The Office Christmas specials wrote that the specials are "as wickedly, painfully funny as the first two seasons and, in tiny, fleeting doses, as delicately tender". The following year it was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Made for Television Movie. Gervais and Merchant received a nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special. The episodes won in the Outstanding Achievement in Movies, Mini-series & Specials category at the American Television Critics Association Awards. The award was collected by Lucy Davis. The specials appeared at #4 on Channel 4's "100 Greatest Christmas Moments" polls in 2004. The specials
And Then There Were None nezostal už nik" ("And Then There Were None") mid-run. The 1930 novel "The Invisible Host" by Gwen Bristow and Bruce Manning has a plot that strongly matches that of Christie's later novel, including a recorded voice announcing to the guests that their sins will be visited upon them by death. "The Invisible Host" was adapted as the 1930 Broadway "The Ninth Guest" by Owen Davis, which itself was adapted as the 1934 film "The Ninth Guest". The 1933 K.B.S. Productions "Sherlock Holmes" film "A Study in Scarlet" follows a strikingly similar plot; it includes a scene where Holmes is shown