It'll Be Alright on Christmas Night (ITV, 25th December 1987)

The seventh outing for the venerable blooper formula (although only the fifth to be comprised of all-new clips - there had been two repeat compilations already).

This is a complete off-air recording from LWT, starting during the closing scene of the preceding episode of Coronation Street and ending with the Central ident before Inspector Morse. The original ad breaks and continuity are intact.

This programme was originally commissioned and made as IBAOTN 5, but after it was complete, LWT's programme director Greg Dyke asked the producer to change the title in secret. Dyke had decided to run it on Christmas Day, and he wanted the new title kept hush-hush as he didn't want the BBC finding out until it was too late for them to schedule anything against it as a spoiler.

The original "IBAOTN 5" cut of the programme was shown in 1988, and a further re-edit went out in 1991. To the best of my knowledge it's never been repeated in its Christmas form as presented here.

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