It’s Christmas! Unwrap presents, eat an excessive amount of, and gather your family members to settle in with some previous buddies.
In a tears-guaranteed 1974 hour that echoes “The Present of the Magi,” the Ingalls household scrimp, commerce and tackle further work to get presents for each other. And little Carrie makes use of her Christmas penny to purchase one thing particular for the newborn Jesus!
Little Home on the Prairie (Credit score: ©NBC/Courtesy Everett Assortment)
Bewitched “Santa Involves Go to and Stays and Stays” (midday/11am c, FETV)
Achoo! A sneeze from bumbling Esmeralda (Alice Ghostley) by accident summons Santa (Ronald Lengthy) to the Stephens family on this 1969 lark. As a result of Samantha (Elizabeth Montgomery) can’t reverse one other witch’s spell, she hatches an alternate escape plan. Trace: It includes reindeer.
Walker (Chuck Norris) tells a gaggle of orphans the story of Hayes Cooper (additionally Norris), a Texas Ranger in 1876. With a stolen child, a scalp-seeking Comanche, and a life-threatening windstorm, this transferring 1996 episode doesn’t comply with the same old Christmas method.
Murphy Brown “I’m Dreaming of a Brown Christmas” (6/5c, Rewind TV)
Former Scrooge Murphy (Candice Bergen, above) goals to offer son Avery an ideal first Noel — “not the Yuletide massacres I grew up with” — in a really humorous 1992 outing. She even orders in snow! Then Aunt Brooke (Marian Seldes) arrives. Adopted by Murphy’s dad (Darren McGavin). Cue household feud!
Inexperienced Acres “An Outdated-Common Christmas” (9:30/8:30c, MeTV)
From 1966: Oliver (Eddie Albert) desires an actual tree, however he’ll want a allow to cut one down — and he’ll need to by some means resist a pretend with gen-u-ine spruce spray to “pine up your room for hours.”
