Monday, December 16, 2019

Your Turn

Your favorite holiday television special. My vote is for Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town which automatically makes the top 15 tomorrow. What are your favorites? If you list five or six, the first one you list is the one I use as your vote.

67 comments:

  1. A Charlie Brown Christmas

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  2. A Charlie Brown Christmas

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  3. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. Hands down.

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  4. A Charlie Brown Christmas

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  5. Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer

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  6. Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer,Charlie Brown Christmas second.

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  7. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
    Charlie Brown Christmas
    Santa Clause is Coming To Town
    The Year Without a Santa Clause

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  8. Charlie Brown Christmas

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  9. I’ll probably be the only vote for I love Lucy Christmas special

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  10. Oh, I forgot How the Grinch Stole Christmas

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  11. Hardrock, Coco, and Joe

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VKGonDIq8gw

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  12. A Charlie Brown Christmas.

    It's a very wholesome movie. A true all-time classic. I have the soundtrack at home too.

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  13. Mickey Once Upon a Christmas, The Christmas Story and Charlie Brown. The Christmas Story is so special to me and we just watched it as we decorated the tree.

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  14. Hardrock, Coco and Joe was not a apecial. It was a video played by WGN

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  15. A Charlie Brown Christmas.

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  16. The Year Without a Santa Claus. Love Heat Miser and Cold Miser.

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  17. Anonymous10:16 AM

    A Wish for Wings. It's not Christmas without a showing of this classic. Who can enjoy the holidays without a crossdressing cockroach and a pig who wants to be a hippopotamus.

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  18. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
    Grinch the original cartoon

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  19. A Charlie Brown Christmas

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  20. A Charlie Brown Christmas

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  21. Anonymous10:21 AM

    I love Charlie Brown Christmas. All the Peanuts gang jigging about 5to that wonderful theme song.
    The tree with almost no branches."It just needs a little love."...

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  22. A Charlie Brown Christmas

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  23. CB And anything with Burl Ives voice!! So comforting

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  24. I HATE to do anything to promote Star Wars, but the CHRISTMAS SPECIAL about the WOOKIES is awesome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=6hH8rxarVG8&feature=emb_logo

    Though Lucas is uncredited, it was his idea to build the narrative around Chewbacca's family.[4] CBS hired experienced variety show writers and producers,[4] including writer Bruce Vilanch, who was concerned about the decision to center the special on a species who grunt in a fictional language without subtitles. Regardless, Lucas would not budge on his vision.[13] The special went through two directors. The first, David Acomba, was brought in through an attempt to "make us different in variety shows", according to Lippincott. Acomba, a classmate of George Lucas at USC film school, was unfamiliar with a multiple-camera setup, which caused some problems. Acomba also felt that there was a divide between himself and the producers, and chose to leave the project after finishing only a few scenes, including the cantina and Jefferson Starship. He was replaced by Steve Binder, whose only contact with Lucasfilm was a "Wookiee bible" detailing how the species should look and behave.[13] Stan Winston was hired to design the Wookiee family.[15]

    The special was broadcast in its entirety in the United States only once, on Friday, November 17, 1978 (the week before Thanksgiving), on the television network CBS from 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm, Eastern Standard Time (EST), pre-empting Wonder Woman and The Incredible Hulk. It was also broadcast on the Canadian television network CTV from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm, Eastern Standard Time,[2] in New Zealand on TVNZ, and in Australia on the Seven Network.[citation needed]

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    1. This was my pick also...it's definitely a must see that's for sure!

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  25. Charlie Brown Christmas


    Though I remember loving the anticipation for my annual musical fix of "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" and "Heat Miser/Cold Miser"...long before Christmas radio and these shows available to play on VCR or cable channel marathons, it really was a once a year treat!

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  26. A Wish for Wings that Work

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  27. original animated The grinch who stole Christmas

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  28. It's a Wonderful Life

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  29. Olive, The Other Reindeer. It really doesn’t get the recognition it deserves!

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  30. A Charlie Brown Christmas

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  31. if you sit on my lap today, a kiss a toy is the price you'll pay...

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  32. If star wars special didn't exist I would vote GRINCH
    ah boo doray ah boo doray...

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  33. The Year Without a Santa Claus - Heat Miser and Snow Miser!

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  34. Alf, as a pedant, you're horseshit.

    I guess that's consistency.

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  35. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (the 1966 original)

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  36. Santa ClausIs Coming To Town
    Charlie Brown Christmas
    Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
    The Little Drummer Boy

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  37. Scrooge..The Albert Finney version

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  38. A Charlie Brown Christmas

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  39. Grinch. Cant get any better than Christmas Karloff.

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  40. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

    I still tear up when the misfit toys hear the sleigh bells and see Rudolph's light.

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  41. C'mon. We all know it's Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas. Do not argue this with me. I'm 100% right.

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  42. Star Wars Holiday Special or the Claymation Christmas

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  43. Charlie Brown Christmas
    my son's comment when I put up a small primitive feather tree in a corner - "look, it's a Charlie Brown tree!"

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  44. A Charlie Brown Christmas.

    But props for Ann for bring up the delightful Bloom County Christmas special.

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  45. "but do you recall, the most famous reindeer of all"

    1) Rudolph the red nosed Reindeer
    2) The Grinch who stole Christmas
    3) Frosty the Snowman

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  46. The year without a santa claus (heat miser/snow miser)

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  47. I cant believe there arent more vote Heat Miser! You without a Santa Clause FTW!

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  48. Also Mr Magoo CHristmas Carol

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  49. Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol and The Easter Bunny is Coming To Town. (If that is the one where the EB takes a trip through history in a hot air balloon time machine.)

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  50. Every single one of the ones I watched growing up in the 60’s. They all bring the magic of Christmas home for me. ❤️ Charlie Brown, Grinch, Frosty, Rudolph, etc. Sitting around the TV, all of us as a family, and watching them was such a treat. I miss those days of innocence. Now Christmas is so commercialized. ☹️

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  51. Frosty the Snowman.
    Happy Birthday! Lol

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  52. How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Christmas is NOT Christmas without a little Boris Karloff!

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  53. Charlie Brown
    Grinch
    Rudolph

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  54. the little drummer boy

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  55. I don't watch any of that commercial shit.

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  56. Charlie Brown
    Grinch
    Rudolph

    I keep seeing Magoo's Christmas, but don't remember it at all! and believe me, I was a TV watcher.

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  57. How the Grinch Stole Christmas. The animated one, of course.

    That disgrace with Jim Carrey makes me sick!

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    1. 🎵 Trim up your uncles and your aunts, and join the Ku Klux Klan 🎶
      😂 I know that can’t be right, but that’s what I heard as a kid, and that’s what I still sing now.

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  58. Anonymous9:33 PM

    @gauloise
    I'm Mr. Cold Miser
    I'm Mr. Snow
    I'm Mr. Icicle
    I'm Mr. Ten Below
    They call me Cold Miser...
    Whatever I touch...
    Turns to snow in my clutch!
    I'm too much.

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  59. Original How the Grinch Stole Christmas

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  60. Santa Claus vs. the Martians w/Pia Zadora.

    So there.

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  61. The Year Without a Santa with Heat Miser and Snow Miser

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  62. Pee Wee Herman's Christmas special ... it's become a little ghoulish as all the guest stars die off.
    RIP Annette Funicello, Princess Zsa Zsa, all three Del Rubio Triplets, Dinah Shore, The King of Cartoons.

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