This is one of my favorite Christmas TV specials by the animation team that did the "Pink Panther" cartoons. I vaguely remember watching this special on the channel Teletoon in its early days, and it never crossed my mind to tape it. But thank God, I recently discovered YouTube, which I watched through my smart TV.
The special is about a bear named Theodore Edward Bear (or Ted. E. Bear) who has wanted to know what Christmas is since he was young. Every year he tried to stay awake to see Christmas, since bears sleep through the winter and never see Christmas. So one year, despite naysayers who laugh at him and getting fired from his job at the Organic Honey Works plant, Ted sets out to the big city (in the human world) to find Christmas. Will he succeed? Well, you will have to watch and see what happens. You know, in 1983, there was another Ted E. Bear TV special for Halloween called "The Great Bear Scare." Of course, I didn't know it existed until I watched it online, and after that, I thought, "I love this special way better."
I really consider this and other Christmas specials criminally underrated and never seen on TV anymore! I mean that the next generation of kids, including my young nephew, should watch these for their Christmas holidays. So anyway, I love every bit of this special, and I really wish it was on a DVD and not on those crappy M. O. D. Discs.