Carry On Christmas Specials Christmas special, "Carry On Christmas". Talbot Rothwell made a return as the writer, as did Sid James. This was the only special to have a modern-day setting, featuring Sid James as a department store Father Christmas, although it did feature historical sketches. It would be ten years before the next Christmas special. "Carry On Laughing's Christmas Classics" saw Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor introduce some of the funniest moments from the later Carry On films, in a format very similar to the film "That's Carry On!". In 2005, the first four specials were released on DVD, featuring interviews with film
Bless the Beasts and Children (film) Academy Award for Best Original Song and the Grammy Award for Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special. Bless the Beasts and Children (film) Bless the Beasts and Children is a 1971 film adaptation of the novel of the same name written by Glendon Swarthout. It was directed by Stanley Kramer and starred Bill Mumy (customarily credited then as Billy Mumy; this was one of the earliest known times he was credited as "Bill" Mumy) and Barry Robins. The central characters in "Bless the Beasts and Children" are six adolescent boys, whose preoccupied parents send