tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3984964138092970663.post557310542033631714..comments2024-02-29T05:15:17.460-05:00Comments on Christmas TV History: Christmas in July 2017: Tom HowleyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3984964138092970663.post-25273264656028784172017-07-26T09:56:27.627-04:002017-07-26T09:56:27.627-04:00Thanks for joining in!Thanks for joining in!Joannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06332977249074073942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3984964138092970663.post-27552207808823191192017-07-26T09:56:07.781-04:002017-07-26T09:56:07.781-04:00Hahahaha! Pinky & the Brain--YES! Thanks for t...Hahahaha! Pinky & the Brain--YES! Thanks for the reminder about that solid, funny holiday episode. And thanks for joining in :)Joannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06332977249074073942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3984964138092970663.post-24715200722611196562017-07-23T10:26:55.748-04:002017-07-23T10:26:55.748-04:00Great answers. Pinky and The Brain are great. And ...Great answers. Pinky and The Brain are great. And your comment is spot-on, I am sure many answers would change year to year. Caffeinated Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18116651473308629663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3984964138092970663.post-14872631480963573462017-07-20T17:21:31.869-04:002017-07-20T17:21:31.869-04:00So happy to see someone give out some love to the ...So happy to see someone give out some love to the local library. In this age of having an electronic encyclopedia in your home in the form of the internet, people forget the wonders of their local library. Yes, the library is very different than the ones we encountered in the 60s and 70s but it's still a convenient wealth of information and entertainment.DwWashburnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03057278992504418291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3984964138092970663.post-66952678579856012292017-07-20T12:21:49.902-04:002017-07-20T12:21:49.902-04:00Can anybody play here?
Mitchell Hadley sent me (w...Can anybody play here?<br /><br />Mitchell Hadley sent me (whether he realizes it or not); I comment at his site quite a bit.<br /><br />My "contribution" is a combined answer to your first two questions:<br /><i>(1) Who's your favorite Santa Claus?<br />(2) What's your favorite Christmas episode from a TV series?</i><br /><br />In the Fall of 1996, <i>All My Children</i>, the ABC soap, began a storyline wherein a crotchety old guy called 'Red Kilgren' turned up at Myrtle Fargate's boarding house, having sprained his ankle on her doorstep.<br />Over the next couple of months, Myrtle and Red became friendlier, and Red began a sidelong involvement with other AMC characters.<br />There were a handful of broad hints dropped over this period:<br /> - Red's wardrobe ran heavily to red and green.<br /> - When some other characters were planning a Thanksgiving party, Red said that they should " ... make a list and check it twice!"<br /> - Midway through the story, Red was frequently accosted by a testy little guy named 'Noel', who always wore a flap cap pulled down over his ears.<br />Things like that.<br /><br />Along about Thanksgiving, Red told Myrtle who he really was, and why he came to Pine Valley: the current state of the holiday was getting him down, and he was hoping to get his Christmas Spirit back in some way.<br />Red had a window - he had the ability to grow his beard overnight for the Big Night (he just had a mustache for his Pine Valley stay).<br />The whole story was kind of complicated (hey, this is a <i>soap opera</i>, right?), but ultimately, Red got his Yuletide spirit back, thanks to Myrtle and the other Pine Valleyites, and went back up North, with Noel in tow, a week or so before Zero Hour.<br /><br />Come Christmas Eve, Red came back to Pine Valley, this time in the red suit and beard - the Full Santy, so to speak - and spent the hour dispensing Christmas justice to various characters.<br /><br />Red Kilgren was played by Clifton James, who passed away earlier this year; he was a well-enough-known actor that his appearance was noted outside the usual soap world.<br />The same was true for Noel, played by John Fiedler - no mistaking that face and voice (see "The Night Of The Meek", op cit.)<br />Myrtle the landlady was Eileen Herlie, who'd been at AMC for more than twenty years by this point' she didn't get center stage much then, but when she got it she (and Clifton James) ran with it.<br /><br />So there you go:<br /> - Favorite Santa: Clifton James.<br /> - Favorite Christmas TV "episode": the Red Kilgren storyline from <i>All My Children</i>, October through December 1996.<br />Of course, ABC couldn't repeat it; I was always sort of hoping that Old Red would make a return appearance in subsequent years, but that was not to be.<br />I think I may still have some of these episodes on VHS tapes somewhere around my place, but since I haven't got a working VHS player, they're all but lost to me. *sob*<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05527404061764217504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3984964138092970663.post-9752435237123412902017-07-20T09:50:15.124-04:002017-07-20T09:50:15.124-04:00Ooh I really love the Pinky & The Brain Christ...Ooh I really love the Pinky & The Brain Christmas special as well. NARF!Jakkihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12392341067626821660noreply@blogger.com