SO it is Boxing Day in 1979. You just want to slump in front of the television after the excesses of the day before. You turn on the telly. Billy Smart’s Circus has been on, and later there is Charlie’s Angels.

But for now there is All Stars Winner Takes All.

It was a quiz show compered by the gap-toothed Liverpudlian comedian Jimmy Tarbuck. Contestants vied to win the £1,000 jackpot, and to do so had to answer a series of questions.

The unique selling point for this show is that the answers had odds such as 3/1 or whatever, so if you chose a longer odd answer and it was right, then your winnings went up accordingly.

But being Christmas television, you had to have a few stars on who were no doubt performing for their favourite charity.

And appearing this night was Scotland’s own lovely chanteuse Moira Anderson sitting there at the piano. You will recognise the well-worn face of champion boxer Henry Cooper at the back, with singer Anita Harris, and that old smoothie and crooner Dickie Henderson.

The one you will recognise but might have difficulty naming is Geoffrey Wheeler, who presented Top Of The Form and Songs Of Praise.

Moira, from Kirkintilloch, and who now lives in retirement on the Isle of Man, had a lovely, pure, singing voice, frequently appearing on The White Heather Club, and often with Kenneth McKellar, although she went on to have her own television shows.