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Happy Holidays with Bing & Frank
Expires 12/31/23
Celebrate the holidays with this timeless favorite featuring the magical combination of Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby in an early color television special from 1957. The two legends swap Christmas carols, songs, and stories, pay a musical visit to Victorian England, and duet on Christmas classics. Directed by Sinatra, with music conducted by Nelson Riddle.
20 Years of Christmas With The Tabernacle Choir
Expires 12/12/25
Former Tabernacle Choir guest artist and Tony Award-winner, Brian Stokes Mitchell, is back to remember and relive twenty years of inspiring Christmas concerts. From opera, gospel, and pop singers to Broadway and cabaret stars; from Shakespearean actors and movie and television stars, the Choir’s guest artists provide, not just formidable talent, but a little something for everyone.
O Holy Night: Christmas with The Tabernacle Choir
Stars Megan Hilty and Neal McDonough join The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square to celebrate the holidays with a return to the Emerald Isle. McDonough and Hilty, who each share Irish heritage and traditions, deliver a deeply personal program that weaves together well-known holiday tunes, classic Christmas carols and hymns with some traditional Irish musical numbers.
The Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Family Christmas Show
Expires 1/28/24
Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, along with their families, join together for a memorable Christmas celebration filmed in 1967.
Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas with Vanessa Williams
Expires 12/14/24
In collaboration with the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation, the American Pops Orchestra presents an evening celebrating the entire iconic album of holiday classics. This 60-minute performance stars host and vocalist Vanessa Williams with appearances by Dee Dee Bridgewater, Norm Lewis, Carmen Ruby Floyd, Nova Payton, Dave Detwiler and Morgan James.
Stories From the Stage "Holidays: Cheers, Tears, and Fears"
A lot of emotions goes into making a holiday a holiday. Joe tries to break a nightmare-before-Christmas bad luck streak; Jamie connects with his polar opposite older brother through an amazing, unexpected gift; and Cora learns a lesson about courage through an unlikely teacher: golden sneakers.
Stories From the Stage "Holidays: the Good, the Bad"
If there is any truth about holidays, it’s that they are a mixed bag of good and bad. Melanée tests her adulthood with the Thanksgiving turkey; John shows that when it comes to being Santa, it’s all about the grownups; and Andrea proves that lighting a menorah may be trickier than you think.
United in Song: Celebrating the Resilience of America
Expires 12/30/24
Join us for an evening of powerful performances to unite and celebrate our country, affirming our commitment to come together as Americans through the arts.
All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914
The Western Front, Christmas, 1914. Out of the violence a silence, then a song. A German soldier steps into No Man’s Land singing “Stille Nacht.” Thus begins an extraordinary night of camaraderie, music, peace. A remarkable true story, told in the words and songs of the men who lived it.
Festive Films
A Christmas Wish (1950)
A down-on-their-luck vaudeville family can’t afford to pay rent on a run-down ground floor apartment at Christmas. An unexpected guardian angel in the form of a squirrel comes into their lives, showering them with money. Jimmy Durante stars in this fun holiday feature.
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
You better watch out - Kris Kringle gets embroiled in a Martian power struggle in this low-budget lump of coal from 1964. Meanwhile, the real Santa is traumatized by El Sapo's insults and is unable to fulfill his duties, leaving the NMT crew holding the bag.
Scrooge (1935)
Charles Dickens’s classic holiday tale of greed, ghosts, redemption and the Christmas spirit is brought to the screen with Seymour Hicks as the world’s most well-known miser: Ebenezer Scrooge.
Holiday Cooking and Baking
Mary Berry's Ultimate Christmas
Mary Berry shares her ultimate Christmas feast with all the trimmings.
America's Test Kitchen "Ultimate Yule Log"
Hosts Bridget Lancaster and Julia Collin Davison make the ultimate Caramel-Espresso Yule Log. Lisa reviews mini muffin tins.
Holiday Handbook "Treats and Tips for Winter Festivities"
Heading into the holiday season you might be wondering: what treat should I bring to a Friendsgiving party? How do I take the best family photos on my phone? Or, how do I avoid scams when buying gifts online? You Oughta Know has you covered.
Iowa Ingredient "French Holiday"
In the spirit of iconic PBS Chef Julia Child, Iowa Ingredient will celebrate the holidays by going gourmet. Iowa’s own French master chef, David Baruthio, enlightens and empowers us to cook Julia Child’s famous beef burgundy, and some other French-inspired holiday dishes, when he joins host Charity Nebbe in our festive studio kitchen.
Iowa Ingredient "Holiday Brunch Special"
In this brand new holiday special, host Charity Nebbe invites some of the Iowa Ingredient chefs to the studio kitchen to cook savory and sweet dishes for holiday brunch!
Holiday Documentaries, Shows, and Themed Episodes
A Southwest Christmas
Captured with striking on-location photography by a multi-award-winning team, A Southwest Christmas is a high-quality, entertaining and educational celebration of four of the Southwest's most unique traditions. The religion and folk tales of the Spanish, Mexican, Native American and Anglo cultures, surrounding the Christmas season, are told through four stories.
¡COLORES! "Michael Naranjo"
In a special holiday segment, ¡COLORES! features one of New Mexico's favorite sculptors, Michael Naranjo. Known for his sculptures of Native American life, Michael shows a new side, creating something special for the holidays: Santa and his reindeer.
¡COLORES! "Audubon New Mexico"
Audubon New Mexico’s Christmas bird count is part of a century-old tradition where bird-loving volunteers provide critical data about bird populations in the Americas. The elaborately painted skateboard designs of Ben Thompson and Johnny Scott prove dreams do come true. And chocolatier Annie Rupani creates morsels of happiness.
All Creatures Great and Small, Season 3 Episode 7
It’s Christmas at Skeldale and Siegfried has to decide whether to protect Tristan at the cost of River’s welfare. Mrs. Hall realizes she has to face her feelings for Gerald.
Christmas at Paradise
Teresa and Mori try to spend the holiday together, now that her parents finally approve of the couple. Mori has the money to buy the Countess's building, but his mysterious benefactor is not who he claims to be.
Doc Martin "Last Christmas in Portwenn"
Portwenn is full of festive cheer—until Martin tells Leonard that he needs to stop playing Santa while he awaits the results of his medical tests. Leonard decides to show "Doc the Grinch" the magic of Christmas, with unintended consequences, and Louisa works to arrange a Christmas parade through Portwenn. After a mishap, Martin confronts some of his fears and tries to embrace the holiday spirit.
Craft in America "Celebration"
Discover the role craft plays in our winter holiday traditions, rituals, and festivities. Featuring lion dancers and float builders for San Francisco’s acclaimed Chinese New Year Parade, artists in Michigan making ceramics for the holidays at Pewabic (Detroit) and Motawi Tileworks (Ann Arbor), Kwanzaa celebrations with artists in Chicago and Oakland, and Christmas card making with Yoshiko Yamamoto.
Downton Abbey "Season 2, Episode 7"
In the season finale of Downton Abbey 2, the family gathers at Downton Abbey for Christmas.
Garden Home Christmas
In a new, first ever holiday collaboration with AETN, television host, author and lifestyle expert P. Allen Smith and floral creative designer Holly Heider Chapple offer inspiration for the holiday season.
Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly "Hanukkah Lamps"
“The rabbis going back to Maimonides and earlier felt that the lights of the Hanukkah lamp were sacred,” according to Susan Braunstein, curator at the Jewish Museum in New York City, and if you couldn’t afford a gold or silver lamp “you could use an egg shell, or a nut shell, or a potato carved out.”
Lucy Worsley's 12 Days of Tudor Christmas
Expires 12/25/23
Join Lucy Worsley on a 12-day extravaganza as she discovers that much of what we enjoy in contemporary Christmas — from carols to gift-giving, feasting and drinking — was just as popular 500 years ago, with some surprising Tudor twists.
Nature "Santa's Wild Home"
Expires 11/24/24
Get an intimate look at the wildlife of Lapland, a region in northern Finland, the fabled home of Santa Claus and actual home of reindeer, great gray owls, wolverines, eagles, wolves, musk oxen, brown bears and more.
NOVA "Polar Extremes"
Expires 1/20/23
Following a trail of fossils found in all the wrong places–beech trees in Antarctica, redwoods and hippo-like mammals in the Arctic–NOVA uncovers the bizarre history of the poles, from miles-thick ice sheets to warm polar forests teeming with life.
Nature "Spend An Hour in Snowy Yellowstone"
Sit back, relax, and experience the animals, landscapes, and awe of Yellowstone National Park in winter.
Monstrum "The Wicked Feline Murder Floof, a Yule Cat Story"
Christmas isn’t just a time for presents, cookies, and holiday cheer, but the hunting period of Iceland’s murderous monster feline, the Yule Cat. This giant, fluffy cat towers over buildings, roaming the snowy countryside for human victims who have yet to receive new clothes before Christmas.