AMC Best Christmas Ever
AMC had typically aired a rotating lineup of five to six Christmas movies during the holiday season. In 2018, the channel introduced a more extensive holiday lineup branded as “Best Christmas Ever” running from November 26th to December 25th, featuring a mix of popular Christmas and family films, along with other acquired specials.
AMC’s Best Christmas Ever will begin in November 2020
PLEASE NOTE: Date/times are subject to change (all times shown in Eastern)
**Page last updated on 12/03/20
Full holiday schedule coming soon
Monday, November 16, 2020
- 9:15am – 12 Dogs of Christmas: Great Puppy Rescue
- 4:00pm – Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
- 6:00pm – Scrooged
- 8:00pm – Elf
- 10:00pm – Elf
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
- 12:00am – Scrooged
- 2:00am – Snow Day
- 11:30am – A Dennis the Menace Christmas
- 1:30pm – Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
- 3:30pm – Snow Day
- 5:30pm – Jack Frost (1998)
- 8:00pm – Four Christmases
- 10:00pm – Fred Claus
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
- 3:30pm – Jack Frost (1998)
- 6:00pm – Four Christmases
- 8:00pm – Fred Claus
- 10:30pm – The Polar Express
Thursday, November 19, 2020
- 12:30am – Rudolph’s Shiny New Year
- 1:45am – The Year Without a Santa Claus
- 3:00am – Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July
- 9:00am – The Great Christmas Light Fight
- 2:30pm – Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July
- 5:00pm – Frosty’s Winter Wonderland
- 5:30pm – Rudolph’s Shiny New Year
- 6:45pm – The Year Without a Santa Claus
- 8:00pm – The Polar Express
- 10:00pm – Scrooged
Friday, November 20, 2020
- 9:00am – Frosty’s Winter Wonderland
- 4:00pm – Scrooged
Saturday, November 21, 2020
- 6:00pm – Four Christmases
- 8:00pm – National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
- 10:15pm – National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
Sunday, November 22, 2020
- 12:30am – Four Christmases
Monday, November 23, 2020
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
- 9:00am – The Great Christmas Light Fight
- 10:00am – Beethoven’s Christmas Adventure
- 7:00pm – National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
- 9:15pm – National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
- 9:00am – Pinocchio’s Christmas
- 2:30pm – Jack Frost (1998)
- 7:00pm – The Polar Express
- 9:00pm – Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
- 11:00pm – The Polar Express
Thursday, November 26, 2020
- 3:00am – Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
- 5:00am – The Great Christmas Light Fight
- 7:00pm – National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
- 9:15pm – National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
Friday, November 27, 2020
- 5:30am – Merry Madagascar
- 9:00am – To Grandmother’s House We Go
- 5:30pm – Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
- 7:30pm – Four Christmases
- 9:30pm – Fred Claus
Saturday, November 28, 2020
- 12:00am – Four Christmases
- 2:00am – Gremlins
- 4:30am – To Grandmother’s House We Go
- 9:00am – Snow Day
- 3:30pm – Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
- 5:30pm – Fred Claus
- 8:00pm – Elf
- 10:00pm – Elf
Sunday, November 29, 2020
- 12:00am – Snow Day
Monday, November 30, 2020
- 8:00pm – Four Christmases
- 10:00pm – Fred Claus
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
- 12:32am – Four Christmases
- 5:00pm – Fred Claus
- 7:30pm – The Polar Express
Wednesday, December 2, 2020
- 4:55am – The Great Christmas Light Fight
- 9:00am – The Nativity Story
- 11:00am – To Grandmother’s House We Go
- 6:00pm – The Polar Express
- 8:00pm – National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
- 10:15pm – National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
Thursday, December 3, 2020
- 12:30am – Snow Day
- 4:55am – How Murray Saved Christmas
- 9:00am – 12 Dogs Of Christmas: Great Puppy Rescue
- 4:00pm – Snow Day
- 8:00pm – Elf
- 10:00pm – Elf
Friday, December 4, 2020
- 12:00am – Fred Claus
- 2:30am – White Christmas
- 5:15am – The Leprechauns’ Christmas Gold
- 8:00pm – Scrooged
- 10:00pm – Fred Claus
Saturday, December 5, 2020
- 12:30am – Scrooged
- 6:00am – Pinocchio’s Christmas
- 7:15am – Jack Frost (1979)
- 8:30am – The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow
- 9:00am – Nestor, The Long-Eared Christmas Donkey
- 9:30am – Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July
- 12:00pm – The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus
- 1:15pm – The Legend of Frosty the Snowman
- 2:45pm – Jack Frost (1979)
- 4:00pm – Little Drummer Boy: Book II
- 4:30pm – ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas
- 5:00pm – Frosty’s Winter Wonderland
- 5:30pm – Rudolph’s Shiny New Year
- 6:45pm – The Year Without a Santa Claus
- 8:00pm – National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
- 10:15pm – National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
Sunday, December 6, 2020
- 12:30am – The Year Without a Santa Claus
- 1:45am – ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas
- 2:15am – Rudolph’s Shiny New Year
- 3:30am – Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July
- 6:00am – ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas
- 6:30am – The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow
- 7:00am – Nestor the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey
- 7:30am – The Legend of Frosty the Snowman
- 9:00am – The Leprechauns’ Christmas Gold
- 9:30am – The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus
- 10:45am – Jack Frost (1979)
- 12:00pm – Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July
- 2:30pm – Little Drummer Boy: Book II
- 3:00pm – The Legend of Frosty the Snowman
- 4:30pm – Frosty’s Winter Wonderland
- 5:00pm – ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas
- 5:30pm – The Year Without A Santa Claus
- 6:45pm – Rudolph’s Shiny New Year
- 8:00pm – Elf
- 10:00pm – Elf
Monday, December 7, 2020
- 12:00am – The Year Without a Santa Claus
- 1:15am – Rudolph’s Shiny New Year
- 2:30am – Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July
- 5:00am – Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer
- 9:15am – The Sons of Mistletoe
- 6:00pm – Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
- 8:00pm – Scrooged
- 10:00pm – Gremlins
Tuesday, December 8, 2020
- 12:30am – Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
- 4:30am – The Legend of Frosty the Snowman
- 9:00am – Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You
- 3:30pm – Gremlins
- 6:00pm – Scrooged
- 8:00pm – Elf
- 10:00pm – The Polar Express
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
- 12:00am – Fred Claus
- 2:30am – The Nativity Story
- 4:30am – Michael Buble’s Christmas In Hollywood
- 5:30am – Nestor the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey
- 9:00am – A Miracle on Christmas Lake
- 11:30am – Wish For Christmas
- 1:30pm – Joyful Noise
- 4:00pm – The Polar Express
- 6:00pm – Elf
- 8:00pm – Four Christmases
- 10:00pm – Fred Claus
Thursday, December 10, 2020
- 12:30am – Four Christmases
- 2:30am – Joyful Noise
- 5:00am – How Murray Saved Christmas
- 9:15am – Wish For Christmas
- 8:00pm – National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
- 10:15pm – National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
Friday, December 11, 2020
- 5:15am – The Leprechauns’ Christmas Gold
- 9:00am – Buster & Chauncey’s Silent Night
- 6:45pm – The Year Without a Santa Claus
- 8:00pm – The Polar Express
- 10:00pm – Snow Day
Saturday, December 12, 2020
- 12:00am – The Year Without a Santa Claus
- 1:15am – Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer
- 2:15am – To Grandmother’s House We Go
- 8:45am – To Grandmother’s House We Go
- 10:45am – Snow Day
- 12:45pm – The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow
- 1:15pm – Jack Frost (1979)
- 2:30pm – Joyful Noise
- 5:00pm – The Polar Express
- 7:00pm – Elf
- 9:00pm – Elf
- 11:00pm – Jack Frost (1998)
Sunday, December 13, 2020
- 4:30am – A Miracle on Christmas Lake
- 9:30am – The Legend of Frosty the Snowman
- 11:00am – Frosty’s Winter Wonderland
- 11:30am – White Christmas
- 2:15pm – Jack Frost (1998)
- 7:00pm – National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
- 9:15pm – National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
- 11:30pm – Four Christmases
Monday, December 14, 2020
- 4:00am – The Legend of Frosty the Snowman
- 5:30am – The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow
- 9:15am – Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You
- 6:00pm – Four Christmases
- 8:00pm – Elf
- 10:00pm – The Polar Express
Tuesday, December 15, 2020
- 12:00am – Snow Day
- 2:00am – Christmas in Connecticut
- 4:30am – The Legend of Frosty the Snowman
- 9:00am – Nestor the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey
- 2:00pm – Snow Day
- 4:00pm – The Polar Express
- 6:00pm – Elf
- 8:00pm – Scrooged
- 10:00pm – Fred Claus
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
- 12:30am – Gremlins
- 3:00am – Jack Frost (1998)
- 5:30am – Nestor the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey
- 9:00am – The Legend of Frosty the Snowman
- 10:30am – Jack Frost (1998)
- 1:00pm – Gremlins
- 3:30pm – Fred Claus
- 6:00pm – Scrooged
- 8:00pm – National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
- 10:15pm – National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
Thursday, December 17, 2020
- 12:30am – Scrooged
- 2:30am – 12 Dogs of Christmas: Great Puppy Rescue
- 5:00am – How Murray Saved Christmas
- 9:00am – How Murray Saved Christmas
- 10:00am – The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow
- 10:30am – Nestor the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey
- 11:00am – Pinocchio’s Christmas
- 12:15pm – Jack Frost (1979)
- 1:30pm – Little Drummer Boy: Book II
- 2:00pm – Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July
- 4:30pm – ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas
- 5:00pm – Frosty’s Winter Wonderland
- 5:30pm – Rudolph’s Shiny New Year
- 6:45pm – The Year Without A Santa Claus
- 8:00pm – The Polar Express
- 10:00pm – Scrooged
Friday, December 18, 2020
- 12:00am – The Year Without A Santa Claus
- 1:15am – White Christmas
- 4:00am – ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas
- 4:30am – Little Drummer Boy: Book II
- 5:00am – Nestor the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey
- 5:30am – The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow
- 9:00am – Jack Frost (1979)
- 10:15am – Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July
- 12:45pm – Frosty’s Winter Wonderland
- 1:15pm – Rudolph’s Shiny New Year
- 2:30pm – Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer
- 6:00pm – The Polar Express
- 8:00pm – Four Christmases
- 10:00pm – Love Actually
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I stayed up to see White Christmas at 2:30 this morning, and it wasn’t on….Groundhog Day was!! That was very disappointing. Is it still going to be on the 13th??
WHERE IS MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET 1947 BLACK AND WHITE OR COLOR VERSION THIS HURTS MY HEART THIS IS A CHILDHOOD MOVIE AND I DONT SEE IT AIRING ON TV JUST SAD!!!
Where is the 1947 version of miracle on 34th street? The 1994 version is awful. Also should show other older classic Christmas movies and not the newer crappy movies.
The 1947 version is available on Disney+ if you have it. I do not see it on the AMC schedule for 2020. If that changes I will update above.
All of these wonderful Christmas movies, and every single one of you have commented something negative about what is or isn’t being broadcast. Networks can’t just show whatever movies they want. They have to have licenses, permission, etc. Just enjoy the movies and quit complaining. Merry Christmas!
Freedom of speech. Sue us then if you do not like what we have to say. Merry Christmas!!
lol ok, keep crying then. Probably not gonna fix your situation, but be proud that you’re taking a stand 😂
You enjoy the crappy new movies, we want to see the classics.
Agreed! All of these other movies are available on other channels. Just takes a little effort to find them.
My 98 year old mother loves to watch Miracle on 34th Street. I could not find it on your 2020 Christmas movie lineup. Please let me know when it is going to air. She doesn’t have that many Christmases left and she will not enjoy the Christmas season as much if she cant see this movie. She lives in an assisted living facility and has access to tv but not to a DVR. HELP!!
The 1947 version is available on Disney+ if you have it. I do not see it on the AMC schedule for 2020. If that changes I will update above.
I can’t fathom that the stations would forget about the movies that made CHRISTMAS, what it should be. Good will,
Peace on Earth towards all. Let’s get with it stations and remember that good CHRISTMAS movies are out there. They don’t have to be the only ones that millenials remember. If you don’t play the classics, they will never know how good life can really be.
Rudolph with Burl Ives
Freeform (ABC Family) currently owns rights to air the original Rudolph.
Highly disappointed AMC is not showing more Christmas classics such a shame in so many movies they just replay over and over the same stuff
so disappointed you can’t run white christmas at least once at 8:00. I like christmas vacation but you don’t have to run it at 8 and then again at 10. also what happened to scrooge with george c scott? These are such christmas classics.
Why not just use your pvr to record it?
Shame on AMC. Your programmer is losing touch with the classics.White Christmas with it’s amazing color, great story that starts the holiday season and you’ve lost sight of the fact that AMC USED to make it their Thanksgiving kick the holiday off movie.
You are not giving me much reason to watch your channel at all. So sad that you over play some movies and have forgotten the classics that put you in the limelight. Too bad
I agree. I don’t know who is doing their Christmas programming these days but they are doing a terrible job!! The nasty Four Christmases over the classic White Christmas??? Give me a break!!! White Christmas use to be AMC’s “golden boy” of Christmas movies for the Christmas season. Now they hardly show it at all!! It’s the one that all their viewers clammer for yet they don’t show any more!! It is a real true classic!! A true staple for the Christmas Season!!! Why they have stopped showing it very much is far beyond me and they never show it in prime time any more!! I think Four Christmases is a about as gross a Christmas movie as they can show!!! Yet they show it all the time!! There are a few others they show as well that are not appropriate. And will someone tell me what in the heck Groundhog’s Day has to do with Christmas? – yuck!!! Another few spots that could be filled by White Christmas!!!
There going to be airing it now 😀
When miracle on 34th st. 1947 edition on.
The 1947 version is available on Disney+ if you have it. I do not see it on the AMC schedule for 2020. If that changes I will update above.
Will the movie Prancer air this year?
I hope so it is a good flick. Id personally like to know where A Christmas Story and Home Alone are. Not sure why Gremlins and Planes Trains and Automobiles are constantly on. AMC needs to start thinking.
What does Gremlins and Wizard of OZ or Planes, Trains, and Automobiles…have to do with Christmas??
Just because it was filmed with Christmas as a backdrop to the movie does not mean it’s an actual “Christmas” movie. If we are gonna go down that route we might as well include Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, The Nightmare before Christmas, and Krampus.
Play some of the Good Ol’ Favorites that just make it feel like Christmas, it’s bad enough that they have taken Christmas music off the air we don’t need to lose the great movies too! HO,HO,HO!!!
Planes, Trains and Automobiles is being shown because they are trying to get home for Thanksgiving.
Why do you run White Christmas in the middle of the night? We need to see that movie on the weekends during the day for those of us that still work. Love the Rankin and Bass shows, keep them coming!! No one plays them anymore but AMC. Best Christmas Carol is with George C. Scott! Please play that during daytime weekend hours too.
Pvr perhaps?
When is WHITE CHRISTMAS going to be on? That movie puts me in the Christmas spirit every year. Also, CHRISTMAS CHRONICLES is the 2nd best movie. I would love to see that on too. Would they be advertised to be seen? I don’t want to miss either one. Please play both for an older senior citizen and the new generations.
How about the original Miracle on 34th Street for us oldies?
When is White Christmas going to be aired? I dont see it on the schedule.
Thumbs up if AMC Christmas is better than 25 Days of Christmas
One thing I’d like to know is why A Christmas Story is hardly ever on. It’s one of the best classic Christmas movies ever. AMC is doing the same thing with this as they did with Fear Fest, showing the same crap over and over again.
I love A Christmas Story.Please air it this Christmas!!!
I’m so tired of all the stations playing the same movies on over and over. There is no variety. Does anyone remember Santa clause the movie? From the 80’s That is a true movie that would make any kid believe in Santa. All these stations follow the path that every other channel does. So sad. Not like when we were kids.
will the wizard of oz be on tv this year or on apple tv?
The Wizard of Oz will air Sunday, November 22nd on TBS:
https://www.countdownuntilchristmas.com/channel/turner-broadcasting-station-tbs/
Amc count down to 25 days of christmas
My friends and myself grew up watching an old movie entitled Junior Miss with Peggy Ann Garner, during the Christmas vacation. it would be nice for a new generation to see this movie. put some holiday movies on with limited commercials, that would be a nice treat