12:00 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.
01:50 AM
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.
04:20 AM
The Great Rupert
Comedy, Family
(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.
06:00 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.
08:10 AM
The Lemon Drop Kid
Comedy, Musical
(1951, NR) Starring Bob Hope, Marilyn Maxwell and Lloyd Nolan. A New York City swindler has until Christmas to come up with the $10,000 he owes a gangster, prompting him to go into scamming overdrive.
09:50 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.
12:00 PM
Pocketful of Miracles
Comedy, Drama
(1961, NR) Starring Glenn Ford, Better Davis, and Hope Lange. Directed by Frank Capra. New York bootlegger Dave the Dude and his girlfriend Elizabeth "Queenie" Martin try to turn boozy street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when Annie learns that her daughter Louise is marrying the son of a Spanish count.
02:30 PM
March of the Wooden Soldiers
Comedy
(1934, NR) Starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Opposing the evil Barnaby, Ollie Dee and Stanley Dum try and fail to pay-off Mother Peep's mortgage and mislead his attempts to marry Little Bo. Enraged, Barnaby's Bogeymen are set on Toyland.
04:00 PM
The Platters Very Merry Christmas
Musical
Join the legendary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame group for The Platters Very Merry Christmas special. The Platters perform classic holiday songs plus their legendary hits.
05:00 PM
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
Drama, Family
(1971, PG) Starring Patricia Neal, Richard Thomas and Edgar Bergen. On Christmas Eve 1933, the Waltons prepare for the holiday, but they are becoming increasingly worried because John Walton, who was forced to take work in another part of the state, has not yet returned home.
07:00 PM
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.
09:15 PM
The Music Man
Comedy, Family, Musical
(1962, G) Starring Robert Preston, Shirley Jones and Buddy Hackett. Traveling con artist Harold Hill targets the naïve residents of a small town in 1910s Iowa by posing as a boys' band leader to raise money before he can skip town.