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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...

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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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Haven't seen either one. Too much sex and violence. When's the Little House on the Prairie special?
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No need to wait Gen'l...

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"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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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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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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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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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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It's a Wonderful Life - now that's a movie
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MajGenl.Meade wrote:It's a Wonderful Life - now that's a movie
Next Saturday, 8pm on NBC.

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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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@W, that's one of my favorite versions of A Christmas Carol; I love Scott in the role.

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It just ain't Xmas if I can't see Santa being poked with a sharp stick.
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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:

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But All Time Great Christmas Movies?

There's only one all time winner...

The original Miracle On 34th Street...

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Both those versions are my favorite 'must see movies' every Christmas Jim!!! :ok :ok :ok :ok :ok
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Beer Sponge wrote:Both those versions are my favorite 'must see movies' every Christmas Jim!!! :ok :ok :ok :ok :ok
Edmund Gwenn and little Natalie Wood bring a tear to my eye every year BS... 8-)
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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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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. :lol:

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This one is always worth watching:

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