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Show Scndiy Magaiine November The Salt Lake Tribune 27, 1963 Sl Yuletide brings a host of TV specials by Julianne Hastings United Press International NEW YORK - OK, so a lot of you dont believe Santa Claus can get you anything your heart desires. How about if there were a lower-levspirit who could put anything you wanted on TV for Christmas? A whole group of them right now g old lists comare piled by the A.C. Nielsen elves and deciding whos going to get what for el double-checkin- the holidays. They are bringing back some old favorites, along with some new. In the animation department, NBC promises specials starring the Chipmunks and the Smurfs. CBS will show Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer on Saturday (Dec. 3), the 1970 version of A Christmas Carol on Dec. 4, A Snow White Christmas on Dec. 7 and A Charlie Brown Christmas and Dr. Seuss How the Grinch Stole Christmas on Dec. 12. AMONG NEW shows, ABC on Dec. S will show The Best Christmas Pageant Ever," starring Loretta Swit and based on the Barbara Robinson contemporary childrens classic in which the meanest kids in town discover the meaning of the season. The kids steal the show in this delightful family comedy. NBC is offering a Mack Davis special and another celebrity program tentatively titled Christmas in Washington that will be taped in the capital Dec. 11. It also will air the Orange Bowl parade on New Years Eve and the Rose Bowl Jan. (M-A-S-- 2. A Hallmark Hall of Fame special on CBS Dec. 6 will be John Steinbecks The Winter of Our Discontent, starring Donald Sutherland, Teri Carr, Tuesday Weld and EG. Marshall. On Dec. 11, the same network will air All Star Party for Frank Sinatra, and, on Dec. 20, General Foods Golden Showcase will present The Gift of Love, a Christmas Story," starring Lee Angela Lansbury and Polly Holliday. CBS WILL USHER in the New Year with the fifth annual CBS Happy New Year, America," a live music and dance celebration broadcast from various locations in New Yorks Time Square, at Disney World and across the country. It also has scheduled The CBS Tournament of Roses Parade and Pageant and The Cotton Bowl Festival Parade." For viewers who think New Years isnt New Years without a Lombardo at the Waldorf-Astorithe syndicated New Years Eve with Bill Lombardo and His Orchestra: An American Tradition Renewed," will feature the nephew of late bandleader Guy Lombardo in the hotels Grand Ballroom. Bills Uncle Guy and his Royal Ca Re-mic- k, New faces in St. Elsewhere series . . . Mark Harmon and Nancy Stafford, star as Dr. Robert Caldwell, a plastic surgeon who has just joined the St. Eligius Hospital staff, and Joan HaUoran, a City Health Services adviser who keeps an eye on the budget. The two new members of the cast also are a romantic item on the triple Emmy Awardtvinning series which is seen on Wednesday at 9 p.m. on KUTV. no-nonse- nse a, nadians played the Waldorf evqcx, ' New Years Eve from 1929 until the bandleaders death in 1976, when Bill Lombardo took over. The celebration was carried by CBS through 1979, when the nephew left the band and CBS switched to a New Years special hosted by Dick Clark that originated from Las Vegas and the Waldorf. THE NEW GROUP isnt at all similar to the old one, Lombardo said in an interview, except it's a big band. But well be doing a tribute, a Lombardo medley with such songs as Little Coquette and Sweethearts on Parade. The program also will feature Miss America 1984, Vanessa Williams, singer Bobby Vinton and original Man on the Street" comedian Steve Allen in Times Square. PBS has prepared a feast for fine arts fans. First comes Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen, an ice ballet with John Curry and Dorothy Hamill Dec 7. There'll be Mikhail Baryshnikovs Nutcracker Dec. 10; The Christmas Songs, with Mel Tonne leadcast (Rich Little, ing an all-stGeorge Shearing and others) in a holiday tribute Dec 18 and, on Dqg 19 A Christmas Special With Lu- ciano Pavarotti and An American Christmas: Words and Music," hosted by Burt Lancaster, with James Earl Jones interpreting Christmas through the eyes of a slave. Christmas at Kennedy Center with Leontyne Price, an evening of music, song and readings, will be aired by PBS Dec 20; Christmas at Pops, the Boston Pops conducted by John Wrilliams, Dec. 25; and on Dec. 26, Patricia McBride and Peter Martins of the New York City Ballet in The Merry Widow," and the English Chamber Orchestra playing Vivaldis Four Seasons. ,. ar AND ON CABLE: WTBS has lined up a number of holiday movies including A Christ- mas without Snow starring John Houseman on Dec. 8; Christmas in Connecticut starring Barbara Stanwyck and Dennis Morgan on Dec. 16; A Dream for Christmas" on Dec. 19; Gene Kelly in Christmas Holiday on Dec. 21; and Its A Wonderful Life with Jimmy Stewart Dec 24. HBO so far has planned Not Necessarily the Year in Review, a special with highlights of its regular comedy feature, Not Necessarily the News. It will debut Dec 10. For the kiddies, HBO will offer beginning Dec 9, The Snowman, an animated special introduced by David Bowie. 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