TV Guide BBC Four Monday

Fletch discovers fellow inmates at Slade Prison are planning an escape over Christmas - and is so convinced the bid is doomed to fail that he takes refuge in the hospital so he cannot be blamed when the tunnel is found. Festive edition of the classic comedy from 1975, starring Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale

The Resistance decide that their operations will be inhibited by General von Klinkerhoffen's personal control of the district and decree that he must be blown up. The colonel comes to a similar conclusion, deciding on poison, while Herr Flick elects to terminate the general's appointment with a poisoned dart. First broadcast 26 December 1985

Christmas special from 1990. Grumpy Victor says 'Bah humbug' to Christmas by refusing to appear in the panto or buy any presents. His mood is not improved by the mistaken delivery of 263 garden gnomes - but he starts to get into the spirit once he receives a bottle of wine

Lucy explores the tradition of festive hymns, revealing that there is much more to the best-loved carols than meets the eye, and how they reveal the history of Christmas itself. In the ancient past, pagan fertility ritual the wassail gave rise to door-to-door singing, and was also an integral part of an older midwinter festival adopted by Christianity when it came to Britain, and was rebranded as Christmas

Epic nature documentary following in the footsteps of an 85-year-old traveler - the director's father - as he hikes during all four seasons through raw and magnificent meditative landscapes in the mighty Oldedalen valley in Nordfjord in western Norway