Your favorite "Classic Christmas Special"

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This is only for the perennial “Classic” Christmas TV specials, as in the ones that have been running every year without fail for at least 20-30 years (mainly the Rankin/Bass ones), not the one-year one-offs like the “Star Wars Christmas Special” or more recent stuff like “Shrek” or whatever else, and movies like “A Christmas Story” and the like are a totally different poll.

I would consider the “Classic” specials to be, in no particular order:
[ul]
[li]A Charlie Brown Christmas[/li][li]How the Grinch Stole Christmas[/li][li]Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer[/li][li]Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town[/li][li]Little Drummer Boy[/li][li]Frosty the Snowman[/li][li]Mickey’s Christmas Carol[/li][/ul]

I started to watch “Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town” last night and was once again reminded what a piece of shit it was.

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There are only two Christmas specials: Charlie Brown and the Grinch.

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Christmas Day will always be, just as long as we have we.

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You and the OP both forgot Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol.

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Grinch, Charlie Brown, and Rudolph, but Olive, the Other Reindeer is second to the Grinch. It’s filled with sly and subtle humor that you have to pay attention to catch.

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That I have never seen.

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Too recent.

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You forgot The Year Without a Santa Claus.

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Die Hard. Run every Xmas for over 20 years.

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I’ve never seen that one.

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I think DCnDC is going for television specials, not theatrical releases.

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Another vote for Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol – the first made-for-TV animated Christmas Special*, and still the best.

*I don’t count the Disney “from all of us to all of you” specials, where they simply cobbled together pieces from old and forthcoming cartoons. Magoo’s was made for TV and wholly original.

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Charlie Brown and the Grinch are my fav TV specials.

For theatrical releases…Die Hard.

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Mr. Magoo, of course, for TV. Die Hard for movies, and Hardrock, Coco, and Joe (don’t know if they’re spelled correctly!) for short feature.

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The Alistair Sim Christmas Carol. That is all.

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I can’t believe that Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas was forgotten!!!

The Riverbottom Nightmare Band rules!!!

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Charlie Brown, and what MLS said.

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Charlie Brown. I own it on VHS, laserdisc, DVD, and Blu Ray.

My other Christmas traditions: formerly the Bozo Christmas special broadcast by WGN-TV Chicago, now a DVD from the Museum of Broadcast Communications that contains two of the creepy animated shorts shown on the Bozo special: “Suzy Snowflake” and “Hardrock, Coco, and Joe” as well as a really bizarre Christmas/Disco theme episode of Kukla, Fran, and Ollie.

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If you had, Heat Miser and Snow Miser would be haunting your dreams to this day.

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That’s very surprising. It’s one of the “big three.”

And where’s the love for Nestor the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey?