11 Forgotten Christmas Specials You Probably Haven't Seen

6 . The Night Before Christmas Unless you're old enough to have seen this, the only reason you know about this special is because of the South Park cover of its best song, "Even a Miracle Needs A Hand". The original special is slightly less cynical. The original poem is acted out in its entirety as the classic of the special, but only after a wild flight of fancy that has nothing in common with it. The children of a small turn of the century town are dismayed to learn that all the letters to Santa are returned unopened. When the North Pole is contacted to inquire why, they are told that they received a letter from the town, signed "All of us" which stated that Santa was a fraud. clad demigod, in the hopes they can melt his frosty heart. George Gobel plays the patriarch of a mouse family that lives in grey's home, and Tammy Grimes as his oldest son, an intellectual child with more brains than heart.