This one was really a toss-up for me between the Grinch and Charlie Brown. I also miss (because it hasn't been on the last few years) THe Muppet Family Christmas.

FOr movies the original Miracle on 34th Street, and of course It's a Wonderful Life (although that really isn't about Christmas, it just climaxes at Christmas).

The old "Little Drummer Boy" with the puppets is always a treat...but now that I'm older my must-watch is "It's a Wonderful Life." It's still the best Christmas movie ever.

Mr. Admin, you know its alright to put Christmas instead of holidays.

There should be a none-of-the-above option. I would sooner watch Lawerence Welk than any of these.

Gordo, I completely agree with the Muppet Family Christmas - one of my all time favourites! "Mind the icy patch!" Classic.

I caught the original Frosty the Snowman on tv last week, and forgot how much I enjoyed it. But the Charlie Brown Christmas special will always hold a special place in my Christmas traditions.

Muppet Family Christmas is great, when I can find it on the tube...

I watch 'Santa Claus is Coming to Town' (classic claymation) with my kids every year, and each year they find something new as to 'how' or 'why' the traditions have played out the way that they have...some of the music is kinda cheesy, but its a lot of fun...

Don't watch much TV these days. I always *intend* on sitting down to see my Christmas favourites, but then I would have to look up the schedule...

If I can find them I watch the original Scrooge, Wonderful life, Miracle on 34. I used to like watching the original Grinch too. That one is on often enough that it is hard to miss.

"Little Cindy-Loo Who who was no more than 2."

I like to watch the Grinch and the "Miracle On 24th street."

Charlie Brown is boring... and yeah I have to admitt depressing at times, especially at Christmas.

I really like The Grinch, but the one I HAVE to see is "The Year Without A Santa Claus". I just love the Heat Miser / Snow Miser! Always being cold myself, I can relate.

"Miracle on 34th Street" is also a favourite, though I have to be in the mood for it. While it's not strictly speaking a "holiday movie", my mother, daughter and I always watch "The Sound of Music" around this time of year, too.

Of the three i would watch Charlie Brown. I'm sure there will be something better to watch, but at least old Charlie is trying to be a good person.

Phoned my brother to-night, to remind him the Grinch was on. He's in Alberta now, and I am in Ontario, and we are much, much older, but, I still remember being the little girl, whose big brother, 8 years older, would sit & watch the grinch every year with her.

Tonight, i giggled with my youngest, as we watched Creature Comforts on CBC, pvr being exercised to play back, and show the things that one caught but the other didn't. someday, he may too remember the days, of sitting cuddling, watching new specials, and getting reacquainted with the classics. giggling, and just "being".

May everyone find the time to be with family this year, whether it be birth, chosen and/or church family, I hope you find time to giggle and laugh, and just relish anothers company.

I like to watch the Grinch because I love the look of wonder that comes on his face when he realizes that Christmas can not be bought. Also, the "look" that Jim Carrey gave Cindy-Loo Who (in the movie version of The Grinch) when she was sitting on the top of the sled, was enough to make anyone's heart melt. I know that I was sitting there in a puddle while watching it.

Believe it or not I think the Polar Express is becoming a modern Classic.
Imagative, sweet and a nice message without being too preachy

The kids are saying Rudolph, and i have to say it was tough for me to pick - but certainly the Grinch is the big one for me!

And where is Muppet Family Christmas? That is a wonderful, hilarious show - the Muppet Chrismtas Carol is good too, but enough of Scrooge already!
I'm not a fan of the Christmas/Charlie Brown show- (the jazz is irritating!!) but the story is good.

We like "Santa Claus is coming to town" with the Burgermeister too!

If I observe my behaviour over the years, it is hands-down Charlie Brown for me. Lately, I try to watch it every year. I still get weepy when Linus says the Biblical message so simply, so beautifully. And it's just funny, quirky, and enjoyable, every single year.

Plus, it brings back so many memories from childhood. Where I grew up, they always advertised "Dolly Madison Cup Cakes" when it was televised. I dont even know if Dolly Madison Cupcakes EXIST anymore! But I even yearn to see those commercials again.Besides the Charlie Brown Christmas Special and the Charlie Brown Halloween Special, the only other major TV event of my childhood was the yearly showing of The Wizard of Oz. We would wait for weeks in anticipation of those shows. The Charlie Brown Christmas Special was an integral part of my Christmas, and the message is right on target. I'm amazed the advertisers allowed such an anti-Madison Avenue message!

How times have changed. Now you can rent any one of these any time of year, and my nieces and nephew always get to watch their favourite videos over and over again. Sometimes, I long for the relative simplicity of those days when you actually had to WAIT for something good - you couldn't get it on demand.

In any case, the Grinch is great, but the quirky, choppy, happy simplicity of The Charlie Brown Christmas Special still speaks to me 40 years after I began watching it.

My absolute favourite Christmas show is The Muppet Christmas Carol. I watch it at least half a dozen times before Christmas. (I have it on video and on DVD) I sing along with all the songs, especially... "It's in the singing of a street corner choir, it's going home and getting warm by the fire, in all the places you find love, it feels like Christmas..."

After that, it's definitely the Grinch. But not the new live action one... the original Seuss/Jones masterpiece. Hey if the Grinch can grow his heart 3 sizes, there's hope for all.

My all time favourite is Charlie Brown. I have always felt an attachment to the character in his quest for the true meaning of Christmas. The innocence of the Charlie Brown gang is something that reminds me of a childhood long past.

I love the original "Grinch" and my kids always loved me to read the book as well. There's something about Zuess's english that always made them laugh but the music in Charlie Brown brings with it a peaceful feeling. Miricle on 34th is good as far as classics go but one of the newer movies that has become a favorite is the Santa Clause with Tim Allen.

My favourite is 1980's movie called "The Christmas Story" where the hero of the story wants (I think his name is Ralphie??) is a Red Ryder BB gun. Any grownup he tells this to says that "he will just shoot himself in the eye". It is set in the 1950's and reminds me of growing up during that time and my childhood Xmas's.

Charlie Brown had the BEST xmas special. There's a church in my neighbourhood sending around an Xmas flyer headed by a line from that special: "Isn't there anybody who knows what Christmas is all about?"

Intuit, I have to agree with you about Heat Miser / Cold Miser. Did anyone catch the "live action" version of a Year Without Santa Claus. It was wierd at first but I eventually got into it. As for those three particular specials, I love them all - I own them all. And each has a strong Christian message. Our youth group has been exploring them along with the first Simpson's Christmas Special to look at where is the good news revealed in media at Christmas.
Peace!

I think Charley Brown is ok but I think the grinch is better!

Beware, satan claws teachs our children it is ok to lie.
It is better to teach the truth than to even touch a myth or a lie.

Well I would have to say The Little Drummer Boy is my favourite, then Wonderful Life, Dr. Suess' the Grinch, and then Cosmic Christmas (if any one remembers that one ) i think it was done in the seventies.

I agree with ABC - why not call it what it is - CHRISTMAS specials?

none of these - better to watch bill murrays scrooge

hhmmm.. well i choose Rudolph because it always brings my family together on christmas. It's always been are family favourite for christmas specials. I remeber when i was little and i first watched it with my brother and from then on we invited the whole family over to celbrate christmas and we watched it together.

I have always enjoyed Charlie Brown's Christmas Especially Linus' recitation at the concert. Whenever I am called to remember the Christmas story, it is Linus who is saying it. I also love "It's a Wonderful Life" 17 years ago I had my ankle fused in November, and must have watched ITWL 15 times, and didn't get tired of it. Public Broadcasting from the states also plays a Peter Paul and Mary concert around this time of year which is really good. And, what holiday season is complete without the Sound of Music.

Well I think that Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" is pretty hard to beat. Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life" ranks right up there to. I find most of the animated stuff kind of saccarine so if I'm going to watch one of those it better be "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas"

I absolutely have to watch A Christmas Story. I laugh every year. My family and I all sit and giggle in a pyjamas usually. There is clean humour for every age!