12:45 AM
The Christmas Gift
Drama
(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.
03:00 AM
The Man in the Santa Claus Suit
Drama
(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.
05:00 AM
Scrooge
Drama, Family, Fantasy
(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.
07:15 AM
Miracle on 34th Street
Drama, Family, Fantasy
(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.
09:00 AM
Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol
Comedy, Family
(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.
10:00 AM
The Bishop's Wife
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
(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.
12:00 PM
Remember the Night
Comedy, Drama, Romance
(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.
01:45 PM
The Shop Around the Corner
Comedy, Drama, Romance
(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.
03:30 PM
Meet John Doe
Comedy, Drama
(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.
05:40 PM
The Christmas Wife
Drama
(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".
07:00 PM
The Blue Bird
Adventure, Family, Fantasy
(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.
08:45 PM
To Kill a Mockingbird
Crime, Drama
(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.
11:00 PM
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
(1982, PG) Starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley. With the assistance of the Enterprise crew, Admiral Kirk must stop an old nemesis, Khan Noonien Singh, from using the life-generating Genesis Device as the ultimate weapon.