What To Watch This Christmas Weekend
Obviously, you’ve got the beloved Christmas classics A Christmas Story and It’s a Wonderful Life covered this weekend (read our recent interview with Karolyn Grimes and what she thinks of the film, in which she played Zuzu). But if that’s not enough for you, many other channels will be airing Christmas classics and Christmas-inspired episodes of your favorite shows. Here’s a curated selection of some of the best episodes and movies to put you in the holiday spirit.
On Antenna TV, beginning at 5am on Sunday, Dec. 24, enjoy 24 hours of holiday episodes from classic sitcoms, including Father Knows Best, The Burns and Allen Show, Dennis the Menace, Hazel, McHale’s Navy, Bewitched, That Girl, The Jeffersons, One Day at a Time, Family Ties, Benson, Silver Spoons, Designing Women, Becker and Wings.
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On Rewind TV, beginning at 6am, on Sunday, Dec. 24, the classic TV channel’s regular lineup of sitcoms will feature all holiday-themed episodes over 22 hours. Featured shows are Head of the Class, 227, The Hogan Family, Mork & Mindy, NewsRadio, The Drew Carey Show, Becker, Dear John, Murphy Brown, Caroline in the City, Suddenly Susan, Growing Pains, Who’s the Boss? and Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
TCM’s Christmas movie marathon continues today, beginning in the early morning and featuring highlights such as Tenth Avenue Angel (1948), Going My Way (1944), It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947), Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), Christmas in Connecticut (1945), Holiday Affair (1949), A Christmas Carol (1938) and more.
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Among the holiday favorites AMC has slated today is White Christmas, the beloved 1954 musical that takes its title from Irving Berlin’s classic song made famous by Bing Crosby in the 1942 film Holiday Inn. Crosby also stars here, and performs a new version of the iconic tune, as he and Danny Kaye play veterans who become famous song-and-dance men after World War II. Soon, they join forces with singing sisters (Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen) to help save their former army general’s Vermont inn.
MOVIES! is celebrating the holiday with an eight-film lineup of movies led by Shirley Temple that can’t help but put you in a happy mood: Bright Eyes (1934), Heidi (1937), Stowaway (1936), Wee Willie Winkie (1937), The Little Princess (1939), Curly Top (1935), Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938) and Captain January (1936).
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All of Christmas Eve, and into Christmas Day, MeTV will air a variety of holiday-themed episodes of classic TV shows and movies, including Saved by the Bell, The Love Boat, The Andy Griffith Show, M*A*S*H, All in the Family, The Honeymooners, Best of the Ed Sullivan Show, Highway Patrol, Dragnet, Matlock, In the Heat of the Night, Adam-12, The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres and more.
On Christmas Day, Monday, Dec. 25, the holiday favorites continue.
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The lineup on MOVIES! begins early with O. Henry’s Full House (1952), an anthology of O. Henry short story adaptations, including his famous Christmas tale, “The Gift of the Magi.” The lineup continues with the Rat Pack flick Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964); Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus (1991), with Richard Thomas, Edward Asner and Charles Bronson; The Night They Saved Christmas (1984), starring Jaclyn Smith and Art Carney; Mrs. Santa Claus (1996), featuring Angela Lansbury in the title role; Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), the famed Judy Garland musical; A Christmas Carol (1951), led by Alastair Sim as Scrooge; An American Christmas Carol (1979), starring Henry Winkler; A Christmas Memory (1997), with Patty Duke; The Twelve Days of Christmas Eve (2004), led by Steven Weber and Molly Shannon; and Christmas Comes to Willow Creek (1987), with John Schneider, Tom Wopat and Kim Delaney.
TCM’s weeklong Christmas movie marathon wraps up on Dec. 25 with a lineup featuring Bachelor Mother (1939), All Mine to Give (1957), Never Say Goodbye (1946), Holiday Affair (1949), The Apartment (1960), The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) and In the Good Old Summertime (1949). The day concludes with the James Stewart-led Hitchcock classics Vertigo (1958), Rear Window (1954), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), and Rope (1948).
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Today, Rewind TV and Antenna TV fill your stocking with several hours of holiday episodes from beloved sitcoms on Dec. 25 as well.
Rewind’s lineup runs 22 hours and includes episodes from Head of the Class, 227, The Hogan Family, Mork & Mindy, NewsRadio, The Drew Carey Show, Becker, Dear John, Murphy Brown, Caroline in the City, Suddenly Susan, Growing Pains, Who’s the Boss?, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, My Two Dads, The Facts of Life, Family Ties, Diff’rent Strokes and Wings.
Antenna TV’s lineup runs 20 hours, with titles including Father Knows Best, The Burns and Allen Show, Dennis the Menace, Hazel, McHale’s Navy, Bewitched, That Girl, The Partridge Family, Maude, Barney Miller, Alice, Three’s Company, The Jeffersons, One Day at a Time, Archie Bunker’s Place, Family Ties, Too Close for Comfort, Benson, Silver Spoons and Welcome Back, Kotter.
Happy holidays from all of us at Remind!
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December 2022
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