Arts/Culture (without music)HDSubtitles
Duration
90 minutes

Quick Summary

Celebrating the best festive programming

About This Program

Unwrapping the best of Christmas television gone by - from the 1960s through to the early 1990s - remembering a time when, with audiences often topping 20 million, Christmas TV really was national appointment viewing. Narrated by Hayley Tamaddon and featuring Susan Calman, Lucy Porter, Jeremy Vine, Vanessa Feltz, Richard Blackwood, Cheryl Baker, Debbie McGee, John Sergeant, Rob and Dave Nicholson, and Rufus Hound, the programme celebrates the unmissable entertainment, hilarious comedy, gripping soap storylines and blockbuster movies that defined the golden age of Christmas TV

Christmas TV We Loved and Lost broadcasts on 5SELECT at 9:00pm, Saturday, 27 December 2025. (Subtitles)

Channel Numbers:
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Production Details

Runtime90 mins
DirectorJohn Piper

Cast & Crew

JP
John PiperDirector
RN
Robert NicholsonContributor
DN
Dave NicholsonContributor
RH
Rufus HoundContributor
LP
Lucy PorterContributor
SC
Susan CalmanContributor
RB
SE
Sally EvansExecutive-producer
CB
Cheryl BakerContributor
JS
John SergeantContributor
HT
Hayley TamaddonNarrator
VF
Vanessa FeltzContributor
DM
Debbie McGeeContributor
JV
Jeremy VineContributor