
'Twas the Night Before Christmas
1977-12-07 · 45 min · Not rated
The story of the Cosgrove family on Christmas Eve in a New England town in the late 1890s.
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- Tim Kiley
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Paul Lynde
Anne Meara
Alice Ghostley
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