The 1989 Prancer (KTLA Sunday at 6...

The 1989 Prancer (KTLA Sunday at 6 p.m.) is the perfect Christmas gift for the whole family, the story of how an innocent but strong-willed child’s belief in God (and Santa Claus) transforms her family and her Midwestern farming community. Rebecca Harrell plays the 8-year-old heroine and Sam Elliott her overburdened widower father. Directed by John Hancock from Greg Taylor’s script.

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (NBC Sunday at 8:30 p.m.), Steven Spielberg’s landmark 1982 fantasy for all ages boasts in the title role the most lovable space alien of all time, a miracle of movie magic, who visits a fatherless suburban family.

John Hughes’ sometimes funny, sometimes tasteless National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (ABC Sunday at 9 p.m.) offers a hideous vision of a suburban Christmas gone totally amok but encased in a sentimental overview--like a Norman Rockwell portrait with a punk-rock backbeat, and spiders nibbling through the frame. As in previous “Vacations,” Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo head the Griswold household.

Miracle on 34th Street (KTLA Tuesday at 8 p.m.), the 1947 Christmas season classic, finds Edmund Gwenn’s department store Santa trying to convince a doubting Natalie Wood that he’s the genuine article; with Maureen O’Hara as Wood’s mother and John Payne as O’Hara’s boyfriend. Unfortunately, it is being aired in a colorized version.

White Christmas (KTLA Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.) is an elaborate 1954 VistaVision reworking of the much better 1942 “Holiday Inn,” in which Bing Crosby introduced “White Christmas.” Crosby returns, as do Irving Berlin’s songs, and he’s joined by Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen; the plot has to do with Army buddies Crosby and Kaye jazzing up ex-officer Dean Jagger’s winter resort.

My Fair Lady (KTLA Thursday at 7:30 p.m.), George Cukor’s elegant 1964 film version of the Lerner and Loewe musical version of Shaw’s “Pygmalion,” won Cukor an overdue Oscar. Rex Harrison reprises his inimitable Professor Higgins and Audrey Hepburn is the ragamuffin Eliza Doolittle, whom he transforms into a lady. Lush period settings and costumes.

Part children’s storybook, part Sunday-school pageant, the 1991 TV movie Miracle in the Wilderness (KTLA Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 2 a.m.) blends frontier drama with Christian fable. A Blackfoot Indian (Sheldon Peters) visualizes the story of Christ’s birth. With Kris Kristofferson and Kim Cattrall.

O Pioneers! (CBS Saturday at 9 p.m.), a lovely 1992 TV movie rendition of Willa Cather’s reverential novel about the land and people of rural Nebraska near the turn of the century, stars Jessica Lange as a strong farm woman of Swedish descent who confronts terrible tragedy with an almost superhuman capacity for forgiveness.