Christmas Story

Year Published: 1978

Copyright: Registered 28Aug78 · PA 18-870 (Jul-Dec 1978) Copyright holder: CBS, Inc. (in notice: Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.)

Complete Record: Starring Fat Albert and the junkyard gang. The gang are getting ready to surprise their parents with their version of the Christmas Story. The clubhouse is filled with the Christmas spirit: decorations fill the room and presents are piled high under the tree. The gang is just about to begin another rehearsal when old Tightwad Tyrone pounds on the door. This time he’s adamant - the clubhouse has to go. It’s lowering the property value of the junkyard. After Mr. Tyrone leaves the kids don’t have much time to worry before they hear another knock at the door. This time it’s a little boy who’s come to ask for help. Everything is going wrong: his family is from out of town, he dad has no job, they have no place top stay...AND his mother is expecting a baby any minute! Fat Albert invites the family in and then remembers Mr. Tyrone’s vow to bulldoze the clubhouse It’s time to have a talk with Mr. Tyrone...but talk does no good. Mr. Tyrone is a mean old man, so mean that it’s only after a lambasting from Old Mudfoot, the local bum, that he realizes just how mean he has become. A reformed Mr. Tyrone helps the poor family find work and a place to stay and he even lets Fat Albert and the gang keep the clubhouse.