Beyond Charlie Brown: weird and obscure Christmas specials

Every year, they play the same holiday specials and films on television: How the Grinch Stole Christmas, It’s a Wonderful Life, Tim Allen’s cinematic masterpiece The Santa Clause, maybechristmas-comes-to-pacland.jpg Home Alone. We know them by heart. But there are lots and lots of Christmas specials out there. Including some you wouldn’t imagine. A gentleman named Zack Smith has rounded up the strangest and most intriguing Christmas specials you’ve never heard of: check out his list here (via BoingBoing). 

Highlights include He-Man and She-Ra: A Christmas Special, Christmas Comes to Pacland (see left), and this excellent adaptation of the classic children’s book The Snowman starring David Bowie:

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