Are any of you into Christmas episodes of certain TV shows? I enjoy watching these almost as much as I do the Christmas movies. Here's some that I love to watch every year...
The Andy Griffith Show (The Christmas Story)
All In The Family (The Draft Dodger, Christmas Day At The Bunkers, Edith's Christmas Story)
Happy Days (Guess Who's Coming To Christmas)
The Brady Bunch (The Voice of Christmas)
Little House on the Prairie (Christmas At Plum Creek, A Christmas They Never Forgot, Merry Ingall's Christmas)
The Jeffersons (All I Want For Christmas)
Sanford and Sons (Ebenezer Sanford)
Taxi (A Full House for Christmas)
Mork and Mindy (Mork's First Christmas)
The Waltons (The Walton's Christmas)
There's probably a bunch more I'm not remembering.
Last year Stuff You Should Know Holiday Spectacular did a piece on Its A Wonderful Life.
It was apparently it was a flop when it originally came out and was mostly forgotten until it went into public domain in 1974. TV stations were looking for something to air on Christmas Day and it was free. Some started doing 24 hour marathons and this it became a Christmas Tradition... until 1993 when the movie studio was able to regain the rights from public domain in court. A year later NBC bought the rights and its been with them ever since.
I've never seen a Holiday Affair and I agree with Miracle on 34th Street (B/W version only)Never cared for it honestly. It just doesn't feel like a Christmas movie to me. From around that same time period, I'm a much much bigger fan of A Holiday Affair and Miracle on 34th Street.