What's your favorite Christmas movie/special?

[Earth 2 Chris]

^That is the greatest Christmas episode of a TV series EVER. And yes, early Happy Days is good TV until it's own success made it a parody of itself.

Chris

[enyawd72]

Must watch every year:

Rudolph
Frosty
Year Without a Santa Claus
The Night Before Christmas
Santa Claus is Coming To Town
Charlie Brown Christmas
Nutcracker Scoob
He-Man/She-Ra Christmas Special
A Christmas Carol (George C. Scott)
Bionic Christmas Carol

[johnnystorm]

Here's one I thought I'd invented in my head, until years later I actually found a comic book they'd made of it! And then last year while flipping channels, I found it running on a religious station. Anyone else remember this from the early '70s?

[johnnystorm]

another favorite, loved the songs:

[knight errant00]

These are the ones I need to see every year between Thanksgiving and Christmas:

TV Specials --
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reiindeer
Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town
Frosty the Snowman
A Charlie Brown Christmas

Movies --
Miracle on 34th Street (we always watch it the day after Thanksgiving)
A Christmas Carol (1984) with George C. Scott – the best Scrooge ever!
The Bishop's Wife (a marvelous movie, as noted before, and also, strangely, my son’s very favorite Christmas movie)
Santa Claus (the Santa vs. the Devil classic from Mexico -- weirdly, my daughter's can't-miss every year)
A Christmas Story
Elf
Jingle All The Way
. . . and going off the board, Die Hard

Lots of others I enjoy (It's a Wonderful Life, the Alistair Sim Scrooge) and try to catch, but those are the can't-misses for me.

[Mikey]

Rich Little's A Christmas Carol with Richard Nixon as Scrooge - or was it WC Fields ?

[megojim]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068373/

I love them all, but this one sticks out in my memory, . . . haven't seen it in quite a while but as a kid I looked forward to it every year. Even had the great Alastair Sim reprising his role. It was also Produced by Chuck Jones, yep, that guy!

[madmarva]

Great lists Knight Errant and johnnystorm.

[Earth 2 Chris]

I love them all, but this one sticks out in my memory, . . . haven't seen it in quite a while but as a kid I looked forward to it every year. Even had the great Alastair Sim reprising his role. It was also Produced by Chuck Jones, yep, that guy!

That is the creepy version I spoke of earlier. Is it on DVD?

Chris

[EMCE Hammer]

Animated - tie between Charlie Brown and the Grinch
Movie - Jingle all the Way and Trapped in Paradise

I would love to get my hands on a good copy of the Henry Winkler version of A Christmas Carol that was mentioned. It's my favorite, but i haven't seen it in years.

[madmarva]

American Christmas Carol is out on DVD and maybe blu ray. I've got the DVD. It holds up. Tough scene when Scrooge repossesses a family's furniture.

[rykerw1701]

For me, it's just not Christmas without "The Star Wars Holiday Special."

Because that's what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown

[Hector]

Bad Santa.

[Bruce Banner]

One of my favourite xmas animated specials was A Cosmic Christmas.
From Nelvana, the Canadian studio that did the animated Boba Fett segment of The Star Wars Holiday Special.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Cosmic_Christmas

And for live action... probably Gremlins.

[MIB41]

As holiday movies go, I LOVE Scrooged with Bill Murray and Jack Frost with Michael Keaton. The rest are the animated features:
Santa Claus is coming to Town
Rudolph
Frosty
A Year without a Santa Claus
Charlie Brown Christmas
The Little Drummer Boy
Rudolph's Shiny New Year.