Hilda Ogden's final episode on Christmas Day 1987, remains the highest-rated episode of Coronation Street ever, with nearly 27 million viewers.

Viewership peaked on Christmas Day 1987 when an average of 28. 5 million viewers tuned in to see Hilda Ogden leave the street to start a new life as a housekeeper for long term friend Dr Lowther ( although there is some confusion as to whether or not this was actually the highest rating episode due to a special omnibus repeat of that week's episodes being combined with the original airing ).

* The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy ( 2005 ) – Mrs. Claus ( voice ) in episode: " Billy and Mandy Save Christmas "

episode " The Most Adequate Christmas Ever ," Heaven is featured.

* The song " Christmas Rappin was featured during a Christmas episode of the TV sitcom Martin.

The 1986 Christmas Day episode of EastEnders is often given as the highest-rated UK soap opera episode ever, with 30. 15 million viewers ( in 2007, the UK had approximately 54 million viewers ).

The Christmas Day 1986 episode was watched by 30. 15 million viewers and contained a scene of divorce papers served to Angie Watts by her husband Den.

In Steven Moffat's short story " What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow " ( the basis for the Tenth Doctor episode " Blink "), the Ninth Doctor has a rooftop sword fight with two Sontarans in 21st century Istanbul, defeating them with the help of spy Sally Sparrow, apparently before the events of " Rose " in his personal timeline.

* The Sycorax, a fictional alien race from the Doctor Who episode " The Christmas Invasion "

In the Christmas 2009 episode " The End of Time, Part One ", the Doctor uses a remote locking system to lock the TARDIS, similar to the remote-control locking system used on modern cars.

In 2001, he appeared in a Christmas Special episode of Last of the Summer Wine, " Potts in Pole Position ".

In between the films, Rogers and Thomas produced three Christmas specials in 1969, 1970 and 1973, a nineteen episode television series in 1975 and various West End stage shows which later toured the provinces.

In episode 106, Kermit identifies the name of the theater as The Benny Vandergast Memorial Theater, although by the time of It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie, it is simply called " The Muppet Theater.

After completing production on the fifth episode, " High Octane ", the cast and crew broke for Christmas break, expecting to return in several weeks ' time to complete the ordered run of episodes.

On another episode, O ' Brien, noting that Hanks was missing Christmas on his promotional tour, brought the season to him, including a gift ( the skeleton of Hooch ), and a mass of snow burying them both.

* The sanctuary interior was used for Dragnet 1969's episode 15, " The Christmas Story ".

Here is a lyrical excerpt from a Christmas episode, Cinderella, first broadcast on Christmas Eve 1967, and re-broadcast in December 2009, of " Good King Boroslav ":

One Thursday before Christmas, the elderly physician Dr. Emlyn McCarron tells a story about an episode that took place early in his long and varied career: that of a patient who was determined to give birth to her illegitimate child, no matter what, despite financial problems and social disapproval.

" In episode " Simpsons Christmas Stories ", he is a Navy pilot.

The dog was introduced in the first episode of the show, the 1989 Christmas special " Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire ", in which his owner abandons him for finishing last in a greyhound race.

In that episode, " Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire " ( season one, 1989 ), Homer discovers that he has no money to buy Christmas presents for the family.

But that did not prevent him from writing more long letters, or from coming to spend his Christmas vacations with the hospitable, lively Szolds in their pleasant house on Lombard Street.

that aside from due notification of certain major events in their lives ( two marriages, two births, one divorce ), Christmas and Easter cards of the traditional sort had been the only thin link she had with them through the widowed years.

I look like an old man, compared '', and he had picked up his photograph with the red Christmas bow still on it.

It won't be a `` tea '', however, but more of an international folk song festival, with singers from Chicago's foreign groups to sing Christmas songs from around the world.

You wonder about the Christmas card with no name on it, and it comes to you that maybe it would have been better to have made somebody else happy if you couldn't be happy yourself, to give somebody else the one they wanted -- to give them you.

They are commonly called " Christmas Bells ", because of the shape of their flowers and their flowering time, which coincides with Christmas in Australia.

They withdrew to Mercia, but, in January 878, made a sudden attack on Chippenham, a royal stronghold in which Alfred had been staying over Christmas, " and most of the people they killed, except the King Alfred, and he with a little band made his way by wood and swamp, and after Easter he made a fort at Athelney in the marshes of Somerset, and from that fort kept fighting against the foe ".

For the next five years, Anne spent no more than five or six weeks a year with her family, during holidays at Christmas and in June.

The Electron was developed during 1983 as a cheap sibling for the BBC Micro with the intention of capturing the low-cost Christmas sales market for that year.

* Santa Claus also known as Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas and simply " Santa ", is a figure with legendary, mythical, historical and folkloric origins who, in many western cultures, is said to bring gifts to the homes of the good children during the late evening and overnight hours of Christmas Eve, December 24.

Cider is the most popular beverage of the middle and lower economic classes at Christmas and New Year ( the upper classes proverbially preferring to celebrate with locally produced champagne, although real old-line " creole " aristocrats will still drink cider, which is much more traditional ).

In 1983 an a cappella group known as The Flying Pickets had a Christmas ' number one ' in the UK with a cover of Yazoo's ( known in the US as Yaz ) " Only You ".

Grant followed up this album with the first of her Christmas albums — albums that later would be the basis for her holiday shows.

That year, she also recorded a duet with singer Randy Stonehill for his Love Beyond Reason album, entitled " I Could Never Say Goodbye ", and recorded The Animals ' Christmas with Art Garfunkel.

Grant followed the album with her second Christmas album, Home For Christmas in 1992, which included the song " Breath of Heaven ( Mary's Song )", written by Chris Eaton and Grant, and would later be covered by many artists, including Donna Summer, Jessica Simpson ( who acknowledged Grant as one of her favorite artists ), Vince Gill, Sara Groves, Point of Grace, and Broadway star Barbara Cook.

She followed up " Behind The Eyes " with A Christmas To Remember, her third Christmas album, in 1999.

Nintendo had no problems supplying retailers with the Game Boy for the Christmas season while Atari Corp. only managed limited distribution of their Lynx by year's end.

The television, film, book, costume, home decoration, and confectionery industries use this time of year to promote products closely associated with such a holiday, with promotions going from early September to 31 October, since their themes rapidly lose strength once the holiday ends, and advertising starts concentrating on Christmas.

Bock is historically associated with special occasions, often religious festivals such as Christmas, Easter or Lent.

: Includes the stories " Ball Jars ," " Love While you Dare To ," " Saturday Morning in The Bon Marché ," " Family Trip to Yellowstone ," " The Flood ," " Bob Anderson's Last Dance ," " Children Will Break Your Heart ," " Ronnie and The Winnebago ," " Carl's Christmas Pageant ," and " The Tombstone.

" There had been a confrontation at Christmas 1965 between the Krays and the Richardsons at the Astor Club, when Cornell, an associate of the Richardsons, referred to Ronnie as a " fat poof ".

* David Garfield – Ronnie Lynch ( Series 4 & 1980 Christmas Special )

In 1999, he starred as Prince Charming in ITV's Christmas pantomime alongside Ben Miller, and with Samantha Janus, Paul Merton, Harry Hill, Frank Skinner and Ronnie Corbett.

In 1999 she starred as Cinderella in the ITV Christmas pantomime, with Harry Hill, Alexander Armstrong, Frank Skinner, Paul Merton, Ronnie Corbett and many more.

She has been performing Ronnie Spector's Christmas Party annually since the late 1980s around the United States and for the last ten years in New York City at B.

While the title and format continued with Bob Kingsley's Country Top 40 production, ACCs version continued as American Country Christmas, with Brooks being joined by Ronnie Dunn ( from 2006 to 2008 ); the 2009 special consisted of Brooks interviewing country music artists.

He also featured in a Christmas special episode of Porridge ( 1976 ) with Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale.