Durante el gobierno de Margaret Thatcher, la mina de carbón de un pueblo del norte de Inglaterra está a punto de ser cerrada. La banda de música de los mineros, toda una institución con más de un siglo de historia, también corre el peligro de desaparecer. A pesar de ello, Danny, el líder de la banda, exhorta a sus compañeros para animarlos a seguir compitiendo en el concurso nacional.
A television comedy special broadcast on BBC One on Christmas Day 1992. Sketches, stand-up comedy and songs combine to create the latest daytime show to be hosted by a popular husband-and-wife team. There are tips on female problems like seriously split ends, calorie reports, keep-fit with Jolly Polly, Agony Uncle Gerard's phone-in and Britain's first four times daily soap, set in a cosy corner of a shopping mall.
Mr Corbett is a cruel employer to Ben Partridge. One night on New Years Eve Ben is sent out to deliver some medicine. Along the way he wishes his master was dead, little knowing that the man he is delivering to is the Collector of Souls.