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Just In Case You Weren't Feeling Old Enough...
Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2015 5:38 am
by Lord Jim
We watched this heart warming special last night:
"It's Your 50th Christmas, Charlie Brown"
Tonight (Monday), ABC will air a special at 8 p.m. ET called It's Your 50th Christmas, Charlie Brown, to mark the half-century since A Charlie Brown Christmas first aired in 1965. Then at 9, it will air the special itself.
http://www.npr.org/sections/monkeysee/2 ... tmas-at-50
Fifty years since the original "Charlie Brown Christmas" was released...
"Well Linus, that thumb sucking thing isn't going to be cute much longer...what do you say we take a bus trip out to the casinos in Reno before they put us in the home?"
Re: Just In Case You Weren't Feeling Old Enough...
Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2015 1:28 pm
by TPFKA@W
We watched it as well as the old Christmas special, then last night watched Rudolph. Hadn't watched either in years. We took turns making fun of stuff during Rudolph but I still felt sorry for the misfit toys.
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Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2015 1:39 pm
by MajGenl.Meade
Haven't seen either one. Too much sex and violence. When's the Little House on the Prairie special?
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Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2015 1:52 pm
by Lord Jim
No need to wait Gen'l...
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Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2015 2:33 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
"A Charlie Brown Christmas" is the best Christmas show ever.
I can do without Rudolf but not because I do not like it. When my son was young, he watched Rudolf at least once a day for more than a year. I can recite the whole thing.
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Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2015 4:57 pm
by Big RR
The best Christmas show, IMHO, is Mr Magoo's Christmas Carol, but CB Christmas has always been one of my favorites (the Grinch as well).
Rudolph, I can do without; didn't like it or the song that inspired it even as a kid.
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Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2015 5:13 pm
by Lord Jim
The best Christmas show, IMHO, is Mr Magoo's Christmas Carol
I'm with you 100% on that call, Big RR...I was just about to post the same pick...
A lot of
really great music in that one...
My number 2 pick would be The Grinch...
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Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2015 6:36 pm
by Big RR
Jim--if I recall, the songwriting team was the same on that later wrote Funny Girl for Broadway. And it is the songs that make the show so special.
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Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2015 7:44 pm
by TPFKA@W
Another favorite, not animated of course, is George C. Scott's A Christmas Carol. Captain Picard tried but it just wasn't as good.
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Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2015 7:50 pm
by MajGenl.Meade
It's a Wonderful Life - now that's a movie
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Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2015 8:01 pm
by TPFKA@W
MajGenl.Meade wrote:It's a Wonderful Life - now that's a movie
Next Saturday, 8pm on NBC.
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Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2015 8:31 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
TPFKA@W wrote:MajGenl.Meade wrote:It's a Wonderful Life - now that's a movie
Next Saturday, 8pm on NBC.
Only once?
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Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2015 8:40 pm
by Big RR
@W, that's one of my favorite versions of A Christmas Carol; I love Scott in the role.
HERE'S MY #$&% FAV
Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2015 3:06 am
by RayThom
It just ain't Xmas if I can't see Santa being poked with a sharp stick.
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Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2015 4:54 am
by Lord Jim
Big RR wrote:@W, that's one of my favorite versions of A Christmas Carol; I love Scott in the role.
I still go with the 1950 version with Alastair Sim as the standard:
But All Time Great Christmas Movies?
There's only
one all time winner...
The original
Miracle On 34th Street...
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Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2015 10:22 pm
by Beer Sponge
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Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2015 12:51 am
by Lord Jim
Edmund Gwenn and little Natalie Wood bring a tear to my eye every year BS...
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Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2015 1:00 am
by Joe Guy
I'm not a grump, Grinch or Scrooge, but I'm sick & tired of Christmas movies. The only one that I might watch again had Chevy Chase in it, but I wouldn't go out and look for it.
Humfreakinbug!
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Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2015 2:04 am
by dales
Joe Guy wrote:I'm not a grump, Grinch or Scrooge, but I'm sick & tired of Christmas movies. The only one that I might watch again had Chevy Chase in it, but I wouldn't go out and look for it.
Humfreakinbug!
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation never fails to delight.
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Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2015 2:07 am
by BoSoxGal
This one is always worth watching:
