A Different Kind of Christmas

December. 09,1996      
Rating:
5.4
Trailer Synopsis Cast

When you're the city attorney you don't need the kinds of problems that her father was giving her. After her mother died, her father began doing his "Santa Schtick," as she called it, much more intensely... which meant that he turned his home into a kind of year-round Santa Claus castle where children of all ages could come to see the wonderful presents and no child ever left without a gift.

Shelley Long as  Elizabeth Gates
Barry Bostwick as  Frank Mallory
Richard K. Olsen as  Henry
Michael E. Knight as  Alan Schaefer
Bruce Kirby as  Santa
Keith Flippen as  Michael
Rebecca Koon as  Marguerite
Ralph Wilcox as  Doctor Nichols
Lorri Lindberg as  Elaine

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