Do Not Adjust Your Stocking
'Tis the Season
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39m
Directed by Adrian Cooper • Drama • With Denise Coffey, Eric Idle, David Jason, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band • 1968 • 40 minutes
Seen here in its entirety (an edited version was screened on television in the 1980s), this bumper-length Christmas special was made for Thames Television in the UK.
Terry Gilliam’s fantastic animation The Christmas Card brings the house down – just listen to how much the kids in the audience love it. I’m the Urban Spaceman gets another push – and there’s some splendid audience participation in By a Waterfall that certainly seems to please Mr Stanshall.
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