Christmas TV Memories

For most of us, fond memories of the Christmas season are inseparable from TV’s holiday presentations. The world loves everything from iconic cartoons like How the Grinch Stole Christmas and A Charlie Brown Christmas to the ground-breaking Julia sitcom segment, “I’m Dreaming of a Black Christmas,” Christmas in Rockefeller Center, and the 1992 TV-remake of Christmas in Connecticut directed by Arnold Schwarzenegger. Christmas TV Memories: Nostalgic Holiday Favorites of the Small Screen embraces it all, offering a tinsel-decked traipse down memory lane and chronicling animated classics, variety shows, made-for-TV features, and holiday-specific episodes of series like The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. With a Foreword by best-selling Free to Be You and Me author and That Girl star Marlo Thomas, along with commentary from other celebrities, historical quotes, and insights from entertainment journalists and archivists, Christmas TV Memories serves as the go-to companion to the small screen’s most cherished holiday programs.

Herbie J Pilato is an award-winning writer, director, producer, actor, and TV personality. Pilato’s acclaimed and extensive list of pop-culture books, biographies, and memoirs, includes One Tough Dame: The Life and Career of Diana Rigg, The 12 Best Secrets of Christmas: A Treasure House of December Memories Revealed, NBC & ME: My Life as a Page in a Book, Mary: The Mary Tyler Moore Story, Twitch Upon a Star: The Bewitched Life and Career of Elizabeth Montgomery, and Retro Active Television: An In-Depth Perspective on Classic TV’s Social Circuitry (which in 2023 the Los Angeles Book Festival named “Book of the Year”). Pilato has served as an executive producer, director, writer, and/or on-screen cultural commentator for several TV documentaries including CNN’s History of the Sitcom, and various home entertainment productions such as the Saturn-Award-nominated Blu-ray release of The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman.

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