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Favourite Christmas TV Special Episode

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Or related media (tv movie, stand alone episode, etc).

Doctor Who's very first Christmas special broadcast in 1965 is quite cute, although sadly no one will get to see it ever again.

As a kid I remember a few christmas specials from all the shows my parents watched. I vividly remember the episode of Cheers when Sam is lying on the road and he asks the woman in front of him if she has wings (implying an angel) under her coat, and she says yes cos she's a stewardess. Now on the trailer for this they omitted the bit I've shaded in italics, so I was hooked to see if Sam Malone really was gonna meet an angel!
 
^Seconded on "Christmas with the Joker."

The Pinky & the Brain Christmas special brings a tear to my eye. The way Pinky worded his letter to Santa; asking nothing for himself but just that he give the world to Brain. I'm almost tearing up just thinking about it.

The Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Amends." It had some great flashbacks to Angelus' past. It established the First Evil long before he became the big bad in Season 7. And Buffy provided what was, in essence, the thesis statement for what would become the Angel spin-off when she said, "Strong is fighting. It's hard, it's painful, and it's every day. But if you die now, all you ever were was a monster!"

A Charlie Brown Christmas. But really, much of my affinity for this special comes from the fact that an amateur stage adaptation of it was the first play I was ever cast in in high school. I played Linus.
 
^I'd consider that a high honor. :techman:

I just watched the first season of Bones, and that Christmas episode was a tear jerker. I loved it. :adore:
 
  • "A Charlie Brown Christmas" — a must-watch DVD for me every year. In fact, I think I'll go pop it in now.
  • "Christmas Eve on Sesame Street" — from 1978, back when Mr. Hooper was still alive, Oscar the Grouch was still a douchebag (and proud of it!), and the show was still entertaining for people above the age of five.
  • "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"
 
Santa Claus is Comin' to Town
The Year Without a Santa Claus
Ruldolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

I love those Rankin/Bass Christmas shows.

How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Far superior to the Jim Carrey movie.
 
My Santa-An extremely ammusing animated short series about a poor kid with the unfortunate name, Santa, who was born on Christmas and hates it. He meets a girl who claims she's a "Santa in Training" who tries to cheer him up by giving him a nice christmas. Only problem is her magic doesn't work very well and results in mayhem. It's really random and hilarious, not family friendly though as it by Ken Akamatsu. :lol:
 
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The Borgified Corpse said:
^Seconded on "Christmas with the Joker."

The Pinky & the Brain Christmas special brings a tear to my eye. The way Pinky worded his letter to Santa; asking nothing for himself but just that he give the world to Brain. I'm almost tearing up just thinking about it.
tation of it was the first play I was ever cast in in high school. I played Linus.
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Yeah....that was a good episode and a good series overall. Remember the episode where Pinky is watching the exercise video and it feature Jean Luc Picard? Hilarious
 
One of mine is the Chipmunks 80's special. Self-centered Alvin gives up an expensive harmonica to cheer up a sick kid, but is heartsick himself as a result. A nice old lady gets him a new one just in time, then she returns home to her husband - at the North Pole, where she tells him when asked about her day 'Nothing much'. I liked the fake-out, because an old bearded man would have been obvious in his ID.

I remember a TV-movie wherein three troubled vets become convinced that they are the Three Kings. They find their 'child' in a homeless shelter, but as the woman gives birth, there are complications. This forces one of them, once a medic, to reassert his true personality, and all the painful memories his delusion kept back, to save the child.

Any telling of the World War One Christmas truce hits me where I live, be it 'Snoopy's Christmas', the video for Paul McCartney's 'The Pipes Of Peace', or 'Joyeux Noel'.

MASH has three Christmas eps (maybe four, but I'm not counting 'Boxing Day'), including Hawkeye doing field surgery in a Santa outfit, Father Mulcahy having a crisis of faith, and the medics working feverishly to keep a young soldier alive until the 26th, so that his family will not have to associate the day itself with his death.
 
MillenniuM - Midnight of the Century
Futurama - Xmas Story
The X-Files - How the Ghosts Stole Christmas
Supernatural - A Very Supernatural Christmas

Also, basically any of the NewsRadio Christmas episodes.

EDIT: Lest I forget, MST3K's "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians"!
 
I've always liked the Lois & Clark episode where the Jefferson's actors made a toy rat that sprayed a perfume that made everybody act like a kid. Season's Greed, I think it was called?
 
^ Season's Greedings, actually. I liked 'Twas the Night Before Myxymas better, personally. Howie Mandel as Mxy was great.
 
Curb Your Enthusiasm- Mary, Joseph and Larry
"Shut up Mary!"

Buffy- Amends

Futurama- Xmas Story & A Tale of Two Santas

The Office (UK)- Christmas Specials

Bottom- Holy

The Fast Show- Christmas Special

And most of The Simpsons ones
 
Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Santa Claus
Rifftrax - Star Wars Holiday Special

My trilogy of festive comedy.
 
I enjoyed many as a kid, but A Charlie Brown Christmas is the only one that I continue to feel the need to watch. Heck, I get it much more as an adult than I did as a kid. It was pretty moody for kiddie fare.
 
Turbo said:
^ Season's Greedings, actually. I liked 'Twas the Night Before Myxymas better, personally. Howie Mandel as Mxy was great.
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Ah, Season's Greedings". Thanks.

I seem to be in the minority on this one. My best friend agrees with you that the Howie Mandel episode was better. I liked that one too, but liked "Greedings" better.
 
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