The Young and the Restless: Bah, humbug! The episode Victor Newman needs to watch is re-airing on Christmas Day

The Young and the Restless character Victor Newman once received visits from some visions of the past to get him into the holiday spirit. Whether or not Victor gets in the holiday spirit remains to be seen, but CBS is set to rebroadcast the episode that once reminded the mogul not to be so Scrooge-like!

The Young and the Restless, Victor's Christmas

Victor was reunited with Hope in the form of a holiday spirit on The Young and the Restless | Image: JPI

On Christmas Day, Thursday, December 25, Y&R will re-air a classic holiday episode from 2010 in which Victor Newman (Eric Braeden) is visited by ghosts of Christmas past.

If you were watching back then, you'll recall that those ghosts were played by Signy Coleman and Raya Meddine, who played, respectively, Victor's wives, Hope, and Sabrina. Hope passed away from cancer, while Sabrina died from injuries sustained in a car accident.

Victor woke up after midnight and was greeted by a spirit played by Coleman, whom viewers knew as Hope Adams Newman, Victor’s wife and Adam’s (Mark Grossman) mother. The spirit transported Victor back to the orphanage where he’d been abandoned by his mother on Christmas Eve. (Charles Dickens couldn’t have crafted a more tragic origin story!)

Watch for Victor to remember how his father, Albert (George Kennedy), had walked out on his family, leaving his mother, Cora (Dorothy McGuire), alone to raise Victor and his brother, Matt (Robert Parucha). At the orphanage, Victor learned to be alone. He remembered changing his name from “Christian Miller” to “Victor Newman,” as he literally became a “new man.”

The ex wives Christmas club

Victor will be overjoyed to see Sabrina once more on The Young and the Restless | Image: JPI

Victor, in this episode, also encounters a spirit who greatly resembles the late Sabrina. Together, they visit Adam (then, Michael Mealor) in jail. Spirit Sabrina tries to reach Victor, telling him that his family missed him, but Victor feels that they want to live their lives without him.

A third and final spirit came to visit Victor, played by Tammin Sursok, who was Colleen, the young woman who drowned after being kidnapped by Patty Williams (Stacy Haiduk). Her heart was given to Victor. Watch for Victor to make a promise to Spirit Colleen. He knows he's only alive because of her, and the generosity of her mother, Traci, played by Beth Maitland.

Viewers can expect to see other familiar faces in this special episode. According to IMDB, the actors in this episode, which originally aired on December 23, 2010, include Samantha Bailey (Summer Newman), Peter Bergman (Jack Abbott), Sharon Case (Sharon Collins), Eileen Davidson Ashley Abbott), Amelia Heinle (Victoria Newman Abbott), and Carrie Anne James (Young Cora Miller).

Also, Luke Kleintank (Noah Newman), Beth Maitland (Traci Abbott Connelly), Billy Miller (Billy Abbott), Joshua Morrow (Nicholas Newman), Stephen Nichols (Tucker McCall), Max Page (Reed Hellstrom), and Garrett Ryan (Kyle Jenkins) are set to make appearances as they appeared in the original show.

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