Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas is a one-hour Christmas television special based on the 1971 children's storybook of the same name by Russell Hoban. It first aired on HBO in 1977, and would later make its first network broadcast on ABC on December 15, 1980. It has since re-aired on Nickelodeon in the 1990s, then on the Odyssey Network in 1999, and most recently aired as part of ABC Family's 25 Days of Christmas in 2015.