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retrofan05
12-19-2010, 07:47 PM
My pics would be: Bewitched, The Facts of Life, All in the Family, The Jeffersons, and The Andy Griffith Show. I know there are many others that I would include, but it's been so long since I've seen certain shows that I can't really remember the Christmas episodes :(

Jude The Obscure
12-19-2010, 08:01 PM
I also love The Donna Reed Show's "A Very Merry Christmas", Father Knows Best's two Christmas shows, and The Lucy Show's "Together for Christmas".

Rezny@gmail.com
12-19-2010, 08:45 PM
And other good ones,are "The Addams Family"episode from 1965 second season called "Christmas With the Addams Family","Green Acres"1966 Christmas episode "An Old-Fashioned Christmas",and"That Girl"episode from season one 1966's "Christmas and the Hard Luck Kid"

Marvo301
12-20-2010, 01:01 AM
I really like the Partridge Family episode "Don't Bring your Guns To Town Santa". I watch it every year and every year it pulls at my heartstrings.

benjamoon
12-20-2010, 05:11 PM
My favorites among classic shows are Mary Tyler Moore, Bewitched, Happy Days, and The Bob Newhart Show.

*shameless plug* I did a top 40 Christmas episodes countdown on my blog recently, the link is in my signature :)

sunshinefizzy
12-20-2010, 08:56 PM
My favorites among classic shows are Mary Tyler Moore, Bewitched, Happy Days, and The Bob Newhart Show.

*shameless plug* I did a top 40 Christmas episodes countdown on my blog recently, the link is in my signature :)

Great blog!!!

I like Three's Christmas (the only xmas episode Three's Company ever did), Brady Bunch was great, and ELR had some pretty kick ass ones

Goldilocks
12-20-2010, 09:08 PM
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet always had great Christmas episodes. "Busy Christmas" is my favorite.

Rezny@gmail.com
12-20-2010, 09:46 PM
"Hazel" had two Christmas episodes(I think) and the black and white one was better than the color one,because in the color one,George was kind of Scrooge-ish.

Jude The Obscure
12-20-2010, 11:29 PM
^I have both...one on the official DVD, the other transferred from TV Land's Merrython of a few years back and without commercials, their version ran 17 minutes and the opening credits also were missing--very very shameful.

treky
12-21-2010, 03:59 AM
I like the "GREEN ACRES" one "An old-fashioned Christmas. I always laugh out loud at the scene where Eb says to Fred Ziffle "Mr. Ziffle-look where your wife's standing-under the mistle toe"! Fred looks over, sees her, says "Oh yeah" then turns to Eb and says "Why don't you mind your own buisness"? or something.
And even though I haven't seen it in YEARS "THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW" episode "Christmas and the hard luck kid" is also good. (I never saw the version of it from "THAT GIRL")

comedyfreak
12-21-2010, 09:27 AM
I Love Lucy Christmas
Bewitched A Vision of Sugar Plumbs
How The Flintstones Saved Christmas
Father Knows Best Christmas
Happy Days
The Lucy Show Together For Chirstmas
Brady Bunch Christmas episode

tv star collector
12-21-2010, 10:14 AM
I Love Lucy
Evening Shade (2 different episodes)

Those are the ones I try to watch every year, on VHS. I'm sure there are
others that I can't think of at the moment.

LUNCH
12-21-2010, 04:59 PM
Gilligans Island had a good black and white Christmas episode its first season.

Furienna
12-23-2010, 03:37 AM
How old does a show have to be to become a "classic"? Being born as late as 1984, I consider 90s shows as "classics".

I think "Family Matters", "Step by step" and "Kenan & Kel" had at least one good Christmas episode each.

Jude The Obscure
12-23-2010, 12:07 PM
I also forgot to add Father Knows Best: Home for Christmas, the 1977 reunion TV movie (which hopefully will be on the season 6 DVD, which Shout! has begun work on!! :) )

Heidi Dawn
12-23-2010, 01:14 PM
There's a Beverly Hillbillies episode that I really like, it's the one where they go to Hooterville to spend Christmas with the Petticoat Junction cast.

I also liked the Christmas episodes from - The Monkees, Full House, Bewitched, The Golden Girls, MASH, Three's Company, Gimme A Break, The Facts Of Life, Green Acres, Petticoat Junction, and Happy Days.

LUNCH
12-23-2010, 01:26 PM
How old does a show have to be to become a "classic"? Being born as late as 1984, I consider 90s shows as "classics".

I think "Family Matters", "Step by step" and "Kenan & Kel" had at least one good Christmas episode each.
Classic television shows are mainly tv shows made during the 1950s-70s.It's not really how old a show is that makes it a classic tv show,it's when they were made.During the 1950s-70s SO many good-great television shows were made,even during the 1980s a number of good,even very good shows were produced.---Most tv shows made during and after the 1990s do not even come close in quality to the older shows,and will NEVER be considered classic tv shows in my opinion.

old grouch
12-23-2010, 11:59 PM
There's a Beverly Hillbillies episode that I really like, it's the one where they go to Hooterville to spend Christmas with the Petticoat Junction cast.

I also liked the Christmas episodes from - The Monkees, Full House, Bewitched, The Golden Girls, MASH, Three's Company, Gimme A Break, The Facts Of Life, Green Acres, Petticoat Junction, and Happy Days.

Speaking of 'The Beverly Hillbillies', I like the Christmas episode from the first season where they fly home for Christmas. It's their first time on an airplane and they think they're on a bus and are surprised when the plane leaves the ground.

I also like the 'Family Affair' episode 'Christmas Came a Little Early', where they celebrate Christmas early because Buffy's friend, played by Eve Plumb, is dying.

treky
12-24-2010, 02:03 AM
I also like the one from the first seson of "MASH"-"Dear Dad" (I always crack up at that scene where Hot Lips gives that shout/cry of "Oh Frank"! just before her tent collapses:lol: :lol: ), before it became "The Alan Alda show", and it was mostly "oh we're doctors, and we're nurse and we're so good because we save lives; and death is such a bummer...":rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:



Someone made a HUUUUGE mistake in letting him take over most of the directing and writing!!!:mad: :mad: :mad: