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Latter-day Scrooge Homer Bedloe (Charles Lane) shows up in Hooterville at Christmastime with a noticeable lack of good cheer. Bedloe plans to foil a plan formulated by Kate (Bea Benaderet) to use the Hooterville Cannonball to distribute presents and transports Christmas carolers throughout the Valley. This episode is a virtual word-for-word remake of the Season One effort "A Cannonball Christmas", this time filmed in color with several different cast members; curiously, although "A Cannonball Christmas" was repeated in Season Two, "The Santa Claus Special" aired but once on CBS.