Five Christmas Specials on YouTube

I found five fantastic Christmas Specials which are on YouTube in their entirety; I really enjoyed them so I decided to share them with you.    You’ll find links to the YouTube videos below.

The Andy Griffith Show – “A Christmas Story”

It’s Christmas time and the town of Mayberry has its own version of Ebenezer Scrooge in the form of department store owner Ben Weaver. When Ben catches Sam Muggins with moonshine on Christmas Eve, he insists that Andy arrest him and threatens to report him if Sam is released for the holidays.

Since Sam can’t go home for Christmas, and Barney will have to stay at the jailhouse if there’s a prisoner and miss the festivities at Andy’s house, they decide to bring Christmas to the jail. Andy arrests Sam’s wife and children as “accessories before, during, and after the fact”, and deputizes Ellie, Opie, and Aunt Bee to help watch the prisoners.

Everyone is having a great time at the jailhouse, trimming the tree, singing carols, eating turkey, and drinking eggnog. However, Ben–who keeps spying on them through the windows of the jailhouse–feels miserable that he’s missing out on all the Holiday fun. He tries to get himself arrested several times so that he can join in the festivities, but is unsuccessful due to Ellie’s misdirected kindnesss.

Andy finally catches on to what Ben is trying to do and he arrests him. Ben enters the jailhouse with Andy, carrying a big suitcase filed with gifts from his department store for everyone.

• A Christmas Story (Part 1)
• A Christmas Story (Part 2)
• A Christmas Story (Part 3)

A Flintstone Christmas

The story begins the day before Christmas Eve. Wilma and Betty ask Fred to play Santa for the Women’s Auxiliary Christmas party, but he refuses. However, the very next day Fred’s boss–Mr. Slate–calls Fred into his office and asks for the very same thing, adding that Slate’s wife thought that Fred would make a great Santa. Thinking that his job is on the line, Fred agrees.

However, on Christmas Eve before Fred and Barney are able to get to the party, the real Santa trips and falls off Fred’s roof, twisting his ankle. Unable to walk, Santa convinces Fred and Barney to make his deliveries for him. Fred, dressed in Santa’s suit, and Barney, dressed as an elf, climb on Santa’s sleigh and begin delivering presents to children all around the world.

After losing some of the presents in a storm, the boys are forced to go to the North Pole to pick up a new load from Santa’s workshop — making Fred late for his appearance at the Christmas party and putting his job on the line.

They finally arrive at the party, to the delight of the children who have been anxiously waiting for Santa. However, when Fred reaches into the toy bag to hand out gifts, he realizes that it’s empty. Fred uses a little Christmas magic to supply the children with gifts.

It’s an hour-long special, so it’s divided up into six different videos:

• A Flintstone Christmas – Part 1
• A Flintstone Christmas – Part 2
• A Flintstone Christmas – Part 3
• A Flintstone Christmas – Part 4
• A Flintstone Christmas – Part 5
• A Flintstone Christmas – Part 6

Mork and Mindy – Mork’s First Christmas

Mork is unprepared for Earth’s Christmas and thinks that a mind-altering plague has infected everyone. When Mindy explains that Christmas is “a time for caring and sharing, when you open your heart to your fellow man”, Mork decides to spread the spirit of Christmas by inviting the obnoxious Susan Taylor to spend Christmas with the McConnell’s.

Mork doesn’t have any money to buy presents, so he makes unique and highly unusual gifts to hand out Christmas morning.

• Mork and Mindy – Mork’s First Christmas (Part 1)
• Mork and Mindy – Mork’s First Christmas (Part 2)
• Mork and Mindy – Mork’s First Christmas (Part 3)

A Charlie Brown Christmas

“A Charlie Brown Christmas” is a holiday classic that has aired every year since its debut in 1965. Cartoonist Charles M. Schulz–creator of “the Peanuts”–wanted his Christmas special to have the religious meaning that was central to his own experience of Christmas. He also wanted it to include snowy scenes that recalled his native Midwest.

The premise is simple: Charlie Brown complains to Lucy about the overwhelming materialism that he sees everywhere during the Christmas season, and how the holiday has become completely commercial. Lucy suggests that he can get into the holiday spirit by directing the school Christmas pageant, and Charlie Brown accepts.

The pageant turns out to be a frustrating struggle. Charlie Brown attempts to restore the proper spirit with a forlorn little fir Christmas tree, but he just seems to make thing worse. Luckily, Linus explains what the real meaning of Christmas is and the joy of the season is restored.

• A Charlie Brown Christmas (Part 1)
• A Charlie Brown Christmas (Part 2)
• A Charlie Brown Christmas (Part 3)

The Honeymooners – ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas

Ralph spends the money he was saving to buy Alice a Christmas gift on a bowling ball for himself.  He still has some money left over, however, and he gets her a little box to store her hair pins.  The salesman led him to believe that the box had been smuggled out of the palace of the Emperor of Japan.

When a neighbor drops by and gives Alice the very same box, Ralph knows he has to get Alice something else.  He goes out and hocks his beloved bowling ball so that he can get Alice a nice gift for Christmas.

• The Honeymooners – ’twas the Night Before Christmas (Part 1)
• The Honeymooners – ’twas the Night Before Christmas (Part 2)
• The Honeymooners – ’twas the Night Before Christmas (Part 3)

This is the last post that I’ll be publishing before Christmas–I plan to publish my next post after Christmas but before New Year’s Day–so I wanted to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas!

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