(1950, NR) Starring Jimmy Durante, Terry Moore and Tom Drake. A little squirrel with lots of charm accidentally helps two poor, down-but-NOT-out families overcome their obstacles.

(1986, TV-PG) Starring John Denver and Jane Kaczmarek. A widowed New York City architect and his young daughter take a Christmas vacation and end up in a small mystical town in Colorado where everyone believes in Santa Claus.

(1979, TV-G) Starring Fred Astaire, Gary Burghoff and John Byner. The mysterious owner of a costume shop rents a Santa Claus suit to three very different men: a math teacher trying to get the nerve to propose, a homeless restaurateur trying to hide from the mob, and a harried political speech writer visiting with his estranged wife and son. Their lives are inexorably changed by their experience of playing Santa Claus.

(1970, NR) Starring Albert  Finney, Alec Guinness and Edith Evans. A musical retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about an old bitter miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.

(1947, NR) Starring Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O'Hara and John Payne.  After a divorced New York mother hires a nice old man to play Santa Claus at Macy's, she is startled by his claim to be the genuine article. When his sanity is questioned, a lawyer defends him in court by arguing that he's not mistaken.

(1962, TV-G) Starring Jim Backus, Morey Amsterdam and Jack Cassidy. This musical adaptation of the classic tale by Charles Dickens stars Magoo as the cold-hearted old miser, Ebenezer Scrooge.

(1947, NR) Starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven. A debonair angel comes to Earth to help an Episcopalian bishop and his wife in their quest to raise money for the new church.

(1939, NR) Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray and Beulah Bondi. Love blooms between a sympathetic attorney and the comely shoplifter he has taken home for the Christmas holiday.

(1940, NR) Starring James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan and Frank Morgan. Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand each other, without realizing that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.

(1941, Not Rated). Starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. Directed by Frank Capra. A penniless drifter (Cooper) is recruited by an ambitious columnist (Stanwyck) to impersonate a non-existent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a social movement begins.

(1988, TV-PG) Starring Jason Robards, Julie Harris and Don Francks. A widower not wanting to face his first Christmas alone responds to an ad for "social introductions".

(1940, NR) Starring Shirley Temple, Spring Byington and Nigel Bruce. Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, a woodchopper's children, are led by the Fairy Berylune on a magical trip through the past, present, and future to locate the Blue Bird of Happiness.

(1962, TV-PG) Starring Gregory Peck, John Megna and Frank Overton. Atticus Finch, a widowed lawyer in Depression-era Alabama, defends a Black man against an undeserved rape charge, and tries to educate his young children against prejudice.