Garfield Christmas Special

A Garfield Christmas is a 1987 American animated television special based on the Garfield comic strip, created by Jim Davis. It is directed by Phil Roman and stars Lorenzo Music as the voice of Garfield the house cat, as well as Thom Huge, Gregg Berger, Julie Payne, Pat Harrington Jr., David L. Lander and Pat Carroll. The special is about Garfield spending Christmas with the Arbuckle family on their Indiana farm outside their hometown of Muncie, and discovering the true meaning of Christmas. Davis, who wrote the teleplay, cited it as semi-autobiographical. The special was first broadcast on December 21, 1987, on CBS and was often rebroadcast in subsequent years until its final airing on December 14, 2000. It was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program and has been released on DVD. This was the seventh of twelve Garfield television specials made between 1982 and 1991. It was also the last special to air prior to Garfield and Friends, which premiered nine months later on September 17, 1988.