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Christmas-Themed Movies & TV
 | "Tis The Season: The Holidays On Screen" 90-minute TV special [CNN-TV Nov 2022]
Explores holiday films and television specials from the early 1900s to the present, including comedy and drama, seasonal film classics, iconic TV episodes, family favorites - the sincere, the irreverent, and the many adaptations of "A Christmas Carol" Commentary by exec producer Tom Hanks, Chris Connelly, Aisha Harris, Phil Rosenthal, Sara Sidner, Renee Graham, Alonso Duralde, director Ron Howard, Rami Malek, David E. Talbert, Este Haim, Jacqueline Coley, Lorraine Ali, Clea DuVall, Ann Hornaday, critic Kenneth Turan, John Heilemann, Jon Favreau, Jen Chaney, Ben Mankiewicz, Tim Naftali, Shane Black, Pete Hammond, Kate Hearst, Dana Stevens, Vince Gilligan, Emily St. James, Abby Phillip, Hanif Abdurraqib, Dana Bash, filmmaker Ken Burns, Claudia Puig, Rick Cleveland, filmmaker Tim Burton, David Bianculli, William Kristol, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Sanjay Gupta, with archive footage of: James Stewart, Danny Elfman, Catherine O'Hara full credits at IMDb DVD/Blu-ray not available Amazon Instant Video [11/2022] SD purchase $1.99, HD purchase $2.99 |
Selected Sesame Street + Muppets Christmas Films & Television
the 1970s { just below } + the 1980s + the 1990s + the 2000s
"Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas" TV special [HBO-TV Dec 1977] /tt0075988/
"Christmas Eve On Sesame Street" TV Movie [CTW/PBS Dec 1978]
"A Special Sesame Street Christmas" TV movie (1978) /tt0329634/
"John Denver and The Muppets: A Christmas Together" (1979) /tt0194989/
"Rocky Mountain Holiday with John Denver and The Muppets" [May 1983] /tt0395739/
"The Christmas Toy" (1986) /tt0099263/
"A Muppet Family Christmas" TV movie [Children's Television Workshop/ABC-TV Dec 1987] /tt0251282/
"The Muppet Christmas Carol" [1992] /tt0104940/
"Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree" TV movie (1995) Robert Downey, Jr., Stockard Channing /tt0124013/
"Elmo Saves Christmas" video [1996], which came out on video that same year /tt0116189/
"It's A Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie" (2002) /tt0329737/
"A Sesame Street Christmas Carol" video (2006) Caroll Spinney, Joey Mazzarino
"A Muppet Christmas: Letters To Santa" (2008) /tt1292569/
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on Page 1: top of page brief essay selected works about Christmas movies & TV movie & TV DVD collections selected films & TV a few classics Silent Era Christmas movies other media music of the season image gallery links
on Pages 2 & 3: top of Page 2 other movies & TV: A thru F + G thru M + N thru S + T thru Z
on Page 4: Hallmark Channel Christmas Movies
on Page 5: TV Series holiday episodes
here on Page 10: Sesame Street + Muppets Holiday Specials Visiting this webpage from outside the U.S.A.? It is possible to make purchases from these coded Amazon (USA) links Online sales in association with top of this page back to Magic Lantern homepage
Sesame Street + Muppets Christmas Movie Collections
Wikipedia's list of Christmas films, 1898-2024
IMDb's Holiday Romance subgenre: 285 movies, only 2 tv specials
search DVDs on keyword 'Lifetime Christmas movies' {returns 270+ items} at Amazon
Emmet Otter and his Ma are dirt-poor, but very happy and good singers; but as Christmas is around the corner, both of them want to get something special for the other - and the talent show prize is $50!
Produced & directed by Jim Henson; songs by Paul Williams; voices of Jerry Nelson, Frank Oz, Marilyn Sokol, Dave Goelz, Jim Henson, Richard Hunt, Eren Ozker
full credits at IMDb
movie entry at Wikipedia
Sony Pictures Home Ent. 40th Anniv Edition color DVD [10/2017] for $8.44
Lyons/HiT Ent. Collector's Edition color DVD [10/2005] for $9.96
Sony Pictures Home Ent. color DVD [11/2001] for $16.17
Lyons/HiT Ent. Collector's Edition color DVD [10/2005] for $18.72
LionsGate color DVD [2009] for $12.95
Columbia/Tristar Studios color VHS [10/1999] out of prodn/used
watch "The One Bathing Suit" song [12/2011 upload; 1:53] online at YouTube
watch "Ma Otter Sings At The Talent Contest" clip [12/2024 upload; 5:34] online at YouTube
watch "Barbecue" song [12/2010 upload; 1:48] online at YouTube
watch "Brothers" song [12/2011 upload; 1:51] online at YouTube
watch "Brothers + Our World" song [Xmas 2020 upload; 3:42] online at YouTube
watch "Ain't No Hole In The Washtub" song [12/2010 upload; 2:27] online at YouTube
watch "Riverbottom Nightmare Band" song [9/2013 upload; 3:28] online at YouTube
"Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas" soundtrack album [1977]
Music.Film Records soundtrack CD [1/2022] 16 tracks for $13.78
26-minute MP-3 soundtrack album download [11/2018] 16 tracks for $9.49
songs by Paul Williams: "The Bathing Suit That Grandma Wore"; "Jam Session"; "Ain't No Hole In The Washtub"; "When The River Meets The Sea"; "Bar-B-Que (Jug Band)"; "Carrots The Dancing Horse"; "Bar-B-Que (Yancy Woodchuck)"; "Dancing Rabbit Act"; "Squirrel Acrobatic Act"; "Our World"; "Brothers"; "Riverbottom Nightmare Band"; "Our World + Brothers"; "Our World + Brothers Club Reprise"; "When The River Meets The Sea Reprise"; "Born In A Trunk"
"Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas" [1971]
Story by Russell Hoban, pictures by Lillian Hoban
Children's book first published in 1971
Kindle Edition from Doubleday BFYR [10/2017] for $4.99
Doubleday BFYR 9¼x7 hardcover [10/2017] for $11.95
Caroll Spinney, Big Bird, Jim Henson, Frank Oz /tt0331217/
Leslie Uggams, Ethel Merman, Michael Jackson, Caroll Spinney
with John Denver and The Muppets on Vintage Disney Parks Channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXiS2ydYnB8 58:48
http://www.amazon.com/John-Denver-Muppets-Mountain-Holiday/dp/B0000A2ZU9/
http://www.amazon.com/Jim-Henson-Muppets-Christmas-Toy/dp/0767815971/
Frank Oz, Dave Goelz, Jim Henson
http://www.amazon.com/Muppet-Family-Christmas-Jim-Henson/dp/B00005OSJR/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi9qSKZuvC4
http://www.amazon.com/Muppet-Christmas-Carol-Kermits-Anniversary/dp/B000ATQYT2/
"The Muppets Christmas Carol: Ghosts of Christmas Past" soundtrack album [2022]
Disney Records red vinyl soundtrack album [12/2021] 13 tracks for $40.29
Disney Records blue vinyl soundtrack album [12/2022] 13 tracks for $73.97 {sic}
music by Miles Goodman & Paul Williams, cover art by Kevin Wilson
Charles Durning, Harvey Fierstein, Kevin Clash
http://www.amazon.com/Very-Merry-Muppet-Christmas-Movie/dp/B0000AM6HZ/
http://www.amazon.com/Very-Merry-Muppet-Christmas-Movie/dp/B003XURDCC/
http://www.amazon.com/Muppets-Christmas-Letters-Whoopi-Goldberg/dp/B002DLB15W/
"Keep Christmas With You" [Deseret Books/Excel Ent./PBS-TV Oct 2015]
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra, the Sesame Street Muppets,
and guest vocalist Santino Fontana
full credits at IMDb
Mormon Tabernacle widescreen color DVD [10/2015] for $11.98
search DVDs on keyword 'Lifetime Christmas movie' {returns 1,000+ items} at Amazon
on Page 6: Lifetime Channel Christmas Movies
on Page 7: Merchandise, Other Media, Music
on Page 8: Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends Christmas Episodes
on Page 9: Rankin/Bass Holiday Specials
top of page brief history works about Sesame Street + Muppets Sesame Street + Muppets Christmas movie DVD collections
other media image gallery links individual Sesame Street + Muppets holiday movies
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