Good Times, Great People, Excellent Programs

 This image will always mean New Year's Eve to me! Everyone enjoy the night and be safe! Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz

The end of the year is the perfect time to sit down with a good friend and reflect on the times you have shared together.  

  Taking a break - please return tomorrow as we prepare to enter the new year!

 Your guardian angels are always with you, not just at Christmas! pictured above: Dick Van Dyke as The Angel and Dame Angela Lansbury as Rose in Buttons: A Christmas Tale (2018)

 The "Dallas" spin-off that took place on a California cul-de-sac began on this day 44 years ago! pictured above: Ted Shackelford and Joan Van Ark as Gary and Valene Ewing

 It is always a treat to get a Christmas gift! pictured above (l-r): Audrey Meadows as Alice Kramden, Anne Seymour as Mrs. Stevens, Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden and Art Carney as Ed Norton on "The Honeymooners."

 Celebrating the 30th anniversary of this beloved film!

 Celebrating the 60th anniversary of this classic episode! pictured above: Irene Ryan as Granny

 I hope Santa Claus visited all of you! Lucille Ball as Lucy Carmichael on "The Lucy Show" Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore as Rob and Laura Petrie on "The Dick Van Dyke Show" Eve Arden as Miss Connie Brooks and Gale Gordon as Principal Osgood Conklin on "Our Miss Brooks" Cameron Grant as Santa Claus on "I Love Lucy" Lucille Ball as Kitty Weaver and Bob Hope as Larry Gilbert in The Facts of Life (1960)

 Celebrating broadcast anniversaries... "I Love Lucy" - "Drafted" December 24, 1951 (72 years) pictured above: Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance "The Honeymooners" - "Twas the Night Before Christmas" December 24, 1955 (68 years) pictured above: Jackie Gleason and Art Carney "I Love Lucy" - "Christmas Show" December 24, 1956 (67 years) pictured above: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz and Vivian Vance "The Donna Reed Show" - "A Very Merry Christmas" December 24, 1958 (65 years) pictured above (l-r): Paul Petersen, Carl Betz, Donna Reed and Shelley Fabares "The Lucy Show" - "Together for Christmas" December 24, 1962 (61 years) pictured above: Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance "The Jeffersons" - "984 W. 124th Street Apt. 5C" December 24, 1977 (46 years) pictured above: Sherman Hemsley and Isabel Sanford

 Have a wonderful evening! "Mickey's Christmas Carol" (1983) "Mickey's Christmas Carol" (1983) pictured above (l-r): Vivian Vance, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz and William Frawley in the "I Love Lucy" Christmas show. pictured above (l-r): Vivian Vance, Lucille Ball, Cameron Grant, Desi Arnaz and William Frawley in the "I Love Lucy" Christmas show.

 Have you decorated your home yet? Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance in the "I Love Lucy" Christmas episode

 Is this classic film on your yearly watch list? Miracle on 34th Street (1947) Edmund Gwenn as Kris Kringle with Natalie Wood as Susan Walker

 When do you exchange gifts?   Jackie Gleason and Audrey Meadows as Ralph and Alice Kramden on "The Honeymooners" Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers as Jonathan and Jennifer Hart on "Hart to Hart." Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk as Nick and Nora Charles with Asta on "The Thin Man"

 Celebrating the 37th broadcast anniversary of this classic episode! pictured above (l-r): Betty White, Terry Kiser, Rue McClanahan and Beatrice Arthur

  Celebrating 77 years of this classic Christmas film! James Stewart and Donna Reed as George and Mary Bailey

 Celebrating broadcast anniversaries... "The Andy Griffith Show" - "Christmas Story" December 19, 1960 (63 years) pictured above: back row (l-r) Andy Griffith and Elinor Donahue center: Ron Howard front row (l-r): Frances Bavier and Don Knotts "The Beverly Hillbillies" - "Home for Christmas" December 19, 1962 (61 years) pictured above (l-r): Donna Douglas, Max Baer, Jr., Buddy Ebsen and Bea Benaderet The performer playing Jethrine was not credited. "Mary Tyler Moore" - "Christmas and the Hard Luck Kid II" December 19, 1970 (53 years) pictured above: Mary Tyler Moore as Mary Richards "Dynasty" - "The Holiday Spirit" December 19, 1984 (39 years) pictured above: back row (l-r): John James, Diahann Carroll, Jack Coleman, Pamela Bellwood and Gordon Thomson front row (l-r): Michael Nader, Dame Joan Collins, John Forsythe, Linda Evans and Catherine Oxenberg

 Celebrating the 18th Anniversary of this classic episode! Homer's depiction of Jesus' entrance to the world

 Celebrating 57 years of this beloved television special! pictured above: Boris Karloff (the voice of the Grinch)

 Celebrating broadcast anniversaries... "I Love Lucy" - "Little Ricky's School Pageant" December 17, 1956 (67 years) pictured above: Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance "The Simpsons" - "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" December 17, 1989 (34 years)

 Celebrating broadcast anniversaries... "Dragnet" - "The Human Bomb" December 16, 1951 (72 years) pictured above: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday "Mickey's Christmas Carol" - December 16, 1983 Celebrating 40 years! "The Golden Girls" - "Have Yourself a Very Little Christmas" December 16, 1989 (34 years) pictured above: Beatrice Arthur and Herbert Edelman as Dorothy and Stanley Zbornak

 Merry Christmas from the gang at The Daily Planet! This episode turns 27 this year pictured above: Dean Cain as Superman and Lane Smith as Perry White (Santa Claus)

Jean Stapleton, Sally Struthers and Rob Reiner on "All in the Family"

 Celebrating broadcast anniversaries... "The Lucy Show" - "Lucy the Choirmaster" December 13, 1965 (58 years) pictured above: Lucille Ball and Gale Gordon "Murder, She Wrote" - "A Christmas Secret" December 13, 1992 (31 years) pictured above: Dame Angela Lansbury and William Windom

 Celebrating broadcast anniversaries... "I Love Lucy" - "Ricky's European Booking" December 12, 1955 (68 years) pictured above: Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance "Sanford and Son" - "Ebenezer Sanford" December 12, 1975 (48 years) pictured above: LaWanda Page as Aunt Esther Anderson

pictured above: Michael Keaton as Batman Batman Returns is set during the Christmas season in Gotham City.  Does that make it a Christmas film?