Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid
- Episode aired Dec 18, 1955
- TV-14
- 30m
While working as a department store 'Santa Claus', a paroled convict tries to help a troubled boy.While working as a department store 'Santa Claus', a paroled convict tries to help a troubled boy.While working as a department store 'Santa Claus', a paroled convict tries to help a troubled boy.
- Girl
- (as Wendy Winkleman)
- Boy
- (as Anthony Blankley)
- Director
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe model airplane hanging from the ceiling represents an F-94C Starfire, a missile-armed interceptor of the early 1950s. It appears to be made of balsa wood, possibly from a kit by Comet.
- GoofsThe airplane hanging from the ceiling has correct US Air Force markings at first, but later on the markings change to a completely incorrect version with black stars instead of white ones.
- Quotes
[first lines]
[Bricking up fireplace]
Himself - Host: Oh, good evening. I thought I might as well brick this up. I don't expect I'll be using this fireplace anymore. I expect the chimney to be closed very soon. I've, uh, loosened the bricks so they'll fall in if anyone should brush against them on the way down. Santa Claus is always bringing surprises to others. I thought it would be interesting if someone surprised him for a change. I'm rather tired of his tracking soot in here every year. There. Let him "Ho ho ho" himself out of that. At the risk of overburdening our program with the spirit of the season, we have arranged to dramatize a very appropriate story for tonight's divertissement. It is called Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid.
- SoundtracksFuneral March of a Marionette
Written by Charles Gounod
Out on parole, Miss Clementine Webster sets the curmudgeonly Sears as a Santa Claus at a department store in the run up to Christmas.
It is not a kind of job that Sears is looking forward to, but at least he is not the store cleaner.
On Christmas Eve Sears steals an expensive model plane for a boy who does not believe in Christmas or that he is Santa Claus.
It is not long before the police catch up on Sears.
This might have worked better if Sears learned the true meaning of Christmas. Instead he just mindlessly robs his temporary employer on his final day.
There was not much of an Alfred Hitchcock twist. The police were overzealous as they also wanted to book Sears for taking the Santa costume.
It was nice to know that in the good old days, it was ok for habitual criminals to get jobs as Santa Claus in a children's department.
- Prismark10
- Mar 4, 2023
Details
- Runtime30 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1