What is your Favorite Christmas Movie or TV Special?

[Winslow Leach]

A Charlie Brown Christmas (TV)

Mr. Hanky's Christmas Classics (TV) musical ep. of South Park

The Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire (TV)

Christmas Who? (TV) SpongeBob Christmas special

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (TV)

Frosty the Snowman (TV) Jimmy Durante as narrator

Saturday Night Live (TV) Christmas show from the first season, hosted by Candice Bergen 12/20/75

It's a Bundyful Life (TV) Married with Children, with Sam Kinison as Al's guardian angel

Scrooged (film)

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (film)

It's a Wonderful Life (film)

A Christmas Carol (1951 film) with Alistair Sim

Scrooge (film) musical version, with Albert Finney

The Muppet Christmas Carol (film)

A Christmas Story (film)

 

[D'Snowth]

Well... let's see...

• Elf (2003, movie)
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000, movie)
• The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992, movie)
• The Santa Clause (1995, movie)
• The Santa Clause 2 (2002, movie)
• Christmas Eve on Sesame Street (1978, movie)
• "A Vision of Sugar Plums" (1964, episode of Bewitched)
• "Humbug is Not to Be Spoken Here" (1967, episode of Bewitched)
• "An Old Fashioned Christmas" (1966, episode of Green Acres)
• "Dear Dad" (1972, episode of M*A*S*H)
• "Dear Sis" (1978, episode of M*A*S*H)
• A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965, TV special)
• It's Christmastime Again Charlie Brown (200? TV special)
• "Ebenezer Sanford" (197? episode of Sanford and Son)

Just to name a few.

 

[Fragglemuppet]

Well, let's see. I think Rankin & Bass definately need to be put in a catagory by themselves here, so let me tackle that first.
My favorite is, without a doubt, Santa Clause Is Coming to Town, closely followed by The Year Without a Santa Clause. The first Santa Clause mentioned was the first one of these cartoons I ever saw, so whether it truly is or not, in my mind I think of it as the first one ever made. Can anyone set me straight on that?
Anyway, I love watching the ABC Family marithon every year while I decorate the tree.

Apart from that, my mustsee every year is the Muppet Christmas Caroll, and although it isn't really my favorite, I usually end up watching A Christmas Story at least once.
Ones that I like to see when I can are:

It's a Wonderful Life
Myracle, (you can't compete with the original classic, but I like both versions.)
And, because most people on this thread have named at least one unknown/underappreciated special/movie, lol, mine is:
The Second Day of Christmas, (Lifetime movie)

 

[wwfpooh]

Nice to see that we have various tastes on what constitutes a White Christmas.

 

[SillyRed]

I love the Nick Jr. Christmas Specials

and I also love the Santa Clause movies and Most of all,

My fav movie has been "A Christmas Story", I started having interest in this movie in 1989. "You'll shoot your eye out!"

My fav Rudolph chracters are Hermey, Rudolph and Clarice.

 

[CensoredAlso]

All I have to say is thank God for ABC Family's 25 Days of Christmas! Lol, I don't know what I'd do if all these Christmas specials weren't playing somewhere this season. Though, I've been heart broken the past couple of years to see they always cut that one song from "'Twas the Night Before Christmas."

Not to mention this one from "Rudolph's Shiny New Year":

http://youtube.com/watch?v=nwYPdCfu0pM

 

[D'Snowth]

Oh, I almost forgot... there's a Lifetime movie (yes, I know, let's not go into that) with Mark Ruffalo that they show every year at Christmastime where he's like this mall security guard who has a pick-pocket, and her orphaned niece forced to spend Christmas with him before some official people take the niece away and put her in a foster home. It's a really sweet movie.

 

[Fragglemuppet]

Yep, that's the one!
Don't worry. Hey, at least someone besides me watches it, lol!

 

[Xerus]

My top ten favorite TV specials are...

1. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
2. Frosty the Snowman
3. Santa Claus is Coming to Town
4. Muppet Family Christmas
5. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
6. The Year Without a Santa Claus
7. Jack Frost
8. Christmas Eve on Sesame Street
9. Jim Henson's The Christmas Toy
10. VeggieTales, The Star of Christmas

There was also this Animaniacs Christmas episode where the Warners were dressed as shepherds and they came to the manger where they met Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus. And they sang the song of the Little Drummer Boy. That was a really beautiful heartwarming episode.

 

[D'Snowth]

How could I forget The Christmas Toy? ! That was a BIG part of my childhood growing up!