everything always all the time

#12DaysOfChristmasSpecials - The I Love Lucy Christmas Show (Original Airdate: 12/24/1956, CBS) - The Ricardos & the Mertzes reminisce at Christmastime in this clip show. Also known as "the lost episode" as it wasn't included in syndicated re-airings and wasn't broadcast again until over 30 years later, it has been colorized and repackaged as The I Love Lucy Christmas Special and aired on CBS each year. - 🎁 #TheILoveLucyChristmasShow #TheILoveLucyChristmasSpecial #ILoveLucy #LucilleBall #DesiArnaz #VivianVance #WilliamFrawley #ChristmasEpisode #ChristmasSpecial 🎄

#12DaysOfChristmasSpecials - SmokyMountainChristmas (Original Airdate: 12/14/1986, ABC) - Music superstar Lorna Davis (Dolly Parton) discovers 7 orphans squatting in her cabin after she slips away to the Smoky Mountains for a quiet Christmas, so she makes a deal with them to keep each other hidden through the holidays. But uh oh, soon they attract the attention of a crazy mountain witch, the lecherous sheriff, a bumbling paparazzo, and Lee Majors as the mysterious Mountain Dan. Directed by Henry Winkler! - 🏔 #SmokyMountainChristmas #DollyParton #LeeMajors #DanHedaya #HenryWinkler #ChristmasMovie 🎄

#12DaysOfChristmasSpecials - A Family Circus Christmas (Original Airdate: 12/18/1979, NBC) - Jeffy has everyone worried when he asks Santa to bring his Grandfather back from Heaven, but thankfully he has a great imagination or maybe can see ghosts or possibly is schizophrenic because it turns out to not be a big deal after all and everyone has a great Christmas! (Except for maybe PJ, cuz just look at the picture! 😧) Theme song "The Dreamer" by Sarah Vaughn. - 🌟 #AFamilyCircusChristmas #AFamilyCircus #BilKeane #SarahVaughn #ChristmasSpecial 🎄

#12DaysOfChristmasSpecials - The Gathering (Original Airdate: 12/04/1977, ABC) - A man estranged from his family learns he has months to live and enlists the aid of the wife he left to gather their four grown children for one last Christmas together. - 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 #TheGathering #EdAsner #MaureenStapleton #ChristmasMovie 🎄

#12DaysOfChristmasSpecials - The Story of Santa Claus (Original Airdate: 12/07/1996, CBS) - A down-on-his-luck toy maker (Ed Asner) is granted a wish after he saves the son of an elf...wizard? (Tim Curry), but when he makes the logistically impossible wish of a toy for every child on Christmas the entire elf kingdom must join his cult of giving to fulfill the wish or be stripped of their powers FOREVER. (bum bum bum) Featuring Betty White as Mrs. Gretchen Claus! - 👵🏼 #TheStoryOfSantaClaus #EdAsner #TimCurry #BettyWhite #TobyBluth #ChristmasEpisode 🎄

#12DaysOfChristmasSpecials - The Little Match Girl (Original Airdate: 12/21/1987, NBC) - A homeless orphan takes time out of her busy schedule of avoiding starving/freezing to death to solve a wealthy family's interpersonal problems as well as expose a corrupt police force. - 🕯 #TheLittleMatchGirl #KeshiaKnightPulliam #RueMcClanahan #WilliamDaniels #ChristmasMovie 🎄

#12DaysOfChristmasSpecials - Shirley Temple's Storybook, "Babes In Toyland" (Original Airdate: 12/25/1960, NBC) - Shirley Temple treats her real-life children to a performance of Victor Herbert's Babes In Toyland, featuring Jonathan Winters as the dastardly Uncle Barnaby. - 🎼 #ShirleyTemplesStorybook #TheShirleyTempleShow #BabesInToyland #VictorHerbert #ShirleyTemple #JonathanWinters #ChristmasEpisode 🎄

#12DaysOfChristmasSpecials - Christmas in Tattertown, (Original Airdate: 12/21/1988, Nickelodeon) - A young girl named Debbie finds herself in Tattertown, a place where discarded items come to life, and decides to introduce its denizens to the miracle of Christmas. Directed by Ralph Bakshi & narrated by Keith David as Miles the Saxophone. - 🎷 #ChristmasInTattertown #RalphBakshi #KeithDavid #ChristmasSpecial 🎄

#12DaysOfChristmasSpecials - The Forgotten Toys (Original Airdate: ?/1995, BBC1) - A teddy bear (Bob Hoskins) and a rag doll (Joanna Lumley) who have been abandoned by their children take refuge with a stray dog while they try to make sense of their lives. Later adapted into a ongoing series. - 🐻 #TheForgottenToys #TheNightAfterChristmas #BobHoskins #JoannaLumley #ChristmasSpecial 🎄

#12DaysOfChristmasSpecials - The Twilight Zone, "The Night of the Meek" (Original Airdate: 12/23/1960, CBS) - After wishing for the meek to inherit the Earth for one night, a depressed, alcoholic department store Santa discovers a bag that contains the perfect gift for anyone he comes into contact with. - 🌀 #TheTwilightZone #TheNightOfTheMeek #ArtCarney #RodSerling #ChristmasEpisode 🎄

#12DaysOfChristmasSpecials - B.C.: A Special Christmas (Original Airdate: ?/1981, HBO) - Two cavemen invent the story of Santa Claus to profit off their fellow cavemen, but somehow just convincing everyone Santa is real actually makes him real, which ruins their plans, duh. - 🎅 #BC #BCASpecialChristmas #JohnnyHart #ChristmasSpecial 🎄

#12DaysOfChristmasSpecials - ALF, "ALF's Special Christmas" (Original Airdate: 12/14/1987, NBC) - ALF is mistakenly given to a terminally ill child as a stuffed animal when he is found attempting to steal donated toys from a suicidal widower who volunteers as a Santa at the local hospital (yes, really). Directed by Lars Von Trier (not really 😛). Also, ALF delivers a baby! - 👽 #ALF #ALFsSpecialChristmas #CleavonLittle #KeriHoulihan #ChristmasEpisode 🎄

#12DaysOfChristmasSpecials - My So-Called Life, "So-Called Angels" (Original Airdate: 12/22/1994, ABC) After Ricky runs away from his abusive home, God literally has to send the angel of a homeless teen with musical talent (Juliana Hatfield) to convince the Chases to let him stay with them for Christmas. - 🏚 #MySoCalledLife #ClaireDanes #BessArmstrong #TomIrwin #DevonGummersall #JulianaHatfield #MakeItHome #ChristmasEpisode 🎄

#12DaysOfChristmasSpecials - George and the Christmas Star (Original Airdate: 12/18/1985, Canada) - George decides a paper star isn't enough for his Christmas tree so he heads to outer space for a real one, befriending an astronaut, a robot, and Santa Claus himself on his way (as well as tangling with space troopers, space pirates, AND space bikers). From Gerald Potterton (director of Heavy Metal) / Songs by Paul Anka. -🌟 #GeorgeAndTheChristmasStar #GeraldPotterton #PaulAnka #ChristmasSpecial 🎄

#12DaysOfChristmasSpecials - For Better Or For Worse, "A Christmas Angel" (Original Airdate: 12/07/1992, Canada) - Everyone in the Patterson family is so stressed about Christmas they basically shun and ostracize middle-child Elizabeth (who takes it on the chin by spending time sledding with her friends...who also shun and ostracize her). When she almost dies and goes missing they discover the true meaning of Christmas: STOP BEING JERKS / Angels are real? - 👼 #ForBetterOrForWorse #AChristmasAngel #LynnJohnston #ChristmasEpisode 🎄

#12DaysOfChristmasSpecials - The Dick Van Dyke Show, "The Alan Brady Show Presents" (Original Airdate: 12/18/1963, CBS) - Alan Brady decides to focus his Christmas special on the show's staff and their families. - 📺 #TheDickVanDykeShow #DickVanDyke #MaryTylerMoore #RoseMarie #MoreyAmsterdam #RichardDeacon #LarryMathews #ChristmasEpisode 🎄

#12DaysOfChristmasSpecials - Tales of Little Women, "One Dollar Christmas Presents" (Original Airdate: 05/31/1987, Japan) When Aunt March discovers Jo, Meg, Beth, & Amy have agreed to forego Christmas presents, she gives them each a dollar, which they decide to spend on their hardworking Marmee. - 💵 #TalesOfLittleWomen #NipponAnimation #LovesTaleOfYoungGrass #LittleWomen #ChristmasEpisode 🎄