Christmas Shows

Christmas Eve through Christmas Day Shows

Christmas Choirs presented by: LaRiche Chevrolet Cadillac, Instrument Care Center, Northwest Ohio Railroad Preservation

Brought to you in part by: TR Williams Insurance, Reading Grounds, Flag City Auto Wash, DNC Hydraulics, Wild Cat Café, Brooks Truck and Trailer Repair, McComb Dental, Hanneman Funeral Home, Arlington Pharmacy, Angela B. Bateson DDS, Siferd Plumbing, Heating & AC, Village of North Baltimore, Kelsei’s Hair and Nail Salon, Forney Sales and Service, Martin Meats, The Dough Hook, Boutique 415, Dietsch Brothers Fine Chocolates and Ice Cream and Citizen’s National Bank.

Christmas Old Time Radio Shows presented by: Pete’s Auto Service and T.R. Williams Insurance.

6-9am…Good Mornings Christmas Eve—a special Christmas Eve edition of Good Mornings with special features and lots of holiday music. Presented by Organized Chaos Vintage and Sink’s Flower Shop and Greenhouse.

9-10am…Miracle on 34th Street—the Lux Radio Theatre production from 1947 with Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O’Hara and John Payne recreating their movie roles.

10:00am-4:00pm…Christmas Choirs

  • 10-11AM…University of Findlay Concert Band
  • 11-11:15AM….Cory Rawson High School
  • 11:15-11:30AM…Vanlue High School
  • 11:30-12PM…McComb High School
  • 12-12:30PM…Arlington High School
  • 12:30-1PM…Van Buren High School
  • 1-1:15PM…North Baltimore High School
  • 1:15-1:30PM…Riverdale High School
  • 1:30-2PM…Arcadia High School
  • 2-3PM…Bluffton University
  • 3-3:30PM…Liberty Benton High School
  • 3:30-4PM…Findlay High School

4-5pm…It’s a Wonderful Life—the 1947 Lux Radio Theatre production with James Stewart as George Bailey and Donna Reed as Mary Hatch.

5pm-8am (12/25)…An American Christmas—hosted by Chip Davis, founder of the top-selling group Mannheim Steamroller. The stories and legends surrounding the holiday, all keyed to today’s popular and traditional Christmas music. Sure, there’s Mannheim music, but also all the traditional music of the holiday, too.

8-9am…A Christmas Carol—the CBS/Campbell Playhouse production that originally aired on Christmas Eve in 1939. Narrated by Orson Welles and starring Lionel Barrymore as Scrooge.

9am-1pm…Old Time Radio Christmas Shows

  • 9-9:30…Abbott & Costello—“Christmas Shopping” (1944)
  • 9:30-10…Fibber McGee and Molly—“Making Christmas Cards” (1949)
  • 10-10:30…Milton Berle—“Salute to Christmas” (1947)
  • 10:30-11…Red Skelton—“The Little Christmas Tree” (1951)
  • 11-12pm…Command Performance–“Christmas Show” (1942) (Command Performance was one of the few radio shows that were sent overseas to boost the morale of U.S. troops during World War II. This program stars Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, The Andrews Sisters, Jack Benny and many more and also contains the “Fred Allen Christmas Program”)
  • 12-12:30…Jack Benny—“Christmas Shopping for Perfume and a Necktie” (1939)
  • 12:30-1…Bing Crosby—“Crosby Family Christmas” (1950)

1pm-12am…An American Christmas