (1968). Royston Tickner later played Robbins in ""The Sea Devils"" (1972). Currently, only episodes 2, 5, and 10 are known as extant. All 12 episodes were recorded on and transmitted from magnetic videotape. Subsequently, BBC Enterprises had 16mm film telerecordings made for potential overseas sales. However, Episode 7 (""The Feast of Steven""), the Christmas episode, was excluded from this and the story offered for sale was an 11-part version. The original videotapes of Episodes 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 9 are listed among the"
"cheer without being too painfully maudlin"". Anne Sherber of ""Home Media Magazine"" called it ""fanciful and charming"". Terry Kelleher of ""People"" called it ""pleasant but flimsy"". Santa and Pete Santa and Pete is a 1999 American Christmas film directed by Duwayne Dunham. It was written by Greg Taylor, based on the novel by Christopher Moore and Pamela Johnson. It stars Hume Cronyn as Saint Nick, Flex Alexander as Pete, and James Earl Jones as Grandpa Nicholas. It first aired on CBS on December 5, 1999. Grandpa Nicholas is seen decorating a Christmas tree before the arrival of his daughter Cassie"
"series would consist of eight episodes. However, upon broadcast, only six episodes were shown, with two episodes, Daisy Lowe vs Matt Richardson and Chris Ramsey vs Aston Merrygold, remaining unaired. On 7 November 2016 Channel 5 confirmed that a second series, comprising six episodes, plus an additional Christmas Special, had been ordered and would broadcast from January 2017. Despite this, only four episodes aired, with episodes Robert Webb vs Sally Phillips and Joey Essex vs Louie Spence going unaired. In March 2018, the third run of episodes was broadcast by Channel 5; however, despite some listings referring to them as"
"It is very unlikely that material from the third to sixth episodes of the serial will ever be recovered to the BBC's archives. The two existing episodes are the oldest surviving examples of a multi-episodic British drama production, and some of the earliest existing examples of British television drama at all, with only a few earlier one-off plays surviving. In November 1953, it was suggested that the existing two episodes could be combined and followed with a condensed live production of the latter part of the story for a special Christmas omnibus repeat of the serial. This idea was abandoned."
"the Christmas Tree!"", with over 530 million views; ""Two Much"", with over 480 million views; ""Little Cousin"", with over 460 million views; and ""Home-Grown Ninjas"", with over 350 million views. ""Masha and the Bear"" is the only non-music artist to have more than one video exceeding a billion views. The show consists of three full seasons, with 26 episodes each. The first thirteen episodes of the fourth season have been launched already. For the first season in English, Elsie Fisher—the voice of Agnes, the youngest of the three girls in the ""Despicable Me"" films—was chosen to dub the voice of"
"and Booth having died prior to the film's production. The Year Without a Santa Claus The Year Without a Santa Claus is a 1974 Christmas stop motion animated television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions. The story is based on Phyllis McGinley's 1956 book of the same name. It was originally broadcast on December 10, 1974 on ABC. The film was Shirley Booth's final acting credit as she retired from acting after its completion. Santa Claus wakes up with a cold sometime before Christmas. His doctor, who thinks nobody cares about him anymore, advises him to make some changes to his"
"on DVD, and repeats have been very few and far between. This series was rebroadcast on ITV3 on 8 February 2017, 9 February 2017, 10 February 2017, 14 February 2017, 15 February 2017, 16 February 2017 and 17 February 2017. The fourth series consists of six episodes, and was broadcast from 7 January to 11 February 1999. This series was the last to feature many of the original cast members, including Enzo Squillino, Jr. and Andrew Dunn; and was also the last series to feature multi-part stories (in this case, two stories of three episodes each). The series has never"
"May 2012, followed by a Text Santa special on 21 December and a Christmas special on 27 December. Series 9 consisted of nine episodes, which aired from 6 January to 3 March 2013, followed by a six-part tenth series in the summer airing between 29 June and 3 August 2013. Series 11 began with a Christmas special on 29 December 2013, followed by ten episodes from 5 January to 2 March 2014, making this series the longest since series 6. Christmas editions of the show often air during the festive period, which see two teams from different television programmes (for"
"Once Upon a Christmas"", ""Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas"", and """". According to the unofficial timeline of Don Rosa, Daisy was born in 1920. According to Rosa, Daisy is the sister of Donald's brother-in-law – Daisy's brother had married Donald's twin sister, Della Duck, and together, the two became the parents of Huey, Dewey, and Louie Duck. This is his explanation of why the triplets tend to call her ""Aunt Daisy"" while no such courtesy is given to Gladstone Gander for example. Don Rosa has said that he considers Donald and Daisy to be nonrelated and that Duck simply is"
"35 mini-episodes were uploaded, with two series airing in 2012. The series has not returned. In December 2011 the show's current cast released a cover of the Wham! classic Last Christmas, with their own unique version of the show's theme song 'The Only Way Is Up' as the single's B-side. The version used on the show, by Yazz, spent five weeks at number one in 1988. All profits from the single go to ""Text Santa"", a major new charity initiative set up by ITV, which aims to raise money and awareness for a group of charities, including Crisis, Samaritans and"
"Halloween special consisted of two segments from the show, ""Pacula"" and ""Trick or Chomp"". The special aired in primetime on ABC on October 30, 1982. It has been replayed on channels like Cartoon Network and Boomerang during Halloween in recent years. ""Christmas Comes to Pac-Land"" In this Christmas special, Pac-Man and his family help Santa Claus (voiced by Peter Cullen) after he crash lands in Pac-Land (after the reindeer were startled by the floating eyes of the Ghost Monsters after Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man and Pac-Baby chomped them). Mezmeron was the only character from the cartoon that is not in the"
"averaging less than 2mil per airing. The 25 Days of Christmas schedule was released in late October by Freeform. While notable absences include Jim Carrey's ""How the Grinch Stole Christmas"", ""Home Alone"", and the second and third ""Santa Clause"" films, the schedule still includes many classics. The schedule includes 25 days of classics like, ""Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory"", ""National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation"", ""The Santa Clause"", Tim Burton's ""The Nightmare Before Christmas"", ""Jack Frost"", Disney's ""A Christmas Carol"", ""The Polar Express"", ""The Holiday"", ""Elf"", ""Jingle All The Way"", ""Scrooged"", ""Deck the Halls"", ""Toy Story"", ""Frozen"", and ""Happy Feet"". 2016"
"particular to the holidays. There is a melancholy to the comings and goings that define this time of year, and ""Last Christmas"" recognises that from its title outward."" Praise was also given to Capaldi's performance in the special, ""If there’s one thing we never really saw in Capaldi’s first season as the Doctor, it was the kind of unabashed joy that so animated the 10th and 11th Doctors and made the tail-end of the 9th Doctor’s journey—including his Santa claim to Rose at the end of ""The Doctor Dances""—so powerful. Well, it takes the full hour, but ""Last Christmas"" gets"
"The Year Without a Santa Claus The Year Without a Santa Claus is a 1974 Christmas stop motion animated television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions. The story is based on Phyllis McGinley's 1956 book of the same name. It was originally broadcast on December 10, 1974 on ABC. The film was Shirley Booth's final acting credit as she retired from acting after its completion. Santa Claus wakes up with a cold sometime before Christmas. His doctor, who thinks nobody cares about him anymore, advises him to make some changes to his routine, so Santa decides to take a holiday instead"
"6. The show aired for six series and forty two episodes, including a Christmas special titled 'Jingle Balls', which was broadcast over Christmas 1997. A final short run of three 45-minute episodes was made in 1998 to conclude the series. Series one was the only series to feature Dermot, played by Harry Enfield, and the only series not to feature Neil Morrissey as Tony. The episodes of the first two series are about 24 minutes long because they were shown on ITV and time was needed for advertisements. When the show began on the BBC, the episodes were about four"
"NBC) and 1969 (when it debuted on CBS). , ""Rudolph"" and ""Frosty"" are the only two pre-1990 animated specials that continue to air on CBS on an annual basis; the broadcast rights to the ""Peanuts"" specials are now held by ABC while ""How The Grinch Stole Christmas"" is broadcast by NBC and Turner Broadcasting System outlets; ABC Family owns the rights to the ""Garfield"" specials. In the 21st century, ""Rudolph"" and ""Frosty"" have been joined by a series of newer specials that air on a semi-regular basis, including such entries as ""Frosty Returns"", the ""Robbie the Reindeer"" shorts, ""The Flight"
"nine years, with 80 episodes in total, including three Christmas specials and an hour-long special. At its peak, the programme regularly gained audiences of 18.5 million. There were also four short specials broadcast as part of ""Christmas Night with the Stars"" in 1968, 1969, 1970 and 1972. The first two series were recorded and screened in black and white, while Series 3 to 9 were recorded and screened in colour. Even so, one episode in Series 3, ""Room at the Bottom"", formerly only survived in black and white and remains on the official DVDs in this form. This episode has"
"performers on the Christmas shows included the Doo Wops comedy group, and various members of Barenaked Ladies. The last Christmas show on terrestrial radio took place without Patterson on 23 December 2005. One year later, when neither Humble nor Fred were on radio anymore, the 17th annual Humble & Fred Christmas show was held and recorded at former producer Dan Duran's house on 16 December 2006 and subsequently made available from the duo's website as a free podcast. In December 2010, now employed at different radio stations, the duo reconvened to do another Christmas show, this time at the studio"
"a member of the RAF in the war. Rodney tells Del that Grandad was known as the ""Grey Baron"" in his air force days. Grandad then states ""It's the kids, don't know nothing."" This hints at the main characteristic of Uncle Albert who replaced Grandad after this one-off as the older generation character. Uncle Albert was a member of the Royal Navy during the war and constantly regales the family with stories of his war heroics after bemoaning the contemporary generation's ignorance of previous events. The one-off episode was produced by the Maureen Oilfield Consortium as an educational video to"