Young Pioneers' Christmas (1976)

Directed by

Michael O'Herlihy

Genre

drama film, Western film, historical film, Christmas film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young married couple living on the American frontier in the 1870s face the challenges of a harsh winter. They work to prepare a Christmas celebration for their family and neighbors.

sentimentalheartfeltold-fashionedearnestmildsimplewarmslow-paced

What happens

Young Pioneers' Christmas is a 1976 American made-for-television Western drama film which was broadcast by ABC in December 1976 as a Christmas special starring Linda Purl and Roger Kern. It was a sequel to the made-for-television movie Young Pioneers which aired earlier in March 1976 and was produced using the same creative team of Ed Friendly (producer), Blanche Hanalis (screenwriter), and Michael O'Herlihy (director). The movie is loosely based on the 1933 novel Let the Hurricane Roar by Rose Wilder Lane, which was reissued by Bantam Books in 1976 using the same title of Young Pioneers for the paperback book. This was a second attempt to interest ABC in a TV series after Young Pioneers was not picked up by the network. There were hopes this pilot would succeed but it ranked only 37th in the Nielsen ratings. Although not initially picked up by ABC, it was revived as a short-lived television series, The Young Pioneers, which was broadcast in April 1978 on ABC and canceled after three episodes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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