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Christmas Is Coming...

  • TV sketch show
  • ITV1
  • 1987
  • 1 episode

Dr. Miriam Stoppard gives advice on how to enjoy Christmas by avoiding some unhealthy pitfalls. Also features Gwen Taylor, Alun Armstrong, Liz Smith, Kenneth Waller and Richard Digance

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Press clippings

Christmas Is Coming was a fleeting, festive affair between light entertainment and science, a sort of Rowan and Martin's Laugh In with government health warnings. As Dr Stoppard had already mentioned, a fizzy mixer speeds up alcohol absorption. This fizz was unusually well-written, fine and flowing, and the whole show went dizzyingly and delightfully over your head.

Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 24th December 1987

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