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Hi, Santa. In this case, James Dunn impersonates the old gentleman in NBC’s ‘There Is a Santa Claus.’
Snooky Lanson, Russell Arms and the other Hit Paraders will once more go out “on location” to New York’s Rockefeller Center ice rink for a round of carols.
Christmas Eve on CBS will see the Dorsey Brothers’ Stage Show salute the holiday, with Raymond Massey offering a special Christmas reading. Jackie Gleason and his Honeymooners are injecting the Christmas spirit into their show by having Ralph Kramden (Gleason) enthusiastic about the gift he has bought for his everlovin’ Alice (Audrey Meadows), only to discover that it won’t receive the response he anticipated.
On CBS’ Two for the Money, Herb Shriner and his harmonica band will play Christmas carols. ABC’s Ozark Jubilee has scheduled a Christmas show, and Alice Lon and the choral group will sing traditional hymns and carols on The Lawrence Welk Show.
On a deeper religious note, CBS plans an hour-long pickup of services from the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., starting at 11:30 P.M. (EST). This is to be followed by 15 minutes of choral singing by the Bell Telephone Chorus, a pickup of the traditional candlelight procession from
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Boys Town, Neb. and the annual Boys Town mass. NBC is expected to televise services from St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York.
As for Christmas Day, TV will devote it almost exclusively to special programming. Even CBS’ Adventure will salute the day by trying to strike oil on its oil well, Adventure No. 1, which was introduced on the show about two months ago. Dr. Benjamin Spock’s program on NBC will feature a choir and narration of the Christmas story. NBC will also present a film of the Nativity, “No Room at the Inn.” CBS will dramatize the visit of the Wise Men on Lamp Unto My Feet.
‘‘Amahl and the Night Visitors,” the Gian-Carlo Menotti opera that has become a TV Christmas classic, will be the Alcoa Hour presentation Christmas Night. It’s a Great Life will repeat its Christmas show of last year, titled “There Is a Santa Claus,” in which a small boy’s faith in Santa is restored and three skeptics (Michael O’Shea, James Dunn and -William Bishop) see something to astonish them. Frontier celebrates Christmas with “The Long Road to Tucson,” about a group of nuns from San Diego, who set out in a covered wagon to open a hospital in Tucson, and arrive there on Christmas Day after many trials and hardships. ABC’s Famous Film Festival will present the first of two parts of the British ballet movie, “Red Shoes.” |
@n Christmas Night G.E. Theater will stage a musical version of Stephen Vincent Benet’s “A Child Is Born.” The Loretta Young Show, too, will pay tribute to the season with an original drama titled “Christmas Stopover.” Miss Young, returning to the program after a serious illness, plays a countergirl at a railroad station coffee shop, who has her faith in the Christmas spirit restored.
All these shows climax the TV Christmas season that began, in some