We're sure more than a few of you apartment- and tract-housing dwellers without the luxury of a real fireplace have turned to the crackling comforts of the televised Yule Log over the years to give your Christmas mornings some added ambiance.

But what has been so sorely missing from all incarnations of the fake hearth (our favorite was Yule Log II—great blues and a surprise snapping sound at the three-and-a-half hour mark that nearly made us fall out of our burka loungers the first time we heard it!) were bonus features, an omission rectified with the deluxe release of Yule Log III. Of course, you'll have to purchase it to benefit from all the extras, including the wooden star of the project's own recollections from the shoot, which basically amount to one protracted, agonizing scream.