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Home for the Holidays

ABC is spreading holiday cheer this season with a lineup of festive programming during the annual “Home for the Holidays” event that will air during the most wonderful time of the year.

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2024 ABC Holiday Programming News

Highlights include The Wonderful World of Disney movies, “Frozen,” “Home Alone,” and “The Santa Clause”; holiday-themed episodes of fan-favorite shows including “The $100,000 Pyramid,” “America’s Funniest Home Videos” and “Shark Tank”; and a magical new season of “The Great Christmas Light Fight” also returns, along with news of a season 12 pickup for 2024.

Dazzling holiday specials, including “CMA Country Christmas” from Nashville, “The Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade,” “The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration,” “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest,” and the previously announced “iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2023” special, round out the schedule.

2024 ABC Christmas Movie Schedule

PLEASE NOTE: Date/times are subject to change (all times shown in ET)
Airings below are based on a generic national schedule. Times/dates can vary by TV provider.

SEE THE FULL CHRISTMAS MOVIE SCHEDULE

Wednesday, December 25, 2024

• 10:00am – Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade

Tuesday, December 31, 2024

• 8:00pm – Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2025

Christmas Movies That Originally Aired on ABC

• A Christmas Carol (1971)
• A Christmas Memory (1966)
• A Dream for Christmas (1973)
• A Flintstones Family Christmas (1993)
• A Muppet Family Christmas (1987)
• A Pink Christmas (1978)
• A Smoky Mountain Christmas (1986)
• An American Christmas Carol (1979)
• Benji’s Very Own Christmas Story (1978)
• Carol for Another Christmas (1964)
• Eloise At Christmastime (2003)
• Frosty’s Winter Wonderland (1976)
• Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House (2002)
• I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown (2003)
• It Happened One Christmas (1977)
• John Grin’s Christmas Carol (1986)
• Leprechaun’s Christmas Gold (1981)
• Mickey Saves Christmas (2022)
• Naughty or Nice (2004)
• Nestor the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey (1977)
• Pinocchio’s Christmas (1980)
• Prep & Landing (2009)
• Prep & Landing: Naughty Vs Nice (2011)
• Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July (1979)
• Rudolph’s Shiny New Year (1976)
• Same Time, Next Christmas (2019)
• Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town (1970)
• Shrek the Halls (2007)
• The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (1983)
• The Christmas Star (1986)
• The Christmas Toy (1986)
• The Fourth Wise Man (1985)
• The Gathering (1977)
• The Grinch Grinches The Cat in the Hat (1982)
• The Night They Saved Christmas (1984)
• The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974)
• To Grandmother’s House We Go (1992)
• Toy Story That Time Forgot (2014)
• Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too (1991)
• Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus (1974)
• Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus (1991)
• Young Pioneers’ Christmas (1976)