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Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsThe Annie Christmas Show🎄 It’s 1977, and the cast of Broadway’s hottest new musical is taking drastic measures to convince 4 different unions keep the theater open for a Christmas party because they forgot to book a venue.  Join the original Broadway cast of “Annie” as somewhere in between themselves and their characters in a unique TV Christmas special which may very well have been many TV viewers’ first exposure to the musical.  ****  🎙 Guest:  Guy Hutchinson (Pointless Nostalgia, GuyHutchinson.com).  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  1. Watch “The Annie Christmas Show” on the Internet Archive.  2. Th...2024-07-111h 16
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsChristmastime with Mister Rogers🎄 It’s 1977, and Happy Gilmore’s grandmother is surrounded by dancing chickens.  It’s a beautiful day for a podcast, and this season of the Advent Calendar House begins with a visit to Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood in a Christmas special that hadn’t been available for more than 40 years until it resurfaced in 2022. It’s surprisingly less festive than some might expect, but it makes up for that with some extremely bizarre adventures.  ****  🎙 Guests:  Guy Hutchinson (Pointless Nostalgia, GuyHutchinson.com).  Tim Lybarger (The Neighborhood Archive, Third Quarter Run, TimLybarger.com).  ****  2023-12-021h 50
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsThe Jack Benny Program: Jack Goes Christmas Shopping⚠️ CONTENT WARNING: This podcast discusses a 1960 episode of The Jack Benny Program in which a character shoots himself offscreen.  🎄 Join us as we second-, third-, and fourth-guess ourselves back to 1960 to go Christmas shopping with Jack Benny, the last televised version of a longtime radio favorite.  ****  🎙 Guest:  Guy Hutchinson (GuyHutchinson.com, Drunk On Disney Podcast, @GuyHutchinson).  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  1. The Television Academy Foundation’s page on Jack Benny’s Christmas Shopping show, including a video interview with show writer George Balzer.  2. The earliest Christmas Shopping variant I could...2020-12-1453 min