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Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsSanta and the Three Bears🎄It’s 1970, and a couple of bear cubs have jumped through my window and are eating all my marshmallows.  Join us on a deeper than expected dive into a Christmas special by former Hanna-Barbera animator Tony Benedict that almost wasn’t released till the owner of a now-defunct Florida theme park swooped in and saved it.  CONTENT WARNING: No animals were harmed in the making of this podcast. Unfortunately, I can’t say the same about one of the 4 versions of this special.  ****  🎙 Guests:Gerry Davila (Totally Rad Christmas)  Ethan (The Hun...2024-12-201h 18
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsRudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1948)🎄 November 1st is Christmas Podcast Day! I don’t make the rules; I just use the hashtag. So join us as on a very important mission to dig up the original animated adventures of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in a 1948 short film that predates the song.  You can follow #ChristmasPodcastDay on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. And probably TikTok, but I’m not on that.  ****  🎙 Guests:  Gerry Davila (Totally Rad Christmas, @RadChristmas).  Matt Spaulding (North Pole Radio).  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  1. Watch Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Library of Congress...2022-11-0153 min
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsA Flintstone Christmas🎄 We close out another countdown to Christmas in July with a sleigh ride back to the Stone-Age Year of Our Lord 1977 to watch Santa fall off the roof and a guy who acts like a caveman take over his job.  ****  🎙 Guests:  Gerry Davila (Totally Rad Christmas, @RadChristmas).  Sean Sotka (The Christmas Podcasts Podcast, @xander0527).  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  1. Our episode on the Fruity Pebbles Christmas Commercial.  2. I found a Flintstones chronology on, of all places, Flickr.  3. The Internet Archive’s VHS Vault.  4. Domino Rally.   ...2021-07-231h 21
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas SpecialsThe Smurfs’ Christmas Special🎄 It’s Christmas Eve in the Advent Calendar House as we walk through a ring of fire back to 1982 to dance with the Smurfs and watch goodness make the badness go away.  ****  🎙 Guests:  Thom Crowe (Tis the Podcast, @thomcrowe).  Gerry Davila (Totally Rad Christmas, @RadChristmas).  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  1. Watch The Smurfs’ Christmas Special on the official Smurfs YouTube channel.  2. We want to try Greedy Smurf’s cauldron of pink pudding.  3. My son thinks the king of Hyrule is Santa.  4. I just now learned about Wa...2020-12-241h 09