Color made the Holidays special!

[bgadow]

Ah, yes, decorating the living room while watching all the usual Christmas shows on the KE chassis GE color console. Frosty & Rudolph are true classics "will go down in history". Thinking about it, most of what I used to watch was a cartoon of some sort or another. Maybe thats why I remember that GE having a decent picture-almost any old color tv can look decent showing a cartoon.

[veg-o-matic]

This year, I SWEAR I'm going to watch Rudolph on my Zenith roundie!

Last year, some caps sh*t the bed right before Christmas. Year before was the year I got it, just after the Christmas season.

That said, I need to go out and buy the DVD of Rudolph, preferably the one without the "extra feature" of Destiny's Child or someone like that.

Anyone know if there's an edition with the GE commercials intact? That would be the ultimate!

veg

Originally Posted by Indian Head

In the mold of Rudolph, there were the Rankin/Bass specials, "Santa Claus is Coming to Town," and one with Heat Miser and Cold Miser(?). Can't remember the name of that one.

The Year Without a Santa Claus. A film version has been rumoured for years: http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hp&cf...406660&intl=us

Originally Posted by Sandy G

Remember the booming bass, "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch..." <grin>-Sandy G.

That was Thurl Ravenscroft who sang that song, but was not credited. He was best known as the voice of Tony the Tiger, and passed away this past year. I believe June Foray also did the voice of Cindy Lou Who without credit.

I've got a recording of Sixpence None the Richer covering that song that I love -- Foe

[Sandy G]

I'd thought that was ol' Thurl-he had a VERY distinctive voice. Didn't he do the singing in that Andy Griffith episode where they use a dead microphone to fool barney? You know-the song was "Welcome Sweet Springtime" or something like that...-Sandy G.

[Pete Deksnis]

Broadcast once on CBS in the winter of ’78, can we ignore the eclectic “Star Wars Holiday Special”: Jefferson Starship, Harvey Korman (whip stir, whip stir), Carrie Fisher, Art Carney, Harrison Ford. My kids watched an OTA VHS tape I made for years after.

[bozey45]

Somewhere I have a color tape (vhs) of an early 60's Sing Along with Mitch Christmas special; great program and outstanding color from those TK-41's. This was recorded off air Channel 8 in Tampa back 20 years or so ago.

[David Roper]

Rudolph, which premiered on CBS in 1964 with the GE commercials with the Rudolph elves

It was a presentation of General Electric Theater on NBC. Rudolph didn't land at Television City until the 1972 season.