Christmas TV Memories: Nostalgic Holiday Favorites of the Small Screen

For most of us, fond memories of the Christmas season are inseparable from TV’s holiday presentations. The world loves everything from iconic cartoons like How the Grinch Stole Christmas and A Charlie Brown Christmas to the ground-breaking Julia sitcom segment, ＂I’m Dreaming of a Black Christmas,＂ Christmas in Rockefeller Center, and the 1992 TV-remake of Christmas in Connecticut directed by Arnold Schwarzenegger. Christmas TV Memories: Nostalgic Holiday Favorites of the Small Screen embraces it all, offering a tinsel-decked traipse down memory lane and chronicling animated classics, variety shows, made-for-TV features, and holiday-specific episodes of series like The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. With a Foreword by best-selling Free to Be You and Me author and That Girl star Marlo Thomas, along with commentary from other celebrities, historical quotes, and insights from entertainment journalists and archivists, Christmas TV Memories serves as the go-to companion to the small screen’s most cherished holiday programs.

Herbie Pilato has served as executive producer, director, and writer on the TV documentary Elizabeth Montgomery: Bewitched and Beloved for the Reelz Channel, as a consultant and audio commentator for the Saturn-Award-nominated Blu-ray release of The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman, and as a consultant and on-screen commentator for CNN’s hit eight-part series, History of the Sitcom. His books include Twitch upon a Star: The Bewitched Life and Career of Elizabeth Montgomery, Mary: The Mary Tyler Moore Story, and Retro Active Television: An In-Depth Perspective on Classic TV’s Social Circuitry.