Hold The Sunset: Christmas Special - If I Were A Wise Man - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)

Hold The Sunset. Image shows from L to R: Joan (Sue Johnston), Queenie Gale (Anne Reid), Phil (John Cleese), Bob (James Cosmo), Celia (Annette Badland), Jack Dugdale (Peter Egan), Roger (Jason Watkins), Wendy Stevens (Rosie Cavaliero), Edith (Alison Steadman), Sandra (Joanna Scanlan). Copyright: BBC

It's the last Christmas Edith will have with her family before she and Phil set off for their dream retirement in the Mediterranean. Edith's son Roger enlists her scurrilous one-time flame, Bob 'the burglar', to give Christmas its proper flavour; Edith's sister Joan won't watch the Queen's Speech anywhere else; Queenie locks Sandra and Wendy into a wardrobe; and Phil finds himself talking to a ghost.

Broadcast details

Date

Sunday 23rd December 2018

Time

6:20pm

Channel

BBC One

Length

30 minutes

Cast & crew

Cast

Alison Steadman	Edith
John Cleese	Phil
Jason Watkins	Roger
Rosie Cavaliero	Wendy Stevens
Joanna Scanlan	Sandra
Anne Reid	Queenie Gale
James Cosmo	Bob
Peter Egan	Jack Dugdale
Sue Johnston	Joan

Guest cast

Annette Badland	Celia
Edward Aczel	Estate Agent

Production team

Sandy Johnson	Director
Moira Williams	Producer
Humphrey Barclay	Producer
Chris Sussman	Executive Producer
Adam Bokey	Editor
David Hitchcock	Production Designer
June Nevin	Costume Designer
Trevelyan Oliver	Director of Photography
Nichola Bellamy	Make-up Designer
Theo Vidgen	Composer
Nick Gorman	1st Assistant Director
Gregor Sharp	Commissioning Editor

Press

Hold the Sunset Christmas special, review

It is as if the writer put down his pen midway through crafting an hour-long special and shoved in a heart-warming Christmas singalong to end things.

Alexandra Pollard, The Independent, 23rd December 2018