Mr. Wilson (Robert Wagner), the long suffering next door neighbor of the urchin menace named Dennis (Matthew Perry Cotton), does not have the holiday spirit. Who can blame him when Dennis almost kills him with some of his shenanigans? Yet, Mrs. Wilson (Louise Fletcher) can be counted on as a baby sitter for the next door boy, no matter what acts he commits. In order to reform Mr. Wilson, spirits of past and future Christmas must pay a visit to the irascible old man, despite the fact that Dennis has done thousands of dollars of damage to Mr. Wilson’s home and he blames the parents (Kim Schraner, George Newbern) of Dennis for not supervising their son. Mr. Wilson faces reforming his ways before Dennis ever will.