Product Details

• Actors: Jimmy Durante, Thomas Mitchell, Seymour Hicks, Johnny Whitaker, Fred Gwynne
• Directors: Various
• Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 4
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Mill Creek Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: July 22, 2008
• Run Time: 1260 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00198LHB8
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #117,780 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Hours of Holiday Entertainment can be found in this amazing collection of live-action and animated Christmas titles. You'll be thrilled to see such seasonal favorites such as The Great Rupert with Jimmy Durante; A Christmas Without Snow with Michael Learned and John Houseman; The Littlest Angel with Johnny Whitaker and Fred Gwynne; as well as such animated hits as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Santa and the Three Bears, Jack Frost, The Night Before Christmas, The Little Match Girl and Jingle Bells. This value-packed collection is sure to be a hit!

Classic Christmas Cartoons

The Candlemaker - Short
Christmas Comes But Once A Year - Short 
A Christmas Dream - Short
Christmas Fairy Tale - Short
Christmas Night - Short
A Christmas Visit - Short
The Christmas Visitor - Short 
The Elf and Mr. Little - Short
The First Christmas - Feature
Hector's Hectic Life - Short
Howdy Doody's Christmas - Short
Jack Frost - Short
Jingle Bells - Short
The Little Lamb - Short
The Little Match Girl - Short
Merry Christmas - Short
The Night Before Christmas - Short
O' Come All Ye Faithful - Short
O' Little Town of Bethlehem - Short
A Present for Santa Claus - Short
Rudolph, the Red Nosed Reindeer - Short
Santa and the Fairy Snow Queen - Feature
Santa and the Three Bears - Feature
Santa Claus Story - Short
Santa in Animal Land - Short
Silent Night: Story of the Christmas Carol - Short
Snow Foolin' - Short

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars You get what you paid for, October 24, 2009

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Cat (New England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Holiday Family Favorites (DVD)

My parents had just bought this set of 8 dvds. Now granted, there is a LOT on here.... but it's not good quality.

I've got the cartoon disc on right now, and it's all off colored, skipping, with really bad quality. It looks like someone taped them off tv and then transferred them to dvd.

Or maybe the production value was just really that bad.

It's all public domain, so you're getting exactly what you paid for. The only good thing on this disc is the original Rudolph cartoon, and even that seems like it could have gotten a better treatment.

If you want good cartoons, stick with the ones you know. The stop motion Rudolph, Charlie Brown, and The Grinch will be the ones your kids want. Not this.

9 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 12 Yuletime features and TV shows, plus 27 cartoons, September 16, 2008

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Annie Van Auken (Planet Earth) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Holiday Family Favorites (DVD)

MILL CREEK's HOLIDAY FAMILY FAVORITES contains a dozen movies and TV programs plus 27 cartoons, all on four DVDs.


For more festive fun, try MGM's CHRISTMAS FAMILY DVD 3 PACK. It's a triple feature of "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," "It's a Very Merry Muppet Movie" and "Prancer."


PROGRAM LIST for "Holiday Family Favorites":

FEATURE FILMS--
(6.5) Beyond Tomorrow 1940) - Harry Carey/C. Aubrey Smith/Charles Winninger/Rod La Rocque/Richard Carlson
(6.3) A Christmas Without Snow (TV-1980) - Michael Learned/John Houseman/Valerie Curtin
(6.7) The Great Rupert (1950) - Jimmy Durante/Terry Moore/Tom Drake/Chick Chandler
(???) Little Women, Part 1 - Jo's Story ("Studio One") (TV-1950) - Nancy Marchand/Berry Kroeger/Una O'Connor
(???) Little Women, Part 2 - Meg's Story ("Studio One") (TV-1950) - Nancy Marchand/Berry Kroeger/Una O'Connor
(6.2) The Littlest Angel (TV-1969) - Johnny Whitaker/Fred Gwynne/Cab Calloway/E.G. Marshall/John McGiver/Tony Randall/Connie Stevens/James Coco
(5.7) The Miracle on 34th Street ("20th Century Fox Hour") (TV-1955) - Thomas Mitchell/Teresa Wright/Macdonald Carey/Don Beddoe/Hans Conried
(???) The Nativity ("Studio One") (TV-1952) - Thomas Chalmers/Paul Tripp/Hurd Hatfield
(5.4) The Pilgrimage Play (1949) - Nelson Leigh/Alden 'Stephen' Chase/Leonard Penn/John Doucette
(1.9) Santa Claus (Mexico-1959) - José Elías Moreno/Cesáreo Quezadas 'Pulgarcito'/José Luis Aguirre 'Trotsky'
(2.6) Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964) - John Call/Leonard Hicks/Pia Zadora
(6.4) Scrooge (UK-1935) - Seymour Hicks/Donald Calthrop/Maurice Evans


CARTOONS (details where available)--
(Studios: Audio-Visual [av], Famous [fa], Fleischer [fl], Halas & Batchelor [hb], Powers [pow], Rankin-Bass [rb], R&S Film Ent. [rs], TerryToons [tt])

THE CANDLEMAKER (1957) [hb] - A candlemaker and son labor under a Christmas deadline on a big order (made for the Lutheran Church).
CHRISTMAS COMES BUT ONCE A YEAR (1936) [fl] - Grampy brightens some orphans Xmas with his invented toys. Nice 3-D final scene.
A CHRISTMAS DREAM
CHRISTMAS FAIRY TALE
CHRISTMAS NIGHT
A CHRISTMAS VISIT
THE CHRISTMAS VISITOR (1959) [hb] - While Santa enjoys a cigar, the toys he's just delivered do battle.
THE ELF AND MR. LITTLE
HECTOR'S HECTIC LIFE (1948) [fa] - Prince is in trouble with his master and may get kicked out of the house on Xmas Eve. Then a basket of mischievous puppies arrives...
HOWDY DOODY'S CHRISTMAS
JACK FROST (1934) [pow] - Jack's warnings to prepare for winter go unheeded by a young bear.
JINGLE BELLS (1931) [tt] - Tom and George compete in the annual sleigh race.
THE LITTLE LAMB
THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL (1937) [col] - Hans Christian Anderson's story is set on New Year's Eve.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
O COME ALL YE FAITHFUL
O LITTLE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM (1950) [av]
A PRESENT FOR SANTA CLAUS - Short
RUDOLPH, THE RED NOSED REINDEER (1944) [ha] - Rare post-Fleischer Studios short directed by Max F. himself closely follows the famous holiday song's plot.
SANTA AND THE FAIRY SNOW QUEEN (feature)
SANTA AND THE THREE BEARS (1970) [rs] - Hal March/Jean Vander Pyl (voices)
SANTA CLAUS STORY
SANTA IN ANIMAL LAND
SILENT NIGHT: STORY OF THE FIRST CHRISTMAS CAROL
SNOW FOOLIN' (1949) [fa] - A massive woodland snowfall is the setting for this first-day-of-winter "Jingle Bells" singalong.
THE STORY OF THE FIRST CHRISTMAS (Australia-1975) [rb] (Claymation)

4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Sounds better than it is, December 19, 2010

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K. Davidson "KelliDD" (BoomerSoonerLand) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Holiday Family Favorites (DVD)

It's not that this is a terrible video for it is not. It is a good one....sort of. Most of the cartoons were so depressing, I didn't feel like it was the Christmas season. All I wanted to do was go to sleep when it was finally over! The shows were fine, but not as pleasant as that other videos I bought that day!