Christmas TV and film with Yorkshire links to enjoy including return of Doctor Who and All Creatures Great and Small

Various screen installments over the holiday will feature people from the region or will have been made on location in the area.

All Creatures Great and Small

The All Creatures Great and Small Christmas special airs on Channel 5 on December 22 (with a repeat on Boxing Day).

Set in the 1930s, young vet James Herriot (Nicholas Ralph) is now settled at Skeldale House with boss Siegfried (Samuel West) and his errant younger brother, Tristan (Callum Woodhouse) and, of course, housekeeper Mrs Hall (Anna Madeley). But James is downcast because Helen (Rachel Shenton), the farmer’s daughter he loves, is engaged to local landowner Hugh Hulton (Matthew Lewis).

A party takes place on Christmas Eve, the day before Helen and Hugh’s wedding. Channel 5 has released photographs of Darrowby square (actually Grassington) filled with villagers shopping and children running around dressed in Nativity costumes.

The series has recently been recommissioned for a second series.

Doctor Who

Yorkshire-born Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor returns for the perennial Christmas period special - and the Daleks are back.

The episode will air on BBC One on New Year’s Day at 6.45pm.

Whittaker is from Skelmanthorpe near Huddersfield and is the first woman to play the Timelord - the show's 13th incarnation.

Black Narcissus

Doncaster-born Dame Diana Rigg will posthumously appear in an adaptation of Black Narcissus over the Christmas period.

BBC One’s three-part remake of Rumer Godden’s novel will star British actress Gemma Arterton as Sister Clodagh, a young sister superior tasked with establishing a mission in the remote Himalayas.

It will air on Sunday, December 27 at 9pm, with the following two episodes on at the same time over the next two nights.

Dame Diana, who died in September aged 82, will appear as Mother Dorothea in what the BBC said will be her final role.

Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg was born in Doncaster before her family moved to India when she was two months old. When the family returned to Yorkshire she was boarded at the Moravian school at Fulneck, Pudsey.

Father Christmas Is Back

A comedy about four sisters who have reunited for the Christmas holiday in a Yorkshire mansion.

Their father returns after abandoning the family on December 25 many years before.

The plot focuses on Caroline Christmas, a control freak who desperately wants a perfect Christmas.

Through a series of misunderstandings, she uncovers a long-buried family secret.

Caroline is played by Nathalie Cox, with Talulah Riley as Vicky Christmas, Elizabeth Hurley starring as Joanna Christmas and Caroline Quentin being Elizabeth Christmas.

Kelsey Grammer - star of long-running US sitcom Frasier and voice of The Simpsons' villainous Sideshow Bob - is the father, James Christmas, while April Bowlby plays his 35-year-old American girlfriend Jackie.

Kris Marshall, who is no stranger to fans of Christmas films after playing Colin Frissell in Richard Curtis' Love Actually, stars as Caroline's husband Peter Hope.

Monty Python legend John Cleese stars, while Katy Brand also pops up as a Reverend.

Cox was snapped acting for a scene in Howden, in the East Riding, in September, with photos showing her leaving Atkinson Bakers in the Market Place.

Filming took place in York, with stars such as Cleese appearing at Birdsall House in Malton.

It is expected to be released soon.

Emmerdale

Paddy Kirk and Chas Dingle look set to tie the knot in soap, which is made in Leeds, while Meena attempts to win over her sister Manpreet after their feud.

It airs between Monday to Friday, including Christmas Day itself.