Christmas Day on BBC1 (Children’s Party)

The first in a series of clips looking back at BBC Television’s most successful Christmas ever – that of 1977, and to start with here’s the Christmas Day menu for BBC1, with that now-classic Morecambe and Wise Christmas show and Barbra Streisand’s “Funny Girl” as the big film. Spookily, “Rain On My Parade”, which she sings here, featured in the BBC1 Christmas promos for 2007. Ray Moore is your voiceover.