Based on a book by four-time Emmy-winning "Simpsons" writer/executive producer Mike Reiss, "How Murray Saved Christmas" is about a cranky deli owner who is forced to fill in for Santa one Christmas and does a weirdly wonderful job. It's animated, it's all in rhyme and this hourlong special is utterly charming and, yes, weirdly wonderful.
Watch • 7 p.m. Friday, NBC/Ch. 5