Winter holiday episodes of fannish shows

[brightknightie]

What are your favorite winter holiday episodes/specials of fannish shows? Any winter holiday is eligible (Christmas, Hannukkah, New Year's, Solstice, Diwali...) and any show you consider fannish. Yet these episodes do have to come out of regular shows; my dear Rankin/Bass holiday specials universe is ineligible, as are feature films.

Bonus points for identifying the season, episode number, and title, to help folks find and enjoy the episode, whether on streaming or DVD. :-D

My own all-time favorite by total rewatches is Blackadder's Christmas Carol, a parody of Dickens' tale, which was a standalone special produced between Seasons 3 and 4 (Wikipedia entry). Runner up is the Pinky & the Brain Christmas episode, which is now found with Season 1, but was originally a prime-time special, in which the mice do what they always do, but at Christmas, with overflowing measure of Pinky's sweet heart (Wikipedia entry).

How about you? Any Buffyverse episodes? PBS/BBC Masterpiece Theater series specials? Very old shows from your childhood, very recent shows from this year...?

Thanks!

Comments

[skieswideopen]

I have the complete Blackadder on DVD, which I purchased on a whim a few years ago because I have fond memories of a friend in high school introducing me to Blackadder Goes Forth, but I've never watched the Christmas special. I've added it to my list for this year.

My personal favourites include Supernatural's "A Very Supernatural Christmas," from the third season and bittersweet in the way that a lot of the third season was, and Timeless's "The Miracle of Christmas," though that doubled as the series finale, so it's a bit of a special case.

[brightknightie]

To each her own, yet... I think that I would recommend any season of Blackadder for a newbie before the fourth season. That is not an entry point that I would have guessed! :-D

Interestingly, it looks like Timeless is available on all the major paid streaming services in the US. That's unusual!

Supernatural is pretty widely available, too, but to my surprise, even the first season is not free for Amazon Prime or YouTube Premium. Hmmm.

[skieswideopen]

You know, I can't recall why we started with the fourth season. There may have been a reason, but I have no idea what it was.

I'm a little astonished that any show is available on multiple platforms. I would have expected the services to demand exclusivity! Very interesting.

I love your icon! Very seasonally appropriate.