List of Christmas television episodes and specials in the United Kingdom
The following is a list of United Kingdom, Christmas television specials, as well as Christmas-themed episodes of regular television series.
== Drama ==
=== BBC ===
==== All Creatures Great and Small ====
==== Call the Midwife ====
==== Casualty / Holby City ====
==== Doctor Who ====
==== Father Brown ====
==== Grange Hill ====
==== Jonathan Creek ====
=== ITV ===
==== Bad Girls ====
==== The Darling Buds of May ====
==== Downton Abbey ====
==== The Bill ====
==== Heartbeat / The Royal ====
==== Midsomer Murders ====
==== Northern Lights ====
==== Taggart ====
==== Upstairs, Downstairs ====
=== Channel 4 ===
=== Channel 5 ===
== Comedies ==
=== BBC ===
==== 2point4 Children ====
==== After You've Gone ====
==== 'Allo 'Allo! ====
==== Are You Being Served? ====
==== Birds of a Feather ====
==== Bread ====
==== The Brittas Empire ====
==== The Catherine Tate Show ====
==== Citizen Khan ====
==== Citizen Smith ====
==== Dad's Army ====
==== The Detectives ====
==== dinnerladies ====
==== Ghosts ====
==== Happy Ever After / Terry and June ====
==== Insert Name Here ====
==== Keeping Up Appearances ====
==== Last of the Summer Wine ====
==== Live at the Apollo ====
==== Miranda ====
==== Mock the Week ====
==== The Morecambe and Wise Show ====
==== Mrs. Brown's Boys ====
==== My Family ====
==== Not Going Out ====
==== One Foot in the Grave ====
==== Only Fools and Horses / The Green Green Grass / Rock & Chips ====
==== Open All Hours / Still Open All Hours ====
==== Outnumbered ====
==== Porridge ====
==== QI ====
==== Rab C. Nesbitt ====
==== The Royle Family ====
==== Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em ====
==== Steptoe and Son ====
==== Still Game ====
==== Sykes ====
==== Terry and June ====
==== Till Death Us Do Part / In Sickness and in Health ====
==== To the Manor Born ====
==== The Two Ronnies ====
==== The Vicar of Dibley ====
==== Upstart Crow ====
==== Victoria Wood ====
==== Waiting for God ====
==== Would I Lie to You? ====
=== ITV ===
==== Carry On ====
==== Creature Comforts ====
==== Birds of a Feather ====
(originally aired on BBC One from 1989 to 1998)
==== Fresh Fields / French Fields ====
==== George and Mildred ====
==== The Morecambe and Wise Show ====
==== Nearest and Dearest ====
==== On the Buses ====
==== Robin's Nest ====
==== Shelley ====
==== That's My Boy ====
==== Watching ====
==== You're Only Young Twice ====
=== Channel 4 ===
=== Other channels ===
== Christmas television plays ==
From the mid-1950s until the mid-1980s, the British Christmas television play was a popular television programming genre:
== General entertainment shows ==
=== Cookery Shows ===
=== Music/Dancing ===
=== Gameshows ===
== Bands ==
== Children's ==
=== BBC One/Two/CBBC ===
==== All at Sea ====
==== 4 O'Clock Club ====
==== The Basil Brush Show ====
==== ChuckleVision ====
==== David Walliams adaptations ====
Shown on BBC One, sometimes repeated on CBBC Ratburger was shown on Sky One.
==== Friday Download ====
==== Julia Donaldson Adaptations ====
Shown on BBC One.
==== Millie Inbetween ====
==== Norman Hunter Adaptations ====
Shown on BBC One, sometimes repeated on CBBC.
==== The Slammer ====
==== Top Class ====
=== CBeebies ===
==== Balamory ====
==== Bob the Builder ====
==== Fireman Sam ====
==== The Furchester Hotel ====
==== Justin's House ====
==== Postman Pat ====
==== Sarah and Duck ====
==== Teletubbies ====
==== Tweenies ====
=== CITV ===
==== Horrid Henry ====
==== Mr. Bean (animated TV series) ====
==== My Parents Are Aliens ====
==== Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends ====
==== Thomas and Friends ====
=== Channel 5's Milkshake! ===
==== Peppa Pig ====
==== Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom ====
==== Fireman Sam ====
==== Thomas and Friends ====
==== Thomas and Friends: Big World! Big Adventures! ====
=== S4C ===
=== Netflix ===

==== Gerry Anderson productions ====
Sometimes repeated on BBC One, but was originally shown on ITV.
==== Raymond Briggs Adaptations ====
Usual shown on Channel 4.
== Specials ==
Ant & Dec Saturday Night Takeaway at Christmas (2005)
Ant & Dec's Christmas Show (2009)
The Funny Side of Christmas (1982)
Greatest Christmas Comedy Moments (2008)
Oz and Hugh Drink to Christmas (2009)
The Real Hustle: The 12 Scams of Christmas (2006)
Ruth Jones Christmas Cracker (2009–present)
The Gadget Man Guide to Christmas (2014)
A Christmas Cracker (2014)
=== Top Gear ===
== Misc ==
Channel 4's Alternative Christmas message (1993 – present)
Midnight Mass (1960 – present) – Every year Christmas morning starts on BBC with Midnight Mass for Catholics.
The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (1966 – present). Note: The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures have been going since 1825 but started being broadcast in 1966.
The Royal Christmas Message (1957–1968, 1970 – present). Note: The Royal Christmas message has been read as far back as King George V in 1932 & 1935 over the radio, and then George VI in 1939, 1941–1942, 1945–1946, 1949 and 1951 up until Queen Elizabeth II read it on the radio from 1952 to 1956. It wasn't until 1957 that the event was televised.
Songs of Praise (1961 – present) – Every year songs of Praise celebrates advent Sunday's leading up to Christmas.
Text Santa (2011-2015)
Star Over Bethlehem (1977, 1979, 1981) - A live satellite transmission that featured Christmas music from around the world. US contributions included remotes from a shopping mall in Columbia, South Carolina and the CBN studios in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
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