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Did you enjoy the early years of spending many Christmas seasons in front of the then black and white set top TV's snuggling up with late night variety shows like "The Jack Benny Show" & "The Red Skelton Show"? How about some lesser known classics like "Date With The Angels" or "The Ray Bolger Show"? Well guess what? It's the holidays again! And who says you can't relive those winter frosted Christmas memories of classic TV once again? Yes, it's that yule tide time of year again.. time to roast some chest nuts, chug some egg not, fight with untangling the Christmas lights, deal with the in-laws, and the hassles of shopping madness... and if it's not December, who cares?! Who says you only have to be merry and eat lots of candy and cookies during one month of the year? No one! You've heard of Christmas in July? Now experience CHRISTMAS ALL YEAR LONG with this DVD: Classic Christmas TV Marathon! A DVD filled to the gift bag rim with 11 vintage TV shows, a stop motion animation film from Rankin Bass (who brought you the TV movie classics "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer" and "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" and more), cartoons, Christmas carols as sang by world famous classic choirs, and vintage Christmas shorts! You'll get six HOURS of holiday cheer to fill your stocking with! So quick, rip off the wrapping paper and see what's included:

Date With The Angels - Episode: "The Christmas Show"
Series aired from 1957-1958. Starring Betty White, Bill Williams, Richard Deacon ("Dick Van Dyke", "Arsenic & Old Lace", etc.), Nancy Kulp (Ms. Jane From "The Beverly Hillbillies"), and Burt Mustin ("Herbie Rides Again", "Petticoat Junction", "Speedway", "Snow White And The Three Stooges", etc.) This episode opens up at Christmas time, 1957, 8 months after the Angels (White & Williams) were married. Their downstairs neighbor Mr. Finley (Mustin) is up helping Mrs. Angel as he always is, and mentions that he has no one that needs him and has too much time on his hands. In an effort to help him, Mrs. White contacts her friend at Martindale's department store (Nancy Kulp) in order to get Mr. Finley a job. Mr. Finley is hired by the surley old coot of a boss Mr. Wallace as the store's Santa. Trouble begins when Mr. Finley's 30-something son (Richard Deacon) comes down to the store in a fury because he wants his dad at home to take care of him and things come to a serious simmer when the grinch-like boss Mr. Wallace finds out that the reason Mr. Finley is being such a GREAT Santa is because he's giving out Martindale Dept store toys.. for free! Just when Mr. Wallace goes to fire Santa, a little lost girl, Susan, is on Santa's lap. When she gets her free toy from Santa she thanks him.. and Santa tells her not to thank him, but to thank Mr. Wallace, at which time she goes up and kisses Mr. Wallace on the cheek while Mr. Finley / Santa tells Mr. Wallace how many kids he's making happy and how there should be more people in the world like him! Well that did it! You could see the anti-Christmas cold face melt right off of Mr. Wallace.. and you know in every one of these cliche Christmas stories, there's always a little kid who will get to the cold heart of any Scrooge! Mr. Wallace pays for the deficit to the store and Santa keeps his job, and keeps giving out toys! The Christmas spirit thoroughly invaded everyone in the store! The show was sponsored by Plymouth and features it's original commercials, including the promos for their "Plymouth's money ahead contest" where the winner was guaranteed to receive $500 a month for LIFE from Plymouth. All you had to do was pick up an entry and unscramble the weekly word like YOM-AHDEA which unscrambled was "Money-Ahead"! Of course if you bought a Plymouth and then won, you'd get double the money! How convenient.. that almost made it worth going into debt for a car! There are two original commercials still in tact in the show, as well as classic 50's product placement with Mr. and Mrs. Angel driving a Plymouth at the end of the show.. but of course! The show was produced by Don Fedderson, the producer of hits like "My Three Sons" and was done by MCA TV. This is a classic but RARE show.. and the Christmas episode was one of the most heart warming ever, light and fun with good actors, and not too over-sweetened!

Christmas Shop - Episode: "A String of Blue Beads"
Story by Fulton Oursler and starring Louis Jourdan ("Octopussy", "Count Dracula", "The Man In The Iron Mask", "Gigi", etc.) and Margaret Hamilton (The Wicked Witch of The West from "The Wizard of Oz" in a not so wicked role). This TV show was actually a pilot for a to be series called "Screen Writer's Playhouse" in 1953, but it never saw the light of day. Due to the fact that the show never came to be a regular series in the '50s on network television, this episode is extremely rare and is only known to exist on ONE other compilation which is only available on VHS and costs approximately $25 IF you can find a copy of it online. In this pilot, the short story opens up with a vinette of Christmas marionettes around a Christmas tree. The Santa marionette comes to give gifts to a happy boy and girl marionette couple. Cut to live action where you're introduced to Peter (Louis Jourdan) who is the owner of a small curio shop. There is one prized posession in the shop, a string of clearish blue beads, that Jourdan repeatedly price hikes so none of his customers will buy it. When his fiancee Marilyn asks why, he reveals that it's because he plans on giving her the beads.. as they're so beautiful they belong on her. After some playful arguing they agree that he'll leave them up for sale for the night and then if they don't sell, she'll take them. Meanwhile, Peter's maid (Margaret Hamilton) comes in and the couple leaves early to head down to the malt shop where they commence cuddling by the classic jukebox. (Oh gosh golly gee... that's swell!!) Peter returns to his shop later only to have his maid get a disturbing call... his fiance has died in an appartment building fire, and right before Christmas. Fast forward three years, Peter has turned into a grumpy old codger despite his young age, and he still has not sold the beads as he holds onto Marilyn's memory, even though his maid insists he should sell them and get on with his life. A short intermission caused by another segment of the marionette vinette shows that Peter is a broken man who is never happy. Marionette Santa tries to please him with gifts, but nothing is good enough to please him now. Back to the story, a little girl named Barbara with only 11 cents enters the shop wanting to buy the beads for her big sister who cares for her. The words she uses to describe the beads are the same ones that Peter's ex-fiance used. At first Peter refuses to sell the beads, and then has a change of heart after the girl has left. He decides to give / sell the beads to the little girl for only 11 cents, just to make her and her sister happy. A little after Peter found the little girl and sold her the beads, Barbara's big sister comes into the shop insisting that she knows the necklace cost much more than what Barbara paid and she couldn't possibly accept them... although they are "So clear. So blue!", again using the same words Peter's fiance used. Peter insists she keeps them, a new man, he offers to walk her home, inferring the start of a beautiful relationship. The short story closes with an ending marionette clip of Santa finally giving Peter a present that makes him happy... a girl to love. The short film is introduced by a mafia looking type guy... "Vinnie" intro's and outro's the show not quite acheiving the stature a Rod Serling was, but still doing a merry old job of things! The pilot was a Royal Park Production.

Crossroads - Episode: "Our First Christmas Tree"
This TV show was a religious anthology drama about the good deeds of the Catholic Church, based on real stories of clergymen and sponsored by Rev. Maurice M. Witherspoon, Father George B.F., and Father William F. Rosenblum. This episode is from season two of Crossroads and was originally aired on December 21st, 1956. The episode stars Don Taylor as Rev. Schwan and popular character actor Percy Helton ("Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kit", "Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte", "Petticoat Junction", "Green Acres", "Abbott & Costello Meet the Killer Boris Karloff", "I Dream of Jeanie", and "The Beverly Hillbillies"). A pastor (Rev. Schwan) from the old country comes to Cleveland, OH. (set in 1851 with a Charles Dickens-esc look) and decides to bring in a Christmas tree for his congregation, which is a new custom for American churches. The pastor sees no harm in this tradition which his church of the old country did every year and the kids are thrilled to have a Christmas tree... but everyone is shocked when the parents & adults in the congregation begin to have a problem with the tree. The old fashioned adults of the group claim that the pastor is encouraging false idoltry and acts of paganism and even the local newspaper runs the headline "The road to Paganism. Zion Church worships tree." Soon the whole town buys into the gossip and even the pastor's wife is shunned. Left with no choice but to take the tree down or be forced to resign from his clergy, the Rev. decides to break his promise to the kids and take the tree down. Just in time, the pastor's brother, a fellow Reverend who presides over a congregation in Canada, drops in for a Christmas visit and wants to know what all the fuss is about. As the mob of angry parents arrive to find their children who all snuck out to go to the church and light their candles on the Christmas tree, the pastor's brother stands up to the parents, and tells them the story of the Christmas tree. The pastor's brother explains that in the old country the Christmas tree was a much of a symbol of Christmas as the star of Bethlehem, as on Jesus' birthday, many came from miles around to see the birth of the baby King, not only people, but animals and nature and trees all gathered around the manger. The trees that came to witness the birth of Jesus couldn't all make it much closer than they did, other than one lowly tree that was thin and almost barren of branches, but managed to push forward to see the blessed baby. The heavens pitied the sickly tree and thus blessed it with a single star that came down and decorated the top of the tree. The tree was then so beautiful that baby Jesus looked upon it and blessed it with a single smile... thus began the tradition of the Christmas tree. With their cold hearts melted and tears in their eyes, the parents let the children light the tree and everyone left happily every after! Black & white, 1956, and very rare!

Adventures of Long John Silver - Episode: "The Orphan's Christmas"
Made in 1955, this series (the second of two Long John Silvers series) stars Robert Newton as the kinder gentler pirate captain, Long John Silvers! In this special Christmas episode, orphan / pirate boy Jim Hawkins (Kit Taylor) is out around town Christmas shopping when he runs into a group of orphans from Ms. Willoughby's orphanage. The orphans aren't even allowed to talk to him as they are so frightened of and brain washed by their abusive head mistress Ms. Willoughby who forbids them to talk, laugh, have fun, or celebrate Christmas! Jim returns to the Long John Silvers' gang and tells them of Ms. Willoughby and her orphanage, and how unhappy the children are. The gang vows that the children will have a Christmas and they sned Purity (Connie Gilchrist) and Rev. Monsaster (Hans Stern) to go ask Ms. Willoughby if it's alright if they give the children presents that they already paid for and wrapped. No harm, right? Wrong! Ms. Willoughby flatly and spitefully refuses, saying that people shouldn't expect something for nothing, especially orphans, and especially because of Christmas which is an excuse for pagan revelry. Angered, the gang decides to throw a surprise Christmas party for the kids anyways at the local bar the Cask & Anchor. (A children's Christmas party at a bar? Well, I guess the party throwers are pirates!) Long John Silver goes with some other friends to break the kids out of the orphanage and sneak them out to the party. As the kids escape, Long John stays back to watch Ms. Willoughby, who soon discovers the kids are missing. When Ms. Willoughby catches on, Long John stops her from going on a search for them and keeps her at gun point in her office so the kids can have their party. While there, Ms. Willoughby tells the story of why she's so mean.. beginning with how her father was mean to her and never gave her a Christmas, and then finishing with how her fiance Richard the sailor (who was forbidden her hand in marriage by her father) was to return for her at Christmas, and never did. Long John confesses that he knew Richard... who has sadly passed at the knife of another pirate, but who died with Willoughby's name on his lips. When Ms. Willoughby finds out that Richard really did love her, she has a change of heart (as does every scad in a Christmas episode!) and shows up at the children's party only to beg the children's forgiveness. Everyone is happy, enjoying their gifts, as the mischievious Long John confesses to Purity in the corner that 'aye' he did know Richard, but he wasn't Ms. Willoughby's Richard... because in fact has 11 kids and a wife in BonAdventure.. but what Ms. Willoughby doesn't know won't hurt her!

The Ruggles - Episode: "Christmas Eve"
The Ruggles was a simplistic comedy that related to the everyday events in the lives of the Ruggles family. The show was produced for ABC where it was shown every Thursday by producer Bob Raisbeck. The show ran from 1949 through 1952, and this particular Christmas episode was from the very last season, 1952. The show stars Charlie Ruggles and Erin O'Brien-Moore who was actually the second Mrs. Ruggles, following Irene Tedrow who only played Ma Ruggles for the very first season in 1949. This Christmas episode opens with the Ruggles twins writing Santa a letter and then fighting over who gets to read it aloud. They decided to share the performance as they read the letter to their family (who are all sickeningly sweet) and end the letter with a wish to do something for the less fortunate. The family takes this idea and runs with it as they decide they should help a less fortunate family at Christmas since their life is so "swell and keen" and there are others that don't have as much as them. Mr. Ruggles argues that people should be good to one another all year, and not just because it's Christmas time.. but after he makes his Mr. Brady-esc speech, they resign to help out one of their daughter's friends from high school named Elaine who just lost her father and who is going through hard times. Admidst all this dandy set up, you can hear some crew member off camera drop something on set.. but no one even blinked at the commotion! The Ruggles visit Elaine's house only to have her naively not know that they considered her the 'less fortunate' person they'd come to help, and instead Elaine offers the names of people in her neighborhood who are less fortunate and need Christmas charity. The Ruggles decide to bring their Christmas feast over to Elaine's and everyone spends the night together, eating and laughing with Christmas cheer. They decide to sing around a wood carved nativity scene from Elaine's dad and the Ruggles are astounded to hear Elaine's operatic and polished voice. Charlie Ruggles insists he's going to get her in contact with a record company and eventually the episode ties up with Mr. Ruggles giving another speech of moral proportions about how even the less fortunate are rich if they give to the less fortunate and let what they have make them happy, because happiness is in one self, enjoying your life, and sharing that with others. After this cheesy speech, the girl gives an encore of her singing with a rousing version of "Silent Night" but the funny thing about this is that she insists she doesn't know what to sing and heads to the bureau to get her song book... only to stop on her stair landing where there just happens to be a spot light shining right down on her, and suddenly she knows what she's going to sing! This type of corny thing is all through this show, along with other flubs and mistakes like how a one point the camera become completely unfocused.. not to mention casting error like how Charlie Ruggles is old enough to be the twins' grandfather and NOT their father! Classic 50s television was made infamous for shows like this with cheesy plots and bad production value with plenty of goofs. Remember how I said that show earlier wasn't too sickeningly sweet? Well this one is! This is the worst, sappiest, grade A cheeseball, campy, over sweetened TV show you'll ever find!

Love That Bob AKA The Bob Cummings Show - Episode: "Grandpa's Christmas Visit"
From 1955-1959 Bob Cummings had one of the most popular television shows on TV about a swinging bachelor who worked as a photographer and lived with his sis and nephew (who later became Dobie Gillis!) at night. The show was called "Love That Bob" aka "The Bob Cummings Show" and lead the way to Robert Cumming's second show "The New Bob Cummings Show" in 1961. "Love That Bob" starred Bob Cummings ("Beach Party", "Dial M For Murder", "How to be Very Very Popular", etc.), Ann B. Davis (Alice from "The Brady Bunch") as Schultzy, Rosemary DeCamp, and Dwayne Hickman ("The Many Loves of Dobie Gills"). In this very special Christmas episode, Bob and his sis' grandpa decides to come for a Christmas visit. Grandpa (who is also played by Bob Cummings) raises proverbial heck and he runs circles around the rest of the family with energy to spare, as he goes out partying late, and get up to play basketball early the next morning! Bob who makes a era-dependent reference to his grandpa being like Goose Tatum of the Harlem Globetrotters can't seem to keep grandpa tied down and before him and his sis know, grandpa's made off with Chuck's (Dwane Hickman) radio bike so he can peddal to town listening to Art Linkletter. (The era references in this episode really date it and thus cause it to be a hoot to watch now!) Eventually grandpa makes it down to Bob's photography office where he meets one of Bob's models, from his pin-up barn of beauties. Grandpa immediately starts hitting on the young blonde Marilyn Monroe like model (like any grandpa would.. aren't they all old spitfires like that?) and eventually grandpa goes in Bob's office to photograph the girl. Bob shows up later and there's a whole comedy of errors in miscommunication as Bob tells grandpa he can take home the equipment if he like, and so grandpa picks up the model and tries to take her! Little funny circumstances like this continue to pop up throughout the entire episode as grandpa thinks he's going to go out on a date with the blonde model later that night. Bob finds out and tries to outsmart grandpa by taking the model out himself and setting grandpa up with a blind date... who just happens to be the nice little old lady who plays checkers down the street. The joke's on Bob though when grandpa steals Bob's date, and they take his car, leaving Bob stranded at home with the lil old lady for a quaint evening. This episode is just hilarious and so much fun! Black and white and produced by the legendary Paul Henning who gave us "The Burns & Allen Show", "The Beverly Hillbillies", "The Andy Griffith Show", "Where's Raymond: The Ray Bolger Show", "Petticoat Junction", and so many more!

The Red Skelton Show - Episode: "The Cop & The Anthem"
Starring Red Skelton (of course) and featuring David Rose (composer / performer of "The Stripper") and his orchestra, plus guest star Allen Jenson. "The Red Skelton Show" was one of the most successful shows on television ever, with a long life span of 20 years running from 1951 - 1971 and boasting such writers as Johnny Carson, Sherwood Schwartz, and others. This particular Christmas episode finds Red playing one of his most famous characters Freddie The Freeloader. With the show opening, Freddie is sleeping in a snowy park. Frozen to the bone, he steals a carriage horse's blanket, only to give it back a moment later with a guilty face. One of Freddie's hobo friends show up and tries to urge him to stow away on a train to Miami with him so they won't freeze during the winter. Freddie refuses, insisting he's going to the same winter resort he goes to every year: the county jail with three meals a day, hot and cold water, and a cozy bed! All he has to do now is get arrested. On his way to getting arrested Freddie crashes a very posh expensive restaurant, orders a huge amount of expensive food, and then tells the maitre d to call the cops because he has no money. His plan is thwarted though when the maitre d has a change of heart and refuses to send anyone to jail on Christmas Eve. Freddie's bad luck continues when he tries everything to get arrested including stealing an umbrella, breaking a store window, stealing jewelry, harassing a woman in a park, assaulting a cop, and much more... but no matter what he tries, some circumstance comes up that keeps Freddie from what he really wants, and that is to be punished for his behavior with a nice cozy jail cell. Freddie ends up outside a church where a boys choir (the famous Mitchell's Boy Choir) is walking out of the church, caroling a beautiful Christmas hymn. The look on Freddie's face shows that his heart melts and he is inspired to be a better person as the age seems to melt off his face and return him to a young hopeful boy. He talks to one of the choir boys, thanking them for their song and the inspiration, and telling the boy that that song has made him want to try. Freddie wants to get a job and make something of himself! The boy offers Freddie a job with his dad's boss... only to have a cop come up and arrest him for vagrancy! Freddie wishes the boy a Merry Christmas, and tells him to tell his dad he'll be around in the spring for that job as the show comes to an end. The show was sponsored by Pet Milk and Johnson's Wax and the outro announcement is done by the legendary Gary Moore.

Where's Raymond AKA The Ray Bolger Show - Episode: "Christmas Spirit"
This short lived 1953 TV show starred Ray Bolger (The Scarecrow from "The Wizard of Oz") and boasted such great directors as John Rich and William Asher ("Bewitched", "I Love Lucy", & the "Beach Party" films). This special Christmas episode stars Ray Bolger and the Mitchell Boys Choir (yep, again!). The show opens with Ray Christmas shopping with his neice. His sugary sweet neice asks why soem people are troubled? (Only a child of the 1950s would be that naive!) Ray tells her why some people aren't happy and the neice insists that the world would be much better if everyone in the world were her uncle Ray! Cue fantasy scene! You're suddenly shown a world where everyone is Ray, except for the little neice of course. The little girl ventures to a toy shop (while in Ray-world) where she runs into life size toys that come to life. She winds up a life size minstrel singer, only to have it be Ray Bolger in black face, who comes to life and does the highlighted dance performance of the episode. He taps, scats, and rags his way through a phenomenal dance routine, and then returns to his stand as he 'winds down'. The neice then meets the toy maker (also Ray) who tells her all about Raggedy Ann and Raggedy's search for just the right girl... only to have the neice turn out to be the right girl. Surprise! Eventually the fantasy portion of the show ends and the neice heads home just in time for Ray to meet up with some friends, aka the local boys gang, aka the Mitchell Boys Choir doing their best Dead End Kids impersonations. Ray and the choir chassy up in a horse drawn sleigh and travel around the town caroling, only to return at the end of the show and have Ray say adieu with a song he sings himself, "Merry Christmas To You". The show ends with Ray wishing the audience a very Merry Christmas!

The Red Skelton Christmas Show - Episode: "Freddie And The Yuletide Doll"
Just when you thought you'd had enough, you get another helping of Red Skelton! In this special Christmas episode sponsored by Pet Milk we once again join Red Skelton playing his loveable character Freddie The Freeloader. Freddie is sleeping on a snowy bench in the park during the holidays as he awakens frost bitten, stiff, and icy. He goes through a series of hiliarious pantomimes and gags, including cleaning out his ears with an icicle. Freddie sees the couples shopping, walking through the park in love, and ice skating and suddenly he's found himself to be very lonely. At one point, he even thinks a woman is talking to him, only to find out she's motioning to someone she knows behind Freddie. Sad and alone, Freddie notices that one shopper left behind a large Raggedy Ann doll accidentally on the bench. Freddie picks up the doll and stars playing with it, imagining the doll is a friend of his and he's not so very alone. Suddenly some Christmas magic happens and Raggedy Ann comes to life (played by Cara Williams)! A wonderful fantasy for Freddie the Freeloader begins as him and his now real life doll play in the park, goofing around, laughing, dancing, sharing a bench, fooling a cop, and even sharing an innocent kiss. The two are quite smitten with one another and Freddie finds a friend.. a love! Spying the coupled skaters on ice in the park, Ann wants to skate so Freddie asks Santa for a pair of ice skates for each of them. Santa is out of them.. but just then the song "When You Wish Upon A Star" begins to play as Freddie looks up and notices two pairs of skates have appeared by the Christmas tree's top star! The two dawn the skates and after a couple of minutes of clumsy fumbling, they beging to skate / dance beautifully... Note to viewer: the choreographed ice dancing routine was obviously done by double, of which there is a big goof here! If you look really close you'll notice that Red Skelton's skate double is actually an African American man! Just a funny bit of trivia to take note of. Finally, all good things must come to an end and Raggedy Ann turns back into a lifeless doll. As Freddie holds the doll sadly, the woman comes back and reclaims her lost doll. Sadly, Freddie walks off into the snowy horizon. It is necessary to mention that not a word of dialog is spoken by Red during this entire 30 episode. Freddie expresses everything through his facial & body expressions via pantomime, which Red Skelton was such a pro at!

"Jack Frost"
Another Christmas classic brought to you by Rankin Bass, the people who brought you the legendary TV movies "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer" and "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town"! This is another one of their stop motion animation gems, telling the story of Jack Frost. This 1979, 49 minute, full color, stop motion animated movie is narrated by Buddy Hackett and features many songs, like all of the Rankin Bass features. The film also stars the voice of Robert Morse ("The Loved One"), Larry Storch, and Paul Frees (who also did voices for other Rankin Bass films including "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer" where he played Yukon Cornelius!). Pardon Me Pete (Buddy Hackett), the infamous Groundhog's Day groundhog, tells the story of Jack Frost and the human girl he fell in love with, Elisa. Jack Frost begs Father Winter to let him leave the snow gypsies, sleet sisters, Hail, Snip, and Fall the Christmas snow flake sprite, in order to become human and try to live with Elisa. He ends up saving Elisa and her town from the evil ruler, but inadvertantly helps a golden knight win his true love. Find out what happens in this underappreciated Christmas gem!

The Jack Benny Program - Episode: "Christmas Shopping"
Another wildly successful early TV show, "The Jack Benny Program" featured Jack Benny and his cast of crazies who successfully made the transfer onto TV after having a popular radio show since 1932. In 1950 "The Jack Benny Program" debuted on TV sets across America and there is stayed for a 15 year stint until it's last episode in 1965. In this episode, Jack and his co-stars Mel Blanc, Richard Deacon, Rochester, Dennis Day, and Charlie Cantor all make fun of the mania that goes on every year during Christmas shopping! At the opening of the show Jack and Rochester head down to the local department store to do some shopping. Jack decides to buy a gift for his friend and pics out a $40 wallet from one of the counter clerks, Mel Blanc. Jack writes out a card and the wallet is wrapped by Mel. Then Jack goes to buy a gift for a female friend, only to buy a watch that's claimed to be unbreakable. When the clerk dares Jack to hit it with a hammer to see how unbreakable it is, and Jack inadvertantly smashes the watch, a comedic argument insues where Benny demands his money back. Meanwhile, Jack goes back to Mel Blanc the clerk to change the card with the wallet, requiring Mel to unwrap the package and re-wrap it. Meanwhile, Jack runs into his employee Dennis Day who's at the store doing some shopping of his own.. and who in fact was hired by the store to sing Christmas songs. Along side a waist high mechanical, animated, monkey band and a department store Santa, Dennis Day sings the classic "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer" to the on looking children. Meanwhile, back with Jack, he goes to a noticeably stressed Mel Blanc and has him once again un-wrap and re-wrap the gift (that was already sent down to the delivery room) so he can change the card AGAIN. Mel Blanc starts to chew the scenary up here as he gets more and more frazzled and begins screaming, as many of his cartoon voices start to slip out with every agitated scream. When Benny comes back a fourth time later because he forgot to sign the card and forces Mel to go down to get the package out of the mail truck so he can un-wrap it and re-wrap it with a new card, Mel begins screaming and reaching a nervous break down once again! This is particularily hilarious because Mel steals the scene and Jack Benny actually breaks up and begins laughing himself! (This was filmed live with a studio audience folks!) Finally, at the end of the show, Jack decides he wants to change the wallet.. not the card.. but the wallet. This is the last straw and Mel goes completely nuts, grabbing a gun. You hear a shot off camera as the show comes to a comedic end. Benny closes the show by giving his Christmas wishes to his viewing friends. This episode was sponsored by Lipton Tea.

Jack Frost
This is a classic ComiColor Cartoon by the legendary UB Iwerks. Produced by Celebrity Productions Inc. with music by Carl Stalling. Follow the story of a little baby bear who doesn't heed Jack Frost's warning that old man winter is coming. When the insubordinate baby bear disobeys his mom and gets spanked and sent to bed, he rebelliously sneaks out and ends up getting caught in the middle of a snow storm. Old man winter chases baby bear into a tree stump and traps him there with bars of ice. Crying, baby bear finds Jack Frost outside his prison soon, and begs Jack to help him get home. Jack paints the iced bars with candy coating, allowing baby bear to lick his way out of the prison, only to have Jack get him home safely on his painted rainbow of color. The highlight of this cartoon has got to be the dancing jack-o-lanters and the scatting scarecrow to takes on a strong resemblance (impersonation) of Cab Calloway! Simply hilarious!

The Jack Benny Program - Episode: "New Year's Day Show"
Yep, you get another helping of Benny too! This episode was the 1955 / 1956 New Year's Day episode and a very special one at that! Sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes, this episode has all of the original commericals intact, including the opening animated commercial for Lucky Strike cigarettes featuring cartoon couples on the beach, on a carriage ride, etc. all singing the Lucky Strike jingle! The show begins as Jack does his opening monolog and then brings out the featured guests UCLA coach Red Sanders and Michigan State coach Duffy Dougherty who's teams were playing against one another at the Rose Bowl New Year's Day 1956. Also, during his monolog, Jack makes numerous references to Fred Allen, "Racket Squad" and "What's My Line" giving the episode a time perspective, all right before Benny flubs his line saying UCLO instead of UCLA. (This was TV before they'd pre-record 20 times to get it right!) Then the show is taken off to watch the Sports Men Quartet, a corny four man quartet of 20 or 30 something's in joe college letterman's sweaters singing cheeseball barbershop quartet songs. After their first song, they take part in a little product placement as they sing about Lucky Strike Cigarettes and dance around with packs of cigs.. ahh yes, a singing commercial IN the show! The show ends with Benny talking to the audience about his radio career before he started the TV show and how they had tradition to do a radio fantasy on New Year's every year called "The New Tenant", depicting the old timer (the current year) packing up and leaving as the baby new year comes in to take over. Jack Benny and his radio cast, including Don Wilson and Mel Blanc appear on stage and unveil a live radio set up, complete with mics and sound equipment so the audience may WATCH how they did their radio show. The show commences and they do the entire radio play on stage for the viewer to watch. Benny changed nuances of "The New Tenant" yearly to keep up with the current times, and in this episode mentions everything from Disneyland (that opened that year in 1955) to Liberace to Dwight Eisenhower and more. The show ends with a L.S.M.F.T. (Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco) commercial with teens smoking good ole Lucky Strike.. yes I said teens.. hey, it was the '50s! Even the Flinstones smoked then! After the fun Lucky Strike jingle fades out, you see the original CBS television logo before the episode comes to an end.

A Christmas Dream
This CASTLE FILM is a vintage 8 mm Christmas short shot in black and white that shows a mom and dad bringing their daughter into the living room on Christmas to get her new gifts. Overwhelmed with three new dollies, she quickly tosses the old one in her arms under a cabinet. Later, while the little girl is sleeping, Santa comes in and sympathizes with the discarded doll, "Poor dollie." Santa decides to give the girl a Christmas Dream where her old doll comes to life (via stop motion animation). The doll comes to life to show his little girl that he's still fun, and does so by dancing, singing, and getting into his share of trouble. The little girl realizes that she still loves the dollie and rescues him from under the cabinet, giving him lots of love and kisses.

Christmas Fairy Tale
Another very vintage, very rare Christmas short film for you to enjoy! This short opens with a little girl, Laura, who has a book of fairy tales. It's Christmas time and she wishes so very much that the fairy tales could come to life... and soon they do! The viewer is transported to a world with animated character, puppets, and figures a la the animated figures in Disney's "It's A Small World" ride. You travel through the short seeing characters from fables including Wee Willie Winky, Simple Simon, Mother Goose, The Pieman, Hansel & Gretyl, Robin Hood, Rip Van Winkle, Goldilocks & The Three Bears, Repunzel, The Three Blind Mice, Little Red Riding Hood & The Wolf, Puss N' Boots, Little Boy Blue, and Little Bo Peep! Soon you attention is drawn to The Littlest Snowman and his story which is shown by a series of dioramas on a rotating table that tells the whole story of how the littles snowman saved the lives of his family who made him. This is a quaint and classic short that's perfect for the child in all of us!

Vienna Boys Choir Singing Silent Night
The last short on this DVD is a vintage short by the National Telefilms Association simply showing the world famous Vienna Boys Choir singing the Christmas classic "Silent Night".

But Wait... There's MORE!

Now you can get a free special bonus! That's right! Not only do you get a DVD packed with these vintage Christmas TV shows & tidbits.. but you also get a FREE Bonus Audio CD of the original audio radio show of "It's A Wonderful Life"! Listen to the magic of the original Frank Capra story Old Time Radio style starring Jimmy Stewart, Donna Reed, & Lional Barrymore just like in the film! This classic story has become a Christmas tradition staple in hoes across the world, and now you can enjoy the original old time radio version of this classic tale! This is a Christmas classic that you can spin on the CD player every yule tide season for your kids.. or even just yourself!

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