Showing posts with label Classic TV Christmas Festival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Classic TV Christmas Festival. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 9, 2019

The Wonderful World of TCM: Carol for Another Christmas (1964)

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There is a reason I am not writing this until a week after Christmas, and it's not that I was too lazy the holiday week. And the one aft...
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Monday, December 24, 2018

'Mooners Monday: Jackie Gleason's Honeymooners Christmas (1978) is on Prime Video

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Before I prepare for my annual Christmas Eve screening of the Classic 39's 'Twas the Night Before Christmas , I want to write a few ...
Monday, December 25, 2017

TV Time Revisited: A "classic" holiday column from ClassicFlix

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NOTE: For those of you looking for a nice long read on this holiday...well, this is long, at least. This is a piece I wrote for ClassicFlix ...
Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Screengrab Theatre Presents Countdown to Christmas: Yogi Bear's All-Star Comedy Christmas Caper

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This is the 1982 Hanna Barbera special that Mark Evanier wrote in two days--literally two days--as he recounts in a great post right here . ...
Monday, December 18, 2017

'Mooners Monday #37/Screengrab Theatre's Countdown to Christmas

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From December 19, 1952, it's "Christmas Party," one of the Lost Episodes and a reworking of a previous version on Cavalcade of...
Sunday, December 25, 2016

Hazel: The Early Years: "Hazel's Christmas Shopping"

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I know what you're thinking: "Rick, the intricate long-term storytelling of Hazel demands rigorous sequential viewing. How can you...
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Friday, December 23, 2016

Brooks on Books: A Charlie Brown Christmas: The Making of a Tradition

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This shall be a message unto you: The single greatest bit of pop culture related to the Christmas holiday is A Charlie Brown Christmas . As ...
Thursday, December 8, 2016

Tis the season

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I don't know about you guys, but to me it just doesn't feel like Christmas until I see a sketch with Andy Griffith as a bartender co...
Thursday, December 26, 2013

Merry Christmas Again!

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At the risk of stealing the thunder of the Internet's foremost Doris Day Show chronicler, good buddy and Friend of the Site Ivan at Thri...
Tuesday, December 24, 2013

That sneaky Alice! (Happy Christmas Eve)

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I watched the Brady Bunch's Christmas episode, "The Voice of Christmas" for the first time in years recently. I actually...
Sunday, December 22, 2013

Instant Gratification Theater: Christmas options on streaming video

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You might have your stack of Christmas DVDs next to the tube already, all arranged for holiday week viewing, but if you're looking for s...
Friday, December 24, 2010

Classic TV Christmas Festival: Meet Corliss Archer

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Before getting back into the Festival, let me remind everyone of the CBS Christmas Eve lineup we get in primetime tonight: "CSI," ...
Thursday, December 23, 2010

Classic TV Christmas Festival: The HUB brings the Garry Marshall

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It's easy to forget about the rebranded Discovery Kids channel, now the HUB; though it offers a smattering of relative oldies in the nig...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Classic TV Christmas Festival: Captain Gallant

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We conclude this year's abbreviated (but still precious) Classic TV Christmas Festival with a letter from Billy, who writes: Sometimes I...
Monday, December 28, 2009

Classic TV Christmas Festival: Love That Bob

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Today we have a letter from 6-year-old Becky, who writes: I liked your story about Betty White who reminded the boy of his grandma. But what...
Thursday, December 24, 2009

Classic TV Christmas Festival RETURNS! A Date with the Angels

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This year, I'm trying something a little different with the Classic TV Christmas Fest. I'm responding to the KIDS, the little folk t...
Sunday, December 28, 2008

Classic TV Christmas Festival Part 7: Good Times

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OK, "Good Times" may not be some people's idea of a "classic," but like "What's Happening!!" it was a ...
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Classic TV Christmas Festival Part 6: The Flintstones and Buffalo Bill

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You might think these two shows couldn't be more dissimilar, but think again. Here are just a few of the ties that bind "The Flints...
Saturday, December 27, 2008

Classic TV Christmas Festival Part 5: The Dick Van Dyke Show

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"The Alan Brady Show Presents" is one of those "DVD" episodes that basically lets the cast put on a little mini-revue. T...
Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Classic TV Christmas Festival Part 4: Have Gun Will Travel

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You might not see Paladin and think, "Hey, now THERE'S an ideal earthly personification of the Christmas spirit," but in the f...