Christmas Episodes

[oldiesfan6479]

Mr. Drysdale bought them all gifts which included a TV which Granny thought was a washing machine when she turned it on and saw Niagara Falls...

Did the Hillbillies writer(s) "borrow" that idea from "A Plumbing We Will Go"?

 

[Ultimajock]

"Lost In Space" had a Christmas episode in the first season. It involved the boy, Will Robinson - played by Billy Mumy, somehow returning to earth and being in a backwards rural community in, I think, Vermont. The rural community was quite ridiculous when you consider this was supposed to be happening in the latter 1990s, and they were still using the old style telephones associated with the 1930s, and had a General Store.

...hmmm -- Will Robinson wished himself into the cornfield? ;D ...

 

[WPPCProductions]

Six Million Dollar Man Season 4 Ep 10 "A Bionic Christmas Carol" Gerald Mayer Wilton Schiller orig air date December 12, 1976
When Steve is sent to investigate problems with an OSI project contracted out to Budge Corp., he discovers the problem is that the corporation's owner, Horton Budge, is a cheap "Scrooge." Steve then uses his bionics to emulate the Charles Dickens classic and convince Budge to change his mind.

 

[sack]

The Odd Couple and their version of "A Christmas Carol".
Especially love the scene with the singing telegram: "Seasons Greetings Oscar boy my alimonies due, if you don't pay up right away I'll get the cops on you, and you'll spend Christmas in the klink with other bums like you" (sung to Greensleeves). Now thats holiday spirit.

 

[ixnay]

When "The Flintstones" became popular on TV, there was also a comic strip that ran for several years in many newspapers.

I remember seeing the modern stone age comic strip in the Phila. Inquirer as late as 1975, when I was an avid Flintstones rerun watcher (on Kaiser's [later Field's] WKBS-48, COL Burlington, NJ, went dark 1983).

ixnay

 

[FreddyE1977]

Remember the "Married with Children" episiode when Al Bundy was visited by hia guardian angel, played by the late Sam Kinison, who showed him what life would be like if he had never been born? There's a classic for you.

There was an even better Married With Children Christmas episode earlier in the series. The Lakeside Mall was having
a grand Christmas sale event, which features Santa jumping out of a helicopter and parachuting into the mall parking
lot, tossing gift certificates as he goes. Unfortunately the chute does not open and he crashes into the Bundy's yard.

This episode is dark, disturbing, and very funny. You feel guilty for the fact that you can't stop laughing at it.
It actually used to run with a disclaimer since it could be so upsetting to little children.

 

[Corky Marlowe]

The Odd Couple and their version of "A Christmas Carol".
Especially love the scene with the singing telegram: "Seasons Greetings Oscar boy my alimonies due, if you don't pay up right away I'll get the cops on you, and you'll spend Christmas in the klink with other bums like you" (sung to Greensleeves). Now thats holiday spirit.

Enough to make you want to take a giant candy cane and beat the wings off of a sugar plum fairy.

BTW, someone mentioned the Dick Van Dyke Christmas episode. I'm guessing that was the one where all the writers and their families got to be on "The Alan Brady Show" (been ages since I've seen it, so my recollection might be a little hazy); One DVD ep that wasn't technically Christmas was "Uhny Uftz" (the sound Rob and Buddy kept hearing while working late; turned out to be a toy flying saucer that was supposed to say "Merry Christmas".)

 

[cwf1701]

Adam-12 had at least 2 Christmas episodes that i know of: in season 1, they did a toys for tots story . Season 3 had a lost child who wandered off and find a very well lit cross (at the end of the episode).