Dominic Christmas Movie Marathon
My sister loves Hallmark movies. And I love mimicking the style of “what-to-watch” film synopses. So when she sent our whole family the 2018 holiday movie lineup, I decided—for reasons unclear even to me—to write out the synopsis of each one as though they weren’t holiday movies at all, but a decades-spanning series of films about a festive detective named Dominic Christmas.
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Christmas at Pemberly Manor
Superstar Private Detective Dominic Christmas has his work cut out for him at Pemberly Manor. When the lord and lady of the house are both found murdered with evidence pointing to each of them, it’s a race against time—and the lazy local constable—to find the real killer before the estate is turned into a condominium!
Christmas Joy
Dominic Christmas is a detective. And there isn’t much room in a detective’s life for children. That is, until a woman from Christmas’s past turns up on his doorway with a story from days gone by—and Joy: a daughter he’s never met. As if that isn’t enough of a mystery, Joy’s mother goes missing! But will even two Christmases be enough to bring her back?
Road to Christmas
Joy DeLancie never knew her father. At ten years old, she’s lived a quiet life with her mother in the country. But when her mother’s past begins catching up to her, they’ll need to make a perilous journey cross-country to find a home she’s never known, and a father she’s never met who just might be her last hope! (Continued in “Christmas Joy”)
It’s Christmas, Eve
Georgia City’s finest detective Dominic Christmas carries not just the intellect of a genius, but the legacy of his family. Travel back in time and meet the investigative ancestor who started it all. She signs her letters Christmas, Eve!
Christmas in Love
A beautiful woman in a fancy dress walks into his office on a dark and stormy night. You know the story, but you’ve never seen Private Eye Dominic Christmas like this. A gorgeous dame, a thrilling adventure, and a mysterious benefactor paying the bills for as long as it takes? This is one case Detective Christmas might not want to close!
Christmas at Graceland
King of Detectives? Meet the King of Rock ‘n Roll! Bertram Christmas—father of no-nonsense Private Eye Dominic Christmas—has received an auspicious call: Someone has burglarized Elvis Presley’s private home, but they don’t appear to have stolen anything. But a crime calls for justice, and a victim calls for… Christmas!
Mingle All The Way
It’s a gumshoe get-together! Dominic Christmas’s Private Eye Union is hosting a conference, and its attendees are going missing! These networking inspectors will have to exchange more than business cards to crack the case. Can Santa’s favorite sleuth get to the bottom of it? Or will Christmas be canceled?
Christmas at the Palace
Detective Christmas goes international. When a holiday-themed bandit strikes at one of the royal family’s summer homes, the Duchess of Sussex gets her wires crossed and requests our festive detective by name. But this mix-up will prove to be one criminal’s worst nightmare. Because Dominic Christmas knows if you’ve been naughty or nice!
Christmas at Grand Valley
From a country house, to a house in the country! Mercedes Abilene, the wealthy young widow of a high profile oil magnate, enlists the aid of our pumpkin pie private eye in unraveling the real estate scheme that she believes claimed the life of her late husband.
Pride, Prejudice and Mistletoe
One more night in Grand Valley! Detective Dominic has grown perilously close to his newest client, the widow Abilene, and it is a fact universally acknowledged that an investigator in possession of good fortune must be in want of an adventure! There’s a mystery afoot, and Dominic Christmas will solve it, even if it’s the mystery of the fairer sex.
Christmas Everlasting
Investigator Extraordinaire Dominic Christmas comes face to face with his legacy—literally! A distant relative turns up at his office, traveling all the way from 1843! What could a shadow from the past need from our festive detective? And how did he get here from a century and a half away? And what mystery could be too big for Two Christmases!?
A Shoe Addict’s Christmas
It’s a dose of Christmas magic when a wandering Romani curses Detective Dominic Christmas with an insatiable desire for shoes. This footwear fixation inadvertently puts him on the trail of a business owner with a mysterious past, and a suspicious success. Will this curse become a blessing? Or will Dominic Christmas be trampled by obsession?
Christmas in Evergreen: Letters to Santa
After a particularly harrowing case (As Seen In “A Shoe Addict’s Christmas”) Detective Dominic takes a much deserved vacation to his family’s condo in the Dominican Republic. But a string of threatening postcards suggest that all is not calm at home or abroad. It’s a case of epistolary espionage in: “Christmas in Evergreen: Letters to Santa Domingo!”
Full title was cut off due to studio graphics team oversight. Hallmark Channel regrets the error.
A Majestic Christmas
Christmas comes back to the UK. Detective Christmas finds himself in the midst of a family feud that goes back generations. His client? Her Majesty the Queen!
Homegrown Christmas
Our festive detective heads home. A break-in at the old family office is complicated by the fact that only one item has been taken: A paternity test the elder Christmas had kept secret from the family. Is Detective Dominic even a Christmas after all?
Christmas Wonderland
It’s through the magnifying glass for our incomparable investigator. Dominic Christmas awakens to find his world transformed into a magical version of itself. A kingdom of wonder, with more than a few familiar faces. But things go from weird to worse when Detective Christmas meets his old rival: The Gingerbread Gumshoe!
A Gingerbread Romance
The title of Gingerbread Gumshoe has passed to a new enigmatic investigator: One with designs on a certain festive detective! Dominic Christmas is no stranger to pursuit, but usually it’s a bit more high speed. Can he manage the high wire act of his latest string of cases? Or will he fall… for Gingerbread?
Entertaining Christmas
An up-and-coming Chef has had her recipe book stolen on the eve of the biggest dinner party weekend in town! It’ll be a Feeding Frenzy for our festive detective as he goes party to party to uncover the culinary culprit. I hope you save room… for justice!
Christmas Copy
It’s the case of Dominic’s Doppelgänger! When a stranger arrives in town claiming to be the real Dominic Christmas, it’s up to Santa’s favorite sleuth to prove he’s the genuine article. He’ll need to use every trick in the book to go up against a carbon copy Christmas—who’s got a few tricks of his own!
Christmas Made to Order
It’s an assignment unlike any other: Private Eyes and Apple Pies. Private Detective Dominic Christmas must participate in a fundraising bake-off for his Detective’s Union, but all is not as it seems. When the festive detective starts getting very threatening demands for specific recipes, he’ll have to uncover whose recipe book he’s following before his goose gets cooked!
When Calls The Heart Christmas
A body has been found, and it might spell the end for our intrepid investigator. All signs point to Dominic Christmas as the culprit, and the autopsy places the time of death some time during a two week period this snowbound sleuth can’t account for. It’s a posthumous plea bargain, and this telltale heart calls: “Christmas!”
Focus On Love
For the first time ever, psychology expert Harrington Focusberg brings his world-renowned “Focus On…” series to North America. He’ll be answering your real questions, live on the air. Got a question about a relationship? Was that cutie at the park really looking at you? Wondering what the future holds for your rocky marriage? Now’s your chance to… Focus On Love.
Ed: Re-air of a previously live broadcast. Please do not call.