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Christmas specials have long been a staple of the seasonal TV schedules, especially on the BBC and especially comedies. There are the occasional one-off TV films for drama series, but not usually Christmas ones (and they often suck) - Cracker and Spender are two that come to mind.
A comedy show doesn't seem to be classed as a proper success until it's been worthy of a Christmas special! The Blackadder Christmas Carol was shown in December 1988 (on the same night as the Lockerbie bombing, I always remember that night), while Blackadder Goes Forth was on TV the next year.
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Really? The back of my video box says 1991. It lies! (Although I guess that explains why there is no Goes Forth stuff on it.)
In the early days of Doctor Who they threw in a Christmas episode in the midst of an Exciting Adventure With The Daleks (TM), called "The Feast Of Stephen". Most famous for extreme amounts of sillyness culminating in Hartnell turning to the camera at the end and wishing all of us at home a very merry christmas. The drunk fool.
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Yeah, definitely 1988. Where my memory falls down is on the Blackadder-executes-Charles-I sketch fom the first Comic Relief Night. I always thought that was in 1989 - yet I clearly remember the Cavalier Years sketch coming before Christmas Carol. Guess there was a Comic Relief Night in early 1988 which I don't remember. . .
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I think that in 'battlefield' they were going to kill of Lethbridge-Stewart. He was gonna go out in the final explosion, but instead, he gets up, wipes off the dust and goes home to his garden, wife and a nice cup of tea.
I got the oppinion all the UNIT members were killed off in aliens of london, but then again, they may not have been the whole of unit. But given the new formant, I don't think that there is roon for UNIT in one 45min episode.
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No- they were all rolled up into the UN's SHIELD organization.
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This is as good as any a place to put this, I suppose, so I toss it out like one of those plates affixed to the side of Pioneer 10, in the hopes of communicating with a culture wholly alien (and not a little freaky) to me.
Uh, which is to say I have never watched this show in any incarnation, but if I wanted to read a bunch of novelizations I could for free, thanks to nu-media savvy BBC employees. Doctor Who books for the taking.
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quote:Originally posted by PsyLiam: Really? The back of my video box says 1991. It lies!
The date is probably the copyright date of the video production, not of the actual show.
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