Christmas 2013 TV Schedule: What To Watch On Christmas Day; Movies And Holiday Specials On Wednesday, Dec. 25

Merry Christmas! December 25 is finally here, which means presents, a lot of food and …. holiday movies! Settle down with your family and friends and break out the tin of gingerbread cookies, because we’ve compiled a list of Christmas movies and holiday specials airing all day long.

Time: 7:30 a.m.

ABC Family - “Year Without a Santa Claus” (1974)

Cartoon Network - “Tom and Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale” (2007)

Hallmark - “Santa Switch” (2013) - “A man who’s down on his luck meets a mysterious individual who allows him to be Santa, a role that comes with magical powers. The man then uses these new powers to win back his family.”

Time: 8:00 a.m.

PBS - “Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas” (2009)

Lifetime – “The March Sisters at Christmas” (2012) – “A contemporary adaptation of ‘Little Women’ centers on the March sisters fighting to save their family home, Orchard House, while also searching for love during the Christmas season.”

LMN - “Christmas on Chestnut Street” (2006) - “When a business inadvertently orders too many Christmas lights, an employee’s idea to have a town decorating contest goes awry as residents become overly competitive.”

TBS - “A Christmas Story” (1983)

TLC – “Invasion of the Christmas Lights” (2009) – “A look at elaborate Christmas light displays across the country.”

Time: 8:30 a.m.

ABC Family - “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town” (1970)

BIO - “Inside Story: Santa Clause” (2011) - Interviews with the cast behind the 1994 Tim Allen film, “The Santa Clause.”

Cartoon Network – “Abominable Christmas” (2012)

Time: 9:00 a.m.

Hallmark - “Hats Off to Christmas!” (2013) - “A woman loses a promotion to her boss’ son, whom she falls for as she trains him for the position. A romance soon develops, but the woman considers ending things when she has doubts about her charming new beau’s reliability and his influence on her son.”

Nick - “Dora’s Christmas Carol Adventure” (2009)

TLC - “Invasion of the Christmas Lights 2” (2010) - “A look at six over-the-top Christmas light displays across the country.”

Time: 9:30 a.m.

Cartoon Network - “Scooby-Doo! Haunted Holidays” (2012)

IFC - “National Lampoon’s Vacation” (1983)

Time: 10:00 a.m.

ABC - “Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade” (2013)

PBS - “Elmo’s Christmas Countdown” (2013)

Cartoon Network - “The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol” (2011)

History - “The Real Story of Christmas” (2010)

Life - “Christmas in Paradise” (2007) - “Two families meet while vacationing in the Caribbean for the holidays and begin to bond, but a past acquaintance threatens the newly formed relationships.”

LMN - “On Strike for Christmas” (2010) - “A group of wives goes on strike in the days leading up to Christmas, when they cannot get their families to participate in holiday preparations.”

TBS - “A Christmas Story” (1983)

TLC - “My Crazy Obsession: Christmas Collection” (2012) - “Compulsive Christmas decorators include a man who’s looking for one million lights for his property, and a woman whose home has 120 Christmas trees.”

Time: 10:30 a.m.

Hallmark - “Catch a Christmas Star” (2013)

Time: 11:00 a.m.

ABC Family - “The Muppet Christmas Carol” (1992)

TLC - “My Crazy Obsession: Christmas Collection 2” (2013) - “Zealous Christmas decorators discuss the time, money and effort they put into a year-round compulsion.”

Time: Noon

TBS - “A Christmas Story” (1983)

CMT - “A Christmas Story 2” (2012) - Sequel to the holiday classic.

Hallmark - “The Christmas Spirit” (2013) - “A woman lands in a coma but realizes her spirit is awake, so she tries to communicate with people in her town and convince them to change their minds about pending real-estate development in their community.”

Lifetime - “The Road To Christmas” (2006) - “A holiday romance centers on a determined bride-to-be who’s reduced to taking a ride from a stranger and his 12-year-old daughter in hopes of reaching her perfectly planned Christmas Eve wedding.”

LMN -- “12 Men of Christmas” (2009) - “After losing her job and breaking up with her fiancé, a PR exec escapes to a small town, where she puts her media know-how to good use raising money for the local rescue squad. But her racy idea of selling a sexy calendar featuring squad members is met with resistance.”

Time: 12:30 p.m.

Disney - “The Ultimate Christmas Present” (2000) - “Two L.A. teens bemoaning a school assignment find a machine that proves to be a snowmaker. They turn it on with hopes of getting a snow day, but it works too well and creates a blizzard.”

Time: 1:00 p.m.

ABC Family - “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” (1989)

Time: 1:30 p.m.

Hallmark - “Finding Christmas” (2013)

Time: 2:00 p.m.

Disney - “Good Luck Charlie, It’s Christmas!” (2011)

Lifetime - “Christmas Angel” (2009) - “An unemployed woman who grew up in foster care goes to work for her neighbor, a secret Santa who anonymously helps people in need.”

LMN - “A Diva’s Christmas Carol” (2000) - A modern update of Dicken’s “A Christmas Carol.”

Nick - “Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh!” (2008)

TBS - “A Christmas Story” (1983)

Time: 2:45 p.m.

MTV - “The Nightmare Before Christmas” (1993)

Time: 3:00 p.m.

ABC Family - “The Santa Clause” (1994)

Hallmark - “Fir Crazy” (2013) - “An unemployed executive helps her injured dad sell Christmas trees on their family’s tree lot, but a store owner attempts to force them out of business.”

Time: 4:00 p.m.

PBS - “Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas” (2009)

Lifetime - “Crazy for Christmas” (2005) - “A single mom agrees to work on Christmas Eve chauffeuring a very rich eccentric, who is really into the spirit of giving.”

Time: 4:30 p.m.

Hallmark - “Snow Bride” (2013) - “A reporter meets the son of a celebrated political family and agrees to pose as his girlfriend at Christmastime, but problems arise when she must decide to betray the family’s trust to save her job, or take a chance on real love.”

LMN - “Holiday Switch” (2007) - “A struggling housewife learns what her life would have been like after a holiday wish whisks her to an alternate reality, where she is married to her successful high-school sweetheart.”

Time: 5:00 p.m.

ABC Family - “The Santa Clause 2” (2002)

Time: 6:00 p.m.

BBC - “Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor” (2013) - “The Doctors embark on their greatest adventure through space and time. In the present, something terrible awakes in London’s National Gallery, and in 1562 a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England.

Hallmark - “Window Wonderland” (2013) - “Two rivals vie for the head window-designer spot at a department store during the busy Christmas season, but they soon discover some common ground.”

Lifetime - “Home By Christmas” (2006) - “A woman struggles to put her life back together after a divorce that leaves her nearly destitute.”

LMN - “Home for the Holidays” (2005) - “A warmhearted woman tries to adopt her recently orphaned niece and nephews at Christmastime, but a Scrooge-like banker stands in her way.”

TBS - “A Christmas Story” (1983)

Time: 6:30 p.m.

E! - “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” (2013) - “A Very Merry Christmas” special.

Time: 7:00 p.m.

ABC Family - “The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause” (2006)

Time: 7:30 p.m.

Hallmark - “A Very Merry Mix-Up” (2013) - “A woman sets out to meet her fiance’s family at Christmas and winds up at the wrong house. Once the mistake is corrected, she realizes her bond with the wrong family - and their eligible son - was stronger than her bond with the right one.”

Time: 8:00 p.m.

ABC - “The Middle” (2013) - “The Christmas Tree” holiday episode.

NBC - “Kelly Clarkson’s Cautionary Christmas Music Tale” (2013) - Featuring appearances by Blake Shelton, Reba, Trisha Yearwood, Jay Leno, Matt Lauer, Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, William Shatner and more.

CW - “Kung Fu Panda Holiday Special” (2010)

CMT - “A Christmas Story 2” (2012)

Comedy Central - “Jeff Dunham’s Very Special Christmas Special” (2008)

Disney - “Good Luck Jessie: NY Christmas” (2013)

Lifetime - “A Very Merry Daughter of the Bride” (2008) - “A wedding planner sets out to stop her widowed mother’s hasty romance and impending wedding. But she soon finds herself falling in love with a man just as quickly as her mother did.”

LMN - “A Country Christmas Story” (2013) - “An Appalachian mountain girl pursues her dreams of becoming a country singer, despite her mother’s wishes to the contrary. She is reunited with her musician father when she enters a singing competition hosted by Dolly Parton at Dollywood.”

Time: 8:30 p.m.

ABC - “Trophy Wife” (2013) - “Twas the Night Before Christmas … or Twas It?” holiday episode.

CW - “Merry Madagascar” (2009)

Time: 9:00 p.m.

NBC - “Michael Bublé’s 3rd Annual Christmas Special” (2013) - Featuring appearances by Mariah Carey, Mary J. Blige and Cookie Monster.

CW - “One Direction iHeartRadio Album Release Party”(2013)

ABC Family - “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” (1989)

Hallmark - “The Christmas Ornament” (2013)

BBC - “Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor” (2013) - “The Doctor must sacrifice everything to save a town called Christmas from the Time Lord’s greatest enemies.”

Time: 9:30 p.m.

ABC - “Super Fun Night” (2013) - “Merry Super Fun Christmas” holiday episode.

Time: 10:00 p.m.

Comedy Central - “Jeff Dunham’s Very Special Christmas Special” (2008)

Time: 10:30 p.m.

Hallmark - “Let It Snow” (2013) - “A resort executive is sent to transform a quaint lodge into an updated resort, but the lodge’s holiday charm and the owner’s dashing son win her over, tempting her to reconsider the modernization plans.”