No one ever knows what I’m talking about when I mention Bernard and the Genie.
Remember, Say the words “I wish” with the caution you would normally reserve for “Please castrate me.”
Oh yeah, another one came to me: A Christmas Memory, the 1967 version narrated by Truman Capote. Basically just a sweet tale of an eccentric woman and a young boy, who can’t afford anything more as Christmas presents but fruitcakes, so every year they gather the nuts, save pennies to buy flour and whiskey, and bake the cakes.
One I had forgotten about until I saw it mentioned in a Cracked article just last night:
I’ve noticed that for the last couple years, ABCFamily will show The Santa Clause and The Santa Clause 3, often back to back in marathon. The Santa Clause 2 is never included. Are they trying to make us forget it?
The special is forgotten, but their rendition of “The 12 Days of Christmas” still gets played a lot this time of year.
I still love Beaker’s part!
Older than that- mid Sixties!
When I was 5, I used to watch Paul Tripp as host of some kiddie TV show in New York. He was the writer and star of The Christmas That Almost Wasn’t. I saw the commercials for it, and got my parents to take me to it. It was AWFUL! So bad, even a 5 year old couldn’t appreciate it. Worse yet, apart from Paul Tripp, the entire cast was Italian, and their lines were all dubbed in badly later.
I also remember The Littlest Angel. Incredibly cheesy, but I remember liking the number by the philosopher Democritus (played by Tony Randall). He has died and gone to Heaven, but his strictly logical philosophy leads him to conclude that he is merely dreaming, and he sings a song about how much he’ll miss the angels he’s meeting when he finally wakes up.
The quote from the book “My Name’s Friday: the unauthorized but true story of Dragnet and the films of Jack Webb” by Michael J Hayde in dealing with the 1952 telecast. “This time, the NRA chose not to fight City Hall. Instead, they asked for a print of the show to use as an educational tool,as part of a program to encourage parents to teach their children the proper way to handle firearms. Webb obliged”. it appears about 15% into the kindle edition.
There were actually ways to distribute filmed material before VHS and DVD.
I’m still not buying it. The whole story is so grossly “out of character” for the NRA of that time period that it sounds to me like somebody’s fantasy. I’ll email somebody at the NRA when I get a chance and see what they have to say about it. I’m not going to hijack this thread any further.
I believe that this was a television movie but I don’t recall the title of it. It was a mostly black cast, and a boy of about 10 befriends a stray cat. I believe that Grandma is in a rocking chair and she asks: “What do you want for Christmas, Child?” He replies “A cat.”
If I’m not mistaken, at one point he’s feeding the cat and eats some of what he’s feeding the cat. Does anybody know the title or even remember this one?
I also forgot: “The House Without A Christmas Tree” starring (I think William Windom and Lisa Lucas).
Before VCRs and DVDs shows were distributed on 16mm film and shown with projectors.
The Rifftrax Live folks did this one a few years ago…Santa’s line at the 5:47 mark (“Rudolph…I need you” while sitting at the foot of his bed) drew the largest laugh I think I’ve ever heard from any viewing audience.
I’ve heard that Styne and Merrill wrote “People” for Mr Magoo but it didn’t make the cut, so they threw it into their next show: Funny Girl. It makes more sense, plot-wise, in Mr. Magoo.
And another vote for Will Vinton’s Claymation Christmas.
I’ve heard this story, too, but the general consensus is that it’s not true.
I remember watching this tv movie as a kid, “The Three Kings” http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094136/
It’s about three mental patients who escape and steal costumes and live camels from a Natvity scene and travel through Los Angeles. I don’t remember much else about it.
I forgot that was an Xmas movie!
I remember one Christmas special that was made along time ago and was played on Teletoon about a Bear who was angry at Santa or something and so he used witch craft to put Santa to sleep. I don’t remember the name of the film but I remember it being pretty good. If anyone on her remembers it could you please tell me? been dying to see it again.
And Fred Gwynn.
Anyone remember one called The House without a Christmas Tree? It was about a poor girl who lived with her grumpy father. All she wanted for Christmas was a tree, and he wouldn’t get her one.