The Night Before Christmas
Fictionalized account of how Clement C. Moore came to write "A Visit from St. Nicholas." His young daughter, stricken with pneumonia, asks for a Santa Claus story for Christmas. No such story had been written, so Moore writes his famous poem, set to Ken Darby's music and sung by The Norman Luboff Choir.
- Genre: Animation, Family, Drama, TV Movie
- Studio: Elba Productions, Playhouse Pictures
- Keyword: holiday, santa claus, sick child, christmas, christmas eve, holiday special, fictionalized history
- Cast: Olan Soule, Barbara Eiler, Hal Smith, Virginia Gregg, Laura Turnbull, Shari Turnbull