"Christmas" is the fifth Christmas episode of the NBC variety program The Bell Telephone Hour, originally broadcasted on Christmas Eve of 1963.
Highlights[]
Jane Wyatt leads some children through magic gates into Christmas Land where:
- Kirsten Simone and Henning Kronstam dance the "Pas de Deux" from Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker".
- Phyllis Curtin sings carols in a medieval castle.
- The Bil Baird Marionettes act out "The Night Before Christmas" as Jane Wyatt tells the story.
- Earl Wrightson and Lois Hunt and the Columbus Boys' Choir entertain at a Christmas party in merry old England.
- The show ends with Jane Wyatt reading the Gospel according to St. Luke and Phyllis Curtin and the Columbus Boys' Choir sing "O Holy Night".
- Songs include, "'Twas the Night Before Christmas", "Obey the Son of Mary", "The Angels Sing", "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen", "Hey Penny", "Feast of Steven", "Carol of the Bells", "Joy to the World", "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" and "Benite Adoremos".