Page 22 THE HERALD OUTLOOK Deeemberl ISM BEST COW -Entertainment- Christmas season is here ByBOBSPENCE Thomson News Service Santa has already made a number of quick trips south to ap pear in various Santa Claus parades so the Christmas season must be here Let s look ahead at just a few of the Christmas specials various TV networks have planned Family Channel has three delightful tales debuting in early December The Christmas Visitor Dec is set in stricken Australia in 1691 The young son of an impoverish ed farmer shakes up his family when he tells them he has just seen Father Christmas The Bestest Present a m Dec 5 an an award winning animated special based on the characters from Lynn Johnston s cartoon For Better Or For Worse It all about getting Christmas back on track The Small One p Dec is an animated tale about a Hebrew boy forced to sell his donkey A man named Joseph buys Small One to carry his Mary to Bethlehem First Choice has the wacky Lampoon s Christmas Vacation on tap Dec 2 9pm with Chevy Chase struggling through mishap after mishap Home For Christmas which premieres on both First Choice and SuperChannel Dec 30 p m star Mickey as an elderly crook who gets caught breaking into car While neither is aware of the relationship the man who catches him and who takes him home to have the thief work off damages to the car is he thief s long lost son A fabled feline shows up on TV Dec Garfield s Christmas animated airs at 7 Pony Dec 8 on is a ftlf hour Canadian special Saskatchewan children who ftlly want just one thing for a pony to around father s wheat farm If by the of December worry about shopping list yet you can advice Christmas features a Cosby offeril giving And learns spirit of Chrisl Among tl TV are A Mi Me p m teenage girl to find a store Santa Bob Spence Entertainment familiar animated tales Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer 7 30 pm Dec and Frosty the Snowman 7 Dec Christmas t be Christmas without various of Charles Dickens The Christmas Carol On Dec 16 9 m CTV offers the British classic Scrooge Sim portrays the skinflint Also on Dec CTV has a day special set in the High Arctic The Woman Who Raised A Bear Ab Her Son is an animated tale based on a traditional Inuit fable Olympic silver medalist Elizabeth does some climbing and some skating in Back To The Beanstock on CBC pm Dec She plays the high spirited son of Jack the Giant Killer who climbed a beanstalk and disappeared Now junior is climbing up that beanstalk searching for dad Rita gets the Christmas bells in a musical special Dec 17 m Filmed on Cape Breton Island Now The Bells Ring is about a traditional down home Christmas If Rita singing Silent Night t get you in the Christmas spirit nothing will While we re talking about Christmas spirit if you sometimes wish that the Spirit of Past would whisk you back to the old days for a few hours you might check out YTV It is running a number of Christmas episodes from long deceased shows The welcome you to the to celebrate on Bonanza on Dec 4 and special Christmas episodes of the old Lassie series air at on both Dec and AFTER FIVE THINGS TO DO PLACES TO GO FOR LISTENING AND DANCING PLEASURE MAIN ST 8773388 KING 1 MOUNT AINVIEW GEORGETOWN 87751778 SOPER SPECIAL Pick Up Only Submarines 310 FREE FREE FREE mum Home Country Music For Years I THIS WEEK AUSTIN SMITH TUESDAY SATURDAY OPEN SUNDAYS CLOSED MON Book Your Party Esrtyi PHONE US NOW R0SET0WH INN S 2nd ANNUAL NEWRE NEW YEAR LAST HOUNDUP LOUNGE Jenny Josie Jigs Dinner Bullet served at 30 Queen SI E Brampton I look you may be a by Ilia mow you you a lucky ml pastel Call or or op In Tha Ha aid Si claim your II you a Itll wet keep on coding Nail wee may be youi win