I watched a few early 80s Christmas specials with my nieces yesterday: the Chipmunks Christmas and The Christmas Racoons. They weren't quite what I remembered.
Chipmunks was something else. Basically a kid is dying so his sister wants to give him a golden harmonica to make him better, but the mother tells her they need all their money to get the kid through Christmas--okaaay--and the daughter's like 'the hell does that mean?' and the mother responds "shhhh!" Alvin overhears this exchange at a department store while he's pining over the same harmonica, and decides to raise the dough. Then Mrs. Claus buys him the harmonica, and while at a Christmas Eve performance at Carnegie Hall, Dave surprises Alvin by bringing the dying child along--but he's now cured. Boom: Christmas miracle.
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