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Watching Rudolph has been a yearly event for me since it first started airing in the mid 1960's. But the version you all see today over the air has been altered from the original.
About 4 years ago a fellow by the name of Rick Goldschmidt was selling an all original DVD version, including commercials and deleted/altered sequences, just as first broadcast on Sunday Dec.6, 1964. I was lucky enough to purchase one of those copies. It was part of the General Electric Fantasy Hour and consequently all of the commercials were for GE home appliances. The elves used in the Rudolph story served double duty in the GE commercials. Interestingly, although Rudolph was in color, the GE commercials were in black and white.
We had just gotten our Zenith color roundie (chassis 25MC33) about 2 weeks before Rudolph premiered. With a beautiful new color TV in our house, we had plenty of company all the time. That was certainly a Christmas to remember. Bob
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