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All Star Comedy Carnival (1969)

All Star Comedy Carnival poster
Genre
Christmas film
Country
United Kingdom
Length
1 season, 5 episodes
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This is a British TV series that aired annual Christmas specials from 1969 to 1973. Each episode featured short new sketches from popular sitcoms and variety shows, hosted by different comedians each year.

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What happens

All Star Comedy Carnival was an annual Christmas-special produced by ITV, containing new mini-episodes of popular British sitcoms and light entertainment programmes with some musical interludes. This was broadcast annually on 25 December on ITV, from 1969 to 1973. It was hosted by Des O'Connor in 1969, Max Bygraves in 1970, Mike and Bernie Winters in 1971 and Jimmy Tarbuck in 1972 and 1973, All Star Comedy Carnival was a direct competitor to the BBC's Christmas Night with the Stars. All had short five-minute sketches devised and produced for transmission within the festive period, written by the original writers of each comedy series. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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