Rotten Tomatoes gifts you with discarded relics ranging from well-meaning family fare to CGI nightmare fuel.
Television Christmas specials had an amazing run in the 1960s, with legendary shows like A Charlie Brown Christmas, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas! all coming out within a few years of each other. And the small screen has been chasing the dragon ever since, with repeated attempts to strike that holiday gold by creating a beloved property that will air year after year after year.
Some of the specials listed here were valiant efforts, while others are noble failures, and except for some hardcore fans in various corners of the internet, they've been mostly left behind in the snows of TV history. Let's give a little love to these misfit toys:
