"The House Without A Christmas Tree"

[XNascarProductionsX]

love this! got it on video a few years ago.

[dahsuerk]

I found this on video last Christmas season. One of the best made for TV holiday movies. A good Nebraska movie.

[angelman08300]

love this movie..brings back wonderful childhood memories

[RawrRufus]

I'm 15 and I anticipate watching this every christmas eve!

[heavensangel10]

I remember when this movie was made in 1972 in Uxbridge, Ontario, Canada. I was one of the kids running around in the fake snow in the school yard.

[Sparklegrl1]

I would LOVE to see what Lisa Lucas looks like today! She was a great lil actress.

[BYOKS]

I also remember the Easter Promise and Thanksgiving Treasure with the same actors. Classics!

[aprilzap]

i bought this dvd at walmart last christmas for $5. i love this movie so much that if i have a daughter, i want to name her addie mae. this movie brings so many warm fuzzies to my family at christmas. rest in peace jason robards.

[aprilzap]

i bought this dvd at walmart last christmas for $5. i love this movie so much that if i have a daughter, i want to name her addie mae. this movie brings so many warm fuzzies to my family at christmas.

[scorpio888]

1946 to 1972. Funny how much longer 26 years seemed then than it does today.

[pancake2662]

@Alsgal4eternity,Same here, i wish they would show thi on tv again. Jason Robards i like watching him act!

[alsgal4eternity]

I wish they would show this on tv again or that they would release it on DVD.

[brendajoyceyy]

i have this on video. i love this christmas story .

[dahsuerk]

Valley, Nebraska in 1946. No Clear River.

[dahsuerk]

A nice Nebraska Christmas. To bad it isn't shown on TV anymore.

[rhiannon51070]

Do you remember a TV Christmas show in the 1970's called "Sunshine" about a little girl and her dad. She use to ride on his shoulders and theme song for the movie was John Denver's Sunshine on My Shoulders. I remember it but no one else seems to. I'm looking for it. Would like to see it again.

[kajehgb]

remember this christmas movie very well as a child.

to- denise spurlock, christmas is about

JESUS

nothing else.

[denisespurlock]

Great t.v. movie. I think of this movie every X-mas. Since my youngest daughter died in 2004 I do not put up a tree.

[aea2798]

*chills* love this movie:)

[MrOphachew]

Wow! Dang! I don't think I've seen this since it originally aired. One of those Hall Mark Hall of Fame picks when I was a kid. Seems to me that there was one for Valentines day, Christmas, Thanksgiving and Easter?

[LuvmyAdelle]

OMG, I recall this.., as our Mom had died just a few yrs prior, and our Dad was SO much like this Dad! It was our story! Why don't they put these movies on TV anymore?

[happyorganist]

I remember this as well growing up in the 70's in Baltimore MD. How I miss the christmas of my childhood!

[raspunzel7]

I remember this movie...every year I watch for christmas when I was a child.

[frankd1965]

@raspunzel7 I saw this back in the 1970's. brings back memories of the good ol days.

[italoman9]

I loved this movie and remember it well, too. I'm kinda glad they don't try to show it on TV now, though. The fade-outs from live filming to paintings signaled commercial breaks in the original airings. Today with all the brutal ad break necessities, the networks would insert an additional 4 or 9 breaks in between each original fade-out, chopping up the action and making the show too unwatchable. A shame.

[baldpipeguy]

I vividly remember Addy making a dress for a school fashion show called "Rickrack Rhapsody" and the line " I wouldn't be seen at a dogfight in these clothes!"

[brendaleake]

I used to watch this every year too growing up in the 70's and had a copy of the book in paperback. The TV network should bring THIS back!!!

[dahsuerk]

This show was set in my home state of Nebraska. One of the better old made for TV holiday movies. Not shown at all now days. Found the video at the grocery last winter.

[jayamedco]

I also loved this movie and was sad when it was no longer shown. I found a VHS copy on eBay a few years ago and have enjoyed watching this each year since. A few weeks ago I was in Wal-Mart and they had a big $5 bin of DVDs and this movie was included, so I got a copy in case we reach a point where playing a VHS is longer possible.

I am from a small town (400 people) and identify very much with the scaled-down Christmas, multigenerational family and characters depicted in this movie.

[GuyThom01]

Hey Jay - Check out e-bay again and even Borders Books. It's available on DVD.

[frankd1965]

@GuyThom01 got a copy of this classic specail with oscar winner Jason Robrds Jr. circa 1972

[nuttybar9]

why dont you post the whole video

[bonzohart]

Too bad they don't run this on TV any longer -- I, too, remember watching it back in the day. And the girl resembles a young Tina Fey.

[nodlon20]

I still have this on videotape! I watch it every Christmas!! I saw it when it first came out! I love all the actors in it and some of the children actors look familiar!

Like I have seen them in later years in movies as young adults! I loved Jason Robards and Mildred Natwick! Fantastic actors in their own right!

[cossack207]

how i wish i could see it!!!!!!!!

[johnnyjj76]

love this show,quality television in 70's!  was a tradition to watch all the christmas programs like this.

[bigpapadude77]

i recorded this and thanksgiving treasure on vhs i love them and watch them once a year

[snoopygirl68]

I loved this movie. I remember watching this every year on tv til it disappeared. Truly a forgotten gem. Watching this now makes me feel like a kid again, sitting in front of our big floor tv eating popcorn without a care in the world.

BTW, does anyone else think the voiceover in the beginning sounds like Sigourney Weaver?

[2cruiz4vr]

@snoopygirl68 The narrator is Patricia Hamilton (uncredited). She also did the voice-over for the Anne of Green Gables series. I thought she sounded familiar.

[dearyogini]

OMG!!!!! Thanks for putting this on Youtube, although I would love for the whole thing to be available. In 1973 I had just turned 8:) Gawd I love the '70s! There was a whole '40s and '50s nostalgia then and Christmas was better and not just 'cause I was a kid! It wasn't plastic; not just so materialistic. We still sang and enjoyed the warm rituals vs. the cold 'gimme' mentality that seems all too common nowadays. Lisa Lucas (girl) was the girl in "An Unmarried Woman." I just watched the DVD.

[68NYC]

It is listed available on DVD and someone is selling the VHS on ebay.

Thanks...and thanks to the poster.

[dearyogini]

68nyc: Thanks...perhaps I can find in at one of my local libraries:)

[IwshIcldstrtover]

Is this out on DVD, now?

[Diva63113]

I rember watching this when I was little, back in the 70's. Mom and I had a tradition. Mom would make popcorn and hot chocolate, and we would sit on the sofa together and watch This and The Homecomming.

[GuinevereJuliet]

Deeply poignant. I was fortunate to have seen this when it aired in the early 1970s on CBS Children's Playhouse (oh, the memories) and it has never left me. I feel dreadfully sorry for today's generations, as they missed out on the beautiful, meaningful years, when America was still America, and this show was a perfect example of the excellent programming of those wonderful days. Another poster expressed interest in "Addie and the King of Hearts" and I must admit I'd like it as well. Thanks!

[boilerbabe82]

brings back happy memories from christmas' past when i was young. thanks for posting it.

[arloandfriday]

beautiful, another tear-jerker. just what this crusty old bird needed.

i lost my ma in 1980, when i was a kid, and my pa, nine years later (pa looked like jason robards, making this bittersweet to watch).

it is such a beautiful, powerful story, and so beautifully acted.

btw i grew up in what i considered to be a small town, pop. 6000.

could have sworn kristy mcnichol was in this. what christmas special was she in? or did i see another production of this starring jason and kristy?

[jughead22]

well, you may be a crusty old bird...but you obviously have a great big heart! hugs to you...

[blackwingy]

I haven't seen this since it first aired. There's Jason Robards, bringing Eugene O'Neill to primetime family Xmas specials. And this was special. Thanks for uploading it. You have to love the 70s.

[pdtst1]

Does anyone have a copy of Addie & the King of Hearts? This is the only video that CBS FOX hasn't released and it would complete my mother's collection.

[fuzzyboy64]

Addie & the King of Hearts, has never been released, i have had some of the best people trying to hunt down a copy, and its just not do-able...

[hardlines4]

A BEAUTIFUL MOVIE!

[2cruiz4vr]

Is this the only scene available? I haven't seen this since '73 in its entire broadcast & I remember a scene almost near the end where Addie has this wooden box & her father is scolding her, I'd love to see THAT SCENE again. Could anyone upload it since you were able to find a copy. I wonder why CBS doesn't create a DVD, other analog shows have been done.

[zefallafez]

The DVD is for sale at Amazon.

[2cruiz4vr]

Excellent. It's a DVD not VHS? Previously I'd only heard about VHS being avail. Thanks for the info!!

[wilkes85]

Funny how they consider a town of 1500 a "small town" HAHA!!

[gloomyrival]

I love this Christmas movie! Brings back such memories...

[yahooliz]

I too love these specials! I own 3 on vhs. I found them all on ebay. If you are having trouble finding the thanksgiving film it may be because they changed the title to The Holiday Treasure. The Easter Promise is the other movie available. I don't think the valentine movie was sold to the public. Anyone out their with an old home vhs recording?

[TVFREAKMAN]

I'll join in the chorus of praise for this great though sadly overlooked holiday classic.

What I liked about it most when I saw it as a kid was the performance of Jason Robards as the Father. It was a great mixture of toughness and vulnerablity, certainly not the kind you see on most TV fathers of the '70s (or even today for that matter.)

[ualemp902]

I just bought this at Meijer for $9.99. I was hoping this would come on television and it never did. I still remember this movie so well. A great memory of my childhood!

[inmybackyard]

Excellent. Watched with my family early this Christmas Eve. Heart touching story.

[jeffnlisa]

Does anyone have a VHS or DVD of this???? I would GLADLY pay for one!!!!

[PrettyGirl2211]

we read a book of this movie at school then we watched the movie. and we did the same thing with the thanksgiving treasure i like them both and im in third grade

[Djcraig95]

I first saw this back in 1973, I was 11 and I loved it from the first time I saw it. I watched it thru the 70's but like most good things, it for the most part disappeared. I found the VHS back in the early 90's and introduced it to my son and later my daughter. I bought the DVD last year and I watch this, every year, a few days before Christmas. It is a wondeful story and very well written and acted out. If you watch this and are not driven to tears then I fear you have no real heart or soul!

[sterlinged]

Another Christmas Classic... A little girl and her dad who live with her grandmother. The dad would not allow a Christmas tree in the house because it reminded him too much of the wife he lost.... I watched this as a kid way back in the early 70's....

[sevittaran63]

I first saw this in Dec. 1974. It's been a holiday fave ever since. A great cast! Addie Mills(the girl w/ the glasses) is 10 yrs. old in this 1946 scenario, the same age as my mother, who was born in 1936. I shared the book by Gail Rock w/ her in 1975. I liked the Thanksgiving, Easter, and Valentine Specials about the Mills Family also. It'd be nice to see them all posted in their entirety. THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!!

[Voelz2BV]

This is an awesome video

[OceanKingNY]

This was one of the better Christmas TV movies ever made, and yet it is mostly forgotten today. That surprises me. I watched it when it aired throughout the 70s, and I thought it would become one of those movies that gets aired every Christmas. But I haven't seen it on TV in decades. Yet, other holiday shows of lesser quality get rerun every year, which I don't understand.

I bought the DVD release last year.

[mschessy]

I want to buy this DVD also, I always thought this was a wonderful little holiday movie. I get sick of some of the garbage they call Chriatmas movies now days...

[nuttybar9]

zuntu01 i guess at your house

[nuttybar9]

you only showed the beginning and the ending wheres all the in between

[aea2798]

OH thanks so much for posting this!!!!! Can't thank you enough!! This movie has always meant so much to me and its so hard to find now! Just watching the intro gets me teary eyed :) Please post the whole thing!!

[zuntu01]

do you know where i watch this movie

[scuddermarky]

This movie was officially released on DVD sometime last year.