 | Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory - ABC Stage 67 (l966)
Buy new: $20.49 A complete and uncut color edition of the 1966 ABC Television production of Capote's beautiful Christmas story has yet to materialize. This B&W DVD will have to fill the gap until it is finally recovered.
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 | Miracle on 34th Street
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $6.75 The first and still the best!
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 | Auntie Mame
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $10.68 Poor Auntie Mame meets rich Uncle Beau in Macy's in this wonderful movie!
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 | A Charlie Brown Christmas
Buy used from: $9.49 It never gets old, even though it is. It's never Christmas without it.
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![Magic Snowman [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AE8Y3S2FL._SL75_.jpg) | Magic Snowman [VHS]
Buy used from: $1.90 Something oddly charming about this little European film about a talking snowman. DVD version someday?
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 | Humperdinck - Hansel and Gretel / Fulton, Metropolitan Opera
Buy used from: $289.00 The Met's wonderful Christmas Day performance is still the best on any video format. Enjoy! This one is hard to find these days, but DG will probably reissue it.
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 | The Nutcracker / Baryshnikov, Kirkland, Charmoli
Buy new: $20.49 / Used from: $27.80 I only found out two days after Christmas that this is on DVD! This will make a nice late Christmas present to myself! My favorite Nutcracker, but the new Covent Garden production is also good.
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 | Fanny and Alexander (The Theatrical Version) - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $13.95 A delicious turn-of-the-century Swedish Christmas with the Ekdahls opens this fascinating film.
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 | The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection - The Essentials (Manos, the Hands of Fate / Santa Claus Conquers the Martians)
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $10.48 Includes MST3K's rendition of "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians". Hillarious!
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 | Christmas Time In South Park
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.57 What's the holiday without Mr Hankey and the kids from SP?
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![Ren & Stimpy: Have Yourself a Stinky Little Christmas [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21W1KV5BWYL._SL75_.jpg) | Ren & Stimpy: Have Yourself a Stinky Little Christmas [VHS]
Buy used from: $0.49 R&S cousin to South Park's Mr. Hankey is introduced in this disgusting but hillarious episode!
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 | Steel Magnolias (Special Edition)
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $2.99 Mother and daughter tension during the holiday season. Still a favorite movie.
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 | One True Thing
Buy used from: $6.98 Yet more mother and daughter holiday tension. Superb performances all around.
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 | The Christmas Wife
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $3.07 I liked this thoughtful, sad Christmas story originally made for cable. Great performances. This is a high-quality edition.
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 | Christmas With Flicka
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $5.00 Sure it's corny, but who wouldn't want to be Flicka traipsing about Austria at Christmastime! Improved video quality on DVD.
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 | Jessye Norman at Christmas
Buy new: $12.97 / Used from: $19.73 Most classical Christmas concerts on video are rather boring. Jessye Norman's two live concerts on one DVD are the exceptions to the rule - very musical and entertaining.
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 | Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol
Buy new: $7.49 / Used from: $7.46 A favorite from my childhood, and still my favorite version of Dickens' Christmas Carol.
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![Mystery Science Theater 3000: XVI [Limited Edition]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515qILU2jBL._SL75_.jpg) | Mystery Science Theater 3000: XVI [Limited Edition]
Buy new: $41.99 This MST3K set will include their infamous rendition of the dubbed Mexican film "Santa Claus"--too hillarious for words. Please, SHOUT industries, put out a 2-DVD of MST3Ks Santa Claus vs. the Martians and Santa Claus in time for the holidays!
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![A Trip To Christmas - The Bell Telephone Hour [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21T5YY7TY9L._SL75_.jpg) | A Trip To Christmas - The Bell Telephone Hour [VHS]
Buy used from: $21.56 Much about Christmas is nostalgia, and for me the Bell Telephone Hour Christmas specials are right up there with Mr. Magoo and Charlie Brown. One day I hope Kultur will make a compilation DVD of all the Christmas specials.
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 | An Old-Fashioned Christmas (Bell Telephone Hour Telecasts 1959-1966)
Buy new: $17.99 Someone at VAI must have read what I posted last year about the A Trip to Christmas Bell Telephone VHS and a compilation DVD. Well here it is for 2009!
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