"A Christmas Quacker"
Christmas is coming and the Goosewing's getting fat. Season 3 Episode 10 (episode 55 overall) Original broadcast date: 26 December 1990 Writers: Peter Richard Reeves, Jimmy Hibbert Additional voices: Santa Claus/3rd Crow brother: Brian Trueman Ruffles/Dr. Von Goosewing/Tremendous Terence/Dribulon: Jimmy Hibbert Burt: David Jason Castle transport visual not used. Christmas episodes are notoriously tricky to do from a show maker's perspective and from the fans' perspective they either become beloved classics or hated outright for being a divergence. Graham Linehan (one half of the writing team on the similarly surreal and fatalistic show 'Father Ted') cites 'A Christmassy Ted' as being a mess and something he's not overly proud of. I love it! While I can't quite say as much for this one to the same extent, it has enough redeeming features to make it worth my while. I think the Avenger Penguins Christmas episode works a little bette