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Ireneparalegal · 12-03-2007, 12:30 AM

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 · 12-03-2007, 12:37 AM

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

dawsongirl · 12-03-2007, 12:47 AM

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...

Skywalker · 12-03-2007, 01:32 AM

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 · 12-03-2007, 01:50 AM

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 · 12-03-2007, 01:58 AM

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

Ireneparalegal · 12-03-2007, 01:59 AM

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

Mikado · 12-03-2007, 02:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Ireneparalegal

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

Oh WGN has already shown it? I wasnt aware....cause you never made a thread

tv star collector · 12-03-2007, 09:05 AM

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 · 12-03-2007, 12:43 PM

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 · 12-03-2007, 01:44 PM

My very favourite is Guess Who's Coming to Christmas - Happy Days. For straight LOL comedy nothing beats the Married with Children episodes. On the dark side, 70s crime dramas How Cruel the Frost, How Bright the Stars - Kojak and Little Girl Lost - Starsky & Hutch.

Tubehead · 12-03-2007, 04:53 PM

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 · 12-03-2007, 05:02 PM

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 · 12-03-2007, 07:32 PM

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.

Favorite animated christmas episodes would be The Simpsons-Simpsons roastings on an open fire! and The Snowman (uk)

Ohio8 · 12-03-2007, 07:36 PM

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.

12-03-2007, 12:30 AM	#1
Ireneparalegal LEGAL SPICE ;) Forum Legend Join Date: Jul 25, 2005 Location: OXNARD, CA - WHERE THE DALLAS COWBOYS TRAIN & PRACTICE Posts: 38,691	Your Fave Christmas Episodes on a sitcom or drama 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.
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12-03-2007, 12:37 AM	#2
Brian Damage I'm Rich Bitch Forum Icon Join Date: Feb 03, 2002 Location: What Ain't No Country I Ever Heard Of...They Speak English in What? Posts: 63,107	The Norm Show had a great Christmas episode. Too bad it was canceled. It was truly an underrated sitcom.
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12-03-2007, 01:50 AM	#5
Classicshowsgurl15 Happy Days Senior Member Join Date: Jun 28, 2004 Location: California Posts: 2,088	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.
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12-03-2007, 01:44 PM	#11
Zebra 3 Striped Tomato Forum Veteran Join Date: Jun 26, 2002 Location: Bay City Posts: 5,809	My very favourite is Guess Who's Coming to Christmas - Happy Days. For straight LOL comedy nothing beats the Married with Children episodes. On the dark side, 70s crime dramas How Cruel the Frost, How Bright the Stars - Kojak and Little Girl Lost - Starsky & Hutch.
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12-03-2007, 04:53 PM	#12
Tubehead Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Feb 12, 2007 Location: chattanooga.tn Posts: 5,139	the hooney mooners 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.

12-03-2007, 12:47 AM	#3
dawsongirl Member Forum Icon Join Date: Jan 04, 2001 Posts: 53,128	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...

12-03-2007, 01:32 AM	#4
Skywalker Member Forum Fanatic Join Date: Apr 04, 2003 Posts: 14,204	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

12-03-2007, 01:58 AM	#6
Mikado Main st bridge Forum Superstar Join Date: Jul 06, 2005 Posts: 25,880	Pretty much ANY of the several MAS*H Xmas eps.....and the Corner Gas special "Merry Gasmas"

12-03-2007, 01:59 AM	#7
Ireneparalegal LEGAL SPICE ;) Forum Legend Join Date: Jul 25, 2005 Location: OXNARD, CA - WHERE THE DALLAS COWBOYS TRAIN & PRACTICE Posts: 38,691	Oh yeah, add MERRY GASMAS to my list. That was hysterically funny.

12-03-2007, 09:05 AM	#9
tv star collector I Love Susie Forum 4000 Club Member Join Date: Oct 18, 2005 Location: South Carolina Posts: 4,486	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.

12-03-2007, 12:43 PM	#10
friendsfan77 - Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Oct 02, 2004 Location: Duluth, GA Posts: 3,165	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

12-03-2007, 05:02 PM	#13
treky star trek fan Eternal Member Forum Fanatic Join Date: Feb 25, 2002 Location: Conshohocken, pennsylvania Posts: 14,490	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.
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12-03-2007, 07:32 PM	#14
coffield3 <3 Forum Veteran Join Date: Jul 23, 2006 Location: England Posts: 7,379	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. Favorite animated christmas episodes would be The Simpsons-Simpsons roastings on an open fire! and The Snowman (uk)
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12-03-2007, 07:36 PM	#15
Ohio8 Member Forum Star Join Date: Jul 29, 2003 Location: Wherever you aren't. Posts: 18,914	MAS(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.
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