30 Days of Horrible Christmas Movies... Day Twenty-Six - The Night They Saved Christmas
The Night They Saved Christmas (1984) - ABC Let's travel back to a simpler time before Hallmark hijacked the TV Christmas movie, where oil companies were the devil and a woman's long flowing locks never moved out of place, no matter hard the wind was blowing. Michael (Paul Le Mat) is a hard working geologist detonating dynamite in the arctic looking for oil for his dickish boss Mr. Murdock (Mason Adams). Unfortunately there's no oil to be found, Michael is sad and Murdock is super angry. Worst still, Michael is at odds with super beautiful wife Claudia (Jaclyn Smith) who has grown weary of dragging their three kids around the globe in the search of the black gold, and the youngest one, C.B., is seriously unstable. I mean this kid punched another kid for saying there's no Santa Claus. Who does that? Later in the evening C.B. will stomp out the the room and wish his mother dead for even hinting that Santa might not be a real person. C.B. is the w...