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2007 Christmas Television Specials, December 1 to December 8
By PopSavant | December 6, 2007 | 
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| My nighly recommendations are highlighted in a festive green |
| Time (Eastern) | Network | Show | Comments | Amazon | |
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| 11:30 AM | Family Channel | Richie Rich’s Christmas Wish | Hey, it’s got Martin Mull in it, that’s enough for me. | Buy It! |
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| 1:30 PM | Family Channel | Jingle All The Way | Arnold Schwarznegger out to land the season’s hottest toy. Bonus points for a Phil Hartman appearance. | Buy It! |
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| 8 PM | NBC | Radio City Christmas Spectacular | NBC televises the Christmas show from Radio City for the first time. | ||
| 10 PM | TBS | The Santa Claus | Tim Allen as the reluctant elf. You like osso buco, Charlie? | Buy It! |
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| Time (Eastern) | Network | Show | Comments | Amazon | |
| 8:00 AM | Family Channel | Richie Rich’s Christmas Wish | Hey, it’s got Martin Mull in it, that’s enough for me. | Buy It! |
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| 10:00 AM | Family Channel | Jingle All The Way | Arnold Schwarznegger out to land the season’s hottest toy. Bonus points for a Phil Hartman appearance. | Buy It! |
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| 8:00 PM | TCM | The Shop Around The Corner | Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullivan in a comedy about two people falling in love through the mail. Later remade as In The Good Old Summertime and You’ve Got Mail, but the original is hard to beat. | Buy It! |
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| 10:00 PM | TCM | In The Good Old Summertime | And here’s the first remake. Judy Garland could belt them out like nobody else, what more do you want? | Buy It! |
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| Time (Eastern) | Network | Show | Comments | Amazon | |
| 7:00 PM | Family Channel | Rudoph’s Shiny New Year | Rudolph has to help Father Time find the New Year’s baby by midnight. It’s Rankin & Bass, that gets it a mention here. | Buy It! |
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| 8:00 PM | ABC | A Charlie Brown Christmas | : I never thought it was such a bad little tree. It’s not bad at all, really. Maybe it just needs a little love. | Buy It! |
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| 8:00 PM | Family Channel | The Year Without A Santa Claus | Ah, Mr. Heatmiser! I’d recommend this one, but it’s on opposite A Charlie Brown Christmas thanks to the network programming weasels. Luckily, since it’s the Family Channel, it’ll be on about a thousand more times. | Buy It! |
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| Time (Eastern) | Network | Show | Comments | Amazon | |
| 8:00 PM | ABC | Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town | Fred Astaire narrates the Rankin/Bass classic. Would be my pick for the night except for Rudolph (below) and the fact that this will air again later. | Buy It! |
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| 8:00 PM | CBS | Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer | Burl Ives as the snow man, Yukon Cornelius licking his pickaxe, Hermey the elf-dentist, and everyone’s favorite Bumble. | Buy It! |
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| Time (Eastern) | Network | Show | Comments | Amazon | |
| 8:00 PM | ABC | Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town | Fred Astaire narrates the Rankin/Bass classic. Burgermeister Meisterburger! | Buy It! |
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| 8:30 PM | TOON | How The Grinch Stole Christmas | The 1966 animated classic. You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch…Would be the easy pick for the night except for the fact that Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town runs over it, and this will show up a couple times through the Christmas season. | Buy It! |
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| 10:00 PM | Family Channel | Rudoph’s Shiny New Year | Rudolph has to help Father Time find the New Year’s baby by midnight. It’s Rankin & Bass, that gets it a mention here. | Buy It! |
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| Time (Eastern) | Network | Show | Comments | Amazon | |
| 9:00 PM | TBS | National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation | There are five movies in the National Lampoon’s vacation series. Two of them are good. This is one of the two. Don’t we all have a Cousin Eddie? | Buy It! |
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| Time (Eastern) | Network | Show | Comments | Amazon | |
| 8:00 PM | CBS | Frosty the Snow Man | Jimmy Durante narrates the 1969 special that we all love. It’s finally feeling like Christmas season. Happy Birthday! 9pm on CBS. (If they’d only bring back that spinning “SPECIAL” graphic.) | Buy It! |
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| 8:00 PM | Family Channel | The Polar Express | I confess I haven’t seen it, or read the book. I’m well-informed by various ad agencies that it’s a modern Christmas classic; unfortunately, it looks vaguely creepy to me. | Buy It! |
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| 8:00 PM | Family Channel | The Polar Express | Yep. Family has become the Polar Express Channel for the night. | Buy It! |
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| 8:30 PM | CBS | Frosty Returns | We had high hopes, John Goodman is occasionally brilliant, and the music is by Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo fame. Turns out… it’s not good. But since you’re already tuned in, watching the original Frosty, you might as well leave the TV on. | Buy It! |
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| Time (Eastern) | Network | Show | Comments | Amazon | |
| 7:00 AM | Family Channel | Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July | A Rankin-Bass stop motion Rudolph and Frosty take a trip to warmer climes. | Buy It! |
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| 9:00 AM | Family Channel | The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus | |||
| 10:00 AM | Family Channel | Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey | An orphaned, oucast donkey living in the Roman Empire meets some noteworthy travellers on the road to Bethlehem. | Buy It! |
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| 12:30 PM | Family Channel | Frosty’s Winter Wonderland | The “forgotten” member of the Frosty trilogy, the one where he decides he needs a wife. No, really. | Buy It! |
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| 1:00 PM | Family Channel | Twas the Night Before Christmas | More Rankin-Bass goodness, a town insults Santa, so he plans to fly over it like it’s a red state. | Buy It! |
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| 1:30 PM | Family Channel | Rudoph’s Shiny New Year | Rudolph has to help Father Time find the New Year’s baby by midnight. It’s Rankin & Bass, that gets it a mention here. | Buy It! |
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| 2:30 PM | Family Channel | The Year Without A Santa Claus | Ah, Mr. Heatmiser! | Buy It! |
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| 3:30 PM | ABC | Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town | Fred Astaire narrates the Rankin/Bass classic. | Buy It! |
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| 4:00 PM | Family Channel | The Polar Express | I confess I haven’t seen it, or read the book. I’m well-informed by various ad agencies that it’s a modern Christmas classic; unfortunately, it looks vaguely creepy to me. | Buy It! |
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| 7:00 PM | Family Channel | The Santa Clause 2 | Tim Allen as a Santa who needs a wife. | Buy It! |
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| 8:00 PM | ABC | How The Grinch Stole Christmas | The Jim Carrey version, not the one you want to see. | Buy It! |
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| 9:00 PM | Family Channel | The Polar Express | Again with the Polar Express. | Buy It! |
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Okay, no Christmas-related recommendations for prime time tonight. However, TCM is showing a tribute to Claude Raines, including Notorious and Casablanca . I’d go that route tonight. |
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Christmas TV Specials – Overview
Part 1 – December 1 to December 8
Part 2 – December 9 to Decmber 15
Part 3 – December 16 to December 22
Part 4 – December 23 to December 25
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