That will be 27 years ago this Christmas. Thanks for posting.

love him 10 *s x holly

the last moments from his last show on the BBC-went to thames the following year and his career hit the buffers

Excellent – from Mike Yarwood to K9 to Val with Vic Damone these were the great days of Christmas TV!

In those days Mr Yarwood was the be all and end all of the impressionists.
Looking back – if we are honest – he wasn’t really any good at all. He was all tv had in that department.
Rory Bremner and John Culshaw are a million times better.
Thanks for the ‘memories’ though, Mike.

Dont pick on Mike-If you want to look back THAT far you,ll see EVERYTHING seems to look pathetic in those days right down to the clothes we wore-but we thought they were good at the time-EVERYTHING has excelled since then-and in another 30 years time?will you look back at TODAY and say the same about NOW?

I agree ; most of tv in those days WAS crap, though I will never tire of watching Fawlty Towers, Porridge, Open all hours, Reggie Perrin, Rising Damp…etc…..
We DID think it was good THEN…..
BUT in 20 years time I will NOT be looking back to now with nostalgia because all tv really IS crap now!

His career started to hit the buffers 2 years earlier when he couldn’t impersonate the Prime Minister any more!

Interesting sequence in the trailer for Only Fools and Horses. Was that an abandoned title sequence?

Can’t agree with that. By ’81, the strain was beginning to take its toll, but most of his impressions were still very good. (Try viewing today’s impressionists with the same critical eye.) In the seventies, he was one of the TV’s biggest stars, on a par with Morecambe and Wise. (Whatever happened to light entertainment ?) His 1977 Christmas Show was the highest rated programme ever shown on British television.

I remember watching K9 and Company. They had to stop some Devil worshippers, If I remember correctly? What i’d do to feel the excitement of those long gone Christmases.

2:29 onwards great memories

My God, it took 42 years for the British premiere on TV of Gone with the wind? I remember Jaws being televised for the first time around then too and it was a massive TV event!

Bring back Mike Yarwood – entertainment par excellence! What a wonderful performer he was, brightening up our Saturday nights for years on end.

Love the way mike changes to characters that quick

k9 & company lol Christmas back was better even if we did’nt have the stuff we got today , i got a pair ofv blue & yellow roller skates & an Adam Ant tape & the world was a happier place.

I’d love to see these type of Christmas specials released on DVD.

I liked the Christmas Special with ABBA, Mike was a class entertainer!!!!

Why in those days did the BBC always without fail show a war movie over the season of goodwill.

i wish the bbc would put all these old shows back on t.v because they were entertaining and better than the crap they are putting on now and having the cheek to charge the t.v lincense fee for.