A Different Kind of Christmas

Dec 9, 1996

1h 30m

★ 4.6

Overview

When you're the city attorney you don't need the kinds of problems that her father was giving her. After her mother died, her father began doing his "Santa Schtick," as she called it, much more intensely... which meant that he turned his home into a kind of year-round Santa Claus castle where children of all ages could come to see the wonderful presents and no child ever left without a gift.

Genres

Drama

TV Movie

Production Companies

Hearst Entertainment Productions

Carroll Newman Productions

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Cast

Elizabeth Gates

Shelley Long

Frank Mallory

Barry Bostwick

Henry

Richard K. Olsen

Tommy Gates

Nathan Lawrence

Susan

Nancy McLoughlin

Alan Schaefer

Michael E. Knight

Santa

Bruce Kirby

Fran

Janell McLeod

Michael

Keith Flippen

Marguerite

Rebecca Koon

Lester

Troy Simmons

Charlie

Wells Struble

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