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Top 10 Christmas Specials

Wiki Entertainment staff's picks for the top 10 Christmas specials of all time.

Worst Christmas Specials

Wiki Entertainment staff's picks for the worst 10 Christmas specials of all time.

The True Meaning

Read about the true meaning of Christmas, according to Linus van Pelt.

Other Holiday Specials

Featured Article

"Holly Jolly Secrets" is a special two-part Christmas-themed episodes of the Cartoon Network original series Adventure Time, produced as the nineteenth and twentieth episodes of the show's third season. It was originally broadcast as a half-hour special on December 5, 2011. Finn and Jake are trying to dig up a treasure Jake had found in the Dump and had buried without opening. When they get to the treasure Finn recognizes it, saying that he saw Ice King with it and burying it in a pile of boogers in the Dump. So they see that inside the suitcase is a bunch of tapes belonging to the Ice King and make plans for a secret tape watching. (more...)

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“	Eh, why don't you have a chair while I read to you from my nephew's 'brief' Christmas list? Here's a few things he would like to have. A solid gold football, a trip to Venus, ten tickets to the World Series -- Oops, broke my pencil. [has Taz sharpen his pencil] T'ank you. A hockey team, uh, world championship quality, a carrot farm in da South Pacific, a stereo, a TV, a controlling interest in IBM, a subscription to the Comic Book of the Month club, uh, Frank Sinatra's old address book... [notices Taz eating the ornaments] Uh, watch out for dat green one... it's not quite ripe! Eh, let's see, next on da list... twin Ferraris with custom plates, a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde chemical set, a jet roller-skate, a second-hand diamond... a laser-light show, a puppy, a kitten, a pony, and a little brother, and a partridge in a pear tree!	”
— Bugs Bunny, Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales

News

Jay North died at the age of 73 on April 6th. Best known for playing the original live-action version of the title character from Dennis the Menace (including the show's three Christmas episodes), he also guest-starred as Laddie Stone in the Wanted Dead or Alive episode "Eight Cent Reward" and voiced the teenaged version of Bamm-Bamm Rubble in The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show and subsequent Flintstones productions.
Clive Revill, who was the initial voice of Alfred Pennyworth in Batman: The Animated Series (including its Christmas episode) and also provided narration in Disney's Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas, passed away on March 11th at the age of 94.
In the 2025 Canadian Screen Awards, 'Twas the Date Before Christmas has been nominated for three awards - overall TV Movie, Writing and for lead performer Amy Groening; the Mistletoe Murders premiere episode "Poison in a Pear Tree (Part 1)" has nominated for two; and A Not So Royal Christmas has nominated for Dramatic Photography.
In the 3rd Annual Children's & Family Emmy Awards, Merry Little Batman won three Individual Achievement in Animation awards; Magic Light's The Velveteen Rabbit won two awards - Best Fiction Special, and for young actor Phoenix Laroche; and the second season of The Santa Clauses won for Best Hairstyling and Makeup. Although "Tiny Chef's Marvelous Mish Mesh Special" lost for animated special, his show won Best Preschool Animation Series; and Elmo and Tango Holiday Helpers also lost for Non-Fiction Program, but Tango and Abby Cadabby's puppeteer Leslie Carrara won for Best Puppetry Performer.
George Lowe, who voiced the titular host of Space Ghost Coast to Coast (including its Christmas episode) and also narrated the video game based on the live-action How the Grinch Stole Christmas, died at the age of 67 on March 2nd.
Following Comcast's announcement of spinning off NBCUniversal's cable properties into a separately-traded company, the Universal Kids channel was shut down on March 6th.
Michelle Trachtenberg died at only 39 years old on February 26th. Best known for her work at Nickelodeon in the 1990s (where she played the titular protagonist of Harriet the Spy and Nona Mecklenberg on The Adventures of Pete & Pete) as well as her later roles as Buffy the Vampire Slayer's younger sister Dawn Summers and Georgina Sparks on The CW's Gossip Girl, she also played Noelle Murphy in A Holiday for Love, Richie Rich's girlfriend Gloria Glad in Richie Rich's Christmas Wish, Melissa Kitt in the 2006 version of Black Christmas, and Megan in The Christmas Gift.
In the 2025 KidScreen Awards, The Loud House episode "'Twas the Fight Before Christmas" won the award for Best Holiday or Special Episode in the Kids Category.
In the 52nd Annual Annie Awards, the Winsor McCay Award was recognized to the late NFB animator Eunice Macaulay (trace and paint supervisor of The Energy Carol), and legendary composer Normand Roger (whose compositions include The Wish That Changed Christmas; both he and Eunice also worked on the 2007 short The Boy and the Snow Goose). And the Ub Iwerks Award was recognized to Alberto Menache (the digital effects supervisor of The Polar Express).