Schedule Friday 26th December 2014
10:30am90 min
MacAulay And Co
Edinburgh 2014, Highlights Special - Best of the FestSusan Calman and Fred MacAulay bring you the very best bits from their three week run at the Edinburgh Festival - nothing but the funny.
11:30am30 min
Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show!
2014 Christmas Special, Episode 1 - Arthur in Pantoland?Festive edition of the comedy featuring former variety star Count Arthur Strong. An invitation to star in the local pantomime gets Arthur excited about a possible return to the stage.
4:40pm
The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists
Aardman claymation film about a gang of pirates and their luxuriantly bearded captain.
6:15pm15 min
Christmas With...
Episode 3 - Christmas With Ed ReardonEd Reardon remembers Christmas past as he celebrates Boxing Day with only Elgar and a rather disappointing millennium cracker to keep him company.
6:25pm30 min
Still Open All Hours
Series 1, Episode 1In this opening episode Granville is forced into taking extra security precautions for the shop's takings, which cause him no end of discomfort. Eric suffers a curious injury. Love is in the air for some as Mavis receives a special delivery, and Granville begins to play matchmaker.
6:30pm30 min
Dead Ringers
2014 Christmas SpecialsThe popular impressions show takes a look at favourite seasonal shows, like the cosy Christmas specials of Crimewatch and Embarrassing Bodies.
6:55pm65 min
The Boy In The Dress
An adaptation of David Walliams's book about a 12-year-old boy who enjoys cross-dressing.
7pm
(repeat)
Only Fools And Horses
Miami Twice, Christmas Special - Oh To Be In EnglandDel and Rodney arrive in Miami and things start to go wrong immediately. Nothing too dramatic, though, until Del is mistaken for a local mafia godfather and his henchmen want him as a decoy!
7:05pm
(repeat)
Rob Brydon Live
TV broadcast of Rob Brydon's 2009 stand-up show.
7:15pm
(repeat)
The Two Ronnies
Hugely popular and long-running sketch show that established Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker as two of the biggest names in British comedy.
8pm
(repeat)
Morecambe & Wise On Stage
The only ever fully-recorded stage performance by legendary comedy double act Morecambe & Wise, from Croydon's Fairfield Halls in October 1973.
8pm
(repeat)
Victoria Wood's Mid Life Christmas
Victoria Wood returns with a 60-minute special for BBC One featuring sketches, personal injury commercials, unlikely sporting events and a dance number bringing together the killer combo of midriff bulge and Busby Berkeley.
8pm60 min version (repeat)
8pm60 min
A Christmas Cracker
Bradley Walsh hosts a Christmas spectacular from The Hammersmith Apollo, with comedy, music and more.
8:30pm120 min
Agatha Raisin
Agatha Raisin And The Quiche Of Death, Episode 1It's all about the quiche this Christmas in a tasty whodunnit starring Ashley Jensen as Agatha Raisin, a PR whizz caught up in a murder mystery.
9pm
(repeat)
Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly)
Episode 1A celebration of all things Python, as well known figures from the worlds of comedy and film pay tribute alongside classic clips. Expect The Spanish Inquisition.
9pm
(repeat)
Room 101
A selection of episodes from the Orwellian comedy.
9pm30 min
Birds Of A Feather
Series 11, Christmas Special - Birds On A PlaneDorien is treating Sharon and Tracey to a Christmas trip to the Canaries! But with Tracey's fear of flying, Sharon's hopes for adventure and Dorien's eagerness for anything in trousers ... will it be plane sailing?
9pm90 min
The Big Fat Quiz Of The Year
Episode 17 - The Big Fat Quiz Of The Year 2014Jimmy challenges Richard Ayoade, David Mitchell, Mel B, Micky Flanagan, Sarah Millican and Kevin Bridges to battle it out to win the coveted Big Fat Quiz crown.
9:25pm
(repeat)
The Tommy Cooper Hour
Christmas Special - Tommy Cooper's ChristmasFestive comedy and magic from Tommy Cooper. The comedian is joined by Irish singer and actress Clodagh Rodgers and French crooner Sacha Distel.
9:30pm60 min
Through The Keyhole
Series 2, Christmas Special - Through The Christmas KeyholeJoin a festive Keith Lemon as he goes 'Through the Christmas Keyhole'. The panel getting in the Christmas spirit are chat-show king Jonathan Ross, X Factor judge Louis Walsh and Coronation Street star Kym Marsh.
9:40pm
(repeat)
Fawlty Towers
Series 1, Episode 2 - The BuildersBasil's drive to save money gets the better of him when he hires the lowest quoting builder, a cowboy by the name of O'Reilly, to refurbish the lobby, rather than Sybil's choice, the respected and trustworthy Mr Stubbs.
10pm60 min
10:25pm
(repeat)
Not The Nine O'Clock News
Popular satirical sketch show of the late 70s and early 80s starring Rowan Atkinson, Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones and Pamela Stephenson.
10:25pm
(repeat)
Carry On Christmas
Special - Carry On ChristmasEven the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future take on a new significance when played by the Carry On team.
10:30pm
(repeat)
Celebrity Juice
Series 10, Highlights Special - Parallel Juicyverse Part 1Keith falls into a parallel universe where everything is the complete opposite. His journey features the best bits of Celebrity Juice Series 9 and team captains Holly, Fearne and Kelly as you've never seen them before.
10:30pm
(repeat)
A League Of Their Own
Series 8, Christmas Special - Christmas PartyJames Corden is treating the A League Of Their Own boys to an extra-special Yuletide treat: a good ol' fashioned knees-up in the countryside.
11pm
(repeat)
I'm Alan Partridge
Series 1, Episode 6 - Towering AlanDevelopments at the BBC give Alan a whiff of hope, so he prepares to do some intensive networking - at a funeral. Despite his tactics, the plan appears to come off.
11pm
(repeat)
Dave Gorman: Modern Life Is Goodish
Series 2, Episode 5 - I Would Drink That BathwaterDave devilishly dissects modern life as he judges the worth of online petitions and reveals how he beat Alex Reid - not at cage fighting, obviously.
11pm
(repeat)
Alan Carr: Chatty Man
Series 13, Christmas SpecialIn this Christmas special there's a feast of festive frolics plus the odd song or two from Alan's very special Christmas house band.
11:25pm30 min
Good Omens
Episode 5The Four Horsepersons of the Apocalypse assemble and set off for Lower Tadfield, while Aziraphale finds himself inhabiting a most unexpected host body.
11:30pm
(repeat)
Greatest Ever Carry On Films
A celebration of the greatest of British comedy cinema: the Carry On films.
11:30pm
(repeat)
Celebrity Juice
Series 10, Highlights Special - Parallel Juicyverse Part 2Keith is still in the parallel universe where everything is the complete opposite. He revisits the best bits of Celebrity Juice Series 10.
11:40pm
(repeat)
Saxondale
Steve Coogan stars as Tommy Saxondale, an ex-roadie now running a pest control business in suburbia.
Midnight60 min version (repeat)