To prove my point, I’ve chosen to begin the list, which runs in reverse order, with A Happy Yule Log, the video that ran all of Thanksgiving Day on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. Sometimes the simple pleasures are the best, even on television! Classic holiday songs played as kittens and puppies frolicked in front of a roaring fire in a room decked out for the beginning of the Christmas season. (That's last year's Hallmark holiday video above.)
If kittens, puppies, holiday songs and a cozy fire can’t warm you up, you must have “ice water in your veins,” as Lou Grant used to say. For that matter, if the cavalcade of original Christmas movies that run on Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries at this time of year don't put you in the holiday mood that ice water must have frozen. (I especially liked the recent Broadcasting Christmas, which ran on Thanksgiving Eve and starred Melissa Joan Hart and Dean Cain, because it was filmed right here in Bridgeport, Conn.)