| Pardon the Expression | |
| Episode number | 37 |
| Episode | Christmas Special |
| ITV broadcast date | Never transmitted |
| Writer | Harry Driver and Vince Powell |
| Director | Michael Cox |
| Designer | Michael Grimes |
| Previous episode | - |
| Next episode | - |
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Leonard Swindley is forced to sack Mr Frobisher, Dobson and Hawkes’s Father Christmas who has been caught drinking on the job. Even though it’s now January seconded manager Wally Hunt is not pleased as the stock of toys is still far too high and he was keeping the grotto open to push sales. His solution is to rebrand the grotto; Father Christmas and Fairy Glitter are dispensed with and Swindley and gormless trainee assistant manager Patrick Gorman are installed in their place as “King Fun” and his jester “Jingle”. Things start to go wrong when their predecessor’s bottles of Newton & Ridley ale are found in the lucky dip and the radiator in the grotto goes into overdrive. When the day comes to an end Mrs Edgeley reports seeing Mr Frobisher leaving with the two men’s everyday clothes and, still in their grotto clothing, they are forced to travel by bus to his home to collect the items, provoking anger from the harassed conductor and being the cause of a strange case of mistaken identity in a cream cracker competition. On arriving at his house they find that the journey was a waste of time - Frobisher had left their suits with “Fairy Glitter” when he left the store. The next day, when things seemingly couldn’t get worse for Swindley’s dignity, Hunt imposes on him once more; keen to sell his extra stock of toy Daleks, he has the grotto transformed into a “lunar cave”. Gorman is a spaceman while Swindley, fully costumed, is the “thing from another world”…
This episode was included in Network DVD collection Pardon the Expression - The Complete Second Series, released on 24th August, 2009.
| Christmas Special | |
| Series: | Short Trips |
| Doctor: | Sixth Doctor |
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| Setting: | |
| Author: | Marc Platt |
| Published In: | Short Trips: A Christmas Treasury |
| Previous Story: | Spookasem |
| Following Story: | Never Seen Cairo |
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| PNX episode | |
| "Christmas Special" | |
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| Season: | 1 |
| Episode no. | X1 |
| Prod. code: | PNX027_X001NN |
| Writer(s): | Hawku |
| Original post date: | 1999-12-24 |
| Stardate: | Unknown |
| Year: | 2376 |
| episode chronology | |
| Previous episode: | "Experimentalism" |
| Next episode: | "The X Continuum" |
While transporting a group of Helenion refugees home, the Phoenix-X slams into a large Isatonic Crystal asteroid. Daniel finds the value in the crystal and orders the crew to mine it. But the Tree species arrive, enemies of the Helenions and the Federation, and attempt to fight - luckily all is saved when a special jolly guest arrives to change things.
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