The TV Zone

You want a handmade holiday present? Here's a biggie – hundreds of Christmas episodes, cartoon specials, music, comedy, cooking shows, seasonal cinema, holiday history.

You name it – for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa – and it's likely listed chronologically here at The TV Zone by date and time within handy genres, collected under the Christmas Tube category on the right side of this page (scroll down below Recent Posts). Some of the season's most popular highlights got the spotlight in Newsday's Monday print edition (like "A Charlie Brown Christmas," pictured above and airing Nov. 27 on ABC), but this online repository is where the real riches reside.

This annual list gets put together the old-fashioned way – literally by hand, typing everything in after scouring TV channel press releases and advance schedules, not to mention personally pestering all my tube info contacts. (Thanks, guys and gals, for putting up with my incessant nudging.)

It's a humongous effort, getting more intense every year. But it's worth it, both for my own Christmas viewing/recording and for the hundreds of readers who annually tell me how much they love being able to find their faves.

Enjoy the listings already posted, and don't forget – this list is updated continually through the end of December, so check back frequently for added shows.

And click the "Comments" link right below this paragraph to let us know what you think. Happy holidays!