This Year's Holiday TV Guide


Nov. 30, 1999, midnight | By Emma Norvell | 25 years ago


There are hundreds of Christmas specials on TV from now until New Years. Here are just a handful of them.

Saturday December 13:

SHOW SPECIALS
1:00 on MTV Osbourne family Christmas
The Osbournes at Christmas Time
4:00 on A&E Holidays at the White House
First Lady Laura Bush discusses the holiday decorations and festivities at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. as she leads a tour of the bedecked White House.
8:00 on WB Soul Train Christmas Starfest

MOVIES ON TV
1:00 on WTTG A Very Brady Christmas
The Brady family, together again on Christmas
4:00 on WB Scrooge
A 1951 movie version of Dicken's classic book.
6:00 on TNT Jack Frost
Michael Keaton dies and his spirit gets trapped in his son's snowman.
9:00 on WJDLT Wonderful World of Disney
Jonathan Taylor Thomas stars as a conniving college student who races cross-country to be home for the holidays after his dad promises him a Porsche.

Sunday December 14:

SHOW SPECIALS
9:30 on TCM MGM Parade
Hosted by George Murphy, this show features clips from classic movies and actors.
10:00 on MPT Classic Christmas from the Ed Sullivan Show
Highlights from Christmas episodes of the Ed Sullivan Show.
10:00 on A&E Live by Request
Barry Manilow joined by Cyndi Lauper take requests for Christmas songs via internet and phone.
12:00 on BRAVO Christmas in Rockefellar Center
The Al Roker and Ann Curry host the 71st lighting of the famous Christmas tree hosted by Al Roker and Ann Curry. The show includes special performamces including Ashanti, Enrique Iglesias, Kelly Clarkson, and Ruben Studdard.
1:00 on COM Saturday Night Live Merrython
Back to back Christmas specials of Saturday Night Live
6:00 on MTV Osbourne family Christmas
The Osbournes at Christmas Time

MOVIES ON TV
1:45 on TNT Jack Frost
Michael Keaton dies and his spirit gets trapped in his son's snowman.
2:00 on TCM A Christmas Carol
A movie version of Charles Dicken's classic book.
3:00 on Life Comfort and Joy
A single career focused woman who lives for her work gets into a car accident on Christmas Eve. When she wakes up she finds she has been transformed into a housewife raising two children with a loving husband.
3:45 on TNT Call Me Clause
Whoopi Goldberg is tapped as Santa's replacement
4:00 on WHUT Celebration: The Howard University Choir
Holiday Music.
4:00 on MPT Lawrence Welk Family Christmas
Holiday music
5:00 HGTV White House Christmas 2003
Hosted by Joan Steffend
8:00 on TNT Christmas in Washington
Annual Holiday Concert
9:00 on TNT A Christmas Carol
Patrick Stewart in the 1999 cable update of the holiday classic.



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