This is my little Christmas gift to all of you: the videos in this series are completely free of ads so we can show you some great clips.
To kick things off, I wanted to go back to the very beginning. While the first ever sitcom with a Christmas episode was Pinwright’s Progress back in 1946, that entire series is lost to time. So, for our first day, I’ve picked a truly legendary BBC show, ‘Hancock’s Half Hour’. The episode was titled ‘Hancock’s Forty-three Minutes’ as it was 43 minutes, not half-an-hour! It was broadcast live from the BBC Television Theatre on Monday, 23 December 1957.