Source: CBS Entertainment

July 7th, 2003--JOHN CHRISTMAS, a new television movie starring Valerie Bertinelli ("Touched By An Angel"), two-time Emmy Award-winner Peter Falk ("A Town Without Christmas"), David Cubitt ("Robbery Homicide Division") and William Russ ("Mister Sterling"), has begun production in Nova Scotia for broadcast on the CBS Television Network. The heartwarming holiday drama tells the story of a woman who searches for her brother, a former fireman hero, who has come back home after mysteriously disappearing many years before.

Former fireman Hank McAllister (Russ) just wants to slip into town and leave quietly, but that becomes impossible when a picture of him wrapping a tattered American flag around a shivering dog is splashed on the cover of the local newspaper as the "face of Christmas." The paper offers a reward for his identity and whereabouts, labeling him "John Christmas." Everyone wants to find this mysterious man, particularly Kathleen (Bertinelli), an emergency room nurse who is fighting to keep her hospital open in the wake of budget cuts. She believes this anonymous man is her brother, who disappeared 25 years earlier. Noah (Cubitt), the newspaper photographer whose photo started it all, has his own reasons for finding him. Together, Kathleen and Noah search for answers from the elusive "John Christmas."

Unbeknownst to them, three strangers are being driven towards each other by something more powerful than their own curiosity. Along the way, Hank, Kathleen and Noah unite with help from an angel named Max (Falk, reprising his role from the CBS movie "A Town Without Christmas"), in this story of love, reunion and redemption. JOHN CHRISTMAS, a Daniel H. Blatt Production, is being produced by the same creative team that produced "A Town Without Christmas," the most-watched television movie in the 2001-2002 television season. Daniel H. Blatt is the executive producer; Michael Mahoney and Ken Gross, the producers. Andy Wolk is directing the drama from a script by Michael J. Murray.