Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials
TV & Film:TV Reviews
It’s the 100th episode of the Advent Calendar House! Join us as we put one foot in front of the other back to 1970 to revisit a Rankin/Bass Christmas classic that dares to answer children’s questions about Santa Claus while illegally opening his mail.
Full show notes with links at https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/santa-claus-is-comin-to-town.
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🎙 Guests:• Michael DiGiovanni (@theatomicgeeks) from the Classic Film Jerks and Pop Culture Retrofit podcasts.
• Erin Evans (@mserinevans).
• Michael May (@michaelmaycomix) from MichaelMay.online and AfterLUNCH.
• Brandon Medley (@brandmed, Instagram: @blessedarethegeek).
• Joey O. (@imgonnadj24) from Y-Not Radio.
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💬 Topics & Tangents:• Both IMDb and Wikipedia had the premiere date wrong because of a typo in an old book. Rich Goldschmidt’s The Making of Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town and The Daydreamer gets it right.
• Former pro-wrestler Special Delivery Jones.
• Burgermeister Meisterburger is a dead ringer for Mauser from Police Academy 2 and 3.
• Context clues place this special in Sweden.
• Hey, IMDb, I highly doubt the Greg Thomas voicing young Kris Kringle grew up to play the saxophone in Parliament Funkadelic.
• For a while, Topper was renamed Waddles.
• Kris’s weird face he makes after being caught by the Winter Warlock’s angry trees.
• Save the Earth from Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster.
• Weddings on Christmas Day used to be popular.
• The first known recording of the song Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town, and our favorite versions.
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📼 Retro Commercial Break:• Folgers Coffee: Peter Comes Home for Christmas, 1982.
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Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town © 1970 Rankin/Bass Productions.
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