*All Times Eastern/Pacific
2:00PM Merry MeTV
Facts of Life, The - "The Christmas Show" The girls prepare to go their separate ways for Christmas vacation.
2:30PM Merry MeTV
Facts of Life, The - "Christmas in the
Bighouse"
Blair plans a charity event at what she believes is an orphanage but is
really a prison.
3:00PM Merry MeTV
Mama's Family - "Santa Mama" Mama fills in for Vint as a mall Santa.
3:30PM Merry MeTV
Mama's Family - "Mama Gets Goosed"
When Mama gets a Christmas present from her cousin, a live goose for
Christmas dinner, memories of her childhood come back. The rest of
the family is appalled at the thought of killing their new pet.
4:00PM Merry MeTV
Lucy Show, The - "Together for Christmas"
The Carmichaels and the Bagleys are spending their first Christmas
together. Almost immediately, trouble starts when Lucy and Viv fight
over whether to have a traditional green or white flocked tree. Two
trees and an escalation of words leads to chopped-off tree limbs and
numerous busted ornaments.
4:30PM Merry MeTV
Lucy Show, The - "Lucy the Choirmaster"
Lucy wants to get her son Jerry to California for Christmas as frugally as
possible so she arranges for his military academy class to perform
carols at the bank. Feeling the holiday spirit, Mr. Mooney joins the
choir to sing bass.
2:00PM Merry MeTV
Facts of Life, The - "Christmas Baby" The gang isn't prepared when a surprise guest comes on Christmas Eve.
2:30PM Merry MeTV
Facts of Life, The - "Post Christmas Card"
Natalie goes on a spending spree when the bank approves her for a
credit card.
3:00PM Merry MeTV
Saved by the Bell: "A Thanksgiving Story"
Stranded at the college, the gang helps Mike prepare a Thanksgiving
dinner for a group of inner-city kids.
3:30PM Merry MeTV Mama's Family - "An Ill Wind"
A tornado traps the Harper family, Iola, and Effie in the basement on
Thanksgiving day.
4:00PM Merry MeTV Happy Days - "The First Thanksgiving"
Upset that the rest of the family is watching a football game instead of
helping her prepare the Thanksgiving dinner, Marion reminds them of
the meaning of the holiday with the story of the first Thanksgiving.
4:30PM Merry MeTV Cheers - "Ill-Gotten Gaines"
Woody takes advantage of catching his father-in-law in a twisted affair.
5:00PM Thanksgiving
Love Boat, The - "Too Many Dads"
It's Thanksgiving. Among the passengers is a woman who wants to
introduce her fiancé to her parents but she neglected to tell them that
he's a paraplegic. And the crew is bickering with each other, to the
point that they're not speaking with each other.
7:00PM Thanksgiving
Touched By An Angel - "An Unexpected
Snow"
An accident occurs involving two women, Megan and Sasha, who are
dating the same man. The angels create a house on a deserted road,
where the two friends, and Susana's husband, have Thanksgiving
dinner.
10:00PM Thanksgiving
Touched By An Angel - "Heaven's Portal"
Nick Albright is having difficult time adjusting to the changes in his
family. His dad's business is going under, his parents are splitting up,
and on top of that it looks like there may not even be a Thanksgiving.
12:30AM Thanksgiving
Bob Newhart Show, The - "An American
Family"
Emily's plans for a wonderful turkey dinner go downhill when Bob's
mother and Emily's father begin insulting one another the night before
Thanksgiving.
9:30PM Thanksgiving
ALF - "Turkey in the Straw Part 1" When ALF eats the Thanksgiving turkey, Willie must find a new one.
5:30AM Thanksgiving
Donna Reed Show, The - "Guest in the
House"
A patient of Dr. Stone runs way from military school and spends
Thanksgiving weekend with the Stones.
6:30AM Thanksgiving
Brady Bunch, The - "The Un-Underground
Movie"
Greg's history project is a home movie about the Pilgrims with the rest
of the Brady clan as the cast.
7:00AM Thanksgiving
Beverly Hillbillies, The - "The Thanksgiving
Spirit"
The Clampetts visit Hooterville to celebrate Thanksgiving with the
inhabitants.
9:30PM Thanksgiving
ALF - "Turkey in the Straw Part 2"
ALF must avoid the Alien Task Force when a homeless man blows the
whistle on him.
Wednesday, November 22, 2017
Thursday, November 23, 2017 (Thanksgiving Day)
Sunday, November 12, 2017
Sunday, November 19, 2017
5:30AM Holidays
Donna Reed Show, The - "A Very Merry
Christmas"
Donna convinces the hospital janitor to dress as Santa Claus for the
Children's Ward on Christmas Eve.
7:00AM Holidays
The Beverly Hillbillies - "Christmas at the
Clampetts"
A television, a boat, and a chimpanzee are among the many gifts Mr.
Drysdale gives to the Clampetts for Christmas.
10:00AM Holidays
Matlock - "Santa Claus"
When a down-on-his luck Santa Claus (Tom McCabe) is accused of
killing the landlord who was about to evict not only him but everyone
else in the apartment complex, the people in his building take up a
collection and ask Matlock to defend him.
11:00AM Holidays
Diagnosis Murder - "Santa Claude"
Hospital horticulturist Claude is revealed to be an escaped convict
living under an assumed name for the past 10 years. Mark fights to
shelter Claude from extradition while striving to prove his innocence.
4:00PM Holidays
Wagon Train - "The Mary Ellen Thomas
Story"
An orphan girl with a sour disposition, traveling West to stay with
relatives, soon alienates her fellow wagon train passengers.
5:00PM Holidays
T.J. Hooker - "Slay Ride"
Despite being undercover as Santa Claus, Hooker finds it hard to get
into the Yuletide cheer with Fran and his children away.
7:00PM Holidays
M*A*S*H - "Dear Sis" Father Mulcahy writes a pre-Christmas letter to his sister, who is a nun.
7:30PM Holidays
M*A*S*H - "'Twas the Day After Christmas"
To boost post-yuletide morale on Dec 26, Potter has the officers and
enlisted men change places for the day.
8:00PM Holidays
Andy Griffith - "Christmas Story"
A modern-day Scrooge (businessman Ben Weaver) causes trouble on
Christmas Eve.
9:30PM Holidays
ALF - "Oh, Tannerbaum"
It's Christmastime. Unfortunately ALF chops the Christmas tree into
firewood before anyone notices. The Tanners then have two tasks: to
teach ALF all about Christmas and find a new Christmas tree.
11:00PM Holidays
Carol Burnett Show - "Mrs. Wiggins/Harry's
Mirage & Grill"
Mrs. Wiggins, just before Christmas, Mr. Tudball conducts a fire drill to
keep the insurance company appeased. Then, in Harry's Mirage and
Grill, Harvey and Tim find a desert oasis with a beautiful woman -- or is
it just a mirage?
12:30AM Holidays
Twilight Zone - "Changing of the Guard"
An elderly private school teacher wonders if his life has meant anything
as he contemplates sucicide on Christmas Eve and is reminded by
former students that he has, indeed, made an effect on the lives of his
students over the years.
1:00AM Holidays
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - "Santa Clause
and the Tenth Avenue Kid"
While working as a department store 'Santa Claus', a paroled convict
tries to help a troubled boy.
1:30AM Holidays
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - "Back for
Christmas"
An English man (John Williams) murders his wife and moves to
California, thinking he has committed the perfect crime until a
Christmas gift threatens to expose him.
7:00AM Holidays
Beverly Hillbillies, The - "Home for
Christmas"
The Clampetts decide to head home to the Hills for Christmas, and
once Drysdale and Jane hear about this, they make all the
arrangements, getting Granny and Elly mink coats and giving the
Clampetts their first plane ride in style. After a slight mix-up, the
Clampetts finally get home, surprising Pearl and Jethrine. Meanwhile,
back in the Hills, Pearl is trying to woo Mr. Brewster, getting close to a
marriage proposal.
7:30AM Holidays
Beverly Hillbillies, The - "No Place Like
Home"
The Clampetts arrive back at their old cabin to spend the Christmas
holiday with Pearl. But since the cabin will be too crowded with the
Clampetts and Brewster, Pearl suggests Brewster stays with her, in an
attempt to get engaged. She tries to woo Brewster at show herself off
at the theatre she works at during the premiere of Ben Hur.
Friday, November 24, 2017
Saturday, November 25, 2017
11:00AM Holidays
Wagon Train - "The St. Nicholas Story"
On Christmas Eve, the wagon train stops to make camp and a young
boy wanders off to find St. Nicholas.
12:00PM Holidays
The Big Valley - "Judgment in Heaven"
Jarrod risks inviting his client, a young woman accused of aiding and
abetting her outlaw boyfriend, home for a Christmas visit.
2:00PM Holidays
Bonanza - "A Christmas Story"
A young singer named Andy Walker returns to Virginia City at
Christmas time and agrees to appear at the annual orphan's Christmas
benefit.
7:00PM Holidays
Wonder Woman - "Pot of Gold"
Around Christmas, a petty crook steals gold in order to buy $100 bill
printing plates from a counterfeiter, but Wonder Woman foils the sale
10:00AM Holidays
Saved by the Bell E/I - "Home for Christmas
Part 1"
The gang all gets jobs at the Palisades mall during the holiday seasons.
Zack befriends a girl who is working for Kelly. Zack and Screech make
friends with a homeless man but when they visit him at the hospital
they get a big surprise.
10:30AM Holidays
Saved by the Bell E/I - "Home for Christmas
Part 2"
Zack learns that his new girlfriend is the homeless man's daughter.
When she decides to get her dad a new coat and it turns up missing,
her boss Mr. Mooney accuses her of stealing it.
2:00PM Merry MeTV
Petticoat Junction - "The Santa Claus
Special"
Scrooge-like Homer Bedloe derails Kate's plan for Christmas Eve
caroling and gift-distributing aboard the Hooterville Cannonball
2:30PM Merry MeTV
Beverly Hillbillies, The - "Christmas in
Hooterville"
The Clampetts celebrate Christmas in Hooterville.
3:00PM Merry MeTV
Honeymooners, The - "'Twas the Night
Before Christmas"
Ralph hocks his bowling ball to get Alice a present when someone else
gets her the same thing he did.
3:30PM Merry MeTV
Odd Couple, The - "Scrooge Gets an Oscar"
In a parody of "A Christmas Carol", Felix and the poker players become
Dickens characters in a dream after a miserable Oscar refuses to be
Scrooge in a children's play.
4:00PM Merry MeTV
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - "Dr. Mike's
Dream: A Christmas Tale"
Dr. Mike has an "A Christmas Carol" style dream, where she wonders
what her life would have been like if she had not become a doctor.
7:00PM Holidays
Touched By An Angel - "Fear Not!"
Monica must help Joey, who has a mental condition, deal with the fact
that his friend Serena is dying from a heart condition. Serena was to be
the angel at the town's Christmas pageant.
10:00PM Holidays
Touched By An Angel - "The Feather"
A crooked preacher claims a feather came from an angel's wing and
proves God is directing him.
12:30AM Holidays
Bob Newhart Show, The - "Home Is Where
the Hurt Is"
Facing the depressing prospect of returning home to Iowa to spend the
holidays with her domineering parents, Carol brings her troubles to
Bob's apartment. There she spends Christmas Eve pouring out the
disasters of her childhood.
1:00AM Holidays
Mary Tyler Moore Show - "Christmas and
the Hardluck Kid II"
Feeling sympathetic for a co-worker who hasn't spent Christmas with
his family for years, Mary is forced to stay alone at WJM-TV on
Christmas Eve.
Sunday, November 26, 2017
2:00PM Merry MeTV
Laverne & Shirley - "Christmas Eve at the
Booby Hatch"
Carmine calls the gang together at the Pizzabowl and asks them all if
they're willing to help him put on a Christmas show for the local
hospital.
2:30PM Merry MeTV
Brady Bunch, The - "The Voice of Christmas"
Cindy asks a department store Santa a big favor when Carol comes
down with laryngitis days before her big solo in a church Christmas
program. Meanwhile, Alice and the kids find it hard to hide presents
from each other.
3:00PM Merry MeTV
Movie: "A Very Brady Christmas" (1988)
The entire Brady family manages to overcome personal obstacles to
spend a happy holiday together. Starring Florence Henderson and
Robert Reed.
2:00PM Merry MeTV
ALF - "Alf's Special Christmas Part 1"
2:30PM Merry MeTV
ALF - "Alf's Special Christmas Part 2"
3:00PM Merry MeTV
Love Boat, The - "The Christmas Cruise" Julie hires a has-been comedian to play Santa Claus during the voyage.
2:00PM Merry MeTV
Little House on the Prairie - "Bless All the
Dear Children"
During preparation for Christmas, baby Rose Wilder is kidnapped by a
woman who recently lost her child.
4:00PM Merry MeTV
Bob Newhart Show, The - His Busiest
Season"
Christmas becomes a sad memory for Bob's group therapy session, and
it's evident that "'tis not the season" for everyone to be jolly. Bob
decides to invite the group over for Christmas Eve.
4:30PM Merry MeTV
Mary Tyler Moore Show - "Christmas and
the Hardluck Kid II"
Feeling sympathetic for a co-worker who hasn't spent Christmas with
his family in years, Mary is forced to stay alone at WJM-TV on
Christmas Eve.
6:00AM Holidays
Facts of Life, The - "The Christmas Show" The girls prepare to go their separate ways for Christmas vacation.
6:00AM Holidays
Facts of Life, The - "Christmas in the
Bighouse"
Blair plans a charity event at what she believes is an orphanage but is
really a prison.
6:00AM Holidays
Facts of Life, The - "Christmas Baby" The gang isn't prepared when a surprise guest comes on Christmas Eve.
9:30PM Holidays
ALF - "Alf's Special Christmas Part 1"
ALF and the Tanners prepare to spend Christmas in a cabin. When the
owner comes to visit them, ALF accidentally jumps into his trunk and
he is taken to a hospital and given away as a Christmas gift to a little
girl.
6:00AM Holidays
Facts of Life, The - "Post Christmas Card"
Natalie goes on a spending spree when the bank approves her for a
credit card.
9:00PM Holidays
Mama's Family - "Santa Mama" Mama fills in for Vint as a mall Santa.
9:30PM Holidays
ALF - "Alf's Special Christmas Part 2"
ALF and the Tanners prepare to spend Christmas in a cabin. When the
owner comes to visit them, ALF accidentally jumps into his trunk and
he is taken to a hospital and given away as a Christmas gift to a little
girl.
6:00AM Holidays
Petticoat Junction - "Cannonball Christmas"
Homer Bedloe's latest plan for decommissioning the Cannonball falls
on the holidays, as the gang are decorating the train for the annual
Christmas Eve caroling run.
6:30AM Holidays
Petticoat Junction - "Santa Claus Special"
Scrooge-like Homer Bedloe derails Kate's plan for Christmas Eve
caroling and gift-distributing aboard the Hooterville Cannonball.
7:00AM Holidays
Beverly Hillbillies, The - "The Christmas
Present"
The Clampetts are preparing for Christmas, but are lacking in one thing
Christmas spirit. Jed thinks it is because they aren’t doing anything
special for anyone this Christmas. He thinks they should do something
special for Mrs. Drysdale, unaware she is still trying to get rid of them.
They try to get jobs to raise money for her gift, so she doesn’t find out.
7:30AM Holidays
Beverly Hillbillies, The - "The Week Before
Christmas"
Granny gets a letter from Sam Drucker in Hooterville, but Elly's bear
eats it. So after Granny finds very little success knowing if she is
engaged or not, Jed, Granny, and Elly all decide to spend Christmas in
Hooterville.
Thursday, December 21, 2017
Friday, December 22, 2017
Tuesday, December 19, 2017
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
Saturday, December 23, 2017
Sunday, December 3, 2017
Sunday, December 10, 2017
Sunday, December 17, 2017
ALF and the Tanners prepare to spend Christmas in a cabin. When the
owner comes to visit them, ALF accidentally jumps into his trunk and
he is taken to a hospital and given away as a Christmas gift to a little
girl.
9:30AM Holidays
Have Gun Will Travel - "Be Not Forgetful of
Strangers"
Duane Eddy as a cowboy who arrives in town during Christmas with his
pregnant wife---and no lodgings.
11:00PM Holidays
Wagon Train - "The Mary Ellen Thomas
Story"
An orphan girl with a sour disposition, traveling West to stay with
relatives, soon alienates her fellow wagon train passengers.
1:00PM Holidays
Gunsmoke - "P.S. Murry Christmas"
A drifter and seven orphans find a way to melt the cold heart of the
orphanage headmistress at Christmastime.
3:00PM Holidays
Rawhide - "Twenty-Five Santa Clauses"
The drovers pool their efforts to prepare a Christmas celebration for a
sickly Mexican boy.
4:00PM Holidays
Wanted: Dead or Alive - "Eight Cent
Reward"
On Christmas Eve Randall receives his most daunting assignment yet:
bring in Santa Claus.
7:00PM Holidays
Wonder Woman - "The Deadly Toys"
An evil toymaker uses android duplicates of top scientists to steal plans
for a secret government weapon.
4:00AM Holidays
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - "Long
Live the King"
The assassination of a king means Prince Ang receives an early
promotion. The new king is just a boy, and has a lot to learn about
ruling.
11:00AM Holidays
Saved by the Bell E/I - "Home for Christmas
Part 1"
The gang all gets jobs at the Palisades mall during the holiday seasons.
Zack befriends a girl who is working for Kelly. Zack and Screech make
friends with a homeless man but when they visit him at the hospital
they get a big surprise.
11:30AM Holidays
Saved by the Bell E/I - "Home for Christmas
Part 2"
Zack learns that his new girlfriend is the homeless man's daughter.
When she decides to get her dad a new coat and it turns up missing,
her boss Mr. Mooney accuses her of stealing it.
2:00PM Merry MeTV
Gilligan's Island - "Birds Gotta Fly, Fish Gotta
Talk"
During Christmas, the Castaways get homesick and remember the first
day they were shipwrecked.
2:30PM Merry MeTV Happy Days - "Christmas Time"
Fonzie receives a Christmas gift from his father but is reluctant to
accept and open it. Meanwhile, Richie and Lori Beth argue about what
they've spent on each other's gifts, and Joanie is upset at Howard for
getting an artificial tree.
3:00PM Merry MeTV Movie: "Scrooge" (1970)
Charles Dickens' classic Christmas story is retold in this musical
masterpiece. The hardened miser Scrooge is haunted by three ghosts
who warn him of his fate if he refuses to change. Starring Albert Finney
and Alec Guiness.
5:00PM Holidays
Love Boat, The - "Santa, Santa, Santa"
On a Christmas cruise, three men are scheduled to play one jolly St.
Nick; Vicki gives her dog to a lonely comic; a woman asks Ace to pose
as her fiancé.
6:00PM Holidays
Love Boat, The - The Christmas Presence"
Mickey Rooney plays a mystical Christmas presence among a motley
group of passengers.
7:00PM Holidays
Touched By An Angel - "Violin Lesson"
Monica helps a violin maker finish a violin he started thirty years ago
when his son was born. His son has come home to die due to AIDS, and
the father finishes the violin as a tribute to his son's life.
10:00PM Holidays
Touched By An Angel - "It Came Upon a
Midnight Clear"
Wayne gets upset when Joey breaks a special ornament for the
Christmas tree. He leaves the house and Joey is alone. Monica visits
Joey and takes care of him, telling his a story of Christmas past. After
much worry, Wayne comes home.
11:00PM Holidays
Honeymooners, The - "'Twas the Night
Before Christmas"
Ralph hocks his bowling ball to get Alice a present when someone else
gets her the same thing he did.
11:30PM Holidays
Odd Couple, The - "Scrooge Gets An Oscar"
In a parody of A Christmas Carol, Felix and the poker players become
Dickens characters in a dream after a miserable Oscar refuses to be
Scrooge in a children's play.
12:30AM Holidays
Bob Newhart Show, The - "Bob Has to Have
His Tonsils Out, So He Spends Christmas Eve
in the Hospital"
Christmas Eve finds Bob in the hospital with tonsillitis and an
impending operation. Meanwhile, his friends are all suffering from an
attack of Christmas-itis.
1:00AM Holidays
Mary Tyler Moore Show - "Not A Christmas
Story"
An invitation from Sue Ann Nivens to Christmas dinner – in the middle
of November – is the last thing Mary and the newsroom staff want, but
it is exactly what they get.
3:00AM Holidays
Untouchables, The - "The Night They Shot
Santa Clause"
December 24, 1930. That evening, Hap Levinson is playing Santa Claus
at the Sackman Orphan Home. Santa brings toys and ice cream to all
the waifs. He walks outside, waves good-bye, and is promptly machine-
gunned to death by hoods in a speeding car. Quite a shock for all the
kiddies. Killing Santa is not a federal crime, but Eliot Ness investigates.
5:30AM Holidays
Donna Reed Show, The - "A Very Merry
Christmas"
Donna convinces the hospital janitor to dress as Santa Claus for the
Children's Ward on Christmas Eve.
6:00AM Holidays
Facts of Life, The - "It's a Wonderful
Christmas"
Feeling alone on Christmas, Santa shows Beverly Ann what life would
be like without her.
Monday, December 25, 2017 (Christmas Day)
Sunday, December 24, 2017 (Christmas Eve)
6:30AM Holidays
Brady Bunch, The - "The Voice of Christmas"
Carol is to sing in church on Christmas, but days before the event, she
loses her voice.
7:00AM Holidays
The Beverly Hillbillies - "Christmas in
Hooterville"
The Clampetts celebrate Christmas in Hooterville.
10:00AM Holidays
Matlock - "The Scrooge"
When a scrooge of a store owner is accused of murdering his partner
for being 'good' at Christmas, Matlock agrees to take the case, but
Steven Abbott is furious when part of Matlock's fee involves Abbott
having to be a 'good' guy.
11:00AM Holidays
Diagnosis Murder - "Murder In The Family"
Mark is pleasantly surprised by a Christmas time visit from his
daughter, Carol Sloan Hilton, after eight years.
12:00PM Holidays
The Big Valley - "Judgment in Heaven"
Jarrod risks inviting his client, a young woman accused of aiding and
abetting her outlaw boyfriend, home for a Christmas visit.
2:00PM Holidays
Bonanza - "A Christmas Story"
A young singer named Andy Walker returns to Virginia City at
Christmas time and agrees to appear at the annual orphan's Christmas
benefit.
4:00PM Holidays
Wagon Train - "The St. Nicholas Story"
On Christmas Eve, the wagon train stops to make camp and a young
boy wanders off to find St. Nicholas.
5:00PM Holidays
T.J. Hooker - "Slay Ride"
Despite being undercover as Santa Claus, Hooker finds it hard to get
into the Yuletide cheer with Fran and his children away.
7:00PM Holidays
M*A*S*H - "Dear Dad" Hawkeye writes home, describing Christmas in Korea.
7:30PM Holidays
M*A*S*H - "Death Takes A Holiday"
Winchester fulfills a family Christmas tradition but has trouble
maintaining the anonymity required to keep it a truly charitable act.
Even Klinger lends a hand.
8:30PM Holidays
Andy Griffith - "Christmas Story"
A modern-day Scrooge (businessman Ben Weaver) causes trouble on
Christmas Eve.
9:00PM Holidays
Mama's Family - "Mama Gets Goosed"
When Mama gets a Christmas present, a live goose for Christmas
dinner, memories of her childhood come back. The rest of the family is
appalled at the thought of killing their new pet.
9:30PM Holidays
ALF - "Oh, Tannerbaum"
It's Christmastime. Unfortunately ALF chops the Christmas tree into
firewood before anyone notices. The Tanners then have two tasks: to
teach ALF all about Christmas and find a new Christmas tree.
11:00PM Holidays
Carol Burnett Show - "Nobody Does It Like
Me"
A department store Santa and a toy department wrapper sing after the
store has closed.
12:30AM Holidays
Twilight Zone - "Night of the Meek"
Fired on Christmas Eve, a down-on-his-luck department store Santa
Claus finds a mysterious bag that gives out endless presents.
1:00AM Holidays
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - "Festive Season,
The"
Charlie Boerum has been carrying on a long standing feud with his
sister Celia because he believes that she killed his wife. When the
family lawyer shows up on Christmas Eve to make an attempt to
reconcile the two, he discovers that they are still squabbling. He also
discovers that they are also planning each other's murder.
1:30AM Holidays
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - "Santa Clause
and the Tenth Avenue Kid"
While working as a department store 'Santa Claus', a paroled convict
tries to help a troubled boy.
7:00PM New Year's Eve
Touched By An Angel - "Millennium" Monica helps a woman let go of the past as the New Year arrives.
Sunday, December 31, 2017 (New Year's Eve)