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Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsDoctor Who: A Christmas Carol🎄It’s 2010, and I’m hiding in a closet from a flying shark that ate half my screwdriver.  I’ve finally caught up with the timeline of people who have been requesting that I watch the “Doctor Who” Christmas specials, particularly this twisted take on “A Christmas Carol” starring Michael Gambon in the Scrooge role and the 11th Doctor as at least 2 ghosts of Christmas.  ****  🎙 Guests:Andre Bennett (Bluesky)  Jack Ford (Total Christmas Podcast)  Anthony Strand (ToughPigs.com, Movin’ Right Along, Bluesky)  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:1. Andre’s revie...2024-12-222h 28
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsBlackadder’s Christmas Carol🎄It’s 1988, and the Spirit of Christmas just broke down my bedroom door to say hello.  This edition of Scrooge Sunday turns everyone’s favorite festive tale of redemption on its head and blows it out its enormous, muscular backside as great philanthropist and all-around softy Ebenezer Blackadder learns from watching his ancestors and descendants that it’s good to be bad.  ****  🎙 Guest:  Jack Ford (Total Christmas Podcast)  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  1. “Blackadder’s Christmas Carol” on Vimeo.  2. Tony Robinson’s “Christmas Wrapping” and the Total Christmas Podcast episode on it...2024-12-081h 43
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsThe Jetsons: A Jetson Christmas Carol🎄 It’s 1985, but we’re rocketing into the future, when apparently urgent veterinary care no longer exists.It’s Scrooge Sunday, so join us for a glimpse into the space-age year of 2062 to find out if 3 robotic ghosts of Christmas can convince Mr. Spacely to change his stingy ways, while the clock is ticking for the Jetsons’ dog, Astro, on his deathbed.  ****  🎙 Guest:  Jack Ford (The Total Christmas Podcast).  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  1. George Jetson apparently was/will be born at the end of July 2022.  2. George O’Hanlon (George...2022-07-171h 04