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To Wish You A Merry Christmas Nice: BBC1 Junction, Christmas Eve 1994

After Robin Hood on Megan Earley's Christmas 1994 tape comes An American Tail: Fievel Goes West! I didn't realise until I looked it up for this video that it was released on the same day as Beauty and the Beast, which naturally ate it alive. Whose dumb idea was that? I mean, it's watchable and amusing enough, and certainly less depressing than the first one, but it's also a bit of a rehash and barely a flea on the back of one of the greatest animated musicals of all time. It wasn't much of a basis for a franchise anyway. Steven wanted Feivel to become the Mickey of Amblimation (as seen on the logo here), but ultimately Amblimation itself didn't even take off, really. Oh well. Fievel was on Christmas Eve, so all the decorations are up at BBC1 by now, and those bouncing snowmen are back to promote more "Christmas movie magic". The last time we heard Producer's Choice hire Philip Madoc say that, he was referring to Kindergarten Cop, so it's quite hard to take seriously, even if the film this time around is better. Not great, but better. With the obligatory use of that bastard song that had only just vacated the number one slot. Well, it felt like it. This is the big Christmas Day movie, make the most of it. Over on BBC2 you could be watching Verdi's Aida instead. A brief little sting then leads to a menu for Boxing Day! Remember how Boxing Day 1978 went (   • The Erosive Zones: BBC1 Continuity and New...  )? Are You Being Served, Mastermind, Two Ronnies and The French Connection? Let's see how 1994's measured up. Note the framing effect, which keeps everything nice and Christmassy (and branded) without having to resort to sparkles around the lettering as they had done for the past three years. It's something they kept trying, at Christmas and otherwise, for the rest of the mid-nineties before the revamp. Starting with Auntie's New Bloomers, as trailed separately in the previous upload. Mostly people falling over, apparently. And Kindergarten Cop, ibid. Both promotions for this film make much of Arnold's famous "SHUT UP" moment, because it's both memorable and quite genuinely terrifying. Eastenders is at ten past eight, and explicitly deals with the aftermath of what I'm sure (and the voiceover openly admits) was another traumatic Christmas Day. Grant Mitchell throws away a picture of Sharon and exchanges stone-faced sarcasm with Kathy. Meanwhile Nicky's still lying at the foot of the stairwell where she overdosed on smack during the Queen's speech. (I made that up) After that, some uplift with a Christmas special of warm, yet darker than you remember, family sitcom 2 Point 4 Children, which was pretty good, especially in its early days - much better than you remember or than it was ever given credit - but never quite took off in a big way. Maybe it was too absurdist and surreal for the mainstream, or maybe it wasn't consistently funny enough. Probably both. At ten past nine, Barry Sonnenfeld's The Addams Family has its British TV premiere. I'd have preferred in to Robin Hood on Christmas Day, but I can understand why the BBC put it on Boxing Day instead. And then after the news, a simulcast with Radio 1 of the Princes Trust Gala Concert, recorded a few weeks earlier at the London Arena and, oddly, BT Tower, and featuring the likes of (C&P away): East 17, Bjorn Again , the Brand New Heavies, Eternal, Pulp, David A. Stewart, Joe Cocker , M People and Phil Collins on video from his home in Switzerland because he couldn't be arsed flying out. Another trailer? Why not. "Secrets" is basically a Paul Daniels variety special, in which he and his wife The Lovely play host and hostess in an ersatz and highly titular nightclub, introducing acts like Ronn Lucas (who shows off some mad ventriloquial skills), Phillip Socrate and the Chinese State Circus, as well as doing some magic of his own, of course. Just the thing for that squashy period between Christmas and New Year, and I'm not being sarcastic. Finally the promotions are over and we're handed to the BBC1 ident for the year. Maybe it's a bedroom rather than a living room? Either way, the snowmen are stood atop their travelling theatre stage with a giftwrapped Fluted One. You can tell it's Christmas Eve because the wrapping's still on. Tomorrow it's whipped away with a flourish to reveal the logo in gold, to no-one's great surprise, and on Boxing Day it's just sitting there amidst the wrapping. All introducing Bruce Forsyth's Generation Game - the last one he ever did, as it happens, before that twat took over at the start of the next series. He's had a drink. I've included the opening titles and most of Brucie's spiel because a quirk of recording happens here: the next item, the Diet Coke sponorship sting for Sleeping Beauty, interrupts him, or tries to, but Bruce isn't upstaged that easily: he continues pattering away underneath for nearly a full minute before the new recording finally takes over.