Humorist Jean Shepherd's memoir of growing up in the midwest in the 1940s follows 9-year-old Ralphie Parker in his quest to get a genuine Red Ryder BB gun under the tree for Christmas. Ralphie pleads his case before his mother, his teacher and even Santa Claus himself at Higbee's Department Store. The constant response: "You'll shoot your eye out!" All the elements from the beloved motion picture are here, including the family's tempermental exploding furnace; Scut Farkas, the school bully; the boys' experiment with a wet tongue on a cold lamppost; the Little Orphan Annie decoder pin; Ralphie's fantasy scenarios and more.

Adapted by Philip Grecian
Based on the motion picture A Christmas Story written by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown, and Bob Clark
Directed by Meredith Crosby