What To Watch: Christmas Story-Thon, It's A Wonderful Life, MNF And More
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On TV this Monday: TBS hosts its annual Christmas Story marathon, Jimmy Stewart has a Wonderful Life and Buddy the Elf just wants to know your favorite color. Here are 13 programs to keep on Santa's your radar; all times are Eastern:
Showtimes for December 24, 2018
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Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
AMC
Waiting up for Santa, are we? Then allow this Christmas classic — starring Maureen O’Hara and Kris Kring-- er, Edmund Gwenn — to keep you company.
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White Christmas Marathon
Sundance TV
Through Tuesday at 6 am | Watch the beloved holiday musical starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen — eight times in a row-ho-ho!
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The Santa Clause Trilogy
Freeform, AMC
You’ll have to DVR these Tim Allen flicks if you want to watch them in order: Cable rights for The Santa Clause (8:55 pm, Freeform), The Santa Clause 2 (6 pm, AMC) and The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (12 am, Freeform) are currently split among two networks!
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A Christmas Carol (1951) Marathon
FXM
Through Tuesday at 4 am| Many consider this Alastair Sim-led adaptation the finest of them all.
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Click & Collect
BritBox
Stateside premiere: A family man (Hello Ladies’ Stephen Merchant) embarks on a 300-mile journey with his annoying neighbor to get his 6-year-old daughter the perfect Christmas gift.
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A Christmas Story Marathon
TNT/TBS
Through Tuesday at 8 pm| Ralphie may or may not grow up to be an advocate for gun control after he nearly shoots his eye out. Watch him to do it — 12 times in a row!
Beauty and the Beast
ABC
Gather the kids for Disney’s beloved 1991 feature, which made history when it become the first animated film to earn an Oscar nomination for Best Picture.
It's a Wonderful Life
NBC
Stop playing that lousy piano, Janie! It's time for this 1946 classic, which stars Jimmy Stewart as a banker who learns what life would have been like without him.
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Monday Night Football
ESPN
Season 49 finale: The Oakland Raiders host the Denver Broncos, live from the Oakland Coliseum.
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Elf
AMC
After you finish up a traditional Christmas feast of spaghetti and maple syrup, gather 'round the TV for Will Ferrell's modern-day classic.
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A Christmas Carol (1938)
TCM
Bah humbug! This adaptation stars Reginald Owen as crotchety miser Ebenezer Scrooge.
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National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
AMC
Before Johnny Galecki and Juliette Lewis shacked up on The Conners, they played teenage siblings Russ and Audrey Griswold in this 1989 Vacation sequel.
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Christmas Eve Mass
NBC
Pope Francis leads a mass from St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.
