Your Fave Christmas Episodes on a sitcom or drama

[Ireneparalegal]

LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE: Christmas on Plum Creek is the Ingalls' family first Christmas and they each try to be secretive abt the gifts they are giving each other. Laura buys her mother a stove by selling her beloved horse, Bunny, to Mr. Olsen for Nellie. Very touching episode as Laura is saddened when she feels bad for her father who made her a leather riding saddle for her horse that she sold.

THE WALTONS: The episode titled DAY OF INFAMY. Mary Ellen Walton finds out her husband, Curt, who is in Pearl Harbor, may or may not have survived the attack by the Japanese. As she waits and ponders to hear of any news, she has flashbacks of how they met and married. She finds out at the end of the episode that her husband was in fact killed at Pearl Harbor. Later in the series, we see Curt "come back to life." He was only injured at Pearl Harbor. He feigned his death. I didn't like that episode at all.

THE JEFFERSONS: My fave episode is when George visits his old neighborhood, the one he grew up in as a child. He had made a promise he would never allow bad Christmas' to occur again in the apartment him and his family lived in. He would visit yearly to this particular apartment and leave money, presents, etc. Louise had grown suspicious of George, thinking he was being unfaithful. She learns of George's anonymous gifts to the family and she is touched.

FACTS OF LIFE: There are two episodes I love. One is where the girls perform for a group of men in jail. The girls sing Christmas songs.
The second episode is when Blair's mother gives birth to a baby girl on Christmas.

HAPPY DAYS: The episode where Fonzie has nowhere to go on Christmas but he lies to Richie abt his holiday plans because he doesn't want anyone to know he is alone. Eventually Richie invites him over to his home to celebrate Christmas with the family.

ALICE: When Alice, Flo, Vera, Tommy and Mel are in a truck and eventually get stranded. They start to eat away at a gingerbread house.

[Brian Damage]

The Norm Show had a great Christmas episode. Too bad it was canceled. It was truly an underrated sitcom.

[dawsongirl]

I've always been partial to the Lois and Clark and Adam-12 Christmas episodes. Kinda like the first one Full House did too. I know... :lol:

[Skywalker]

The Odd Couple - Scrooge Gets an Oscar
Wings - Happy Holidays and Insanity Claus
Frasier - High Holidays
Married... With Children - It's a Bundyful Life
Sanford and Son - Ebenezer Sanford

[Classicshowsgurl15]

Riptide: Home For Christmas is such a great episode.
Happy Days: Where Heather wants Ashley to make up with her parents and Howard's brother comes and they get in a fight.
Full House: Our Very First Christmas Show and A Very Tanner Christmas. I can't choose just one because those are both great.
Who's the Boss?: Requiem

I will think of more later.

[Mikado]

Pretty much ANY of the several M*A*S*H Xmas eps.....and the Corner Gas special "Merry Gasmas"

[Ireneparalegal]

Oh yeah, add MERRY GASMAS to my list. That was hysterically funny. :rofl:

[Mikado]

Oh yeah, add MERRY GASMAS to my list. That was hysterically funny. :rofl:
Oh WGN has already shown it? I wasnt aware....cause you never made a thread ;)

[tv star collector]

LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE (pilot episode, in which Mr. Edwards (Victor
French) shows up unexpectedly with a snow in his beard and Carrie yells:
"Santa Claus!!")

HAPPY DAYS (the Fonzie episode mentioned in the first post)

EVENING SHADE (with Herman Stiles (Michael Jeter) mangling the words to
"Winter Wonderland")

I LOVE LUCY (with FIVE Santas (Lucy, Desi, Ethel, Fred and "the real deal"))

That's all I can think of at the moment.

[friendsfan77]

Dick Van Dyke Show - The Alan Brady Show Presents
Mary Tyler Moore - Christmas and the Hard Luck Kid II
Bob Newhart Show - Bob Has His Tonsils Out, So He Spends Christmas Eve in the Hospital
Are You Being Served? - Christmas Crackers
The Jeffersons - The Christmas Wedding
Benson - Mary and her Lambs
Golden Girls - The Nightmare Before Christmas
A Different World - For Whom the Jingle Bell Tolls
The Simpsons - Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire
Married with Children - It's A Bundyful Life
Murphy Brown - Brown In Toyland
The Nanny - The Hanukkah Seed
Friends - The One With The Holiday Armadillo

[Zebra 3]

My very favourite is Guess Who's Coming to Christmas - Happy Days (http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/forumdisplay.php?f=12). For straight LOL comedy nothing beats the Married with Children (http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/forumdisplay.php?f=84) episodes. On the dark side, 70s crime dramas How Cruel the Frost, How Bright the Stars - Kojak (http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/forumdisplay.php?f=575) and Little Girl Lost - Starsky & Hutch (http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/forumdisplay.php?f=556).

[Tubehead]

mine favorite christmas espidoes is were rahple gets ride of his bolwing ball and alice buy him a bolwing ball bag. but he didn't have the ball. so he brought alice a box made with 200 matches. some one gave it to her as a gift so rhalp brought her orange juice squeer.

[treky]

THE ODD COUPLE-"SCROOGE GETS AN OSCAR"

the "WKRP IN CINNCINATI" one where they do a parody of A CHRISTMAS CAROL with Mr. Carlson as Scrooge, Jennifer as the ghost of Christmas past, Venus as the ghost of Christmas present, and Johnny as the ghost of Christmas yet to come.

[coffield3]

I like all sitcom christmas episodes they are always fun to watch, i have to go for no place like home for the holidays by Roseaane and The christmas Show by I love Lucy. :D
Favorite animated christmas episodes would be The Simpsons-Simpsons roastings on an open fire! and The Snowman (uk)

[Ohio8]

M*A*S(H: "Dear Dad" (1972) and "Death Takes a Holiday" (1980)
Happy Days: "Guess Who's Coming for Christmas" (1974)+ and the 1978
episode++ where Fonzie's dad shows up.

[Ohio8]

M*A*S(H: "Dear Dad" (1972) and "Death Takes a Holiday" (1980)
Happy Days: "Guess Who's Coming for Christmas" (1974)+ and the 1978
episode++ where Fonzie's dad shows up.


+: This is especially good.
++: I think it was from 1978.

[AB]

All In The Family - Edith's Crisis Of Faith, when Beverly Lasalle & Mike are mugged right before christmas.

King Of Queens - The Mentalo Case, when Doug & Deacon want the same toy from their childhood for christmas.

[JT]

I always loved Christmas marathons on Nick at Nite and later TVLand, back in the day. There were absolute favorites that I had to see every year, and then lots of others that I enjoyed. While most kids like "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and "Frosty the Snowman" and stuff like that, I usually waited for my favorite Xmas episodes of classic TV shows to come on. Some of my favorites...

"The Brady Bunch" - Carol is going to sing "O Come All Ye Faithful" at church on Christmas, but she loses her voice.

"Laverne & Shirley" - the gang sings and dances at a Christmas show at a mental institution...Carmine sings "Jingle Bell Rock," and Laverne flirts with a deaf-mute with her tongue lol

"The Facts of Life" - the girls do a Christmas show at a jail...there are audio clips at the FOL part of the main SO site.

"Three's Company" - Jack, Janet, and Chrissy don't get their invitation to a party, so they end up going to a not-so-festive party get-together at the Ropers'...ends up nobody wanted to be at the Ropers - even the Ropers wanted to be at the other party...and they all *were* invited, just didn't get the invitations.

"Mary Tyler Moore" - Mary works all alone on Christmas day at WJM

"All in the Family" - a friend of Mike's, a draft dodger, has dinner with the Bunkers, along with a friend of Archie's who lost his son in the war

"Alice" - the gang spends Christmas on a semi truck

"The New Dick Van Dyke Show" - Dick gets arrested on Christmas Eve and has to spend the holiday in jail...and so does Ted, who goes to get him.

"The Dick Van Dyke Show" - the staff of "The Alan Brady Show" puts on a Christmas special...Sally sings about wanting a man for Christmas...Rob and Laura are two department store Santas...Richie sings "The Little Drummer Boy"...among other great moments.

"The Flying Nun" - Sister Bertrille wants to make it snow for one of the elderly nuns and ends up dropping bags of dry ice over Puerto Rico.

"Flamingo Road" - Michael wants the Cubans evicted from the barrio on Christmas Eve, while Constance and Fielding come to a brief holiday truce.

"All My Children" - Christmas 2003, Krystal and Babe spend Christmas with the Martins and Chandlers at the Martin home, where tensions rise between JR and Jamie. Bianca babysits an abandoned child at the church before going to Erica's penthouse. Greenlee spends the night at the boathouse, "talking" to the spirit of her late husband Leo, while Adam Chandler is arrested for breaking into Dr. Joe's office at the hospital.

There are lots of others that I like too, but I haven't seen them enough to really consider them. It's a shame too, because I loved the Christmas episodes of "Hazel" and "The Donna Reed Show," but NOBODY airs them anymore.

[Ireneparalegal]

King Of Queens - The Mentalo Case, when Doug & Deacon want the same toy from their childhood for christmas.
Oh dear God, how could I forget that episode. That is one damn funny episode. :brent I love it. thanx for reminding me.

JT, you too reminded me of All My Children Christmas' past. In 1983 on Christmas , Jenny and Greg got married. That was so beautiful.

[OH Nuts!]

"Busy Christmas" ep on The Adv. of Ozzie & Harriet

"Night of The Meek" ep on The Twilight Zone