The ‘I Love Lucy Christmas Special’ was known for decades as one of the lost episodes.
It only aired once during the original run of the series, and was never re-broadcast.
“The Christmas Episode” was first broadcast on CBS on Christmas Eve, 1956. The episode was not included in the series’ long history of rebroadcasts, first on CBS Daytime and later in syndication. Long thought to be lost, the program was rediscovered by CBS in 1989.
The classic shows of the past produced some of the greatest Holiday TV Specials.
Here are 10 Christmas Episodes Of Our Favorite TV Shows:
10. ALF (ALF’s Christmas Special)
The Tanners decide to spend Christmas in a cabin in the woods but ALF soon gets lost.
9. Night Court (Santa on the Lam)
Mr. Billachi, an elderly former department store Santa, is brought into court for attacking the robot that replaced him. Disheartened by the commercialism of Christmas, he announces his intention to commit suicide, and Dan is the unlikely person who has to convince him that Christmas is still a time of giving and goodwill.
8. Magnum PI. (Operation Silent Night)
It’s Christmas time and TC is flying Magnum (dressed as Santa Claus), Rick and Higgins to three different islands. En route, TC is forced to make an emergency landing on an island that the Navy uses for gunnery practice.
7. The Dukes Of Hazzard (The Great Santa Clause Chase)
Boss hires a trio of criminals to hijack a load of Christmas trees bound for Hazzard, knowing that Bo and Luke were responsible for the deliveries and receipt of a $500 down payment. With the community convinced that the Dukes had stolen the funds, the crooks each dress as Santa Claus and break into Boss’ safe to retrieve the stolen money.
Bo, Luke and Cooter eventually team to give Boss and the bad guys a lesson in confusion. In the end, Boss – who has played the part of Scrooge throughout the episode – gets a lesson in the meaning of the season.
6. Cheers (Christmas Cheers)
It’s the Christmas season. Frasier is in a anti-Christmas bah-humbug mood much to Lilith’s chagrin. Norm has a part-time job he fails to mention. And Cliff is collecting food for the needy all in an effort to win a trip to Disney World.
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5. Laverne & Shirley (Oh Hear the Angels’ Voices)
Carmine talks the girls into singing at a Christmas show.
4. Happy Days (Christmas Time)
A cold, snowy Wisconson Christmas finds Howard Cunningham trying to convince his family to put up a new-fangled, artificial tree, and a mysterious sailor delivers a gift from Fonzie’s father, forcing the Fonz to deal with his long-suppressed feelings of abandonment.
3. M*A*S*H (Death Takes A Holiday)
While local orphans attend a Christmas party in the mess tent, Hawkeye, B.J., and Margaret try to save the life of a critically injured solider so that his family won’t think of Christmas as the day that their father died.
2. All In The Family (Christmas Day at the Bunkers’)
Archie is depressed at Christmas because his boss canceled his holiday bonus (purportedly for screwing up a work order) and he doesn’t know how to break the news to his family.
1. I Love Lucy (I Love Lucy Christmas Special)
The Christmas Episode” finds the Ricardos and Mertzes decorating Lucy and Ricky’s Christmas tree and reminiscing about how their lives have changed since the arrival of the Ricardos’ son, Little Ricky.
Flashbacks recall the night Lucy told Ricky she was pregnant, the time Lucy showed up unexpectedly as part of a barbershop quartet and the day Ricky and the Mertzes rehearsed taking Lucy to the maternity ward.
