“SAFARI! SO GOODY!” Not in our book, obviously, but this extract from the festive edition of TVS’s interminable jungle jamboree On Safari from 1982 is a useful reminder of the threadbare morning schedules assembled for “younger viewers” during the run-up to Christmas.

Proceedings get off to a less than promising start as the never-popular BIGGINS greets our “glamorous” hostess GILLIAN TAYLFORTH, before guest star LYNSEY DE PAUL receives a bemused welcome from an audience possibly too young to remember Sugar Me.

The cast is completed by the arrival of celebrity contestants SHIRLEY ANNE FIELD and MELVYN HAYES, the latter modelling a distinctive ensemble of T-shirt, beanie hat and big shorts, later ripped off wholesale by CARTER THE UNSTOPPABLE SEX MACHINE.