As there were no DVD or even VCR players in our day (we did have television, though not color until my adolescent years), we found our Christmas entertainment by being vigilant in watching TV.  Almost every TV series (including westerns and Twilight Zone) would have a special Christmas episode the week before Christmas.  In addition, every variety show would also have a Christmas special...Andy Williams was one of my favorites.  Bob Hope did not have a weekly show, but he also always had an annual Christmas special.  Most of the above mentioned can be found on Youtube.

There were also very few Christmas movies extant of which we were aware.  Certainly "A Christmas Carol" was available on several channels throughout the season.  Later, if you were lucky, you might catch an airing of "Its a Wonderful Life" if you stayed up late.  "White Christmas" did not come until later, after TBS (Ted Turner's media company) began "colorizing" old movies...White Christmas was one of the first.  I don't believe I ever saw the black and white version.

We also didn't have many Christmas albums until Michelle got to be a teen...she provided us with an Andy Williams Christmas album, as well as one by Johnny Mathis, and one that became a favorite of mine by the Lettermen.  The only two I remember Mom and Dad owning were a multi-performer album put out as a premium by Firestone Tires, and a pretty peppy one by the Mexicali Brass (no relation to Herb Alpert).  The former, however, introduced me to one of my all-time favorite Christmas songs, sung (but mostly spoken) by Cary Grant!  Christmas Lullaby   

Most of our Christmas music thus came over the radio, by virtue of the goodness of the various stations, all of whom seemed to give some of their programming over to Christmas music...God bless them.