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* ''[[Mr. Magoo]]'s [[Yet Another Christmas Carol|Christmas Carol]]'' (1962) was the [[Ur Example|first animated one of these]] to be produced expressly for television.
* ''[[Dinner for One (Theatre)|Dinner for One]]'' (1963, usually associated with New Year's Eve)
* ''[[Rudolph the Red -Nosed Reindeer (Animation)|Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer]]'' (1964)
** ''[[Rudolph the Red -Nosed Reindeer (Animation)|Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer]]: [[The Movie]]'' (1998). It's mostly unrelated though.
* ''[[A Charlie Brown Christmas (Animation)|A Charlie Brown Christmas]]'' (1965; directly references the religious basis of Christmas when Linus, in a spotlight no less, quotes the Christmas story from one of the gospels)
** There are actually four ''[[Peanuts]]'' Christmas specials. Obviously, ''A Charlie Brown Christmas'' easily overshadows the other three, which consist of ''It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown'' (1992), ''Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales'' (2002), and ''I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown'' (2003). ''Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales'' was created specifically to pad out an hour timeslot for ''A Charlie Brown Christmas'' so that it wouldn't have to be [[Edited for Syndication]].