28 DECEMBER

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A Child’s Christmas in Wales – The Christmas Movie

Lawrence Welk’s Family Christmas Special 1995

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A Child’s Christmas in Wales is a beloved 1987 TV movie, an adaptation of Dylan Thomas’s prose poem of the same name, starring Denholm Elliott as a grandfather telling his grandson nostalgic, fantastical stories of Christmases past in Wales, featuring magical flashbacks of snow, caroling, mischievous boys, and enduring family traditions. It’s a heartwarming, atmospheric film capturing the wonder and unique sensory details of a childhood Christmas.

Experience the timeless magic of The Christmas Box – a profoundly moving 1995 holiday classic that touches the soul and reminds us of what truly matters this Christmas. Busy ski shop owner Richard Evans (Richard Thomas), his loving wife Keri (Annette O’Toole), and their young daughter Jenna move into the grand estate of elderly widow Mary Parkin (Maureen O’Hara) as live-in help. At first, Richard struggles with the demands of work and the widow’s quirky ways, but as mysterious dreams of an angel haunt him and secrets from a hidden Christmas box in the attic unfold, deep bonds form. Mary shares her heartbreaking past, posing the profound question: “What was the first gift of Christmas?” In a story of grief, redemption, family priorities, and unconditional love, Richard discovers the answer just in time – a message that will warm your heart and bring tears of joy. Based on the bestselling novel by Richard Paul Evans.

Dolly Parton portrays a country-music performer who meets an untimely demise, but cannot enter heaven until she performs a good deed back on Earth: to reunite a workaholic widower with his children for Christmas.

Janet Broderick (Lee Remick) is crushed by a double blow just before Christmas when she suddenly loses her mother, Amanda (Angela Lansbury), and is forced to bankrupt her small business. Stricken with grief, Janet takes to her bed, only to awaken in a mysterious dream world where she finds herself and her children magically reunited with her deceased parents. The group travels back in time to the small Connecticut town where Janet grew up, in the hope of spending one last Christmas together.

This 1988 Christmas movie follows a family navigating wartime anxieties and holiday traditions. A son returns home on leave, while another prepares for deployment, creating family tensions. Amidst the snow-covered town, their lives intertwine with others facing similar challenges.

It Happened One Christmas is a 1977 American made-for-television Christmas fantasy-comedy-drama film directed by Donald Wrye, starring Marlo Thomas, Wayne Rogers, Orson Welles, and Cloris Leachman. It originally premiered as The ABC Sunday Night Movie on December 11, 1977.

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The classic Greek myth of Perseus and Andromeda re-told with an all-star cast. To win the right to marry his love (Andromeda) and fufill his destiny, Perseus must complete various tasks including taming Pegasus, capturing Medusa, and answering riddles. The result is a timeless adventure that’s a treat for kids and adults. MPAA Rating: PG (c) 1981

Happy Since I Met You is a television play written by Victoria Wood, and broadcast on ITV on 9 August 1981. It stars Julie Walters, Duncan Preston, Tracey Ullman and Jim Bowen and was directed by Baz Taylor as part of ITV’s Screenplay series. In Happy Since I Met You, Duncan Preston, who would later become one of her regular co-stars, worked with Victoria Wood for the first time. It was the last full-length drama by Wood to be televised for some years, the next being Pat and Margaret (1994).

A philandering Scottish playwright (Sam Waterston) seduces a young Englishwoman (Jenny Agutter) when her boyfriend goes away.

After bearing a child to her husband, a presidential candidate, a woman is disgraced, forced to give up her daughter and lives a life of degradation. Years later she is accused of murder, and is defended in court, unbeknownst to her, by her grown-up child.

Enemy of the state

The National Security Agency is a covert organisation whose secret activities are protected by a state-of-the-art surveillance network operated by a team of first-rank techno-boffins. When a videotape proving their involvement in a recent political assassination falls into the hands of Washington DA Robert Clayton Dean (Will Smith), the Agency do everything they can to encourage Dean’s silence.