Holiday Double Feature Lux Radio Theater Wizard of Oz and Miracle on 34th Street Classic Radio

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Lux Radio Theater, a classic radio anthology series, was broadcast on the NBC Blue Network (1934–35) The theater adapted Broadway plays during its first two seasons before it began adapting films. These hour-long radio programs were performed live before studio audiences. On October 2, 1950, Lux Video Theatre began as a live 30-minute Monday evening CBS Television series, switching to Thursday nights during August 1951. In September 1953, the show relocated from New York to Hollywood.
The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). An adaptation of L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's fantasy novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, it was primarily directed by Victor Fleming, who left production to take over the troubled Gone with the Wind.
Teenager Dorothy Gale lives on a farm in Kansas owned by her Uncle Henry and Aunt Em. When Dorothy's Cairn Terrier Toto bites the wealthy Almira Gulch, Miss Gulch obtains a sheriff's order authorizing her to seize the dog to be euthanized. Toto escapes and returns to Dorothy, who runs away to protect him. Professor Marvel, a charlatan fortune-teller, tells Dorothy to go home because Aunt Em is heartbroken, and she returns just as a tornado approaches the farm. Unable to get into the locked storm shelter, Dorothy takes cover in the farmhouse and is knocked unconscious as the tornado lifts the house and drops it into an unknown land. With her dog Toto in tow, Dorthy encounters some very odd and dangerous things on her journey to the Emerald City, the home of the Wizard of Oz, as he might know how to help her return home.

Along the way, Dorothy meets the Scarecrow, who wants a brain; the Tin Man, who wants a heart; the Cowardly Lion, who wants courage, a good witch, a bad witch, and a dead witch!

Miracle on 34th Street is an 1947 American Christmas comedy-drama film released by 20th Century-Fox, written and directed by George Seaton and based on a story by Valentine Davies. It stars Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Natalie Wood, and Edmund Gwenn. The story takes place between Thanksgiving and Christmas in New York City and focuses on the effect of a department store Santa Claus who claims to be the real Santa. Kris Kringle is indignant to find that the man assigned to play Santa in the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is intoxicated. When he complains to event director Doris Walker, she persuades Kris to take his place. He does so well that he is hired to play Santa at Macy's New York City store on 34th Street.

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