5 Most Nostalgic Christmas Specials From Your Favorite Childhood TV Shows
It is time to travel back in time.
Holiday specials are the perfect option for those who haven't yet gotten into the holiday spirit. We offer episodes from our childhood that will take you back to that carefree time, albeit for a while.
1. Gilmore Girls (2000-2007) – Santa's Secret Stuff – Season 7 Episode 11
Gilmore Girls is the coziest show of the 2000s, worth watching under the covers with a cup of warm tea. The Christmas episodes continue the structure of the series and usually do not stand out with eccentric directorial decisions.
Santa's Secret Stuff does not give any revelations, but it is charged with a special mood. Rory spends the winter holidays with her parents, who have reunited after a long separation.
After the reunion, the Gilmores try to celebrate the holiday together and even bake cookies. But the awkwardness of dealing with their parents' former partners becomes apparent. Rory and Lorelai try to salvage the situation with the help of letters.
2. ER (1994-2009) – I'll Be Home for Christmas – Season 8 Episode 10
In a special holiday episode, passions are running high in the emergency room of the hospital. Dr. John's family is in crisis, and brilliant surgeon Peter is fighting for custody of his own son. And only Elizabeth seems to be getting better.
Within the walls of the hospital, important conversations about family also take place: a dying woman begs the doctors to hide a terrible diagnosis from her husband and children; a man who has lost his memory reaches out to a non-existent wife.
At the end of the episode, a true medical miracle happens right on the operating table, giving people faith in the year ahead.
3. Seinfeld (1989-1998) – The Strike – Season 9 Episode 10
The tenth episode of the ninth season was the most memorable for viewers. This is largely due to George Costanza inventing a new holiday – Festivus.
And all because George, in an attempt to avoid spending money on gifts for coworkers, gives everyone checks for donations to a non-existent charity. When the scam is exposed, Costanza comes up with an alternative holiday and plunges deeper into the abyss of absurd lies.
4. Xena: Warrior Princess (1995-2001) – A Solstice Carol – Season 2 Episode 9
A Solstice Carol is a kaleidoscope of madness. Xena must save Christmas (which does not yet exist in this world, which is why the holiday is called Solstice) and also show the ruler, Silvus, the importance of kindness and love.
The king is angry for a reason – on one of the holidays, Silvus lost his wife, and now every Solstice is a sad reminder of that event.
5. Daria (1997-2002) – All-Holiday Show – Season 3 Episode 4
The special Christmas episode, All-Holiday Show, is not connected to the show's main storyline – it's a humorous fairy tale in the spirit of the series.
Daria meets Cupid and Leprechaun, the symbols of Valentine's Day and St. Patrick's Day, who ask her to return to the Island of Holidays, where the spirits of Christmas, Halloween and Guy Fawkes have decided to take an indefinite vacation and study music.
A skeptical Daria doesn't believe in Cupid's existence and asks him to prove his charms to her parents, who are going through a marital crisis.