A Christmas Story

Watched this in the 70s and loved it, as well. Mid 50s now and Christmas memories return through this show and many others. Feel like a happy kid again waiting for the big day.

A somewhat obscure Hannah-Barbara Christmas special originally aired in December 1972, it was recently aired on TCM as their Wednesday night animated night in December 2025.

I had never seen it before as it was a little before my time on the original air date but I can see how it would have nostalgia appeal to those old enough to remember the original airing. Also, recommended to those with young children who want to show them a "deep cut" as it were for the Christmas specials.

Don't expect much, the jokes are pretty cliche and the animation isn't great, although it's not without a certain charm. The voice actors are pretty good, although a bit cheesy. As a cat person, I always hate seeing cats made out as the bad guys on these old cartoons, although having the cats talk like 1930's gangsters was sort of funny. At 30 minutes it doesn't really wear out it's welcome but unfortunately theTCM outro was cut off on my DVR recording so I'll never know what the guy had to say to Jacquelyn Stewart after the show wrapped up.

For a longest time i always had this faint memory of some Christmas related cartoon, that i think i might have seen in sometime in my childhood. It must have only aired once (in my country at least).

But of course the internet saved the day on this upcoming Christmas and i could finally take a look at that almost forgotten flick.

And its just. bleh.

Story: Someone forgot sent poor Timmy's letter to Santa, so its up to a Clever little mouse and his Dog companion bring the letter to Santa, before he goes to Timmy's chimney.

And that's about it.

There's is not much to go for in this Hanna-Barbera flick except their typical cheap looking animation and their typical cheap slapstick. There was this one song that was enjoyable and Dogs voice actor is the one who played Tigger. But still i would not want to sit through this again.

I was lucky many years ago..to see this. It is NOT really all that memorable of a story..as other have stated. HOWEVER..I am quite SURPRISED..no one else noticed..that the opening song in the cartoon.."All on Christmas day". was RE_WORKED into the song played on the "Enchanted voyage" dark ride.. at the Amusement park Kings Island, near Cincinnati Ohio. That ride is LONG gone, redid several times..now "boo blasters".. But form 1971-1983.. it was the enchanted Voyage..and this tune with different words..about the " happy friends that live in my tv".. played throughout the dark boat ride !!.

As a one-off, unrelated to any franchise Special (it's also nothing to do with the 1983 movie with the same title) it's clear that A Christmas Story has fallen into massive obscurity. Quite rightly so, as it's a fairly bland story with nothing memorable about it whatsoever.

It begins in some quaint, little, snow-covered town with little Timmy being read to by his dad on Xmas Eve. But he's forgotten to mail his letter to Santa, so the dog and house mouse take off in search of the big-bearded gift-giver (who conveniently just happens to be down the street instead of anywhere else in the world) in order to give him said letter.

Limp hijinks follow. And it ends with a total cop-out, borderline illogical ending which pretty much negates everything that precedes it. But I guess I'm scrutinizing a 1972 Hanna-Barbera cartoon a little too closely.

Forget this one, and stick to Specials based on established franchises.