Off the Wall is feeling doubly festive this week.

CHRISTMASTIME IS HERE Stop with the shocked act. Christmas creep is nothing new. The Valerie Bertinelli-Peter Falk flick "Finding John Christmas" (Saturday at 6 a.m., Hallmark) kicks off Hallmark's full-weekend festival of holiday films that includes the premiere of Catherine Bell's yule wedding saga "The Good Witch's Gift" (Saturday at 8, Hallmark). Daily Christmas movies start Monday-Friday 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Hallmark Movie Channel. Vintage TV episodes pop up, too, including a musical Christmas party on "Ally McBeal" (Monday at 4 p.m., Reelz) and a cranky Dr. Angry Head on "Becker" (Monday at 6:30 p.m., Reelz). Best of all: Here come the classics, with the 1966 Dr. Seuss-Chuck Jones cartoon collaboration "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" (Friday at 8 p.m., TBS).

THANKSGIVING EPISODES Among those taking note of Turkey Day: "Desperate Housewives" (Sunday at 9 p.m., ABC/7), "One Tree Hill" (Tuesday at 8 p.m., CW/11), "The Office" (Thursday at 9 p.m., NBC/4), and, of course, "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" (Thursday at 8 p.m., ABC/7).

MUSIC MAKERS After CMT celebrates "40 Greatest Songs of the Decade" (Saturday 8-10, CMT), it hosts a Rascal Flatts concert that's "Invitation Only" (Monday at 9 p.m., CMT). Then, Bruce Springsteen performs and discusses the retro return of "The Promise" on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" (late Tuesday at 12:35 a.m., NBC/4). Enter to win a Rascal Flatts guitar at cmt.com.

SHOW-BIZ SALUTES Chris Rock, Denis Leary, Richard Belzer, Lewis Black and other comics pay tribute to their late colleague in "Back From Hell: A Tribute to Sam Kinison" (Saturday at 10, Comedy Central). Friends and co-stars tell all in "Betty White: America's Golden Girl" (Sunday at 8 p.m., TV Guide Network). TV's current comic queenpin is honored in "Tina Fey: The Mark Twain Prize" (Sunday at 9 p.m., PBS/13; Thursday at 9 p.m., WLIW/21). And Hollywood's biggest-ever child star is newly profiled in "The Shirley Temple Story" (Friday at 8 p.m., Fox Movie Channel), before screenings of 1940s "The Blue Bird" and 1938's "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" (Friday at 8:30 and 10 p.m., FMC). Tina Fey answers fans' questions at pbs.org/marktwainprize.

ZOMBIE CATCHUP If you're wondering what all the fuss is about, find out in a three-episode dose of the graphic adult chiller "The Walking Dead" (Sunday 8-11 p.m., AMC). The series' first two hours encore with limited commercial breaks before the third debuts at its regular time of 10 p.m. All things "Dead" at amctv.com/originals/The- Walking-Dead.

SERIES PREMIERES You know the biggie: "Sarah Palin'sAlaska" (Sunday at 9 p.m., TLC). But there's also the weeknight radio-highlights hour "The Steve Harvey Show" (Monday-Friday 9 p.m., Centric), the global influences foodfest "United Tastes of America" (Tuesday at 9:30 p.m., Cooking Channel), and the '80s-set college-com "Glory Daze" (Tuesday at 10 p.m., TBS). Preview at tbs.com/shows/glorydaze.

WRESTLING FLASHBACK Do these names ring a bell? Sgt. Slaughter, The Iron Sheik, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, "Mean" Gene Okerlund? This week's "WWE Monday Night Raw" (Monday 8-11 p.m., USA) goes old school, welcoming the stars who made '80s wrestling pop-culture cool. But the biggest name is on another network. "Finding Hulk Hogan" (Wednesday at 10 p.m., A&E) spends an hour catching up with the Hulkster after his ugly divorce, his son's auto smashup and his financial ruin. At least he's found God. More at usanetwork.com/raw.

On the latest episode of "Sarra Sounds Off," Newsday's Gregg Sarra and Matt Lindsay take a look top boys and girls basketball players on Long Island. Credit: Newsday

Sarra Sounds Off, Ep. 15: LI's top basketball players On the latest episode of "Sarra Sounds Off," Newsday's Gregg Sarra and Matt Lindsay take a look top boys and girls basketball players on Long Island.

On the latest episode of "Sarra Sounds Off," Newsday's Gregg Sarra and Matt Lindsay take a look top boys and girls basketball players on Long Island. Credit: Newsday

Sarra Sounds Off, Ep. 15: LI's top basketball players On the latest episode of "Sarra Sounds Off," Newsday's Gregg Sarra and Matt Lindsay take a look top boys and girls basketball players on Long Island.

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