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10:30 PM  The Bob Newhart Show Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Part 1

Bob undergoes a shock when his mother announces that she has separated from his father after 47 years of marriage.

6:00 AM  The Beverly Hillbillies The Week Before Christmas

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.

10:30 PM  The Bob Newhart Show Making Up is the Thing to Do: Part 2

Bob takes on the role of Christmas peacemaker when he attempts to reconcile his parents.

2:00 AM  Car 54, Where Are You?Christmas at the 53rd

The boys from the 53rd put on a Christmas review.

3:00 AM  Dobie Gillis Jangle Bells

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.

3:30 AM  Dobie Gillis Will the Real Santa Please Come Down the Chimney?

When Maynard announces that he still believes in Santa Claus, the Gilleses decide to cure him of his fantasy.

12:30 PM  The Brady Bunch The Voice of Christmas

Just in time for the holidays, Carol develops laryngitis and may not be able to sing at Christmas services.

3:00 PM  Me-TV Holiday Special - The First Snow of Winter

The winter adventures of an errant young Irish duck who loses track of his family on their annual southbound flight.

3:30 PM  Me-TV Holiday Special - The Forgotten Toys

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.

4:00 PM  Me-TV Holiday Special - He-Man and She-Ra: A Christmas Special

He-Man and She-Ra join together to stop Horde Prime from ruining Christmas for some Earth children stranded on Eternia.

5:00 PM  Me-TV Holiday Special - A Snow White Christmas

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?

6:00 PM  Me-TV Holiday Special - Cricket on the Hearth

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.

6:00 AM  The Beverly Hillbillies Home for Christmas

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.

8:00 AM  That Girl Christmas and the Hard Luck Kid

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.

7:00 PM  M*A*S*H Dear Sis

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.

7:30 PM  M*A*S*H Dear Dad

Hawkeye writes his dad, describing Christmas in Korea.

8:00 PM  Taxi A Full House for Christmas

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.

8:30 PM  The Brady Bunch The Voice of Christmas

Just in time for the holidays, Carol develops laryngitis and may not be able to sing at Christmas services.

9:00 PM  The Mary Tyler Moore ShowChristmas and the Hard Luck Kid

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.

10:00 PM  Cheers Love Me, Love My Car

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.

10:30 PM  The Bob Newhart Show His Busiest Season

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.

11:00 PM  The Twilight ZoneThe Changing of the Guard

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.

12:30 AM  The Loretta Young Show Thanksgiving at Beaver Run

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.

1:00 AM  The Loretta Young Show The Night That Dad Came Home

A five-year-old boy writes to Santa asking for his father to come home for Christmas as a surprise for his mother.

1:30 AM  The Loretta Young Show Time and Yuletide

The head of the county rest home decides that Christmas isn't just for the kids; it's for the seniors as well.

2:00 AM  The Loretta Young Show Three Minutes Too Late

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.

2:30 AM  The Loretta Young Show Christmas Stopover

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.

3:00 AM  The Loretta Young Show Sister Anne's Christmas

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.

3:30 AM  M*A*S*H Dear Sis

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.

4:00 AM  M*A*S*H Dear Dad

Hawkeye writes his dad, describing Christmas in Korea.

4:30 AM  The Beverly Hillbillies Christmas in Hooterville

The Clampetts return to Hooterville to celebrate Christmas.

5:00 AM  The Honeymooners Expectant Father

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.

6:00 AM  The Beverly Hillbillies No Place Like Home

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.

6:30 AM  Petticoat Junction Santa Claus Special

Scrooge, in the name of Homer Bedloe, derails Kate's attempt to use the Cannonball for Christmas caroling and gift giving.

7:30 AM  The Donna Reed Show A Very Merry Christmas

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.

8:00 AM  That Girl Twas the Night Before Christmas, You're Under Arrest

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.

9:00 AM  Daniel Boone The Christmas Story

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.

3:00 PM  Big ValleyJudgement in Heaven

Jarrod arranges for the girlfriend of a murderous outlaw to be released from jail so she can spend Christmas with the Barkley family.

7:00 PM  M*A*S*H Death Takes a Holiday

Christmas Day at the 4077th finds the surgeons struggling to keep a mortally wounded soldier alive, even if it's only through the holiday.

7:30 PM  M*A*S*H Twas the Day After Christmas

To boost post-yuletide morale on Dec 26, Potter has the officers and enlisted men change places for the day.

8:00 PM  The Beverly Hillbillies The Christmas Present

In order to buy Mrs. Drysdale a special Christmas present, the Clampetts take seasonal jobs in a department store.

8:30 PM  The Beverly Hillbillies Christmas in Hooterville

The Clampetts return to Hooterville to celebrate Christmas.

9:00 PM  The Mary Tyler Moore Show Not a Christmas Story

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.

9:30 PM  The Dick Van Dyke Show The Alan Brady Show Presents

The staff has to plan a Christmas show.

10:00 PM  Cheers Christmas Cheers

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.

10:30 PM  The Bob Newhart Show I'm Dreaming of a Slight Christmas

Christmas Eve is almost spoiled when Bob is trapped in the office because of a power failure.

11:00 PM  The Twilight Zone Night of the Meek

A down-on-his-luck department store Santa Claus discovers a bottomless sack of toys.

8:00 AM  That Girl Should All Our Old Acquaitance Be Forgot

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.

7:00 PM  M*A*S*H A War for All Seasons

On New Years Eve, the staff looks back on the highlights of 1961.

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