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
The Christmas Invasion "The Christmas Invasion". This was the first time "Doctor Who" had featured on the Christmas edition cover in the show's forty-two-year history, and the first Christmas cover for an individual BBC television drama since "EastEnders" in 1986. The Christmas "Radio Times" cover usually features artwork of a generic Christmas scene. As confirmed by Russell T Davies in the episode commentary, the "Doctor Who" section of that issue of the "Radio Times" contains a hidden message explaining what saves the Doctor: many of the paragraphs in the articles have an oversized first letter, which taken consecutively spell out "A cup of