THE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever movie was released in 1983 and is a made for TV adaptation of Barbara Robinson's novel of the same name. Loretta Swit of M*A*S*H stars as Grace Bradley who inherits the job of running her church's Christmas pageant when the woman who usually does it breaks her leg. Grace is indifferent about running the pageant. While she doesn't want one more thing to do, she also understands that she is needed, and so she takes on the challenge. And a challenge it is sure to be! Not only does Grace inherit this disaster, but it gets worse when the Herdman kids - all six of them - decide they want to be in the Christmas pageant as well.