16:00 – Wintery Wind-Down

Easing into the post-Xmas comedown with a mix of suitably wintery tuneage, accompanied by a snowy train ride across the mountains to the Adriatic Sea coast

17:00 – We Wish You a Turtle Christmas

Produced at the peak of Turtlemania, a horribly cheap Xmas cash-in designed to target children with easily-persuadable parents into buying yet more turtle-associated tat, in this case a truly horrendous singalong VHS that is guaranteed to only ever have been played once.

17:22 – Top Of The Pops – Christmas Day 1991

Tony Dortie, Mark Franklin and Claudia Simon present a Christmas Special of the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 25 December 1991 and featuring Queen, Seal, Nomad, Chesney Hawkes, James, OMD, Kenny Thomas, Erasure, Right Said Fred and Oceanic.

18:19 – Kate Bush – Christmas Special 1979

1979 Christmas special featuring Kate Bush. She performs Them Heavy People, December Will Me Magic Again and Man with the Child in His Eyes, and duets with guest star Peter Gabriel.

19:03 – Bob Green, The Jazz Engineer, Christmas 1994

In a nightmarish NTSC public access purgatory, Bob Green demonstrates his cack-handed vibraphone skills to an audience of the nearly-dead. Or perhaps they just wish they were.

19:21 – Ad Break

19:26 – Merry Xmas, You Suckers!

An ancient Cab Radio Christmas mash-up, now resurrected in video form!

20:04 – Film: Pinocchio (1940)

Pinocchio is a 1940 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and based on the 1883 Italian children’s novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi. It was the 2nd animated feature film produced by Disney, made after the first animated success Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).

21:32 – Film: Laurel & Hardy – Another Fine Mess (1930)

Homeless, penniless and one step ahead of the police, Stanley and Oliver take refuge in the home of big-game hunter Colonel Buckshot while the owner is on safari. When Lord and Lady Plumtree call to enquire about renting the house, Oliver pretends to be Colonel Buckshot, while Stanley masquerades as both butler and maid. All goes as well as can be expected, with Lady Plumtree and Stanley, in his guise as “Agnes,” engaging in girl talk, until the real Colonel Buckshot returns unexpectedly.

21:59 – Film: Flight of the Navigator (1986)

Flight of the Navigator is a 1986 American science fiction adventure film directed by Randal Kleiser and written by Mark H. Baker, Michael Burton and Matt MacManus. It stars Joey Cramer as David Freeman, a 12-year-old boy who is abducted by an alien spaceship and transported from 1978 to 1986.

23:29 – Millard’s Christmas Selection Box