The Night Before Christmas

Episode 6.14
24 December 1991


Writer Peter Palliser
Director John Woods

Harry falls for Jo Beckett, “The Woman Of My Life”, who owns a jazz club, “Smoky Jo’s”. He plans to marry her and buys her a £2500 engagement ring. He even makes preparations to sell his share of CBS to a rival security firm and invest the proceeds in her club.

Eddie Gerard Horan
Mike Hubble Alfred Molina
Jo Beckett Jill Gascoine
Ray Beckett Peter Vaughan
Stan Geff Francis
Vicar Roger Bingham
Joyce Campbell Marcia Warren
Johnny Douglas Henshall
Dr McCord Christina Greatrex
Harold Dave Hill
Dave Woolfe Garry Cooper
Landlady Maggie McCarthy
Sales Assistant Amanda Dickinson
Herself P P Arnold
Himself Clarke Peters

This is an extra 90-minute Christmas episode, dedicated to Bill Stair, May 1939 – March 1991, co-creator of “Boon”.