Channel4 - 100 Greatest Christmas Moments

Goodness Gracious Me - Christmas Special (1998)
Christmas edition of the award winning cross cultural sketch show which asks why the Asian kids never get the good parts in the school nativities and whether Santa Claus is actually from Jalandhar.
Graham Goes to Dollywood (2001)
Christmas romp through the country legend's Tennessee theme park which takes in Graham riding a roller-coaster with 50 Dolly Parton look-alikes, Dolly (dressed as a reindeer) serenading Graham (dressed as an elf), the pair trawling the malls for cheap Christmas earrings and singing a duet floating down a river for the big finish.
Harry Enfield's Christmas Chums (1997)
Seasonally themed show which sees William Ulsterman taking offence at the party finger food, The Bickering Couple forgetting to buy their son a present and Tory Boy transformed by the Christmas Tree fairy into Blair-lookalike Tony Boy.
Ho Ho Ho Selecta! (2003)
Avid Merrion's Christmas celeb fest with Craig David visiting Santa, Mel B and Michael Jackson carol singing and Elton John making his own Queen's broadcast.
Home Alone (1990)
Macaulay Culkin as a burglar-defying eight year old left at home by his parents, while they spend the holidays in Paris. The movie grossed over Ł5 billion and made Macaulay a child superstar.
I Want to Be Mary (2003)
CBBC presenter Angelica Bell's look at the traditional nativity play, featuring home-videos of reluctant shepherds fiddling with their tea-towel head-dresses and Virgin Marys announcing that they need the toilet.
It's a Christmas Knockout (Various)
Stuart Hall looks on in furry boots and fits of hysterical laughter as teams from across Europe try to avoid spending Christmas in casualty, while vying to uphold national pride on a treacherous icy surface dressed as giant snowmen.
It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
Frank Capra's timeless feel-good classic sees a desperate Jimmy Stewart contemplating suicide on Christmas Eve only for his guardian angel, Clarence, to point out how the world would be a worse place if he had never been born.
Jackass - Christmas Special (2002)
Cult MTV series celebrates the holiday season with naked snowboarding, while Johnny Knoxville undergoes colonic irrigation dressed as Santa.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono - Happy Christmas (War Is Over) (1972)
Initially released as part of John and Yoko's campaign to promote peace, it also made number two in the UK chart on its 1980 reissue after Lennon's death. Yoko recently unveiled a new video for the song overlaying disturbing war images, including some from 9/11.
Jona Lewie - Stop the Cavalry (1980)
Originally intended as an anti-war song rather than a seasonal hit, the addition of sleigh bells, a brass band and a Christmas-in-the-trenches-video saw this into the top three of the charts.
Greg Lake - 'I Believe in Father Christmas' (1975)
The middle one from Emerson, Lake and Palmer forgoes prog-rock noodling to score a number two hit with this Prokofiev-laced Christmas offering.
The League of Gentlemen - Christmas Special (2000)
Bleak Christmas Carol-esque goings on in Royston Valley, as the Reverend Bernice Woodall is regaled with tales of voodoo, vampires and a lingering curse, when all she wants to do is get off home to watch the boxing.
The Life of Brian (1979)
The Pythons team's critique of the hypocrisy of organised religion, including a nativity scene in the stable next door to Jesus.
The Live Live Christmas Breakfast Show (Various)
Noel Edmonds got his name because he was born on 22nd December, and for a time he was an integral part of the British TV Christmas. His festive 1970s were spent in zany sweaters in the Top of the Pops studio. By the 1980s he was broadcasting from the Telecom Tower, doling out gifts while live events took place around him, like the ill-fated live broadcast direct from a Virgin Jet featuring the unlikely pairing of Feargal Sharkey and The Krankies.
Max Headroom's Giant Christmas Turkey (1989)
Christmas special in which the pixellated presenter introduces big names like Bob Geldof and Robin Williams and becomes so moist eyed at the thought of children opening their gifts at Christmas that he considers getting his vasectomy reversed.
Men Behaving Badly - Christmas Special (1998)
Press outrage was unconfined when the child-friendly zone of Christmas night was invaded by the laddish running gag of a tissue used by a masturbating Martin Clunes getting stuck on Caroline Quentin's face.
The Mike Yarwood Christmas Show (Various)
While suffering in comparison with the more sophisticated impersonators of the modern era, Mike Yarwood was one of the biggest stars of the 1970s to the extent that his Christmas show was able to out-rate Morecambe and Wise.
Moonlighting - 'Twas the Episode Before Christmas (1985)
A Christmas special from the groundbreaking series starring Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis. Even for a show that made a point of defying TV convention, it was a novel departure for the action to end early and for the camera to pan off set to reveal the entire cast, crew and various kids singing Christmas carols.
Mrs Merton's Christmas Show (1997)
The blue-rinsed terror of the interview sofa probes special Christmas guests Max Bygraves ('You see, he's not dead at all') and Edwina Currie ('Do you know who finds you fascinating? You').
The Natural World - On the Path of the Reindeer (1997)
Spectacularly shot Natural History documentary following the migration of the Lapland Reindeer to the Arctic coast in search of food and a place to give birth.
Noel's Christmas Presents (Various)
During the 1990s, as well as masterminding Mr Blobby's ascent up the Christmas charts, Noel Edmonds delivered an annual set of presents to deserving causes. The festive TV audience were left emotionally drained by moments such as Hollies-fan Brian Stubbles, born with spina bifida and having recently lost both parents, discovering the band in his back garden singing He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother.
The Office - Christmas Special (2003)
The perfect way to end a modern classic - with Christmas Specials updating the Wernham Hogg story and tying up loose ends, as Dawn and Tim finally get it together and David Brent tells Finchy where to go.
On the Buses - Christmas Day Duty (1970)
Stan and Jack discover they've been lumbered with Christmas Day duty in the depot.
One Foot in the Grave - Christmas Episodes (Various)
Throughout its lifespan the darkest mainstream sitcom of the 1990s rose to the Christmas challenge, producing a series of surreal storylines variously featuring a mysterious man who moves into the shed, supposed aliens from Neptune and a mix-up involving 263 garden gnomes.