In this second Christmas episode of “The Beverly Hillbillies”, the Clampetts experience their first Christmas at home in Beverly Hills. And discover artificial snow. Or “Beverly Hills” snow as Jed refers to it.

As Ellie May, Jethro and Granny begin to open their gifts, there seems to be a reoccurring theme to them: water. Ellie May receives a hair dryer, which she thinks is a hat with a hose attached to it to “let the water drain off” her hat when she’s walking in the rain. Jethro opens a “new suit” made of rubber, which is a skin diving suit. And Granny gets a new TV, which she thinks is a fancy electric washing machine and the antennas are the clothes drying rack.

The Clampetts give Mrs. Drysdale what she wants most for Christmas: a mink. A LIVE mink. Jed states that Mrs. Drysdale wanted a “full-length mink” and Ellie May replies that “it’s as long as they come”.

But the Clampetts have yet to see the biggest gift of all: a boat parked in their driveway, complete with a chimp for a “skipper”, much to Ellie May’s delight. All the gifts are a ploy from Mr. Drysdale to try to keep the Clampetts in Beverly Hills.

The Drysdales go over to visit the Clampetts and try to clear up all the confusion. Granny gifts Mrs. Drysdale a smorgasbord of hillbilly foods such as “candied catfish and owl burgers”. Ellie May then informs Mrs. Drysdale that she’s lost her gift, greatly upsetting Mrs. Drysdale, who is under the impression that the gift is a diamond. If only she knew.

This touching episode would be the first of several “Little House” Christmas episodes that would air over the nine-year run.

It’s the first Christmas for the Ingalls family in their new home at Plum Creek. Weighing on the young ‘uns minds are what gifts to buy Ma and Pa and how to pay for those gifts. The same goes for Ma and Pa themselves.

During a visit to Oleson’s store, it is discovered what is everyone’s heart’s desire: Caroline admires a stove, to which both Charles and Laura notice, both Mary and Caroline fondle some fabric, both thinking it would make a great shirt for Charles and little Carrie is fascinated with a star.

Everyone sets out in their own ways to earn the money so they can buy what they want. Mr. Oleson mentions to Charles that he has a customer who needs new wheels for his wagon. Charles takes on the task of fixing the wheels to earn some quick cash.

Mary is ecstatic when she gains an opportunity to help the town seamstress out. It gives her the chance to also make the shirt she wants to make for Pa.

Caroline is selling more eggs than usual to Olsen’s Mercantile in the hopes of making the same shirt for Pa.

Laura is left with the dilemma of wanting to buy her mother the same stove Pa is intending to buy with his money from the wheels. She unselfishly barters her pony Bunny, a pony Nellie Oleson has had her eyes on for a while, in exchange for the stove.

Meanwhile Carrie finds a penny and goes with her sisters to Oleson’s and buys the star for the Christmas tree. Although the star normally goes for five cents, good ol’ Mr. Oleson sells it to Carrie for her penny.

Next Charles goes back to Oleson’s to buy the stove for Caroline only to learn that it’s been sold.

The day before Christmas Mr. Oleson delivers a large box to the Ingalls’ home and says it’s for Caroline. Of course Charles thinks that Mr. Oleson came through for him and managed to get another stove.

Christmas morning is filled with surprise. Charles opens his gift from Mary to discover a shirt she has been tirelessly making. Caroline successfully hides her look of shock/disappointment at the very gift she was going to present her husband with. Being the kind of mother she is, she compliments Mary’s handiwork and discreetly hides her gift under the tree skirt.

Laura opens her gift to discover a saddle Charles has spent weeks making for her pony Bunny. The very Bunny she has bartered.

Caroline opens her box and is beside herself to find the stove. Charles looks pleased with himself, until Caroline opens the card to discover the stove is from Laura.

As Mr. Oleson and Nellie arrive to collect Bunny, the rest of the family learn how Laura was able to afford the stove.

As Carrie excitedly opens her gift of the star and Charles helps her place it on top of the tree, the true meaning of Christmas is felt all around.

FUN FACT: This was the only Christmas episode for “The Andy Griffith Show”.

It’s Christmas in Mayberry and Andy is planning a great party with Aunt Bea and tells Barney he has to play Santa Claus. But because there currently are prisoners in the jail, Barney tells Andy he can’t attend because someone has to watch the prisoners. So, Andy makes the executive decision to release all the prisoners for Christmas.

Just as he does in walks Ben Weaver, a grumpy spirit store owner, with Sam Muggins, a citizen that Ben has caught making moonshine and cutting in on his business. He insists Andy arrest him and put him in jail. Ben states he’s going to watch the jailhouse and if Sam isn’t kept in his cell, he’s going to report Andy to the state.

So Andy is forced to place Sam in a cell but decides since it’s Christmas, he deserves to be with his family. Enter Sam’s wife and kids who also stay with him in the cell. And since Andy and Barney can’t go to the Christmas party at Aunt Bea’s, Aunt Bea and the Christmas party come to Andy at the jail.

Meanwhile Ben is watching everything. And secretly wanting to be a part of it. So much he tries to break the law in an attempt to get arrested himself. Andy catches on and hauls Ben in with his suitcase. Which just so happens to be filled with odd and end gifts for the children.

In the end Andy wakes Sam and tells him to go home with his family. Sam asks about the evidence of the moonshine and it turns out that Andy had placed the moonshine in the cell with Ben, who ended up drinking it.

You can never go wrong with an episode of “The Golden Girls”. Especially a Christmas episode.

The Florida heat has gotten to everyone and nobody wants to shop any longer, putting everyone (except Rose) in a foul mood. To make matters worse, Stan, Dorothy’s ex-husband, shows up looking for a handout to jumpstart his new “business”, a “research and development lab”. He just needs $1000 from each of the ladies. Of course they say no and send Stan packing.

Dorothy then suggests that because of the intense heat and fact it’s only two days until Christmas, instead of each of them going shopping for each other, they just each pick a name and buy for that one person. Of course Rose asks who’s names they will be picking and Dorothy sarcastically replies “The Oak Ridge Boys”. Blanche isn’t keen on choosing names because she doesn’t like Rose’s gifts. But exchange names they do and to her displeasure, Blanche’s gift giver is Rose.

Surprisingly on Christmas morning Blanche is surprised with her gift from Rose.

Blanche: “It’s a beautiful blouse.”

Rose: “I hope it’s alright. Dorothy said you’d like something crotchless.”

Rose then announces that she has to get ready to go to the church to help serve dinner to the homeless. The other offer to volunteer, although Sophia does seem perturbed to be missing out on watching “Scarface”.

While serving the food, a man dressed as Santa Claus approaches Dorothy. It turns out to be Stan.

Dorothy later confides in Stan as he’s eating and asks him what he’s doing there. She learns that Stan has hit hard times, that he was just trying to swindle money out of them with his “research and development lab” story and his wife has thrown him out of the house. He mentions how he was relying on a shipment of toy firetrucks from Germany to come through for the holidays and they had just arrived the day before so he had no means of selling them in time.

Dorothy becomes angry at Stan for lying to her and for being the jerk that he’s always been. Then while she’s dishing out pie with Blanche, Sophia comes in and tells Dorothy how Stan is out there bringing everyone else down. Dorothy goes and talks to him, they reminisce about old times and she reminds him how he’s always been an innovator. In the end, Stan comes in as Santa with his sack full of the fire engines he no longer has any means for and passes them out to the children that are there.

Celebrating its 70^th anniversary this year is this classic episode from “The Honeymooners” featuring an orange juice squeezer in the shape of Napoleon’s head and a lot of Christmas gift hijinks between Alice and Ralph. Because Alice can’t trust Ralph with not trying to find his present.

While Alice is gone from the apartment, Ed drops in and Ralph can’t help but brag about the present his has gotten Alice: a box to keep hairpins in. Ralph blabs on to Ed that he was told the box is all handmade, 2000 matches glued together and made in Japan. On top of that, the guy told Ralph that it’s the only one in the whole world and that at one time it was in the house of the Emperor of Japan. Ralph is convinced he’s sitting on a really special gift for Alice.

Ed convinces Ralph to give the gift to Alice that night, although the Kramdens usually wait until Christmas morning to exchange gifts. Just as Ralph is about to give Alice her gift, a neighbor, Mrs. Stevens, arrives with a gift for Alice. Wouldn’t you know it’s the same one-of-a-kind hairpin box that Ralph is holding behind his back. The look on Ralph’s face as he watches Alice open it is priceless. Now Ralph has a real dilemma on his hands.

Ralph needs to figure out how to get cash fast to buy another present. Ralph keeps knocking himself for spending his last $22.00 on a bowling ball. Because if he hadn’t, he’d have the money to buy Alice another gift.

Ralph believes his problem is solved when Uncle Leo stops by with a gift and it just happens to be a twenty-five dollar gift certificate to a store. But before he can spend it on another gift for Alice, a misunderstanding causes it to wind up in Alice’s hands.

In a twist straight out of “The Gift of the Magi”, Ralph decides to hock his bowling ball and takes the proceeds to purchase a new gift for Alice.

In the final scene when Alice and Ralph exchange gifts, Ralph discovers that Alice has gifted him a bowling ball bag and he has to come clean about his bowling ball whereabouts when she wants to see how well the ball fits in the bag. And what did Ralph buy Alice with his bowling ball proceeds? An orange juice squeezer in the shape of Napoleon’s head. Which Alice just loves. Probably as much as Trixie loves hers.

The episode ends with Ralph’s monologue about Christmas: “Christmas, well it’s about the best time of the whole year. You walk down the streets even for weeks before Christmas comes and there’s lights hanging up, green ones and red ones, sometimes there’s snow and everybody’s hustling someplace. But they don’t hustle around Christmastime like they usually do. You know, there’re a little more friendly. They bump into you, they laugh and they say pardon me, Merry Christmas. Especially when it gets really close to Christmas night. Everybody’s walking home, you can hardly hear a sound. Bells are ringing, kids are singing. Snow is coming down. And boy what a pleasure it is to think that you got someplace to go to and the place that you’re going to there’s somebody in it that you really love. Someone you’re nuts about. Merry Christmas”.