More holiday releases are hitting shelves this week, including two sentimental TV movies, recent and vintage. Plus ’70s musical mayhem.
The Christmas Card (Genius, list price $15, out Tuesday, Oct. 23) – Last year’s Hallmark TV movie with the backdrop of the current war comes to disc for all the readers who’ve been writing in asking if this sentimental hit was available on DVD. Finally it is, telling of an American soldier (John Newton) touched by a holiday card from a stranger (Alice Evans), whom he then becomes determined to meet. Extras include a featurette about a real-life “card” story.
A Christmas Memory (Genius, $13, out Tuesday) – Truman Capote’s perennial holiday story of a lonely boy was remade into a 1997 CBS TV movie with Patty Duke. It’s less treasured than ABC’s 1966 Geraldine Page version (narrated by Capote himself), but that version is almost impossible to find on disc.
Captain & Tennille: The Christmas Show (Retroactive, $15) – Don Knotts and Tom Bosley join the “Love Will Keep Us Together” couple and musical guests The Pointer Sisters in the color-crazed 1976 yule hour of their ABC variety series. Songs range from “Little Saint Nick” to “O Holy Night.” Optional C&T commentary!