"Cavalcade of America" documented historical events using stories of individual courage, initiative and achievement, often with feel-good dramatizations of the human spirit's triumph against all odds. -- in this episode, when a boy steals a cake for his beloved aunt on Christmas Eve, his young friend tries to set things straight.
Year: Release Date: Rating: Video Type:
1956
12/18/1956
Not Rated
TV Series Episode 25 minutes
A
It's Christmas eve 1930 and Eliot Ness and his men are investigating the murder of a close friend of his, Hap Levinson. The man had been playing Santa Claus at a children's orphanage and had just left when he was gunned down by a passing car. Levinson was the front man in a nightclub-speakeasy and he and Ness had spent many hours together laughing and passing the time of day. As Ness looks into his old friend's background, he learns that he may have had a girlfriend named Renée that he kept in a downtown apartment. It's readily apparent that she's a junkie and what he learns about his friend isn't pretty. Soon, mobsters are being knocked off and it seems someone is getting rid of witnesses to a crime.
Year: Release Date: Rating: Video Type:
1962
09/25/1962
Approved
TV Series Episode 52 minutes
A
Lucy, Viv and the kids are spending their first Christmas together and Lucy and Viv do nothing but argue over their family's special traditions. But, the kids show Lucy and Viv the true meaning of Christmas.
Year: Release Date: Rating: Video Type:
1962
12/24/1962
TV-PG
TV Series Episode 30 minutes
A
Christmas in sunny Los Angeles finds Reed and Molloy in a series of seasonal vignettes. They meet up with a colorful tree lot salesman and help out a Santa entertaining a retiree's home all the while chasing down a rooftop gunman.
Year: Release Date: Rating: Video Type:
1974
12/24/1974
TV-PG
TV Series Episode 30 minutes
A
