Can’t Help Thinking About Christmas

Can’t Help Thinking About Christmas is a stocking-filling collection of some of my festive-related columns and features and a couple of new surprises behind some of the Advent Calendar doors, at a last-minute emergency present-friendly price. So you don’t need to race out and get that family member you forgot about some Dairy Box from the all-night garage after all.

It might not look like much like a selection box, but inside you can find such Spangle-friendly delights as:

– a look back at the Christmas Specials of some of the worst sitcoms that ITV ever made – and a couple of good ones as well

– a brand new feature on the on the little-seen but absolutely brilliant Rising Damp Christmas Special

– the story behind BBC Schools programme Music Time‘s festively-tinged animated adaptation of Lieutenant Kije

– a rummage through a stocking full of festive pre-Beatles pop with the compilation album Saint Etienne Presents Songs For A London Winter

– a look at why Spitting Image couldn’t quite match the chart success of The Chicken Song with Santa Claus Is On The Dole

– the ultimate guide to Denys Fisher’s TV tie-in board games, from War Of The Daleks and Miss World to – uh oh – Pop Twenty…

– plus tons more nonsense about carol services, BBC Records And Tapes’ Christmas singles, mind-hurtingly strange Christmas Films, and that time when some Brookdale kids tried to steal ‘the disco’ in Grange Hill

All of the previously-seen pieces in Can’t Help Thinking About Christmas have been updated with new footnotes, introductions and extra detail – yes, you can finally find out who wrote the theme to George And The Dragon – and there are a couple of additional Yuletide surprises too. Grab your copy now!

Can’t Help Thinking About Christmas is available in paperback here or from the Kindle store here. Merry Christmas!