The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

This is a made for tv adaptation of Barbara Robinson's novel The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. Loretta Swit of M*A*S*H stars as Grace Bradley who inherits the job of running her church's Christmas pageant when the woman who usually does it breaks her leg tripping over the extremely long wire she has on her telephone.

Not only does Grace inherit this disaster it gets worse when the Herdman kids - all six of them. The Herdmans are notorious for abusing each other and stealing from and abusing other kids as well. They smoke, steal, lie, bully and generally create havoc in their town.

Their father disappeared years earlier and mother works two shifts at the shoe factory to support herself and the kids while the kids run wild.

But this WILL be the best Christmas pageant ever when the Herdman kids learn the Christmas story and about the true meaning of Christmas.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• christmas

[phillygrl69]

This has always been a favorite of mine! Remember watching it when I was a kid! Thanks so much! Quality is excellent!

[akannad]

Thank you so much for posting this! I loved it and hate that I can't find it nor that it's no longer televised.

[QuranGoodman]

i read the book

[paul21mclovin]

i saw the production of this for the first time this past semester at college. first time watching the original

[GlitzPianoman]

@DuchessAliana Yup, this was her first film at the age of nine, two years before she first graced the silver screen as Dorothy in Return to Oz.

[goober0064]

I love this

[porcupinemamma]

Wonderful movie. Miss seeing it at Christmas. Thanks for posting

[DuchessAliana]

OMG I never realized that was Fairuza Balk. Thanks for putting this up!

[Cattaztrofee]

Our church is putting on this production as part of our Christmas Eve Service. I am Beth Bradley. Thank you for posting this. It is such a cute story! God Bless!

[alexhodges654]

this is a good movie!

[babyboy84119]

The child welfare's at our house every five minutes! LOL!! that's my favorite part! That and..... "Revenge in Bethleheeeem!" LOL!

[seth3444]

Seen It!