Sitcom · 2010s
Outnumbered
Christmas Special 2016
A Boxing Day mission for Grandad, with car trouble and a dash of history.
- Family-safe
Content note: BBC guidance: contains adult humour. Fine with Nan and older kids.
BBC One
2016
First shown 26 Dec 2016
- First shown
- 26 December 2016
- Channel
- BBC One
- Runtime
- 39 mins
- Genre
- Sitcom
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It is Boxing Day, and the Brockman family have a special mission to carry out for Grandad. On the way they meet car problems, child problems, parent problems, emotional problems and even the Second World War. If the adults can't sort things out, the children will have to. Like all families, everything has changed and everything remains the same. It keeps the show's sharp observation and warmth, with the Brockmans squeezed into a car for the sort of journey every family eventually has to take.
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