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Top 10 Christmas TV episodes

December 4, 2012 9:57 AM By DIANE WERTS. Special to Newsday

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Photo credit: FOX | Ed O'Neill and Sam Kinison in a holiday episode of "Married ...with Children"

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Christmas TV episodes are a living thing, or a moving target, depending on your point of view. New ones are always airing, and your own perspective on the holiday changes, too.

So a personal Top 10 feels ephemeral. Recently revisiting those I chose a few years back for my book "Christmas on Television," I found myself less enchanted with several, more enamored of others, and wondering whether...

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