December TV: Christmas Past, Christmas Past, Christmas Past

Since I mostly wasn't allowed to watch it as a kid, wasn't interested as an adult, and it's all new to sozlet, it's actually kinda fun. We both watch for the first time.

I love shows that promote Christmas spirit, though I wish they would get some new ones to go with the old. They rerun the regular shows to death during the holidays and I resent that tremendously. Better to run movies or something if they don't want to show new episodes.

I bought most of my favorite Christmas shows - Alistair Sim in Scrooge (A Christmas Carol), It's a Wonderful Life, the original Miracle on 34th Street, some of the cartoons - on VHS and DVD. No need to watch all the commercials.

I watch Scrooge an average three times a year, one of them in mid summer.

I am so hoping I can see a 24 hour marathon running of A Christmas Story with Darren McGavin and the annoying bratty kid.

I remember one of big disappointments in life was the first time I saw The Grinch in color. For years I had viewed it only in good old B&W and then there it was...it destroyed all the colors I had created in my mind...over the years though, I adjusted and I still watch it a few times each December. Also like to watch Miracle On 34th Street each year and Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer along with a few others.

"A Christmas Story" is classic. Those anachronistic 80's glasses always bother me, but the leg lamp, the tongue on the pole, "you'll put your eye out" -- classic.

I don't think it's the movie as such which bothers me. It is more a matter of a certain station which rebroadcasts it non-stop for 24 hours. Originally I liked it...some...but after a while it starts to bug me especially when there are so many other Christmas films out there which are being neglected. Broadcast A Christmas Story 5 or 6 times per season, that is more than enough.

I love Scrooge(with Bill Murray), that cruel fairy is so funny and i love it when they sing at the end.

I look forward to Wizard of Oz, Vicar of Dibley Xmas special(repeat or new)Morecombe and Wise or the Two Ronnies classics.Im sure a Bond film will be on at some point.

I dont mind repeats, just means I should switch off the TV and go do something else, maybe with real people, not the 2d tv people.

Oh, I didn't know it was on that often...

I do like the original. (Saw it in the theater when it first came out, I was about 13, laughed my head off, then have seen it maybe twice since.)

The Bishops Wife (original) with David Niven and Cary Grant.

Nearly as good as Alistair Sim's Scrooge.

oh sigh. i don't fit. we had russian and czech and slovak fairytales on tv, which they still re-run. like "Mrazik" (Frost, which is the russian version of Santa Claus: Grandpa Frost), or Czech Cinderella. Oh, or Perinbaba... there's no better time than christmas re-runs...

Does anybody remember a version of Cinderella where she was travelling through snow in a horse drawn sleigh and 3 acorns fell on her head, each of them contained a new outfit?

Uh, no...I cannot say I remember that.