In this first episode of Tim's new variety show, Tim explains to the audience that none of his previous three starring shows ever made it to Christmas before being canceled. So he has decided to start things off with a Christmas Show in case they get canceled again . The holiday spoof includes his own wife and kids. But after this segment the show gets very "NON-P.C." when Tim and his cast do a skit as World War Two Japanese soldier in a training room. Nobody speaks English, they just mutter fake bad pseudo-Japanese. Today this is just embarrassing and uncomfortable to watch. The show tries to recover with Dan and Lana doing a mystery spoof with drunken detective Tim. Tim is not Dean Martin and the drunk routine falls flat. It is fun to see Sally Struthers as the show's only dancer. This is just months before she would make history on "All In The Family". McLean Stevenson is among the regular cast, just two years before he would also make history in "M*A*S*H".
—Essanay Paul