It Happened One Christmas

Remake of “It’s a Wonderful Life,” with Marlo Thomas as a woman whose financial woes drive her to despair. Cloris Leachman, Wayne Rogers, Orson Welles. Willy: Barney Martin. Bailey: Richard Dysart., When a woman contemplates suicide, her guardian angel descends to earth to show her how life would have been if she had never existed. This made-for-television reimagining of It’s a Wonderful Life is extremely faithful to the original classic, despite the switch of the hero’s gender to female.