Cold Turkey

Cold Turkey

'That's My Boy' isn't a series I have very many memories of, but Lisa recalls watching it when she was younger and due to the quirks of the way our DVD collection has been assembled, we've actually ended up with two copies of the 1983 Christmas Special.

We're now at the stage where we're responding to requests for the subject matter of our YouTube videos, which is unexpectedly welcome, so in the end it was easier to reach for Disc Three of the 'Classic ITV Christmas Comedy' set rather than trawl through the complete 'That's My Boy' release. But it's nice to have a choice.

In one of those coincidental connections that keep on happening when we do this sort of stuff, this episode features a credit for Graeme Muir as producer, who also happened to work on the 1973 'Steptoe & Son' Christmas Special that we did on the blog only a couple of days ago.

And, of course, it stars none other than Mollie Sugden who we've seen every week in our continuing journey through the complete run of  'Are You Being Served?'.

'Cold Turkey' was shown on 23rd December 1983, an eveningn which also offers us 'The Munsters - Just Another Pretty Face' and 'An Audience With Kenneth Williams' on Channel 4, so we have no complaints on that front! By comparison, BBC One has very little to offer that's of interest to us in hindsight.

And having looked at the guest stars for other episodes, we'll make an effort to return to this series next year...

Our video about 'That's My Boy - Cold Turkey' can be seen here.

(Written by Andrew Trowbridge)