It Nearly Wasn't Christmas
– Feeling unneeded, a disillusioned Santa Claus (Charles Durning) quits Christmas. Through the selfles..
Feeling unneeded, a disillusioned Santa Claus (Charles Durning) quits Christmas. Through the selflessness of a little girl looking to reunite her parents for Christmas (and the help of his bumbling chief elf, Philpot (Bruce Vilanch), Santa and the child travel across America and Santa discovers that people really do need him and care about other people.
23 Dec 1989
English
Burt Brinckerhoff
Stanley Isaacs (story), Golda David (story), Alan Jay Glueckman (story), Golda David (teleplay), Alan Jay Glueckman (teleplay)
Beverly Rowland, Charles Durning, Risa Schiffman, Annette Marin
Feeling unneeded, a disillusioned Santa Claus (Charles Durning) quits Christmas. Through the selflessness of a little girl looking to reunite her parents for Christmas (and the help of his bumbling chief elf, Philpot (Bruce Vilanch), Santa and the child travel across America and Santa discovers that people really do need him and care about other people.
Ventura