C4 to announce top Christmas television moment

The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl’s song Fairytale Of New York is also nominated.

The 100 Greatest Christmas Moments will be announced by comedian Jimmy Carr on Channel 4 at 9pm tomorrow.

Here are the TV moments voted into the top 10 – in alphabetical order.

:: Band Aid – Do They Know It’s Christmas? (1984)

Appalled at the fact that millions of Ethiopians were starving, Midge Ure and Bob Geldof wrote a Christmas song that became the biggest and fastest-selling record ever in the UK. Band Aid went on to raise more than £100 million for famine relief.

:: Blackadder’s Christmas Carol (1989)

This variation on the Charles Dickens story tells the story of Ebenezer Blackadder, the kindest man in London, who turns into a mean and unscrupulous miser after seeing visions of how it was being such bad men that brought his ancestors success.

:: Father Ted – A Christmassy Ted (1996)

Ted, Dougal and a communion of other misfit priests become lost in Europe’s largest lingerie department. An ecclesiastical scandal seems inevitable.

:: It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)

Frank Capra’s timeless feel-good classic sees a desperate Jimmy Stewart contemplating suicide on Christmas Eve until his guardian angel steps in.

:: Only Fools And Horses – Christmas specials (various)

After a three-year hiatus, the ‘80s favourite returned at Christmas 1996 with a three-part story which saw a staggering 24.35 million people tuning in to watch the Trotters strike it rich.

:: Slade – Merry Xmas Everybody (1973)

The most popular British Christmas song ever from the one of the most successful British chart groups of the ‘70s. A firm festive favourite from the moment it sold 250,000 copies on the day it was released.

:: The Office – Christmas specials (2003)

The perfect way to end a modern classic – with a Christmas special that sees Dawn and Tim finally get it together and David Brent tell Finchy where to go.

:: The Snowman (1982)

The heart-warming short film famous for its theme tune, Walking In The Air.

:: The Vicar Of Dibley – Christmas specials (various)

Christmas in the parish of Dibley is a time when vicar Geraldine Grainger is not afraid of multiple Christmas dinners and realism in the nativity play is stretched to the limit when Alice Tinker’s Virgin Mary goes into labour for real.

:: Wallace & Gromit – A Close Shave (1995)

The clay animation heroes are assisted by Shaun the courageous sheep in their efforts to avert a threatened wool shortage brought on by rustlers.