Anita, Eric, Mike, Kathryn, Will - and Santa - look back at 25 classic Christmas performances.
We Need A Little Christmas - Angela Lansbury / Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses / River - Joni Mitchell / Hark! The Herald Angels Sing - It’s a Wonderful Life cast / Gabriel’s Message - Sting / Christmas Time - Bryan Adams / It’s Christmas Time All Over the World - Sammy Davis Jr. / Bells of St. Mary’s - Bing Crosby / Christmas Is A Time to Say I Love You - Billy Squier / Away in a Manger - Manniheim Steamroller / First Snowfall of Winter, Let it Snow - The Carpenters / Riu Riu Chiu - The Monkees / Seasons of Love - The cast of Rent / Christ is Born - Perry Como / The Christmas Song - Nat King Cole and Natalie Cole / Mary’s Boy Child - Harry Belafonte / Closing of the Year - Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman
Based on the story, See How They Run (The Ladies' Home Journal June 51), and subsequently won that year's Christopher award. The story was written by Mary Elizabeth Vroman, a 4th generation schoolteacher from the British West Indies. Jane Richards, a young 4th grade teacher in the South, faces a challenge in the form of 11 year-old C.T. Young, a backward boy, whose pride has made him a stubborn rebel and liar. Jane believes in him, then discovers his interest in nature when he spends his time watching a caterpillar in a tree trunk as it develops a cocoon. C. T.'s devoted to his family and especially to Tanya, who adores him. When Tanya dies, despite Dr. Mitchell's efforts to save her, the embittered C.T. stays away from school; when he returns, he gets into a fight and gets sent to Coventry. But when a swarm of bees invades the classroom and panics the students, C.T. takes charge, captures the queen bee, and leads the swarm outside, earning the school principal's praise. But C.T. has u
