This article lists 25 of the best Christmas TV specials ever made, including classics like 'A Charlie Brown Christmas', 'Gavin & Stacey', and 'The Snowman'. It highlights memorable moments and themes from each special, offering a festive journey through television history.
Lovelorn ghosts, punch-ups involving roast meat and a holiday armadillo. Festive television doesn’t get better than these absolute classics …t’s the most wonderful time. We refer, of course, to eagerly opening the bumper festive TV listings and realising there’s not much you want to watch. Bah humbug! Don’t despair. Simply fill the gaps with some judicious archive rummaging and revisit the best Christmas specials of the past.
The last ever episode is the TV event of this Christmas. Warm up by reliving the Anglo-Welsh sitcom’s first festive special from 2008. As Stacey’s family travel from Barry to Billericay to celebrate with the in-laws, proposals are made, punches are thrown and drama queen Pam pretends to be vegetarian. Again.A yuletide must-watch. The Bafta-winning 1982 adaptation of Raymond Briggs’s tale of a boy befriending a snowman retains all its magical charm. Dialogue-free but utterly enchanting.
Sunny Delight and cava cocktails all round as codependent flatmates Mark and Jeremy share a family Christmas from hell. Yuletide delights include Dobby denial, shouty charades, Super Hans gatecrashing as “Father Spliffmas” and Mark putting his dad’s dinner through a paper shredder. Remind us: is cauliflower traditional?The late comic genius described her first sketch show for nine years as “a whole night’s telly crammed into one hour”.
This Dickens reversal sees Ebenezer Blackadder start out as “the nicest man in England”. When a ghost gives him glimpses of his cunning past and sci-fi future, he changes his ways. Hugh Laurie narrates, while Miriam Margolyes, Jim Broadbent and Robbie Coltrane make cameos.The light entertainment era peaked with Eric and Ern’s nation-uniting festive extravaganzas and 1971 is the true classic. The all-singing, all-dancing duo are joined by Glenda Jackson, Shirley Bassey and Andre “Preview” Previn.
Christmas on Craggy Island? Ah, go on. While the hapless priests get stuck in Ireland’s biggest lingerie department, Father Jack teaches toddlers to swear and Mrs Doyle pratfalls while putting up the decorations. But who let Father Dougal officiate a funeral?‘The greatest super-holiday known to mankind’ … The Best Chrismukkah Ever.He returned this year in romcom Nobody Wants This but Adam Brody first charmed his way into viewers’ hearts in the 00s teen drama.
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