RP: 12/24-25 Happy whatever you’re having

The Remote Patrol for Christmas Eve & Day, December 24-25, 2008
by Thomas Allen Heald, Santa of the Satellite Dish
All times Eastern, for PBS programs, check local listings

TOM’S TWISTED TOTALLY TRIVIAL TV THINGY
Which position in the The Brady Bunch opening “grid” asked Santa to bring Mommy’s voice back for Christmas?
A) Center Square
B) Upper Left
C) Top Middle
D) Lower Left
E) Upper Right

Thursday brings the right answer, and possibly Santa.

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WEDNESDAY

8 p.m.
12 consecutive airings of “A CHRISTMAS STORY” (TBS) might put your eye out.

Celebrate the passage of California’s Proposition 8 on “CHRISTMAS WITH THE MORMON TABERNACLE CHOIR FEATURING THE KING’S SINGERS” (PBS), making the yuletide pay.

George Bailey’s manic depression earns him a bailout sans regulation on “IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE” (NBC).

9 p.m.
Fire things up on “SPECTACLE: ELVIS COSTELLO WITH . . . ” (Sundance) for the reign of James Taylor.

CHRISTMAS LIGHTS
11:35 P.M.
* The pope kvetches that he didn’t get the nightly 10 p.m. slot on “CHRISTMAS EVE MASS 2008″ (NBC).
* Priests and parishioners earn their SAG cards as the “VOICES OF CHRISTMAS” (CBS).

THURSDAY
8 p.m.
“HALLMARK HEROES WITH REGIS PHILBIN” (Hallmark) salutes four in the medical field, helping others with dementia, diabetes, and other life-threatening condition.

“DEAL OR NO DEAL” (NBC) doesn’t give away the million in a holiday episode.

9:30 p.m.
Bob Hoskins badgers Matt Lucas as Mr. Toad with “THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS” (PBS).

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TTTTTT ANSWER
Who suggested / hoped that “May Tomorrow Be a Perfect Day”? Donny and Marie at each episode’s end.

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