Favorite Christmas classic tv shows

[Kringas]

Posted: 12/19/06 at 2:53pm

It was called The Girl Who Started Too Many Threads.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 12/19/06 at 2:54pm

The Year Without A Santa Claus

A Charlie Brown Christmas

Twas the Night Before Christmas

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (the cartoon)

The King Family Christmas Special (are they in the vault somewhere? We need a DVD)

[Mother's Younger Brother]

Posted: 12/19/06 at 2:55pm

When I was younger? Try now that I'm 33. I love them more than ever. Some of my favorites:

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
The Year Without A Santa Claus
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
A Christmas Carol (1984, George C. Scott)

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 12/19/06 at 2:57pm

Rudolph
Charlie Brown
Frosty

[blueroses]

Posted: 12/19/06 at 3:01pm

The Year Without a Santa Claus.

I saw Nestor the Long Eared Donkey ONCE and was completely traumatized. Anyone else remember this?

[Mother's Younger Brother]

Posted: 12/19/06 at 3:10pm

Yes! It's incredibly sad.

[best12bars]

Posted: 12/19/06 at 3:16pm

The Homecoming


...which became The Waltons TV show.

[blueroses]

Posted: 12/19/06 at 3:18pm

Did Richard Thomas' mole light up like Rudolph's nose?

[wexy]

Posted: 12/19/06 at 3:19pm

Mr.Magoos's Christmas Carol

[Calvin]

Posted: 12/19/06 at 3:21pm

What was that one where the kid's trying to sell a scrawny little donkey, but no one will buy it except for the tanner -- but he ends up running into Mary and Joseph, and they buy the donkey for their trip to Bethlehem? I think it was Disney.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 12/19/06 at 3:23pm

"The Homecoming"

I always cracked up when Patricia Neal came into John-Boy's room and said "Are you smoking cigarettes up here?" Wouldn't she be able to smell cigarettes if he was smoking?

[kec]

Posted: 12/19/06 at 3:44pm

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Charlie Brown Christmas
A Family Circus Christmas
Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
A Christmas Carol (1984, George C. Scott)

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 12/19/06 at 4:01pm

[cheezedoodle]

Posted: 12/19/06 at 4:07pm

Narrated by Greer Garson. They do not air it any longer because it depicts Arabs in an unflattering light.

[Calvin]

Posted: 12/19/06 at 4:08pm

And the sequel with Zero Mostel really sucks.

[blueroses]

Posted: 12/19/06 at 4:12pm

There's a sequel?!

[Gothampc]

Posted: 12/19/06 at 4:12pm

They really franchised House Without A Christmas Tree. Addie appears in something like four other movies. Easter, Thanksgiving, etc.

[Calvin]

Posted: 12/19/06 at 4:14pm

Yes indeed, blueroses. They air it on ABC Family on occasion.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 12/19/06 at 4:15pm

In the "so bad it's good" category:

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

[blueroses]

Posted: 12/19/06 at 4:19pm

I love when Carol lost her voice on The Brady Bunch Christmas episode. I only saw it once!

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 12/19/06 at 4:19pm

A Very Brady Christmas has become a classic in my home.

[Calvin]

Posted: 12/19/06 at 4:20pm

Every time I see a building collapse on TV, I get the urge to run to the location and starting singing "O Come All Ye Faithful."

[Gothampc]

Posted: 12/19/06 at 4:20pm

"I love when Carol lost her voice on The Brady Bunch Christmas episode."

I think she did it just to fake Cindy out. By the way, how come that was the only time you see the Brady's go to church? Did the church just pay Carol to show up and sing?

[blueroses]

Posted: 12/19/06 at 4:21pm

That's another one in the "so bad it's good" camp!

I can't believe Greg grew up to be a gyno.

[cheezedoodle]

Posted: 12/19/06 at 4:26pm

There is an episode from the Drag Net series that I remember too. The baby Jesus is stolen from a church a few hours before midnight mass - so our boys in blue go on a search for it. At the end of the show, Gannon and Friday are with the priest explaining that they have had no luck and the church door swings open, and a little neighborhood boy wheels in his red wagon with the baby Jesus in it. When they ask the boy why he has the statue, he replies "I prayed to the baby Jesus for a red wagon for Christmas and I promised him that if I got it, he would be the first to ride in it." Sad - but it always make me choke up. Even now as I type this.