Parker Family Saga
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The Parker Family Saga (also known as the Jean Shepherd's Parker Family Saga franchise,[1] the Ralph Parker franchise, or colloquially the A Christmas Story franchise),[2][3] is a collection of American family-comedies based upon the stories of author Jean Shepherd. The stories originated on Shepherd's radio programs and in his books before being adapted into a stage play, two theatrical films, four made-for-TV films, one straight-to-home video film, one unaired pilot episode for a planned television series, one musical adaptation, one live television adaptation of that musical[4] and one made-for-streaming film.[5][6][7]
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Based on | In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures (under Turner Entertainment) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (under Amazon MGM Studios) PBS Disney Platform Distribution |
Release date | 1966–present |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
All of the productions in the saga center around Ralphie Parker, a child in the 1930s and 1940s in suburban Indiana, and his friends and family. Ralphie Parker was loosely based upon Shepherd's childhood. For the rest of his life, Shepherd was the first-person narrator for all productions involving the character. Shepherd publicly claimed that all of his work was entirely fictional, but the names of his own friends and family are in his books.[8]