Original Air Date: 1952
Directed by: Mabel Beaton

Synopsis: A television special from the Bell Telephone System features the Mabel Beaton Marionettes as they recreate the classic poem The Night Before Christmas and the story of the Nativity.

Kitty Cameos: In The Night Before Christmas segment, a mother cat and kittens are seen in a basket before the hearth, barely visible at the start of the film.

A black kitten is also seen lying on the bed of one of the children.

The cats bob their heads when Santa plays a tune on a musical dancing figurine.

The children wake up and the black kitten gets up, too, dancing across the bedroom.

There is an adorable dog as well and he gets a bone, but the cats don’t seem to get anything.

Final Mewsings: Don’t try to tell us the cats were naughty!

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