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Sitcom · 1980s

Blackadder

Blackadder's Christmas Carol

Be nice or be nasty? The Spirit of Christmas has a lesson.

  • Family-safe

Content note: Mild innuendo and dated humour

BBC One

1988

First shown 23 Dec 1988

First shown
23 December 1988
Channel
BBC One
Runtime
42 mins
Genre
Sitcom

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Ebenezer Blackadder is the nicest man in Victorian England, and it is ruining his life. Everyone takes advantage of his generosity, so on Christmas Eve the Spirit of Christmas turns up with a solution: show him his ancestors and two possible futures. Naturally, Blackadder learns precisely the wrong lesson. Dickens gets a thoroughly wicked makeover in this Blackadder special, which gets nastier and funnier by the minute. A proper festive classic, and a bracing antidote to all the sugary Carols out there.

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