Favorite Holiday Movie/TV Special?

[billypoe]

What's your favorite flick or show to watch around the holidays? A few of my favorites:

It's a Wonderful Life
Christmas Vacation
Planes, Trains, & Automobiles
All the Rankin/Bass Specials
Charlie Brown Christmas**
Garfield Christmas Special
How the Grinch Stole Christmas

**My favorite

[spolcyc]

Originally Posted by billypoe

What's your favorite flick or show to watch around the holidays? A few of my favorites:

It's a Wonderful Life
Christmas Vacation

**My favorite

Scrooged
Lethal Weapon
Die Hard

[Johnny Vinyl]

I like a lot of them, but the ONE I absolutely have to watch every year is:

A Christmas Carol: Alistair Sim (1951)

And it's become a tradition that it's watched on Christmas Eve!

[jk1138]

It's a Wonderful Life
Charlie Brown Christmas

[peter008]

white christmas
it's a wonderful life
a miracle on 34th streets
the sound of music (not exactly a holiday movie but always good at this period of the year)
while you we're sleeping (a great deal of the story take place around christmas time)
we're no angels (with humphrey bogart old movie but very funny also taking place around christmas time)

[Moefiz]

Originally Posted by John72953

I like a lot of them, but the ONE I absolutely have to watch every year is:

A Christmas Carol: Alistair Sim (1951)

And it's become a tradition that it's watched on Christmas Eve!

Same here....this version and this version only...I try not to miss.

[dvd_mazter]

The Grinch (Carrey Version)
Christmas Story
Elf
Christmas Vacation
Muppet's Christmas Carol

[Crim122]

Die Hard followed closely by Charlie Brown.

[Blu Man]

Christmas Vacation, Home Alone, Die Hard

[Red Hood]

Kiss saves Christmas

[209Mason]

Christmas Vacation
A Christmas Story
It's a Wonderful Life
Home Alone
Scrooged
Die Hard
Mickey' Chritsmas Carol
Charlie Brown Christmas
Garfield's Christmas
Rudolph/A year without Santa/etc (Rankin-Bass)

All of these demand (multiple) viewings around Christmas time.

[SquidPuppet]

Charlie Brown Christmas

[EricJ]

It's become tradition now to dig out that vintage "Twilight Zone" episode with Art Carney as the drunken department-store Santa...
There are very few TZ episodes that'll have you reaching for the Kleenex, and that's one of them.

(The episode with Donald Pleasance as the old Mr. Chips schoolteacher being the other one, and also taking place over Christmas, but not as holiday focused.)

[child of the sun]

A Christmas Story (you'll shoot your eye out!) I watch this every xmas eve while wrapping presents.

A Charlie Brown Christmas

The Year Without Santa Claus...(the heat/snow mizers have the best songs in christmas special history!)

[Blu-ray Fanatic]

Favorite holiday movie? Look at my avatar.

[nycomet]

Originally Posted by billypoe

What's your favorite flick or show to watch around the holidays? A few of my favorites:

It's a Wonderful Life
Christmas Vacation
Planes, Trains, & Automobiles
All the Rankin/Bass Specials
Charlie Brown Christmas**
Garfield Christmas Special
How the Grinch Stole Christmas

**My favorite

Hi, I have all of the shows and movies you have on your list with the exception of Planes, Trains and Automobiles. My copies of your listed items are all on oldray DVD except for Christmas Vacation (I have it on BD).

I also adore:

A Christmas Story (BD)
Elf (BD)
Home Alone (BD)
Polar Express 2-D / 3-D (BD)
This Christmas (BD)
Bad Santa (BD)

and these which I would not consider traditional Christmas movies (some only show a Christmas tree or Santa at some point in the film):

Trading Places (BD)
Die Hard (BD)
Hellboy II (BD)
The Bone Collector (BD)
Chronicles of Narnia TWTL&TW (BD) (Santa makes appearance)
Peter Jackson's King Kong (Central Park scene)
(I'm sure there are many others that fit into this category)

I also have (but have not yet watched):

Jingle All The Way (BD)
The Santa Clause 3 (BD)
Fred Claus (BD) (actually, this one is in the mail on its way to me)

But you asked for my FAVORITE:

I love SHREK THE HALLS. I am pissed that I only came out on oldray DVD. I saw this last year in ABC in HD and it was STUNNING. This should be on Blu-ray with DTS Master Audio. Needless to say, I will program my HD DVR to record it when it plays again on ABC-HD at 8 pm on December 22nd.

[Booyahs the name]

I love to watch one showing of the Christmas Story on Christmas day. I also like Scrooged, Home Alone 1-2, and Christmas Vacation.

[Clark Kent]

The Rankin/Bass Christmas specials are fabulous. Every kid growing up should watch them.

[Pirate King]

It's a Wonderful Life
Polar Express ( I Always watch this with the Grandkids)
One Magic Christmas (If you have not seen this one, you should.)

[jadedeath]

Denis Leary's Merry F**kin' Christmas.

Logan