Based on Russell Hoban’s book, a bittersweet variation on “The Gift of the Magi,” it’s about a widowed otter and her young son getting presents for each other they can’t afford, with talent show prize money as their Hail Mary play. I missed it on its first airing but discovered it in the 1990s thanks to a VHS copy passed along by a friend, and I’ve watched it every year since it’s easily one of my favorite holiday perennials, and I’ve played “When the River Meets the Sea” at church. Another of Williams’s collaborations with the Jim Henson Company was 1977’s Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas, a TV film made for CBC that later aired on HBO.
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