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Betty White Christmas! (
1957) "
Santa's Helper"
(
Date With
The Angels)
Are you dreaming of a Betty White Christmas? Your dreams have come true with this classic episode of the show "
Date with the Angels", starring Betty White.
Episode #26 "Santa's Helper" aired
December 13, 1957
Vickie tries to find a suitable outlet for Mr.
Finley, Sr.'s energy, so she enlists the help of her friend
Dolly to get him a job in the local department store as one of Santa's helpers. Her plan backfires when Mr. Finley - as Santa - starts to give out free toys to all the children who meet with him, with the skinflint toy department manager on the hook for the unwitting expenditure.
"Date with the Angels" is an
American sitcom that aired on
ABC from May 10, 1957 to
January 29,
1958. The series, which stars Betty White and
Bill Williams, began as a late season replacement for The
Ray Anthony Show for the same sponsor,
Chrysler's
Plymouth division.
Tom Kennedy was the show's announcer and spokesman for Plymouth.
The series revolves around newly married
Vicki Angel and her insurance salesman husband Gus Angel who get themselves and their friends and neighbors into various comedic situations.
Besides Betty White and Bill Williams, the series also featured for several episodes
Richard Deacon,
Richard Reeves,
Maudie Prickett and
Burt Mustin.
Among the series' guest stars were
Nancy Kulp,
Madge Blake,
Joan Vohs,
Chuck Connors,
Reta Shaw,
Dave Willock,
Sid Melton,
Russell Hicks,
Hugh O'Brian,
Hanley Stafford, and Williard
Waterman.
Date with the Angels was loosely based on the
Elmer Rice play
Dream Girl, and the series was originally intended to revolve heavily around Vicki's daydreaming tendencies, with more than half of a typical episode dedicated to fantasy sequences. However, the sponsor was not pleased with the fantasy elements and successfully exerted pressure to have them eliminated. "
Without our dream sequences,"
White later said, "our show flattened out and became just one more run-of-the-mill domestic comedy [
...] I can honestly say that was the only time I have ever wanted to get out of a show."
The series produced 33 filmed episodes before it was canceled in late January 1958 in favor of a live comedy-variety series,
The Betty White Show.
Betty White - Vickie Angel
Burt Mustin - Mr. Finley
Nancy Kulp - Dolly
Richard Reeves - Mr.
Murphy
Bill Williams - Gus Angel
Jimmy Boyd -
Wheeler
Maudie Prickett -
Mrs. Cassie Murphy
Richard Deacon -
Roger Finley
Tom Kennedy - Announcer
Roy Engel -
George Clemson
Natalie Masters -
Wilma Clemson
Lillian Bronson - Mrs.
Drake
Gage Clarke - Dr.
Gordon
Betty Marion White Ludden (born
January 17, 1922), better known as Betty White, is an
American actress, comedienne, singer, author, and television personality. With a career spanning over seven decades, she is best known to contemporary audiences for her television roles as
Sue Ann Nivens on
The Mary Tyler Moore Show and
Rose Nylund on
The Golden Girls. Since the death of co-star
Rue McClanahan in
2010, she is now the only living
Golden Girl. She currently stars as
Elka Ostrovsky in the
TV Land sitcom
Hot in Cleveland and hosts the practical-joke show Betty White's
Off Their Rockers.
White has won seven
Emmy Awards (six for acting) and has received 20
Emmy nominations over the course of her career and is the only person to have an Emmy in all female performing comedic categories. In May 2010, White became the oldest person to guest-host
Saturday Night Live, for which she also received a
Primetime Emmy Award. White also holds the record for longest span between Emmy nominations for performances -- her first was in
1951 and her most recent was in
2011, a span of 60 years -- and has become the oldest nominee as of
2012, aged 90. She has made regular appearances on the game shows
Password and
Match Game and played recurring roles on
Mama's Family,
Boston Legal,
The Bold and the Beautiful, and
Community.
White began her television career in
1939, three months after high school graduation, when she and a classmate sang songs from
The Merry Widow on an experimental
Los Angeles channel. White found work modeling, and her first professional acting job was at the
Bliss Hayden Little Theatre.
White's career was disrupted immediately, as
World War II broke out, causing her to join the
American Women's Voluntary Services. In the 1940s, she worked in radio appearing on shows such as
Blondie,
The Great Gildersleeve, and
This Is Your FBI. She then got her own radio show, called The Betty White Show.
In
1950,
Betty was nominated for her first
Emmy Award as "
Best Actress" on television. This was the very first award and category in the new Emmy history designated for women on television.
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