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BBC One continuity including programme promotion for Christmas Day followed by The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show opening (25th December 1999)

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FROM THE ARCHIVE OF: The TV Room

The 12.20pm BBC One junction.

VIDEO: BBC One continuity including programme promotion for Christmas Day followed by The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show opening. Announcer: Crispin Glover. Voiceover: TBC. TX DATE: 25th December 1999. COPYRIGHT: BBC.

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[00:00:00] PROGRAMME GRAPHIC: festive BBC Two slide for Don Quixote.

A model animation based on Cervantes’s tale, featuring the voice of Simon Callow. It starts on BBC Two at 12.30pm.

[00:00:09] PROGRAMME PROMOTION: a preview of some of BBC One’s Christmas Day programmes:

5.50pm EastEnders.

6.20pm Auntie’s Cracking New Bloomers.

7pm David Copperfield.

8.30pm EastEnders.

[00:00:49] IDENT: the Christmas BBC One ident is used to link into The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show.

[00:01:03] PROGRAMME: the opening sketch and opening titles for The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show.

Worth noting that the show’s title is shown as Eric and Ernie’s Christmas Show in the opening titles.

RELATED ARTICLE: you can view the junction that preceded this one here.

RELATED ARTICLE: you can view the junction that followed this one here.

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PICTURED: The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show. COPYRIGHT: BBC.

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