The Christmas Collection: 36 Holiday Features w/BONUS Extras (3 DVDs)

The perfect accessory to the holiday season, this exhaustive Christmas-themed extravaganza contains all the festive entertainment one could ever need. THE CHRISTMAS COLLECTION gathers classic cartoons, television specials, and movies, presenting a total of 36 separate programs.

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DISC ONE - Classic TV Shows: Curl up and drift to a simpler time, when the down-home warmth of Christmas was celebrated on the nation's favorite classic TV shows. Join your favorite characters in these heartwarming classics that are sure to evoke found memories of Christmases past and recapture the fun and innocence of the season. 

Includes 11 Classics Episodes: Beverly Hillbillies (Turkey Day, Christmas at the Clampetts, Home for Christmas) * The Burns and Allen Show (Gracie and Relatives) * The Jack Benny Show (Christmas Shopping, New Year's Eve) * Ozzie & Harriet (Late Christmas Gift, The Christmas Tree, Piano for the Fraternity, Bust Christmas) * Liberace (The Christmas Show)

Playing Time: 4 hrs. 48 min., B&W

BONUS EXTRA: Christmas on the Radio

DISC TWO - Classic TV Specials: Adults and children alike will delight in these Christmas TV specials that play such a big part in our Christmas memories. With their creative imagery and vivid colors, innovation techniques and magical sequences, these short films have, for many, become highly anticipated favorites each year as the holiday season approaches. Classics like Rudolph the Rose Nosed Reindeer and Jack Frost, to name just two of the films in this magical collection, capture the wonder and enchantment of Christmas for both young and old. Other favorites in this collection include The Little Christmas Burro, Toys Will Be Toys, Silent Night: the Story of the Christmas Carol, The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives, The Night Before Christmas, The Star of Bethlehem and many more.

Playing Time: 3 hrs. 24 min., B&W and Color

BONUS EXTRA: Christmas Carols with lyrics

DISC THREE - 4 Christmas Movie Features:

Beyond Tomorrow - 1940, B&W, 84 min: A drama for the Christmas season which tells the story of three millionaires who return from the spirit world to help a young couple.

Cast: Charles Winninger 
Director: A. Edward Sutherland, Lee Garmes

Scrooge - 1935, B&W, 87 min: Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Crotchet and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit. But in the night, Scrooge is visited by spirits of another color.

Cast: Seymour Hicks
Director: Henry Edwards

A Christmas Without Snow - 1981, Color, 95 min: Building her hopes and dreams again from scratch, a divorced woman moves to snowless San Francisco for a fresh start with her son. As Christmas approaches, her church choir and its upcoming concert become the centre of both frustration and joy as she searches to find the wonder of Christmas once more.

Cast: Michael Learned, John Houseman, Ramon Bieri, James Cromwell, Valerie Curtin, David Knell, Calvin Levels, Rith Nelson, Beah Richards, Willam Swetland, Ed Bogas, Daisietta Kim

Director: Michael Fash, Don DeFina

Miracle on 34th Street - 1957, B&W, 46 min: The classic tale MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET is reworked in this TV movie adaptation. Heartwarming Christmas story in which a man who moonlights as Kris Kringle at Macy's claims to be the genuine article. The adults refuse to believe him and begin to suspect that the bearded, portly man is not playing with a full deck. But most important to Kris is a little girl who steadfastly refuses to believe that Santa Claus is real. Can he convince her--and everyone else--that he is telling the truth? His freedom may depend on it...

Cast: Sandy Descher, Teresa Wright, Thomas Mitchell

BONUS EXTRA: Images of Christmas

Region 0
3 - Disc Keep Case
Full Frame - 1.33
Remastered For Best Possible Picture Quality