A Garfield Christmas becoming increasingly popular in voice work. After the 1970s, she was working on "Legends of the Superheroes" and "Pound Puppies". The episode first aired on December 21, 1987. According to "Bustle", the special was rebroadcast every year until 2000. It often played along with the 1965 "Peanuts" special "A Charlie Brown Christmas." In 2004, "A Garfield Christmas" was released on the DVD "Garfield Holiday Celebrations", along with "Garfield's Halloween Adventure" and "Garfield's Thanksgiving". It appeared 23rd in TV DVD sales for the week of November 10, 2007. In 2014, "Entertainment Weekly" reported copies of the DVD "were selling on eBay
'Twas the Night Before Christmas (1977 TV special) 'Twas the Night Before Christmas (1977 TV special) Twas the Night Before Christmas is a Christmas television special loosely inspired by the 1823 poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" by Clement Clarke Moore. It first aired December 7, 1977 on ABC. Directed by Tim Kiley, it stars Paul Lynde, Anne Meara, Martha Raye, and Alice Ghostley. The story is set on Christmas Eve in a New England town in the late 1890s. The Cosgrove family's home is in an uproar over the holidays. The patriarch, Clark Cosgrove (Paul Lynde) is frazzled by the gift demands of his loud children. His