The first CaB TV show of 2021 is a bit of a momentus one, as it marks the last appearance of Dennis Waterman in Minder! From next week, he will be replaced by Gary Webster as Arthur’s nephew Ray. We also say goodbye to The All New Alexei Sayle Show (replaced next week by Alexei Sayle’s Merry Go Round) and Limmy’s Show, which I have also decided on a replacement for… But it’s a surprise! For tonight’s main feature, we’ve got another Tim Burton film – Beetlejuice (1988).

4.00 Flouncer’s Music Show

TV Comedy Block
6.00 Top Cat – Episode 4: The $1,000,000 Derby
6.25 Minder – S07E06 The Wrong Goodbye
7.15 The All New Alexei Sayle Show – S02E06
7.45 Murder Most Horrid – S01E06 Mrs Hat and Mrs Red
8.15 Absolutely Fabulous – S01E06 Birthday
8.45 Trailer Park Boys – S03E06 Where the Fuck is Randy’s Barbeque?
9.10 Limmy’s Show – S03E06
9.40 Peep Show – S08E06 Quantocking II

Tonight’s Film
10.10 Beetlejuice (1988)

This special retro show will bring us into the new year! Built around archive BBC programming from New Years Eve 1982, programmes include the 1977 John Betjeman film The Queen’s Realm, childrens drama Ghost in the Water, the Hammer horror film Hands of the Ripper (1971) starring Angharad Rees and the Old Grey Whistle Test end of year show. We finish off with Michael Aspel bringing in the new year!

6.00 Flouncer’s Music Show
6.50 The Queen’s Realm: A Prospect of England
8.00 Ghost in the Water
8.55 BBC News Bulletin
9.05 Hands of the Ripper (1971)
10.35 Old Grey Whistle Test – Pick of the Year 1982
11.50 BBC NYE Coverage into 1983

5:30 GamesMaster (series 3, episode 20)

5:55 Captain Butler (episode 1) *NEW

6:20 Nathan For You (series 1, episode 1) *NEW

6:45 Inside No. 9 – ‘The Stakeout’ (series 5, episode 6)

7:15 Face Off – ‘Scene of the Crime’ (series 3, episode 10)

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7:55 FILM: Little Otik (2000)

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As always, remember that start times are approximate, so if there’s anything in particular on the schedule that you would care to see, please try to join the stream 10 minutes or so ahead of the listed start time. I hope to see you all on the other side.

Join the stream from 5:30pm (GMT) and onward, Wednesday 30/12/20, over at https://live.fc2.com/25093044.

Join me today at 5pm as we literally kill the festivities stone dead with double bill of Ghost Stories For Christmas, followed by 1974’s proto-slasher classic, Black Christmas.

5:00: Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (1971)

Award winning animation by Richard Williams.

5.25: Frosty The Snowman (1969)

Classic Rankin Bass TV special from 1969

5.55: The Small One (1978)

Disney short directed by Don Bluth, possibly the most maudlin Christmas cartoon of all time.

6.20: The Bear (1998)

The animated Raymond Briggs adaptation that isn’t the Snowman, or Father Christmas, or the Snowman & The Snow Dog. The other one.

6.47: A Muppet Family Christmas (1987)

Kermit and his friends spend Christmas staging a surprise visit to Fozzie Bear’s mother’s farm.

7.30: The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show: Company For Christmas (1955)

For Christmas, Harry Morton invites his father and Blanche invites her brother. Unfortunately the hotel is booked solid – so Gracie attempts to create a vacancy.…

• 6.00 People Just Do Nothing S01E01
• 6.30 People Just Do Nothing S01E02
• 7.00 People Just Do Nothing S01E03
• 7.30 People Just Do Nothing S01E04
• 8.00 Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe – 2006 Christmas Special
• 8.30 Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe – 2007 Christmas Special
• 9.00 Pennis From Heaven
• 10.00 Big Night (1996)

4pm Transformers – Season 1 Episode 5 – Roll For It

4.20 Thundercats – Season 1 Episode 5 – Pumm-Ra

4.45 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Season 1 Episode 5 – Shredder And Splintered

5.05 Count Duckula – Series 1 Episode 5 – Restoration Comedy

5.30 Eerie Indiana – Episode 5 – Americas Scariest Videos

5.50 Mighty Morphin Power Rangers – Season 1 Episode 5 – Different Drum

6:10 Batman – Season 1 Episode 34 – Batman Makes The Scene (End Of Season 1)

6:35 The Simpsons – Season 1 Episode 6 – Like Father Like Clown

6.55 King Of The Hill – Season 7 Episode 7 – Texas Skillsaw Massacre

7:20 South Park –Season 5 – Episode 2 – Cripple Fight

7:45 The Sooty Show – Sooty’s Christmas Panto

8:00 The Twilight Zone – Season 5 – Episode 12 –Ninety Years Without Slumbering

8:25 The Armando Iannucci Shows – Episode 4 Imagination

9:05 Chronological Alan – Knowing Me, Knowing You – Episode 4

9.35 I Love Lucy –Season 3 Episode 1 – Rickys Life Story

I ho-ho-hope you’ll be able to join me for a festive Friday frolick through Christmas specials from days gone by. Starting at midday, this bumper broadcast will bring yuletide cheer to even the saddest of old cunts.

12.00 Tom Green Public Access Christmas Special 1995
1.00 Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats (1988)
2.30 Bullseye – 1990 Christmas Special
3.00 Grange Hill 1985 Christmas Special
3.30 Flouncer’s Festive Music Show
4.30 Minder – An Officer and a Car Salesman (1988 Christmas Special)
5.55 Morcambe and Wise 1971 Christmas Special
6.55 Porridge – The Desperate Hours (1976 Christmas Special)
7.40 Steptoe and Son – The Party (1973 Christmas Special)
8.30 Eastenders (Christmas 1998)
9.00 Only Fools and Horses – To Hull and Back (1985 Christmas Special)
10.30 Trailer Park Boys – Dear Santa Claus Go Fuck Yourself
11.15 Shooting Stars – 1995 Christmas Special
11.55 A Christmas Night With The Stars 1994

Tonight we have a special Christmas retro show, mostly themed around Christmas Eve 1998! Kicking off at 4pm with a festive music show, we have some schools and childrens stuff with a wintry twist. In the evening, we have a House Party from CaB favourite Neol, a dramatic yuletide Eastenders, then some news and a Jonathan Creek Christmas special starring Rik Mayall! We then finish off the evening with Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands (1990).

4.00 Flouncer’s Festive Music Show
5.00 ITV Schools: My World – Christmas
5.10 BBC Schools: Watch – Christmas Celebrations
5.25 Thomas the Tank Engine – S01E25 Down the Mine
5.30 Thomas the Tank Engine – S01E26 Thomas’ Christmas Party
5.35 Tugs – S01E12 Bigg Freeze
5.50 BBC Lunchtime News – Christmas Eve 1985
6.00 Windmill – 1985 Christmas Special
6.50 Blue Peter – Christmas Show 1998
7.15 Neol’s House Party – Christmas Show 1997
8.05 Eastenders
8.35 BBC News – Christmas Eve 1998
8.55 Jonathan Creek – Black Canary (1998 Christmas Special)
10.30 Edward Scissorhands (1990)

6:00 GamesMaster (series 3, episode 19)

6:25 Da Ali G Show – ‘Realness’ (series 3, episode 6)

6:50 Face Off – ‘Junkyard Cyborg’ (series 3, episode 9)

7:35 Inside No. 9 – ‘Thinking Out Loud’ (series 5, episode 5)

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8:00 FILM: The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

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As always, remember that start times are approximate, so if there’s anything in particular on the schedule that you would care to see, please try to join the stream 10 minutes or so ahead of the listed start time. I hope to see you all on the other side.

Join the stream from 6:00pm (GMT) and onward, Wednesday 23/12/20, over at https://live.fc2.com/25093044.