TV Times was going all ‘Celebrity Squares’ on its front cover of the double Christmas issue for 1976, showcasing some of the big names who were to be found on ITV across the Christmas holiday – more amazing yet, we can still show all of these faces without having to apologise for any subsequent revelations about them.
You can put names to all the famous faces here, where you will also find interviews or features on many of them, including one with Tommy Cooper, reminiscing on childhood Christmases.
“With my Dad being a poultry farmer, we never went short of chickens and turkeys. In fact, we got sick of them. The luxuries were the vegetables. My father would make us say Grace and when we looked up, he’d eaten them all.