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Description: Here's another installment from the recurring 24 Days of Christmas one-minute featurettes, here with Michael Caine (just a few short years away from becoming "The Hardest Working Man in Hollywood") describing the Christmas traditions in England (five years before WBBM Channel 2's Bob Wallace travelled all the way there to find them out in person). Caine starts off by invoking the names of key characters from Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" before listing holiday traditions that date back to medieval times. With illustrations.

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This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, December 21st 1979 shortly before 9am.