Bob undergoes a shock when his mother announces that she has separated from his father after 47 years of marriage.
Sam Drucker sends Granny a letter, but she never gets it—one of Elly's critters eats it! Granny, Jed and Elly decide to spend Christmas in Hooterville.
Bob takes on the role of Christmas peacemaker when he attempts to reconcile
his parents.
The boys from the 53rd put on a Christmas review.
Maynard decides to throw a Christmas party in his garage but most of the other kids, Dobie included, have accepted invitations to a swank party thrown by Chatsworth.
When Maynard announces that he still believes in Santa Claus, the Gilleses decide to cure him of his fantasy.
Just in time for the holidays, Carol develops laryngitis and may not be able to
sing at Christmas services.
The winter adventures of an errant young Irish duck who loses track of his family on their annual southbound flight.
Animated tale of love and friendship about two lonely, discarded toys who set out through a cold, unfriendly city in search of new owners to take care of them.
He-Man and She-Ra join together to stop Horde Prime from ruining Christmas for some Earth children stranded on Eternia.
The wicked queen creates an ice storm meant to get rid of the younger Snow White, but instead freezes the whole village just barely missing her. Snow White travels to the land of the Seven Friendly Giants and makes friends with them. Snow White is never safe from the wicked queen because she'll always be able to find her. Can the giants save Snow White from her vengeance, or will she end up an icicle like her parents?
A delightful, animated musical version of Charles Dickens' classic tale.
A Cricket on the Hearth, tells the story of a poor toymaker and his daughter whom a helpful Cricket named Crocket befriends on Christmas morning. When tragedy strikes the family, it's Crocket who comes to the rescue and restores peace and happiness.
Jed, Ellie May, Jethro and Granny take their first plane flight back home for
Christmas to visit cousin Pearl, who is busy cooking up a feast to win Mr. Brewster's unwilling heart.
With Christmas spirit in the air, Ann tells Donald a story about a time when she was
a teacher's aide. During that time, Ann stayed behind to care for a boy during the Christmas vacation while his parents were away filming a movie and couldn't get back in time for the holidays.
Father Mulcahy writes a pre-Christmas letter to his sister, who is a nun. He recounts his frustrations at not being more effective at the 4077th.
Hawkeye writes his dad, describing Christmas in Korea.
A Christmas party at the garage is interrupted when Louie, the dispatcher, teams up
with Alex in a game of high stakes poker against his cardshark brother Nick.
Just in time for the holidays, Carol develops laryngitis and may not be able to sing at Christmas services.
Feeling sympathetic for a co-worker who hasn't spent Christmas with his family for years, Mary is forced to stay alone at WJM-TV on Christmas Eve.
Sam gets cold feet about selling his beloved car, and goes so far as to romance the buyer's widow to get it back. Rebecca befriends a pig destined to be Woody's Christmas dinner.
Christmas becomes a sad memory for Bob's group therapy session, and it's evident that "'tis not the season" for everyone to be jolly. Bob decides to invite the group over for Christmas Eve.
An elderly private school teacher wonders if his life has meant anything as he contemplates suicide on Christmas Eve and is reminded by former students that he has, indeed, made an effect on the lives of his students over the years.
A mother interrupts a burglary at a remote railroad station only to have her invalid son taken captive by a fleeing felon on Thanksgiving night.
A five-year-old boy writes to Santa asking for his father to come home for Christmas as a surprise for his mother.
The head of the county rest home decides that Christmas isn't just for the kids; it's for the seniors as well.
Sam and Alice Hendricks feel little reason to celebrate on New Year's Eve: the rent
is late, he's unemployed and she's about to go into labor.
A waitress, working a dreary coffee counter on Christmas Day, is thrown together with a forlorn nine-year-old whose been stranded by a delayed train.
This uplifting holiday episode dramatizes the work of the real-life Sister Ann, beloved head nurse
at Mercy Hospital. Her patients include Guermo, a young boy who's heartbroken over not being able to afford a bicycle for Christmas, and the grouchy old Mr. Atherton.
Father Mulcahy writes a pre-Christmas letter to his sister, who is a nun. He recounts his frustrations at not being more effective at the 4077th.
Hawkeye writes his dad, describing Christmas in Korea.
The Clampetts return to Hooterville to celebrate Christmas.
Alice gets a job in an obstetrician's office to make some money for Christmas. One day, Ralph sees Alice and Trixie go into the doctor's office and he thinks that one of them is pregnant.
Back home for Christmas, Elly May bonds with her old animal friends, while Pearl
plays the piano for the "new" movie in town to impress Mr. Brewster.
Scrooge, in the name of Homer Bedloe, derails Kate's attempt to use the Cannonball
for Christmas caroling and gift giving.
Donna is upset that the Christmas spirit has been lost to the mighty cash register, until she pays a visit to the hospital and discovers that the lonely janitor, Charlie, has been secretly playing Santa for the children's ward for over twenty years now.
Ann purchases tickets for the Baumans from a scalper. Giving the scalper a check
with her address on it and saying the tickets are for her neighbors, she fears they may
be robbed (on Christmas Eve). In order to prevent a robbery, Ann and Donald remove all the valuables from the Baumans' apartment, only to be caught by the police.
Just before Christmas a blizzard drives everyone from their homes to the safety of Boonesborough. Tempers are as short as food when an Indian couple, about to have a baby at any time, show up seeking shelter.
Jarrod arranges for the girlfriend of a murderous outlaw to be released from jail so she can spend Christmas with the Barkley family.
Christmas Day at the 4077th finds the surgeons struggling to keep a mortally wounded soldier alive, even if it's only through the holiday.
To boost post-yuletide morale on Dec 26, Potter has the officers and enlisted men change places for the day.
In order to buy Mrs. Drysdale a special Christmas present, the Clampetts take seasonal jobs in a department store.
The Clampetts return to Hooterville to celebrate Christmas.
An invitation from Sue Ann Nivens to Christmas dinner - in the middle of
November - is the last thing Mary and the newsroom staff want, but it is exactly what they get.
The staff has to plan a Christmas show.
Christmas Eve is depressing at Cheers as Sam rushes to find Rebecca a gift, Rebecca makes everyone work late, and Norm's Santa Claus buddies gather to celebrate the end of the season.
Christmas Eve is almost spoiled when Bob is trapped in the office because of a power failure.
A down-on-his-luck department store Santa Claus discovers a bottomless sack of toys.
A private New Year's Eve celebration between Ann and Donald escalates when her parents show up for "one drink" and then more and more show up and a party starts.
On New Years Eve, the staff looks back on the highlights of 1961.