Favorite Christmas/Holiday Specials, Movies, and TV Episodes

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So what are some of your favorite Christmas/holiday TV specials, movies, or TV episodes?
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Always enjoy Dr who.
Very much looking forward to Wallace and gromit.
The older twanglets are big gavin and Stacey fans so hoping that is good.
Today I'll be looking at the episode list for Rev., because I think there are two specific Christmas episodes and both give an insight into the pressures clergy deal with at this time of year as well as just being reflective on the season of giving and Jesus' birth. I hope to watch those over the weekend.
I have enjoyed A Cosmic Christmas, by Canadian animation studio Nelvana:
https://youtu.be/og2TaEOAYp0?si=LoqoPTNzhm1gQcqi
Very cool! Which version? It looks like the 1980s one had the second Doctor…
Yeah the 80s one. It feels very similar to Peter Davidson era who and led to the BBC adaptations of some narnia books
I've got to see that!
Watched this 14 years ago and it was wonderful especially the last episode.
Knowing Me Knowing Yule with Alan Partridge
Ghosts Christmas special (the UK one)
I just finished re-reading that! It's started me on a Christmas binge of all the City Watch books.
Had my annual fix this afternoon.
https://collider.com/disney-parks-magical-christmas-parade-how-to-watch/
and Potter got away with it yet again !!!!
I guess that's not the Nelvana Christmas cartoon with all the 12 gifts from the song as props or characters(*)?
(*)For example, there is a pop-music group called The Leaping Lords.
I must look for that one. This is a different one!
We had a repeat of Arthur Christmas yesterday as we all love it and we rarely sit together to watch a movie as a family.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP1PejBrlo8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v2ZYfIPQxA
"The Great Escape" will always be the archetypal Christmas film for me. Perhaps in a double bill with "Escape to Victory" or some similar twaddle.
I'm mostly not a fan of the Pratchett TV adaptations. It's not that they're bad, so much as that so much of Pratchett's humor is clever wordplay that you lose a lot going from book to screen, and so I'm always disappointed that the TV adaptation isn't as good as the book.
It's only in the cinemas for a short time and then on Netflix in Australia. It didn't seem to get much publicity here, so am glad I saw a review and caught it at the cinema. Feathers McGraw is an ice cold villain!
Perhaps I'm wrong but the Snowman doesn't seem to have appeared this year. It usually does. By chance I found quite an interesting comparison on a youtube by an American woman who I think has married an Englishman, and has settled here. It's on the cultural differences represented by the Snowman, and Frosty the Snowman - which is unfamiliar to me.
If you're interested look here.