A CHRISTMAS STORY MARATHON
TNT, 7:00 p.m. ET
Tonight’s Best Bets will be all Christmas, all the time – or, at least, all devoted to Christmas specials and special presentations on this evening’s TV schedules. Start, at 7 p.m. ET on TNT, with the now-annual tradition of a 24-hour nonstop marathon showing of 1983’s A Christmas Story, about little Ralphie’s quest for a Red Ryder B.B. gun. This marathon also runs, beginning at 8 p.m. ET, on sister network TBS, so for a solid day, tonight and tomorrow, you can watch this 1983 film adaptation of Jean Shepherd’s charming holiday memoir of sorts, starring Peter Billingsley as Ralphie and Darren McGavin as “The Old Man Parker.” And don’t forget the lamp. I never do.