"Miracle on 34th Street" is the Christmas episode, broadcast on November 27, 1959, of the American color anthology television series NBC Friday Night Special Presentation, which showcased drama, comedy and musical entertainment and occasional news special reports, while alternating once a month with The Bell Telephone Hour musical series, also in color, in the 8:30–9:30 pm time slot from September 11, 1959, until June 17, 1960.
The episode stars Ed Wynn, a recent Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture nominee for 1956's The Great Man and soon-to-be Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nominee for that year's production of The Diary of Anne Frank.
Also in the cast, playing the befuddled psychiatrist, was Orson Bean, a regular, at the time, on the quiz show Keep Talking, and child actress Susan Gordon who, earlier that year, had worked on episodes of two other live TV series, Playhouse 90 and Goodyear Theatre, as well as in two theatrical films, The Man in the Net and The Five Pennies.
The broadcast was long believed to have no surviving copies, but a kinescope was discovered at the Library of Congress where it was shown in December 2005.
Susan Gordon who played Mary Healy's daughter and was ten at the time of the broadcast, attended the screening.