Christmas Television Special

A Christmas television special is typically a one-time, 30 minute animated program aired during the Christmas season. Some are extended episodes of currently running television series featuring the regular characters dealing with Christmas. Some specials are of a more variety show nature, featuring celebrities and/or singers and musical numbers and short skits. All such specials are naturally strongly Christmas themed, but usually forgo the religious aspects of the holiday to concentrate on more general themes of giving, and goodwill towards man. Christmas television specials are also where non-animated characters from other media may first cross over into animation; examples include the Peanuts comic strip, the Bloom County comic strip, and the Dr. Seuss children's book How the Grinch Stole Christmas. The Rankin-Bass animation studio is well known for its many holiday specials, including the stop-motion Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, which CBS has shown annually since 1964, and the animated Frosty the Snowman. In British television, a Christmas special is a one-off episode of a regular television series which may not otherwise be running in the winter or even that year as in Britain television series tend to run on limited schedules of 6 to 13 episodes rather than year-round. Successive series of a a program may run in non-consecutive years so a Christmas special may be of a series for which no other episodes have aired that year (or possibly for several years). A Christmas special may or may not have a Christmas theme and often is not even set during the Christmas season but usually runs on Christmas day itself and is often longer than a regular episode of the series.

List of Christmas television specials

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