Stanley Baxter C/D?

Classic obviously
and now an ITV show on Christmas Day that will be worth watching for the 1st time in 20 odd years

I should have waited until monday.

ITV said that the show, Stanley Baxter Now and Then, will be a "truly unique television event".

Aye, no-one at ITV's ever thought of cobbling together a load of old clips and an interview with someone before. Can't say I'm tremendously excited - don't they wheel Stanley Baxter out once every five years for something like this where he can get patted on the back for being brilliant? I take it they've just run out of Morecambe and Wise Christmas shows to repeat?

Definitely classic. Stanley Baxter's Parliamo Glasgow, indeed just about everything of his I've ever seen or read, is absolutely classic. Witty and intelligent, or just comedy that's not dumbed down for us, the "Little Britain"-watching youth of today.

Whether it's a clip show or not - "a mix of archived and new performances", according to the BBC - to have someone and something worth watching on Christmas telly again will be, to my mind at least, very refreshing.

And as a panto dame - he had better legs than a woman! That, surely, makes him worth watching...?

Out of the closet at age 94.

https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/actor-stanley-baxter-comes-out-gay-new-book-lifting-lid-his-troubled-private-life-3020919