A few weeks ago, there was a Topic on about Memorable Christmas Episodes. Some TV series only made one Christmas episode but showed it every year (Andy Griffth, Dick Van Dyke), while others made several Christmas episodes over the life of the series (Beverly Hillbillies, Bewitched, All In The Family, etc.). Were there any TV series that never made or aired a Christmas episode at all? I can't recall every seeing a Leave It To Beaver show witha Christmas setting or a Green Acres one either. Can anyone think of any other show that never had a Christmas episode?
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TV Series that never aired a Christmas Episode
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...I may be wrong on this, but I can't recall ever seeing a Christmas episode of The Guns of Will Sonnett, even though every episode closed with a voice-over of Will saying a prayer...
The only show that I can think of right off hand that didn't have a Christmas show was I Dream of Jeannie which might be obvious since Jeannie was born before Christ was born (64 B.C.). I also believe that Star Trek may not have had a Christmas show. I know that Lost In Space had two Christmas shows (one in black and white (1965) and one in color (1966 or 1967)
Green Acres did have a Christmas show in 1966 where Oliver was upset that everyone in Hooterville was commercializing Christmas and that Oliver wanted a chopped down Christmas tree instead of the aluminum trees that Mr. Drucker was selling.
Green Acres did have a Christmas show in 1966 where Oliver was upset that everyone in Hooterville was commercializing Christmas and that Oliver wanted a chopped down Christmas tree instead of the aluminum trees that Mr. Drucker was selling.
Braves2005 said:
Didn't Oli-vah get in trouble with County Agent Hank Kimball for cutting down a tree
without a permit? And wasn't the tree on his own land? You'd think he had disturbed
the nest of a spotted owl! :
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Did ANY series in the Star Trek franchise (either the original series, Next Generation, Voyager, Deep Space Nine, or Enterprise) have a Christmas episode, or anything with allusions to Christmas? I can't recall one...
Come to think of it, although the Sunday newspaper comic strip based on the Flintstones had a strip one year that had a Christmas allusion, IIRC the TV show itself (which was set in the BC time frame) never did...
Come to think of it, although the Sunday newspaper comic strip based on the Flintstones had a strip one year that had a Christmas allusion, IIRC the TV show itself (which was set in the BC time frame) never did...
I remember that Flintstones where Fred took over for Santa but I think that may have been a Christmas special that ran a couple of years after the original series run ended. The only time I ever see that episode was during Christmas, even though it has been several years since I last recall seeing it.mleach said:
Gilligan's Island, although I am not sure how they would have celebrated Christmas on the island.
Freaks and Geeks never did a Christmas show, but was probably not on long enough. It would have been interesting to see how they celebrated Christmas in 1980. December, 1980, also saw the murder of John Lennon, although that was also never mentioned on the show. (The death of John Bonham did get a mention on the show, but it was because one of the guys on the show was a big Zep fan.)
Freaks and Geeks never did a Christmas show, but was probably not on long enough. It would have been interesting to see how they celebrated Christmas in 1980. December, 1980, also saw the murder of John Lennon, although that was also never mentioned on the show. (The death of John Bonham did get a mention on the show, but it was because one of the guys on the show was a big Zep fan.)
It is interesting that Leave It To Beaver not only never had a Christmas episode, but that you never saw snow or really cold weather in any of the shows. That is particularly of note when it has been said that the series was said to have been based in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights - although the town wascalled Mayfield (another Cleveland suburb).
There is at least one reference to Beaver, Wally and Eddie getting ready fo Sunday School so the use of religion isn't totally foreign to the series. Maybe the best reference to weather was when the boys camped out in the backyard through a rainy night.
You wonder if there was ever any thought, consideration or discussion of including a Christmas episode during the show's six seasons on the air?
There is at least one reference to Beaver, Wally and Eddie getting ready fo Sunday School so the use of religion isn't totally foreign to the series. Maybe the best reference to weather was when the boys camped out in the backyard through a rainy night.
You wonder if there was ever any thought, consideration or discussion of including a Christmas episode during the show's six seasons on the air?
The Flintstones Christmas episode aired in 1964 and was part of the regular series (no special).
And Gilligan's Island did have a Christmas episode which aired in 1964 and mostly was a flashback to how the castaways got on the island with Gilligan and the Skipper on the raft.
And Gilligan's Island did have a Christmas episode which aired in 1964 and mostly was a flashback to how the castaways got on the island with Gilligan and the Skipper on the raft.
Although it's, of course, a cartoon, some may question how could the Flinstones celebrate Christmas since they lived in B.C. times? An answer to this came in the Flintstones newspaper comic strip which began running in daily and Sunday papers once the popularilty grew from the TV series. Very near to Christmas in 1961 or 1962, the comic strip pictured Fred and Barney coming into contact with Santa Claus. When they question who Santa is and what he is all about, he explains that in the future, a "Prince of Peace" will be born and His birth will be marked by great joy. This allows for the Flinstones and Rubbles to celebrate years earlier.
Braves2005 said:
It's a classic. Fred gets a part-time job at Macyrock's, gets fired for playing with the toys, but winds up replacing Macyrock's Santa when he quits. Then when the real Santa gets sick, Fred is recruited to take his place.
I always wondered: How do they celebrate Christmas in the B.C. era? ???
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