Watts Family Films: Christmas, Epsom and Tooting (1972)

Gifts of pocket watches and laundry baskets in this Christmas film, featuring much present-opening, cracker-pulling and general festive gaiety.

Filmed principally at Hookfield in Epsom, the home of Graham and Daisy Watts. Daisy, heavily pregnant, opens presents, including a laundry basket, with father-in-law Bill. Also seen is Ivy, Bill’s wife, and Graham, who is receives a pocket watch. The film then cuts to a Christmas lunch in Tooting, where Daisy’s Maltese-Egyptian parents are entertaining, then back to Epsom, with shots of tasteful decor and hilarity at cracker presents.