Daytime Christmas (2)
Broadcast
1986
© Thames Television
The Christmas 1986 edition focussed on brave and talented children, including David Beckham, winner of the Bobby Charlton Soccer School Skills Finals. Sarah Kennedy makes him demonstrate his keepy-uppy skills, but he accidentally kicks a toddler in the head! I don't remember Daytime, I was studying for my GCSEs at the time. But one can see from the titles that Kennedy's audience included the likes of Mary Whitehouse, Pat Phoenix, Bonnie Langford, Olive & Dora Booth (the grand-daughters of the founder of the Salvation Army, General William Booth) and various transvestites. A rum collection of talking heads if ever there was one…