Hazel's Christmas Shopping

Hazel's Christmas Shopping is the first-season and only Christmas episode of the 1960's sitcom Hazel, based on a long-running comic strip in the Saturday Evening Post. In it, a sassy but well-meaning maid keeps the family she works for running smoothly, often whether they want her to or not. It originally aired on December 21st, 1961.

Hazel's last-minute shopping sees her broke just as she wanted to get her employer Dorothy Baxter a nice gift. In her own inimitable style, she finagles a job at the busy department store, as usual becoming both irritant and treasure, and even has to deal with a shoplifter. Can the no-nonsense maid clean up this fractious Christmas?

Hazel is played by Shirley Booth, well-known to Rankin-Bass fans as the voice of the equally strong-minded Mrs. Claus in The Year Without A Santa Claus.