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Misfit holiday specials

The Snowden special created a kerfuffle based on the fact that it existed solely to sell a line of Snowden (a snowman) toys...Which completely bombed, as I recall.
 
Corky Marlowe said:
The Snowden special created a kerfuffle based on the fact that it existed solely to sell a line of Snowden (a snowman) toys...Which completely bombed, as I recall.
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It was sponsored by Target, which used Snowden as its holiday season for about a couple of years.
 
So far the majority of Christmas on television is misfit stuff. Real junk.
 
The Most Infamous Christmas TV Special Of All (Was: Re: Misfit holiday specials)

If you want the most infamous Christmas special ever produced for American television, go no further than "The Star Wars Holiday Special", broadcast in 1978.

Below is a link to the first portion on You Tube; once on that page, you can find and click-on subsequent portions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz550T3QeAo .
 
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Joseph_Gallant said:
If you want the most infamous Christmas special ever produced for American television, go no further than "The Star Wars Holiday Special", broadcast in 1978.

Below is a link to the first portion on You Tube; once on that page, you can find and click-on subsequent portions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz550T3QeAo .
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And if you want real fun, watch it with the Rifftrax commentary download.

Most misfit (most disliked, if you like) for me is live action "Year Without a Santa Claus":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eddzfHS4VyQ
 
Re: The Most Infamous Christmas TV Special Of All (Was: Re: Misfit holiday specials)

Joseph_Gallant said:
If you want the most infamous Christmas special ever produced for American television, go no further than "The Star Wars Holiday Special", broadcast in 1978.

Below is a link to the first portion on You Tube; once on that page, you can find and click-on subsequent portions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz550T3QeAo .
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Also from '78: "A Special Sesame Street Christmas," which aired on CBS Dec. 8, 1978--five days after the more well-remembered and renowned "Christmas Eve on Sesame Street" first aired on PBS. Very few links to that critically-panned special appear on YouTube, other than Michael Jackson appearing with Oscar:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BgFAI2fZYg

FWIW, a Wikipedia article on this special: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Special_Sesame_Street_Christmas
 
CBS needs to bring Robbie the Reindeer back! Fortunately, the 2002 airing was recorded, but I don't know where the VHS went.

-crainbebo
 
Another misfit special: Kelsey Grammer as Ebenezer Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol The Musical!" It was the worst TV adaptation of Charles Dickens' story I've ever seen. Where's "The Night The Animals Talked" when you need it?!
 
blackgold said:
Another misfit special: Kelsey Grammer as Ebenezer Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol The Musical!" It was the worst TV adaptation of Charles Dickens' story I've ever seen. Where's "The Night The Animals Talked" when you need it?!
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Re "The Night The Animals Talked," there's an old legend that on Christmas Eve God gives animals the ability to speak for a few hours as a reward for staying by the baby Jesus when He lay in a manger. On an episode of the 1950s series "Mama," the daughter (whose name, I believe, was Dagmar), believing the story, stayed up all night waiting to hear the animals talk.

Another legend that no one has picked up on (in fact, I didn't know about it until about three years ago) concerns the marking between a cat's eyes that looks like the letter "M." According to an old Italian legend, baby Jesus was having trouble falling asleep when a cat came wandering by the stable. Mary picked it up, put it in Jesus' hands, and He fondled it until finally going off to sleep. As a reward, Mary pressed her fingers into a spot on the cat's forehead between its eyes, making what appeared to be an "M," and all cats to this day have that "M" marking there. While there's no truth to the story, it sounds like the makings of an animated special.
 
Oh? How about switching out the footage for "We're A Couple of Misfits" to that from the song that replaced it? One tune to the film of another? CBS has been airing Rudolph like that since they adopted this "HD" version, which is why I'm grateful for the DVD. Everything's there.

(And don't let me start a rant over ABC Family and "Santa Claus is...")
 
^The song "We're a Couple of Misfits" and its original footage were replaced by the song "Fame and Fortune" and its own footage for the program's second network broadcast in 1965 (NBC broadcast the program from 1965 to 1971. CBS began broadcasting the program regularly in 1972). "Fame and Fortune" and its footage were used for all other network broadcasts (by NBC and CBS) until 1998, when CBS began using both "We're a Couple of Misfits" and its original footage for their network broadcasts until 2005, when the footage for "Fame and Fortune" was first used in place of the original footage for "We're a Couple of Misfits".
 
Joe_Capitano said:
(And don't let me start a rant over ABC Family and "Santa Claus is...")
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If it's over edits, it's not the first time -- when "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" was placed into syndication by Viacom in the mid-1980s (as a "Viacom Special Delivery", no relation to Nick's weekly program), it had a few edits, including a rough one during the "Blue Christmas" number.
 
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