Christmas Crackers (Only Fools and Horses) 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 him a present this year as "I don't believe
Christmas music by the bestselling "Carols for Choirs" series (David Willcocks, Reginald Jacques and John Rutter), first published in 1961 and now available in a five volumes. The popular books have proved to be a popular resource for choirs and church congregations in the English-speaking world, and remain in print today. More recently popular Christmas songs—often Christmas songs introduced in theater, television, film, or other entertainment media—tend to be specifically about Christmas, or have a wintertime theme. They are typically not overtly religious. The most popular set of these titles—heard over airwaves, on the Internet, in shopping malls, in elevators and lobbies,