Christmas Specials and Cartoons

I updated the video on the Andy Williams Show post to a much better one.  I think you'll like ...

Before we get started, I'd just like to thank my international visitors for coming to this site.  I hope it gives a glimpse of how we celebrate Christmas in America and we would love to hear how you celebrate in your perspective countries. Happy Days is...

This is one of my favorites.  The Andy Griffith show with Andy Griffith and Don Knotts.  In this episode, Ben Weaver has a local man hauled in for moonshining.  After Andy, Barney and the gang bring Christmas into the jailhouse for the family, Ben...

After Jack Benny left radio he moved right into the new medium of television.  The Jack Benny Show ran from October of 1950 to September of 1964.  Here is a clip from the Christmas show featuring Mel Blanc in one of Jack's greatest holiday bits. En...

One thing we all looked forward to every year was the Christmas episode of our favorite TV shows.  From my childhood, it was everything from M*A*S*H to Diff'rent Strokes.  When you watch these now, Christmas wasn't callous or considered "cheesy" but...

Originally called the Santa Claus Lane parade, The Hollywood Christmas parade takes place on the weekend after Thanksgiving in Hollywood, California.  The parade began in 1928 as a way to boost shopping during the holiday season and was created by the chamber...

I love Christmas commercials.  More than specials or movies they are a window into Christmas past like nothing else.  They bring to mind memories long forgotten of a time gone by. The Norelco commercials are no different and here is I believe the original. *Below...

Born Pierino Ronald Como in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, Perry Como is a well-loved Italian-American crooner with a string of hits in the 40's and 50's. Perry joined a list of crooners who became synonymous with Christmas such as Bing Crosby and Andy Williams....