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New Year but Same Old Holiday Viewing...
Yes, today is New Year's Day and the last day of both Hanukkah and Kwanzaa in a weird sort of confluence of cultural traditions. In this household though, we go until Twelfth Night. So I will likely revisit some additional holiday programs until the Twelfth Night, such as history programs that celebrate Tudor Christmas, which definitely outlined ( Read more... ) -
The Day and Night before on Day 24 of Christmas Viewing
On Christmas Eve Day, I’ve got a potpourri of holiday viewing going on in the background.
Square Pegs - A Child’s Christmas in Weemawee
“Square Pegs” was an 80s tv series that came on CBS created by and showrun by Annie Beatts who wrote for Saturday Night Live in the much celebrated 1st Golden Era of the Not Yet Ready for Primetime Players. Terry ( Read more... ) -
On Saturday, December 14th
I spent a good portion of the day watching the Flintstones holiday marathon (with some breaks for “A Christmas Story,” “Knots Landing”-the Season One two-parter where Gary Ewing falls off the wagon and how and “Ken Burns: Country Music”). The marathon consists of 3 Christmas-themed shows-2 specials and 1 regular episode. Showing them in order as ( Read more... ) -
Day Nine…NINE???
The Nutcracker Scoob
So one of the iterations of Scooby Doo during the 80s decided that they would do a holiday episode. It was “The New Scooby Doo Mysteries.” The one where Scooby, Shaggy, Scrappy Doo (yeah, he was there) and Daphne were running the ‘Scooby Doo Detective Agency’ and solving…cases. The typical real estate scammers and some with ( Read more... ) -
An Interesting Slate of Viewing on Day 8
So this Sunday saw me playing lots of things in the background including “It’s a Wonderful Life”, “The Year Without A Santa Claus (which I jokingly note ‘Santa’ as one of if not THE best acting performances of Mickey Rooney), “It Happened On Fifth Avenue” and “Ben-Hur” (TCM was airing movies that were connected with Jesus Christ, since ‘Christmas’ ( Read more... ) -
And on the 7th Day of Holiday Viewing
I DVR’d the “Abbott Elementary” Holiday episode, and rewatched it again. This tv series, done in the mockumentary style that “The Office UK” brought back into vogue, has batted a thousand since it’s debut a few seasons ago. It tackled situations that happen in public schools with humour, insight and with respect for the people and its setting. The ( Read more... ) -
Can it be Day Six?
So NBC is airing “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer”. Apparently it’s news because it’s not only the 60th anniversary of this Rankin/Bass classic about the “most famous reindeer of all,” but it also hasn’t been aired on NBC since it’s debut. Also allegedly this will be the version that includes the material that’s usually taken out from the broadcasts ( Read more... ) -
Gimme a Five…Gimme a Five…The 5th Day of Holiday Viewing
So, NBC decided that they would air How The Grinch Stole Christmas,” which I watched and blogged about yesterday on Day 4.
I imagine that since it looks like CBS and ABC are getting out of the old school animated holiday specials, NBC is grabbing up whatever it can.
So of course I watched it again. As I said yesterday-Karloff’s narration, ( Read more... ) -
On Day Four, Four, Four, I decided…I decided…
On Day Four, I decided to watch “How The Grinch Stole Christmas.” The OG. The Original Recipe. The one with the songs sung by an uncredited Thurl Ravenscroft (known by many as Tony The Tiger from the Kelloggs Frosted Flakes cereal commercials). Animated by Chuck Jones’ studio. Narrated by Boris Karloff, who according to his daughter, was pleased to ( Read more... )