T. Bag's Christmas Cracker (1988) - FULL EPISODE 🔎🔍
🧐 · 30.09.2016 · 17:50:45 ··· Freitag ⭐ 101 🎬 14359
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👓 · 01.11.2024 · 04:41:06 ··· Freitag
The first of the four T-Bag Christmas specials, originally broadcast on Tuesday, 27th December, 1988. Tallulah has a plan to get all the children in the world under her power, and all she has to do is trick them into opening her nobbled presents. But how to deliver so many of them in a short space of time? Failing that, can she infiltrate at least one family by dressing up as world's-worst-nanny Merry Pippins and stage a daring abduction?
I know I'm generally upbeat about most of my uploads anyway, but this is absolute gold. There's snappy dialogue, childish insults, visual gags, a bit of slapstick, and even what looks to me like 80s computer-generated animation. (I'd love to know exactly how that pulling of the cracker near the end was done - it looks like it was running on an Acorn or something.) On top of all of that, the Thames Television continuity showing the channel opening for the day really helps anchor the show in time.
Being a one-off episode, I imagine the writers would have been in a bit of a quandary. After all, the regular series are about a girl on a quest, but that can't be shoe-horned into a single 20-minute slot. So, they went for an entirely self-contained story, set any time, and without explaining why T-Bag isn't quite as destroyed as she was at the end of the last series, or indeed why T-Shirt is even there at all. Admittedly, the show ends up feeling a little like two separate sketches - one in the grotto, one as the nanny - which are only really loosely connected until the ending. Perhaps that's how it started life (pure speculation on my part). But, you know what? It's brilliantly funny, and it works, so who cares? It brought back great memories for me, and I hope it does the same for you, too.
Of the three guest stars, young James Hillier-Brook doesn't seem to have any credits besides this, which is a shame as he was very good. John Blythe, I'm sorry to say, is sadly no longer with us, but he leaves a very impressive IMDB entry going back as far as 1944. Veronica Clifford played Queen Victoria as recently as 2012, has done proper Shakespeare on the television, and boasts early roles in Up Pompeii, Up the Chastity Belt, and Up the Front. Quite a trilogy, that. Veronica was also Auntie Doodah in The Bubblegum Brigade - there's another series that I used to watch, but now lies mostly forgotten in the archives.
Many thanks to Grant for providing this recording.
(This is a transfer from an old videotape, so please don't expect full HD quality. To the best of my knowledge, this material is not available commercially anywhere in the world, and has been uploaded for its historic interest. That said, if you are a copyright holder and object, please don't hesitate to contact me.)
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