The Funny Side of Christmas is a Christmas special broadcast by BBC1 on 27 December 1982.[3][4]
Presented by Frank Muir, it comprised one comedy sketch each from 10 contemporaneous BBC comedy series: Butterflies, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, Last of the Summer Wine, The Les Dawson Show, Only Fools and Horses, Open All Hours, Smith and Jones, Sorry!, Three of a Kind, and Yes Minister.[1]
^ abcdefPerry, Chris; Coward, Simon; Down, Richard, eds. (2014). "The Funny Side of Christmas". The Kaleidoscope British Christmas Television Guide 1937–2013. Handsworth Wood: Kaleidoscope Publishing. p. 232. ISBN 978-1-900203-60-9. OCLC 986975607. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
^Barfe, Louis (2012). The Trials and Triumphs of Les Dawson. London: Atlantic Books. ISBN 978-085789-670-4. OCLC 1015863094 – via Internet Archive.
^"The Funny Side of Christmas, BBC One London, 27 December 1982". BBC Genome Project. BBC. 27 December 1982. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
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