Time is precious during the holiday season, so check our lists before you select your Christmas movies, pop some corn, make some cocoa and spend some quality time with Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus, Scrooge, Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy March, and Clarence, and don't forget Bing and Danny!  It really is the most wonderful time of the year!
Each Christmas we shamelessly wallow in sweet sentiment brought to us courtesy of Hollywood, a glittering Tinsel Town filled with holiday spirit.It wouldn’t seem like Christmas if we didn’t spend some quality time with Jimmy Stewart and the folks of Bedford Falls or the March sisters—Jo, Beth, Meg and Amy. Scrooge is always a welcome guest in our home during the festive season, as well as newcomers such as the seemingly cursed but eternally optimistic Clark Griswold in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation and Ralphie and his quest for a BB gun in the seminal A Christmas Story, a film that has justifiably attained classic Christmas status.
Our love of Christmas movies goes back to our childhood as many of the chapters in this volume relate. Christmas is our favorite time of year, a time people seem a little friendlier, children more closely resemble angels and family ties are a little more important. We decided it was time we share our love of the season and our favorite Christmas movies with other holiday cinema fans and wrote the book It's Christmas Time at the Movies. We hope you enjoy our efforts.
Merry Christmas and may your journey though these pages provide you with many happy returns.
—Susan Svehla

Schedule of some of our favorite holiday films
on Turner Classic Movies:

All Mine to Give 12/23 12:00 p.m.
Bachelor Mother 12/22 11:45 p.m.
The Bells of St. Mary's 12/24 12:00 a.m.
The Bishop's Wife 12/16 2:00 p.m. & 12/24 8:00 p.m.
Bundle of Joy 12/25 2:15 p.m.
Bush Christmas 12/22 8:30 a.m.
A Christmas Carol (1938) 12/24 6:45 p.m.
Christmas in Connecticut 12/23 8:00 p.m. & 12/25 10:45 a.m.
Holiday Affair 12/23 10:00 p .m. & 12/24 1:45 p.m.
In the Good Old Summertime 12/2 10:00 p.m. & 12/24 9:45 a.m.
Little Women (1949) 12/8 6:00 a.m. & 12/24 11:30 a.m.
Love Finds Andy Hardy 12/16 10:00 p.m. & 12/24 6:00 a.m.
The Man Who Came to Dinner 12/24 4:45 p.m.
Meet John Doe 12/9 9:30 p.m.
Meet Me in St. Louis 12/24 2:15 a.m.
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 12/18 12:30 a.m.
Night of the Hunter 12/22 3:45 p.m.
Penny Serenade 12/17 8:00 a.m.
Period of Adjustment 12/9 6:00 a.m. & 12/25 4:00 p.m.
Shop Around the Corner 12/2 8:00 p.m.
Susan Slept Here 12/16 Noon, 12/25 12:30 p.m.
Tenth Avenue Angel 12/24 3:15 p.m.
The Thin Man 12/2 6:00 p.m.
3 Godfathers 12/15 12:30 p.m. & 12/24 7:45 a.m.
Three Godfathers (1936) 12/25 6:00 a.m.

Fox Movie Channel
Die Hard 2: Die Harder 12/11 10:00 p.m.
Edward Scissorhands 12/16 6:00 p.m. & 12/21 8:00 p.m.
Home Alone 2 12/22 8:00 p.m. & 3 12/22 4:00 p.m.
Miracle on 34th Street (1947) 12/15 4:00 (both all day on 12/25)
Miracle on 34th Street (1994) 12/15 6:00 p.m.
Trapped in Paradise 12/15 10:00 p.m. & 12/21 6:00 p.m.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 12/5 6:00 a.m.

ABC Family Channel
25 days of Christmas features
made for TV Christmas movies and
beloved cartoons