Your FAVORITE Christmas show, Special, Etc..?

[Omaha Steve]

Marta and I have a list we watch every year. If not on the short list poll, what do you watch every Christmas?

Merry Christmas,

Steve & Marta

[amyrose2712]

1. Scrooge-1971 with Albert Finney as Ebinezer. nt

[DJ13]

2. A Christmas Story

"You'll put your eye out!"

[rusty charly]

5. "You'll shoot your eye out, kid."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085334/quotes

[tnlefty]

11. A Christmas Story!

We've watched it for over a decade, a staple on Christmas Eve here. :bounce:

[dflprincess]

12. "Christmas Story" would be my pick

I love the way Ralphie's and Schwarz's mothers react when Ralphie says "Fudge" and claims that he heard it from Schwarz. That never fails to leave me laughing so hard I nearly cry.

"Only I didn't say "Fudge." I said THE word, the big one, the queen-mother of dirty words, the "F-dash-dash-dash" word! "

[WeDidIt]

13. Hands down, the very best

blows every one on the OP's list out of the water.

[stopbush]

31. Yep. I can't believe it wasn't a choice in this poll.

[pampango]

41. Another BIG vote for "A Christmas Story". n/t

[FLDCVADem]

52. My favorite as well

[BoneDaddy]

56. Absolutely

How could the poster leave that one out

[Lisa0825]

58. Me too! That was a glaring omission from the poll! nt

[cherokeeprogressive]

63. Hands down. n/t

[rusty charly]

3. This one:

http://www.wayoutwest.org/toyland/film.html

[lpbk2713]

4. It's been years, but ...

Perry Como used to put on a good Christmas show.

[rurallib]

6. other: original Miracle on 34th Street.

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

7. Other. Heidi with Shirley Temple.

[OnlinePoker]

8. Scrooge (1951)

...with Alastair Sim. Absolutely perfect except for one of the film crew's head showing up in the mirror when Scrooge wakes up on Christmas Day.

[PADemD]

15. Was this version on this year? I couldn't find it.

[Lithos]

19. Was for me

Course I own the video...

This is the version as far as I am concerned.

[annabanana]

23. TMC showed it...

Unfortunately for me, TMC is not part of my cable package.

[OnlinePoker]

30. In Canada...yes

In fact, it's on right now but I've already watched it twice this year.

[PSzymeczek]

57. Wasn't on our cable system

this year. I love this version. I also like "An American Christmas Carol" with Henry Winkler.

[snagglepuss]

22. It's the only version I will watch. I never tire of Sims.

Didn't know about a wayward head in the mirror. Great tidbit.

[Rowdyboy]

9. It isn't Christmas until I've seen "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation"

[DIKB]

38. Hell Yes!!

Same goes for me.

[pnorman]

10. Bob Hope's Christmas 1944 Broadcast to the U.S. Merchant Marine Everywhere

http://www.usmm.org/hope.html

"Z-men are the men of the Merchant Marine. They carry a big wad of identification papers in a book called a Z book, so they call them Z-men. They're union men, too. They work for scale. Yeah, scale! Joe Squires worked for scale. He was a seaman on the S. S. Maiden Creek. He and Hal Whitney, the deck engineer, stayed aboard to handle the lines so the rest of the crew could get away before the Maiden Creek sank under waves thirty feet high. The crew was saved. They never saw Joe or Hal again. Did anyone ever make a wage scale big enough to pay for a man's life? Joe and Hal gave theirs voluntarily. So did 5,698 others. Did anyone ever devise a scale big enough to make men brave?"

[Initech]

14. Bad Santa

[begin_within]

16. "The Homecoming" is excellent

I never became much of a fan of "The Waltons," but that first Christmas special (that effectively became the pilot of the series) is outstanding.

[Bluebear]

25. Absolutely!!

The only miracle I want to see is your father coming through that door tonight....

[L0oniX]

17. other...

[sandnsea]

18. Only movie my grandparents saw in a theater

Bells of St Marys.

Plus Wonderful Life, Christmas Vacation, Wizard of Oz and Miracle on 34th street if the original is on. And HGTV White House Christmas. And then after Christmas, Kennedy Honors. And then Garrison Keillor if I can find him on New Year's Eve.

[bluescribbler]

20. A Very Colbert Christmas

Ran this morning on Comedy Central. Guests included Elvis Costello, George Wendt, John Legend and Jon Stewart. Very Funny.

[-..__...]

21. "Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics"

[DJ13]

34. ...

:spank:

:rofl:

[iris27]

53. "O holy night, the stars are brightly shining. It is the night of the christmas trees and pie."

"Jesus was born and so I get presents. Thank you Jesus for being born!"

Cartman slays me.

[rwheeler31]

24. None

[begin_within]

26. Pee-Wee's Playhouse Christmas Special is also fun

[lunamagica]

27. I haven't seen "The Gathering" for years

I keep hoping every year to see it, but missed it this year also :-(

ETA: I remember "House Without a Christmas Tree" from my childhood. Would love to see it again.

[Omaha Steve]

29. The Gathering just came out on DVD

http://www.wbshop.com/Gathering-The-Remastered/1000124851,default,pd.html#productSynopsis



* Studio: Warner Bros.
* Screen Aspect: 4 X 3 FULL FRAME
* Run Time: 194 minutes
* Packaging Type: Amaray Case
* Genre: Drama

Synopsis:

The Gathering (Disc 1, Newly Remastered)
For years, hard-driving businessman Adam Thornton neglected his family. Now, with a diagnosis of only weeks to live, Adam arranges a Christmas reunion – but not even the season of miracles can heal long-time emotional wounds. Edward Asner is Adam and Maureen Stapleton plays his estranged wife Kate in The Gathering, winner of the Emmy as Outstanding Special (1977-1978).

[PSzymeczek]

60. I'll have to look for that! n/t

[Raine]

39. I love "House Without a Christmas Tree" too

I don't know why they never show it. :-(

[alphafemale]

44. I remembered that as a kid and recently found it on DVD at the library

Funny thing though, my thought I had remembered that it was Henry Fonda playing the role of the father in that movie. Where actually it was Jason Robards. Hey I was maybe 11 the last time it was on TV. Funny what fuzzy memory will do though.

It was still good and felt much like a play. It seemed like the scenes were played straight through without alot of fancy editing.

[PSzymeczek]

59. I haven't seen

"The Gathering" for a long time either. Ed Asner and Maureen Stapleton.

[bedazzled]

28. no grinch? the original with karloff, not the "live action" one?

my favorite by far...

[iris27]

54. +1

The Jim Carrey one is awful.

[Liberal In Texas]

32. One year I watched the MD-80 I was in touch down at Eppley and

slide little side wise for awhile as it hit ice.

Man, I don't miss those Nebraska winters. I hope you've got all the food and firewood you need for awhile. I see this nasty storm is hooking around from the EAST!. Wow.

:hi:

[Lifelong Protester]

33. Holiday Inn!

With the first singing of White Christmas.

Also,
A Christmas Story ("the Scut Farcus affair...")
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation ("Look around you, Ellen, we're at the gates of hell")
Christmas in Connecticut (the original with Barbara Stanwyck and Dennis Morgan)
Miracle on 34th Street (the original with Maureen O'Hara, Natalie Wood)
Trading Places
Love, Actually
Charlie Brown's Christmas
Home Alone (the first one only)

[DKRC]

35. We're No Angels

Bogey, Peter Ustinov, Aldo Ray, Joan Bennett, Leo G. Carroll, & Basil Rathbone.
The by-play between all of these great actors is a joy to watch.



http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/53684/We-re-No-Angels/overview

I've been watching it at least 25 years. My daughter & I watched it last night. My x-husband called today, mentioned he has a copy now too, & watched it today.

:evilgrin:

[hyphenate]

36. Just a few

One, I saw it twice and have looked for it, but never find it: Christmas Eve. I think it was one of Loretta Young's last efforts--she plays a wealthy widow who goes into the poor sections of town and hands out blankets, food and such to the homeless with her butler--her son, Arthur Hill, is the Scrooge who has alienated all three of his kids and filed a competency hearing on his mother. Young hires a detective to track down the 3 grandchildren to ask them to come home for Xmas, and.....(see the movie!)

One I like simply because of the characterizations is a TV movie called Santa Who? Santa, played by Leslie Neilsen, falls out of the sleigh and gets amnesia. He can't deliver the gifts if he doesn't know who he is, and ultimately, he helps some people even without knowing who he is.

The Bishop's Wife with Cary Grant, David Niven, and again, Loretta Young. Grant is an angel sent to help out Bishop Niven, and begins to fall in love with the bishop's wife.

One Magic Christmas, with Mary Steenburgen, Harry Dean Stanton. Steenburgen plays a mother who's dealing with bad days, and tries to do the right thing for her husband and her family. Stanton is Gabriel, the angel, who has a message from Santa just for her.

[Onceuponalife]

37. Other: Silent Night, Deadly Night

[Omaha Steve]

46. Ever see (1974) Black Christmas?

Trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysBKrRtBuag

Directed by Bob Clark. Yes he did A Christmas Story, but this is very frightening.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Christmas_%281974_film%29



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This article is about the 1974 film. For the 2006 remake, see Black Christmas (2006 film).
Black Christmas

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Bob Clark
Produced by Bob Clark
Written by A. Roy Moore
Starring Olivia Hussey
Keir Dullea
Margot Kidder
John Saxon
Marian Waldman
Andrea Martin
Music by Carl Zittrer
Cinematography Reginald H. Morris
Editing by Stan Cole

Black Christmas is a 1974 Canadian horror film, directed by Bob Clark, which has a very large cult following. It was written by A. Roy Moore, and based largely on a series of real-life murders in Montreal, Quebec, around Christmas time. Black Christmas stars Olivia Hussey as a young college student who must deal with a deranged killer lurking in her sorority house. Taking only 40 days to shoot, it also features Margot Kidder and Andrea Martin, before either had gained fame in the United States, John Saxon and Keir Dullea round out the cast. The film's score is by Carl Zittrer.

[Onceuponalife]

62. I don't think so, but I saw the awful remake...

I actually cheered when Lacey Chabert got killed, god she was SO annoying lol.

[Norrin Radd]

40. Frosty the Snowman, and the others. I'm mad for anything Rankin-Bass.

"Elf" is a new favorite.

[Violet_Crumble]

42. I wonder if an Avatar Christmas special is on the drawing board? n/t

[Sapphocrat]

43. Other.

"All Through The House" episode of Tales from the Crypt (1972).

But only until they make a Christmas-themed Saw movie, preferably directed by Takashi Miike.

[pipi_k]

45. "White Christmas"

I just love the "Sisters" act at the nightclub and the "Mandy" number in the Minstrel Show at the Inn


:)

[TexasObserver]

47. A Christmas Story!

[Omaha Steve]

48. I thought there would be several other less known titles mentioned

I did leave a few biggies off the list to help the discussion.

[LWolf]

49. Two:

A Charlie Brown Christmas, and

A Christmas Carol, Albert Finney version. I shudder to think of what a Jim Carrey version looks like.

[Sebastian Doyle]

50. Why isn't "The Year Without a Santa Claus" on this poll?

An often overlooked Rankin/Bass classic from 1974, I think. Just the Miser Brothers alone make it worth watching.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yon2YuXssvo

[bigwillq]

51. Charlie Brown (nt)

[iris27]

55. The Star Wars Holiday Special.

Happy Life Day!

Kidding, kidding of course. I watched this for the first and last time a few months ago and was astonished that something so unbelievably terrible had ever been aired on television.

[Omaha Steve]

61. Nobody mentioned Silent Night with Linda Hamilton (a true story)

http://www.amazon.com/Silent-Night-Linda-Hamilton/dp/B0000AQRYU