The Mike Yarwood Christmas Show 1978 - BBC One, 25 December, 1978

Originally broadcast at 8:00pm on Christmas Day, 1978
starring Mike Yarwood and special guest stars, the world's most popular singing group Abba.
With Janet Brown
Mike Yarwood is joined by the famous stars of his repertory company. Enoch Powell, Michael Foot and Sir Harold joke with Bruce Forsyth ; Maggie Thatcher meets Parky, and Reggie Bosanquet and Anna Ford look back at the news highlights of 1978.
Written by ERIC DAVIDSON , NEIL SHAND
Musical director ALAN BRADEN
Designer GARY PRITCHARD
Produced by JAMES MOIR

[@AllenJeremy]

R.I.P Mike Yarwood.

[@ABBADiego]

ABBA! Still here! 2023.

[@stevenoneill7166]

As a 10-year-old kid & a huge ABBA fan at the time, I couldn't wait to watch this on Christmas night. However, although it were a huge coup for the BBC to get ABBA on Mike Yarwood's Christmas show, I couldn't help but notice that they didn't seem very comfortable with the way their appearance was arranged. Still a great show all the same

[@johnking5174]

19:33 - the "on behalf" line delivered by Mike here was very accurate to how the legendary Reggie would deliver some of his words.

[@maureenm8462]

He would have been great doing trump and biden, great impersonator and comedian

[@johnking5174]

00:01 - Nothing says the spirit of Christmas better than a decapitated head of a gurning Father Christmas, revolving around in the snow.

[@phyd]

I believe there was a BBC strike in the run up to Christmas so their traditional ident was hurried!

[@cameronrdonaldson]

I love the bit where he says "and this is me😲 ?" because if he never told us who he was impersonating we would struggle to guess 🤔 they all sounded like a bad Harold Wilson impression 🙄

[@phyd]

Recommend watching this before being so fast to judge. - www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001tktz

[@cameronrdonaldson]

@@phyd it's all Harold Wilson that sounds like Mike Yarwood 😋

[@johnking5174]

@@phyd Can you amend the description box, as you say this special is from Christmas Day 1979 but the title you say is 1978, which in fact it was, as Callaghan was Prime Minister then.

[@GARY6661967]

Terrible!!

[@pandaeyes42]

1978?
THEY'RE WEARING FLARED TROUSERS!!!