Luke has been a film fan since first seeing Jurassic Park at the Odeon in Ipswich, UK back in ’93. The Odeon is gone but the doughy-eyed sense of idealism remains.

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Has the office Christmas party left you hungover and more jaded than ever? Feel like that promotion is gone because now your boss has seen you dance the macarena with a half-rolled cigarette and a vomit-stained H&M shirt?

Then follow the call of that siren song and nestle into the sweet bosom of nostalgia.

We all know the ’80s and ’90s were better as kids. No Christmas debt. No responsibilities. And a wealth of terrestrial Christmas movie premiers to look forward to.

Films that took almost a decade to get from cinema to TV premiere (E.T.). Films that you discovered for the first time on the box and that immediately imprinted like a brand upon the brain, for no reason other than it was on telly on Christmas Eve (Cliffhanger) and you could STAY UP for it!

We go back in time, a cruise the TV Guide to see what we were all watching, and what we had the VCR set for.

A big thanks to the people at http://ukchristmastv.weebly.com/ for their exhaustive historical listings, and to all the wonderful human beings who recorded films and Christmas, and then uploaded the announcers and ads to YouTube. You are heroes.

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Happy Holidays.

 

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