Christmas Crackers (Only Fools and Horses) that two guys have already beat them to it. Christmas Crackers (Only Fools and Horses) "Christmas Crackers" is the first Christmas special episode of the BBC sit-com, "Only Fools and Horses", first screened on 28 December 1981, three days after Christmas. It is the first episode to run over 30 minutes, but not the first feature-length. It's Christmas Day and Grandad is cooking the dinner while Rodney is reading a book on body language which Mickey Pearce has lent him. Del returns and gives Grandad a Christmas present (a £20 note), however Grandad tells Del that he has not got
Christmas music hit singles with Christmas songs in the 1970s; "Merry Xmas Everybody" by Slade, "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" by Wizzard and "Lonely This Christmas" by Mud, all of which have remained hugely popular. The top ten most played Christmas songs in the UK based on a 2012 survey conducted by PRS for Music, who collect and pay royalties to its 75,000 song-writing and composing members, are as follows: Included in the 2009 and 2008 lists are such other titles as Jona Lewie's "Stop the Cavalry", Bruce Springsteen's "Santa Claus is Coming to Town", Elton John's "Step into Christmas",