“Year Without a Santa Claus – One of my favorites because of the Characters. Shirley Booth (aka ‘Hazel’) was the voice of Mother Nature. It featured the Heat Miser and Snow Miser: I could never get those songs out of my head…”I’m Mister Heat Miser, I’m mister one hundred and one…”

Of Course the original animated “How the Grinch Stole Christmas“,  Rudolph, the Red Nosed Reindeer, and  A Charlie Brown Christmas, are still being enjoyed by new generations. These are classics that should not be tampered with (in other words, don’t try to make live-action movie versions of them… whoops, too late on the Grinch!).

“Frosty The Snowman” but not “Frosty Returns” which was made recently with different voices.

“The Little Drummer Boy” – this was shown for years until sometime in the mid-1980’s. That was when most religious Christmas specials seemed to disappear. . It had the same animation style (a combination of marionette work, traditional puppetry, and stop-motion filming.) I got teary eyed when the little lamb was run over by the chariot in this one.