"The Christmas Show"

According to Andrew Sandoval's The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story of the 60s TV Pop Sensation, "The Christmas Show" - the forty-seventh episode of The Monkees series (and the fifteenth of the second season) - was broadcast fifty years ago to-day (25 December 1967).  It was written by Dave Evans and Neil Burstyn, directed by Jon Anderson, and featured the song "Riu Chiu."  Sandoval describes the plot as: "The group try to instill the spirit of Christmas in a cynical rich kid (played by Butch Patrick)."