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Originally Posted by jsowers
I have fond memories of watching Rudolph on that TV. It was originally sponsored by GE and the elves in the show were also in the GE commercials. It was a first class job all around. For the show to still be broadcast after 50 years is nothing short of amazing in this day and time.
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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 has been altered from the original broadcast.
About 7 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 and also appeared 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 TV (chassis 25MC33) about 2 weeks before Rudolph first aired. With a beautiful new color TV in our house, we had plenty of company to watch the premiere of Rudolf. That was certainly a Christmas to remember. Bob