Sooty, Sweep and Soo decide to wake Matthew with a Christmas song, with Matthew annoyed they are waking him so early. It also doesn't help that they want to have their Christmas party at 6am in the morning! Matthew remembers the previous Christmas when he ended up with an exploded Christmas pudding on his face!
This was the very first episode of The Sooty Show to be based in the Sooteries Cottage. However it wasn't the first episode of the series to be produced according to the production numbers.
This episode originally aired on 26th December 1980 and was later repeated on 21st December 1984.