This is one of my Christmas favorites. It has great details of Christmas and school in the 40s and 50s, bringing back many familiar memories to those Baby Boomers whose fathers went off to work with a lunch pail. Despite the title, it's not a sappy show. Addie looks and acts like a real kid, and the show received good reviews when it was broadcast. Mildred Natwick is wonderful as Addie's grandmother. It isn't really a kid's show, in that it is written from the point of view of the grown Addie looking back at her relationship with her father. If you like this kind of bittersweet story, you would probably like Truman Capote's "A Christmas Memory," and the short "Christmas Snows, Christmas Winds." They are childhood memories from the same era.
Review of The House Without a Christmas Tree
