Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials
TV & Film:TV Reviews
🎄 It’s 1975, and a shepherd boy just lost his sight after staring directly at a lightning bolt. Â
Join us as we return to enchanted world of Rankin/Bass Christmas specials for an overlooked, underrated, and redundantly titled hidden gem about neither the first Christmas, nor the first Christmas snow. Â
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🎙 Guest: ÂMike Troxell (@Prune_Tracy, Mastodon: PruneTracy@sharetron.com). Â
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đź’¬ Topics & Tangents: Â1. Vox’s Emily St. James ranks all the Rankin/Bass Christmas specials. Â
2. A very brief history of the Christmas card. Â
3. Was There Really Any Winter’s Snow at the Time of the Nativity in Bethlehem? Â
4. Flash blindness is real. Â
5. Arthur Rankin Jr. recalling how Irving Berlin really, REALLY didn’t want “White Christmas” in the special. Â
6. This exact sound of a wolf howling (or, actually, a coyote) is heard over and over again. Â
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đź“Ľ Retro Commercial Break: ÂToys “R” Us Time of Year Christmas Commercial, 1976. Â
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🎤 And Now, These Messages: ÂChristmas Creeps, keeping the Christmas spirit alive through the magic of terrible holiday films. Â
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“The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow” © 1975 Rankin/Bass Productions. Â
Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost. Â
Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.
Frasier: Look Before You Leap
A Christmas Carol (1984)
Yogi’s First Christmas
The Great Santa Claus Switch
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman: Season’s Greedings
Santa, Baby!
Tales From the Crypt: And All Through the House
An American Christmas Carol
Full-Court Miracle
A Mouse, A Mystery, and Me
The Soulmates in The Gift of Light
Christmastime with Mister Rogers
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Animaniacs: A Christmas Plotz / Little Drummer Warners
A Flintstones Christmas Carol
ALF: Turkey in the Straw
The Little Drummer Boy, Book II
Elmo Saves Christmas
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