| The Jack Benny Program (1950–1965) |
| Christmas Show (1960) S11.E9 |
| It's the week before Christmas and Jack drops by Edgar Bergen's house to go over the upcoming show's script with his guest star. When Edgar is detained rehearsing his radio show, his wife Frances entertains Jack. Jack is amazed when Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd walk into the room and are introduced. Jack always assumed they were merely ventriloquist's dummies. Edgar finally returns and is ready to present his ideas for a sketch to Jack, but insists on Jack sitting on his knee to hear them. |
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1960
12/18/1960
Not Rated
TV Series Episode
30 minutes
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Comedy
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James V. Kern
Ralph Levy
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Jack Benny
/ Jack Benny
Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
/ Rochester Van Jones
Don Wilson
/ Don Wilson
The Sportsmen Quartet
/ Themselves - Singers
Edgar Bergen
/ Self
Dennis Day
/ Dennis Day
Frances Bergen
/ Frances Bergen
Mel Blanc
/ Salesman
Frank Nelson
/ Floor Manager
Harry Stewart
/ Pierre
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| How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966) |
| A grumpy hermit hatches a plan to steal Christmas from the Whos of Whoville. /// Animated musical. A mean and stingy green creature wants to ruin Christmas. |
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1966
12/18/1966
Not Rated
TV Movie Animated
26 minutes
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Comedy
Family
Fantasy
Musical
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Chuck Jones
Ben Washam
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"It came without ribbons. It came without bows. It came without packages, boxes, or bags. Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas perhaps, means a little bit more." - The Grinch |
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Actors - Elsa Lanchester (Bishop’s), Boris K ((Grinch) - together in Bride of Frankenstein |
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Snowfall |
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cutting down tree |
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Decorating tree |
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Boris Karloff
/ Narrator
Boris Karloff
/ The Grinch
June Foray
/ Cindy Lou Who (voice)
Dal McKennon
/ Max (voice)
Thurl Ravenscroft
/ Singer 'You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch' (voice)
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| The Night Before Christmas (1968) |
| Fictionalized account of how Clement C. Moore came to write "A Visit from St. Nicholas," in which his young daughter, stricken with pneumonia, asks for a Santa Claus story for Christmas. No such story had been written, so Moore writes his famous poem, set to Ken Darby's musical version and sung by The Norman Luboff Choir. |
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1968
12/14/1968
Approved
TV Short Animated
26 minutes
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Adventure
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Director(s):
Jim Pabian
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The Norman Luboff Choir
/ Themselves
Olan Soule
/ Dr. Clement C. Moore (voice)
Barbara Eiler
/ Mrs. Moore (voice)
Hal Smith
/ Dr. Sawyer (voice)
Virginia Gregg
/ Gretchen (voice)
Laura Turnbull
/ Unknown (voice)
Shari Turnbull
/ Unknown (voice)
Douglas Crowther
/ Unknown (voice)
Diana Lee
/ Soloist
Thurl Ravenscroft
/ Soloist
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| The Small One (1978) |
| Ordered by his father to sell his old, small donkey, named Small One, a Hebrew boy in ancient Israel takes the donkey to the Jerusalem market. Finding no buyers there, the boy is about to give up when he meets a kind man named Joseph. /// Short based on the book by Charles Tazewell. / Ordered by his father to sell his old, small donkey, named Small One, a Hebrew boy in ancient Israel takes the donkey to the Jerusalem market. Finding no buyers there, the boy is about to give up when he meets a kind man named Joseph. |
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1978
12/16/1978
G
Film Short Animated
26 minutes
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Drama
Family
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Director(s):
Don Bluth
Jack Cutting
Wolfgang Reitherman
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Sean Marshall
/ Boy (voice)
William Woodson
/ Tanner (voice)
Olan Soule
/ Father (voice)
Hal Smith
/ Auctioneer (voice)
Joe Higgins
/ Guard (voice)
Gordon Jump
/ Joseph (voice)
Clarence Nash
/ Small One (voice)
Thurl Ravenscroft
/ Potter (voice)
Ken Sansom
/ Baker (voice)
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| Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July (1979) |
| The Winterbolt is trying to make North Pole his evil wonderland, and it is up to Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and other icons to stop him. |
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1979
11/25/1979
G
TV Movie Animated
97 minutes
Rankin Bass
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Adventure
Comedy
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Jules Bass
Arthur Rankin Jr.
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Red Buttons
/ Milton (voice)
Ethel Merman
/ Lilly Loraine (voice)
Mickey Rooney
/ Santa Claus (voice)
Alan Sues
/ Scratcher the Jealous Reindeer (voice)
Jackie Vernon
/ Frosty (voice)
Shelley Winters
/ Crystal (voice)
Paul Frees
/ Jack Frost
Paul Frees
/ Jack Frost (voice)
Paul Frees
/ Winterbolt / Policeman (voice)
Billie Mae Richards
/ Rudolph (voice)
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| The Glenn Miller Story (1954) |
| Biography of bandleader Glenn Miller from his beginnings to his death over the English Channel in December 1944. |
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1954
01/04/1954
Approved
Film
115 minutes
C
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Biography
Drama
Musical
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Director(s):
Anthony Mann
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Last Christmas |
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Christmas broadcast |
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extra special Christmas present |
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Always this way in December |
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Christmas |
| Cast:
James Stewart
/ Glenn Miller
June Allyson
/ Helen Burger
Harry Morgan
/ Chummy
Charles Drake
/ Don Haynes
George Tobias
/ Si Schribman
Barton MacLane
/ General Arnold
Sig Ruman
/ Kranz
Irving Bacon
/ Mr. Miller
James Bell
/ Mr. Burger
Kathleen Lockhart
/ Mrs. Miller
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