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I wish there was a filmed version of Stewart’s one man show of the Carol rather than the full cast TV adaptation they made instead. There is Stewart’s audiobook reading at least. I often listen to it around this time of year while I’m doing meal prep for the holiday.

Now I don’t feel so bad! :) I’m getting a kick out of listening to the radio show version of Our Miss Brooks and those versions of the Christmas episodes - at least two of them were directly adapted by the TV show, but it’s fun to listen to the subtle differences. The Frasier revisit...

I watched the first of the All In The Family Christmas episodes the other night in honor of both the season itself and the passing of Norman Lear. My wife and I also kicked off our annual revisit of the Frasier Xmas episodes following the revival’s Christmas themed episode which aired earlier...

I’d love to see both of these - I’ll have to put an effort into tracking them down. Thanks for the heads up! I just watched the Dennis the Menace episode where they cut down a tree and try to bring it home on the bus - we shopped for our tree yesterday so it seemed like a good thing to try with...

My wife and I watched the two Frasier Thanksgiving episodes last night. I meant to watch Planes, Trains & Automobiles but decided to first spend twenty minutes doing cleanup in advance of the holiday and that turned into hours of tidying, losing track of time, and then “it’s 4am you moron, the...

Last few years I’ve done a sort of deconstructed turkey (though man as a trend I roll my eyes when people use words like “deconstructed” to describe food so I apologize for turning into one of Those People). We used to have a family tradition when I was growing up of eating a regular turkey...

I will say, Thanksgiving just landed in my lap for this year - this was a surprise but not a complaint - so I’m gonna get my fill of both turkey and Thanksgiving TV and then I’ll jump on the Christmas bandwagon after. I can’t wait to pull Bob Dylan’s “Christmas From the Heart” album out again...

I think we talk about that one every year :)

I wish “The Jimmy Stewart Show” had done a Christmas episode - talk about missed opportunity to go meta. I wish “I Love Lucy” had done more than one - the one they did has become a classic but it’s essentially a clip show and there could have been plenty of opportunities to do one either...

None of those at my gatherings :) If all else fails I’ll bring my turkey sliders to your house and watch some old B&W TV with you.

I’m too busy cooking to do three movies on Thanksgiving but that sounds like a great day! Sometime in between Thanksgiving meal prep in the days before and the day after Thanksgiving, I always wind up watching the Frasier, Ozzie & Harriet and Our Miss Brooks episodes, The Last Waltz, and Bruce...

I watch both of the Frasier Thanksgivings each year but that’s by far the better of them. Fantastic episode! I’ll also watch the Our Miss Brooks episode (wherein the perpetually broke and undernourished Miss Brooks gets roped into hosting more people than she can possibly feed) and Ozzie &...

Man it seems early to be thinking about it. It’s probably not but it feels like it. My Christmas plans are up in the air - for the past few years family has traveled to us for the holidays and this year it may be our turn to travel to them. My viewing schedule will look different depending on...

Does anyone have any movies or shows that they make a point of watching at the very beginning of a new year? As silly as this is gonna sound, for over a decade now, my first movie of the year has been Disney’s The Black Hole. I watch the traditional New Year’s Eve ball drop and then once...

The Frasier one is my go-to, but I often watch the “lost” Honeymooners episode “New Year’s Eve Party” as well.

Awesome - I haven’t watched my full set yet. I only knew of Sugar Plums and Santa Comes To Visit. Thanks!

I didn’t realize there were four. I wonder what I’m missing.

This is the only episode of this show I’ve ever seen and it goes to prove that a good Christmas episode can be great entertainment even when you don’t know the show. I’m not necessarily inspired to see more episodes but I do enjoy revisiting this one specific one, so that’s definitely a success!

Check out the repeat version from season 2, even grainier!

I have a real soft spot for the failed one season sitcom $#*! My Dad Says and I think Christmas with William Shatner’s curmudgeon character has a lot of potential as an idea. I also really like the similarly short lived The Jimmy Stewart Show and it would have been funny to see that show’s...

And the very same to you and yours :)

I slightly disagree with my good friend Gary that that episode couldn’t be done today - but I wholeheartedly agree that it is a good one!

Agreed! And much to my surprise, my tally at the HTF Christmas Challenge thread says I’ve watched about 35 episodes and things since the beginning of the month - I was surprised to hear the number was so high because I hadn’t felt like I had put the time in. I guess I’ve tricked myself into...

I just did “Christmas Show” from the first season of Our Miss Brooks and was howling with laughter. I don’t think it’s actually as funny as it felt tonight but man I needed that!

At this point between our household’s flu and random other colds with the relatives we’d normally get together with and I’m not even sure if we’ll be able to do a Christmas thing. Haven’t been able to get a tree yet, and even if I had, no one’s in any shape to decorate it, it would just be one...

I don’t think it’s just you - that seems to be a common theme this year in this thread and among my offline colleagues as well.

I was really happy to do the HTF review for the Holiday Affair Blu-ray a couple years ago - it’s really a nice step up from the older DVD. And I love any movie that gives a tough guy movie star like Mitchum a chance to be warm and tender. I think there’s something really appealing about seeing...

Not a Christmas episode, but I thought you guys might get a kick out of this: I saw in the local newspaper that my one square mile village was doing a community production/reading of A Christmas Carol for all ages outside the children’s library. When I got there, I discovered that the newspaper...

You guys might be interested in participating in the official HTF Holiday Challenge started by @Adam Lenhardt at the link below - it’s basically what we’ve done in this thread for the past few years but with points...

Same here - I never got into holiday sportsball so I was usually on my own if that’s where the crowd went.