Lovely, lovely question! (Sorry I have no Biggles for you.)
Highlander canon is almost absurdly thin on holidays. Across all its six seasons, off the top of my head, I can call to mind just two New Year's Eves and one US Independence Day, both in flashbacks, plus Tessa's birthday and Duncan's birthday. I've personally written two HL stories set at Christmastime, though. I imagine that how Duncan celebrates depends almost entirely on who he is with, treasuring their company and friendship above all, and letting them choose all the traditions. Probably, he makes the meal.
Dungeons & Dragons (1983-85, cartoon) has no holidays except Bobby's birthday, but I have developed the headcanon that a suitable Christmas special could have been Santa Claus arriving in the Realm -- an acquaintance of Dungeon Master -- possibly helping them defeat Venger and definitely offering to bring them home in his sleigh (they are all on the Nice list, even Eric, though Eric by the skin of his teeth). I have thought of perhaps actually writing this. Writing it as real fanfic, and not as a proposed TV special, though, brings up not only the profound question of whether to make Santa's offer the happy ending of the series, or to have them somehow left behind again, but also the touchy question of whether to dare dig into the respective religions of our protagonists (and what that means or doesn't mean when confronted with a real St. Nick), because by the rules of 1980s after-school-special demographics...
Forever Knight canon has essentially zero holidays of any kind (Natalie's birthday in one flashback counts for something). The fandom, however, has always provided plentiful holiday fanfic, going back to the wonderful Susan G.'s original mailing list challenge in December 1993, in which she wrote a new, fabulous, winter-holiday, FK story starring each main characters, but! but! told the list she had done so but would only post each one to the list for others to enjoy after someone else on the list first posted another winter-holiday story starring that character.* I have a paper zine of the stories from that event and reread most of it most Christmases. Susan's were eternally brilliant insights into the natures of the characters and the natures of the holidays. Other stories, by other writers, sometimes also emerge in that precious vein... not that there aren't also a lot of fluffy and shippy holiday stories, but Nick's metaphysical struggle does cry out for both the darkest and brightest sides of this time of year.
I have a BBC DVD collection from the '90s with Christmas episodes of Black Adder, Ballykissangel, Monarch of the Glen (actually Hogmany, not Christmas, but close enough), The Vicar of Dibly, and many, many more. It's absolutely delightful. The UK tradition of families watching TV on Christmas evening sure does produce a lot of excellent episodes!
* She eventually posted her Lacroix story unaccompanied. No one else tried. And hers is a masterpiece, as only she could.
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Highlander canon is almost absurdly thin on holidays. Across all its six seasons, off the top of my head, I can call to mind just two New Year's Eves and one US Independence Day, both in flashbacks, plus Tessa's birthday and Duncan's birthday. I've personally written two HL stories set at Christmastime, though. I imagine that how Duncan celebrates depends almost entirely on who he is with, treasuring their company and friendship above all, and letting them choose all the traditions. Probably, he makes the meal.
Dungeons & Dragons (1983-85, cartoon) has no holidays except Bobby's birthday, but I have developed the headcanon that a suitable Christmas special could have been Santa Claus arriving in the Realm -- an acquaintance of Dungeon Master -- possibly helping them defeat Venger and definitely offering to bring them home in his sleigh (they are all on the Nice list, even Eric, though Eric by the skin of his teeth). I have thought of perhaps actually writing this. Writing it as real fanfic, and not as a proposed TV special, though, brings up not only the profound question of whether to make Santa's offer the happy ending of the series, or to have them somehow left behind again, but also the touchy question of whether to dare dig into the respective religions of our protagonists (and what that means or doesn't mean when confronted with a real St. Nick), because by the rules of 1980s after-school-special demographics...
Forever Knight canon has essentially zero holidays of any kind (Natalie's birthday in one flashback counts for something). The fandom, however, has always provided plentiful holiday fanfic, going back to the wonderful Susan G.'s original mailing list challenge in December 1993, in which she wrote a new, fabulous, winter-holiday, FK story starring each main characters, but! but! told the list she had done so but would only post each one to the list for others to enjoy after someone else on the list first posted another winter-holiday story starring that character.* I have a paper zine of the stories from that event and reread most of it most Christmases. Susan's were eternally brilliant insights into the natures of the characters and the natures of the holidays. Other stories, by other writers, sometimes also emerge in that precious vein... not that there aren't also a lot of fluffy and shippy holiday stories, but Nick's metaphysical struggle does cry out for both the darkest and brightest sides of this time of year.
I have a BBC DVD collection from the '90s with Christmas episodes of Black Adder, Ballykissangel, Monarch of the Glen (actually Hogmany, not Christmas, but close enough), The Vicar of Dibly, and many, many more. It's absolutely delightful. The UK tradition of families watching TV on Christmas evening sure does produce a lot of excellent episodes!
* She eventually posted her Lacroix story unaccompanied. No one else tried. And hers is a masterpiece, as only she could.