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Radio Times Christmas covers: a selection
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The first Radio Times Christmas cover from 1923, showing a colour image of a British family around their fire 1923
Radio Times Christmas 1951 cover, a line drawing of men and their dogs trudging through snow to a warm village 1951
Radio Times Christmas cover for the first double issue, the 1969 one featuring a collage of current stars 1969
Radio Times Christmas 1977 cover, a painting of a village with the houses and lights arranged to resemble a Christmas tree. 1977
Radio Times Christmas 1978 cover, with comedian and impressionist Mike Yarwood dressed as Santa 1978
Radio Times Christmas 1985 cover, with David Jason as Del Boy, Buster Merryfield as Uncle Albert and Nicholas Lyndhurst as Rodney from Only Fools and Horses 1985
Radio Times Christmas 1988 cover, featuring a harlequin and a ballerina on stage 1988
Radio Times Christmas 1989 cover, featuring a Carols from King's choirboy 1989
Radio Times Christmas 1991 cover, featuring Father Christmas reading RT 1991
Radio Times Christmas 1993 cover, featuring a boy with his two front teeth missing dressed as Santa 1993
Radio Times Christmas 1995 cover, featuring Father Christmas holding a clapperboard 1995
Radio Times Christmas 1996 cover, featuring a jack-in-the-box-style snowman 1996
Radio Times Christmas 1997 cover, featuring Santa, a snowman, a robin and a cracker 1997
Radio Times Christmas 1998 cover, featuring Father Christmas riding a reindeer 1998
Radio Times Christmas 2000 cover, featuring an illustration of Harry Potter 2000
Radio Times Christmas 2001 cover, featuring a girl ice-skating dressed as a Christmas tree 2001
Radio Times Christmas 2002 cover, featuring Father Christmas riding on a robin 2002
Radio Times Christmas 2004 cover, featuring Father Christmas flying a plane around a Christmas pudding 2004
Radio Times Christmas 2005 cover, featuring Doctor Who's Tardis in a snow globe 2005
Radio Times Christmas 2007 cover, featuring Father Christmas making a snow angel 2007
Radio Times Christmas 2008 cover, featuring Wallace and Gromit 2008
Radio Times Christmas 1991 cover, featuring Father Christmas reading RT
You can't miss it now: BBC * ITV * C4 was writ large on the 1991 Christmas cover, the first that was legally allowed to feature all channels. And if the idea of all channels meaning four of them seems ancient, there was also this oddity: no EastEnders on Christmas night.
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