What were/are your favorite animated Holiday shows? Mine is Rudolph and I still watch.

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[Bayard]

1. The original Grinch

I still laugh after all these years.

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8. Did not like the movies at all. I like the original Grinch ,also,

[ChazInAz]

39. It's the only holiday show I like.

Chiefly because of my fondness for Boris Karloff.
Boris got a Grammy for that work. He was back home in England at the time and thus missed the awards banquet, so his agent accepted it for him. The next time he was stateside, he stopped by the agency and got it. Looking at the tiny gramophone on a wooden cube, he remarked that it looked like a doorstop, and demonstrated by propping the office door with it...and left it there. He died not long afterwards, and his agent just left his door propped open with it for years, unable to bear the thought of moving it. Karloff had that effect on people.

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100. Loved that special, thanks for all the information,

[OldBaldy1701E]

49. Yep.

As both a fan of the special and a horror fan, this one was the best. Listening to Boris Karloff is mesmerizing.

[Lunabell]

55. Definitely my favorite too!

And this song is fabulous!

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58. Always go with the original

[LakeArenal]

2. Only animation I like is Jim Carey's version on A Christmas Carol.

Really dislike Jim Carey. But I enjoy this movie.

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9. I never saw that one. Will have to look for this year TY

[Walleye]

3. It's like peeking through a window into my childhood

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10. Thanks, there are so many,

[hlthe2b]

4. Peanuts (A Charlie Brown Christmas) and Rudolph were my favorites...

I also remember an animated version of The Christmas Carol with Mr.Magoo, but it went a long time without being shown. Not sure if it is still around, but it was memorable.

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12. Yes Mr Magoo was doing the show on Broadway. Peanuts and Rudolph were favorites also.

[riverbendviewgal]

5. Polar bear express

I have watched it so many times. It is unique.

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13. I know. Memories from our childhood. I have watched Rudolph and Charlie Brown's Christmas every year since it has been

on --I'm proud to say.

[PJMcK]

6. Peanuts and the live action Grinch (n/t)

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15. By live action do you mean Jim Carey version? TY

[Niagara]

7. The 2000 remake of The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

I'm not into the original 1985 movie.

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16. I have never seen either, I will have to check it out.

[JT45242]

11. Hard to limit to one...these are the ones that I watch every year.

Original Grinch... Boris Karloff plus my younger son memorized the book word for word when he was 3

Rudolph and the story of accepting misfits -- so needed always. Which also leads to Charlie Brown.

The Year without a Santa Claus -- the fun of Heat Miser and Cold Miser plus the idea that kids would give toys to Santa.

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20. Original Grinch--what a memory of your 3 year old being able to read the book. GREAT!

[underpants]

14. If you've never seen the Bloom County Christmas Special - here it is.

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19. Thank you so much for posting this as I have never seen. I will watch this later.

[underpants]

21. Robin Williams steals the show as usual

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22. Robin is in this? will watch this evening.

[Archae]

90. I didn't see him listed in the voice actors.

[underpants]

92. Sudy Nim

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[Archae]

94. I'll be darned!

Thanks for the information.

[underpants]

95. When I saw your reply I was like WHAT?!?

Glad I hadn’t been wrong all these years.

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96. Sudy Nim--Oh I miss you Robin.

[MOMFUDSKI]

17. Frosty.

Love Jimmie Durante’s voice as Frosty.

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18. We used to march around the living room when Frosty was marching with the kids.

[MOMFUDSKI]

76. Yes!

I remember.

[PBateman70]

23. Yes!

The Rudolph you mentioned and the Frosty special as well, (same era).

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25. Loved those shows. This was during the pre-electronics era, when you only saw once a year. You miss is--wait until next

[justaprogressive]

24. The Grinch. (Trivia June Foray voiced Cindy-Lou)

but now we just watch the Jim Carrey version

Ron and Jim did a great job...

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26. Thank you, justa progressive,

[Mad_Dem_X]

27. Charlie Brown Christmas, definitely.

It beings back so many good memories. The music especially reminds me of my late father (it's a long story). Even though I am no longer a believer, the "meaning of Christmas" speech by Linus still gives me chills.

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29. My cousin's son is a Minister. He uses this in Christmas day sermon. He is Lutheran--not Missouri synod. When my uncle

died, he was dressed in his fishing gear. The grandson minister came with his fishing pole and hat and wove the gospel and going fishing with his grandpa together, It was beautiful much like what Linus did.

[Cartoonist]

28. Miracle on 35th Street.

I would like to see the Magoo Scrooge, but don't want to pay for it. I didn't the first time.

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31. I watch it on You Tube a couple of years ago. At that time it was free. I had not seen it since I was a kid.

[Cartoonist]

34. YT only has clips now. nt

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35. Bummer, I had not seen it in a long time. And I found it on YouTube.

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41. I liked that too. TY.

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99. I have been been looking for you tried my tablet streams. I will continue--the search is on.

[Polly Hennessey]

30. Frosty the Snowman

To this day, whenever I see a snowman, some part of me believes he is real.

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33. Thumpity, Thump, Thump, look at Frosty go, over the hills of snow. I know what you mean about real

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[Glorfindel]

32. "The Snowman"

he Snowman is a 1982 British animated television film and symphonic poem based on Raymond Briggs's 1978 picture book The Snowman.
It is wonderful, magical, and less than half an hour long.

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42. I remember the book from my teaching years. I will have to do a search. Thank you.

[Glorfindel]

47. Here's a link to watch it online free:

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48. Thank you, That is the book I remember reading. Loved the story and the illustrations.

[IcyPeas]

84. I love this too.

And no words are spoken...

The other Raymond Briggs one about the dog is too depressing though. Only watched it once.

[tornado34jh]

36. Mine's is How the Grinch Stole Christmas

There is an interesting story behind it. Thurl Ravenscroft, the person who sang "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" (also voiced Tony the Tiger, now it is Lee Marshall) was not credited with it, so people thought Boris Karloff, the narrator or Tennessee Ernie Ford sang it. Dr. Seuss had to call him to apologize for not crediting him.

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37. Thank you for that information. I thought it was Boris Karloff too.

[tornado34jh]

40. You're not the only one

When I watched it as it kid, I actually thought it was Boris Karloff myself. But later on as time went on, and after seeing numerous Frosted Flakes commercials, I rewatched it again and realized the voice was not Boris Karloff, and I looked up, turns out it was Thurl Ravenscroft. Boris Karloff didn't sing, and he didn't have that deep bass voice.

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44. Thanks for the information. All these years I thought it was Boris. Think about it is the voice of Tony the Tiger. You

have a very good voice my friend.

[ChazInAz]

43. Karloff wanted to.

Unfortunately, the emphysema that plagued him late in life prevented it. He was on oxygen at the time. He'd done a creditable job singing as Captain Hook years before, but a lifetime of smoking had taken its toll.

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45. Sad, very sad.

[Elessar Zappa]

38. Rudolph also.

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46. Yes and all the characters. Have never missed it. and I am 68 years old.

[Elessar Zappa]

91. I also like Frosty the Snowman and a Charlie Brown Christmas.

I’m like a 39 year old little kid lol I love Christmas, from the decorations to the music to the shows and of course, giving and unwrapping gifts!

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93. I'm 68 and I still love Christmas.

[rsdsharp]

50. Rudolph. I saw it the evening it premiered: December 6, 1964, at 5:45 PM CST.

It’s the oldest, continuously running, Christmas special.

Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol debuted in 1962, but it’s rarely seen, now. There should be a demand for razzleberry dressing!

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52. I did too!!!! I remember it being on a Sunday night. I had just back from watching my cousin ice-skate. Se both bought

skates at the Goodwill. It was getting dark and there was a slight snow, I went into the house , put my stuff on the radiator and waited for it to come on. Do you remember the commercials with Santa riding down the snow covered hill on an Norelco shaver? I also
wondered if the noses of some of the elves were made from lightbulbs. Oh thank you for the memories, I had just gotten over the chicken pox,

[rsdsharp]

59. I saw is just by chance. It came on after the last AFL game of the afternoon.

I was ten, and didn’t like football then, and my dad was an NFL guy, so I don’t know why the TV was on NBC, but it was. I thought the Norelco commercials were so cool.

That first showing was the only time they revealed what Yukon Cornelius was looking for when he licked his pick axe. Subsequent music substitutions forced them to edit it out. Do you know what it was?

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62. No. I don't. I thought it was gold or silver

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63. That's not why he was licking the pick axe.

In the first showing, as Santa’s sleigh was taking off, he finally finds what he was looking for:

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65. So it was peppermint. They should have kept that in. PS The reason I got the TV was because at the time the AFL and my

dad and brother followed the AFL because the Steelers were in it.

[rsdsharp]

70. Nope, sorry. The Steelers were NFL. When the merger occurred in 1970,

some of the NFL teams went into the newly formed AFC to even it out with the number of teams in the NFC. The Colts, Browns, and Steelers were those teams.

The Colts played for the NFL in Super Bowl III, and then for the AFC in Super Bowl V. The Steelers went from perennial losers in the NFL, to the team of the 70s in the AFC.

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71. Sorry.

[rsdsharp]

72. Nothing to be sorry about. It's an easy mistake. The Steelers have been in the AFC for more than 50 years.

If I remember correctly, there was usually a later AFL game on Sundays in those days. CBS tended to show only one NFL game, so if you wanted to watch football late on Sunday afternoon, NBC was your only choice.

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74. Thanks, now that I think about it--could you see home games of your team? I remember my dad using the rabbit ears to get

the Youngstown, OH station to see Steeler home games but don't know what year that changed. Not a big football fan

[rsdsharp]

77. I grew up in a small town in northeast Iowa.

We really didn’t have a home town team. It was the era of the Lombardi Packers. The Vikings first season was in 1961. We lived between two television markets, so we got two local channels for each of the three networks. Channel 2 out of Cedar Rapids usually carried the Vikings, and Channel 3 in Mason City carried the Packers.

We usually watched the Vikings, I guess mostly because we followed Twins baseball, and the Vikings played in the same stadium. Our high school marching band also played at a Vikings half time, so that may have been a factor.

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78. Thanks, your parents and you must have been very proud of you.

[rsdsharp]

79. Awwww, thanks. I was so bright my mother called me sunny!

😎 (With sun glasses to cut down on the glare from my brilliance!)
Cough. . .

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80. HAHAHAHAHA----

[patphil]

51. Charlie Brown Christmas, and Polar Express.

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53. patphil, yes to both. TY

[qwlauren35]

54. Grinch.

Animated - OF COURSE!

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56. Me too, The original

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61. I would count it, I guess

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[Shermann]

81. +1

I was an early adopter of DVD's and watched this on my cutting edge home theater back in the day. I was blown away by it.

I was excited at the time thinking ALL DVD's would be this good. I was wrong.

[Wonder Why]

60. Muppets Christmas Carol shown backwards so it has a happy ending.

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64. Watching with my son, i thought it did have a happy ending, Or did Big Bird say "I buried Paul"?

[Wonder Why]

66. Scrooge turned nice. No true meanie would ever stoop so low. Sad ending.

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67. No, a change of heart, just like the Grinch.

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69. I Wonder Why you are posting on this thread? That is a political question and should be in General Discussion.

[ificandream]

73. Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol.

It's not Christmas until I watch that.

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75. Where do you watch it from? I saw it for the first time in many years on YouTube about two years ago. A poster somewhere

said they only show clips. I checked Netflix and they don't have it. Thank you.

[ificandream]

97. It's on DVD also AppleTV and Vudu for purchase.

I haven’t seen it on Netflix or other streaming services, though.

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98. Thanks, I watched about 2 years ago on YouTube for free.I checked out the streaming services that we have and it wan't

on. Poster seemed to be very interested in watching.

[TlalocW]

82. I'm a sucker for cartoons so I'll watch just about anything

Rudolph and the other stop-motion Christmas movies, Charlie Brown, Grinch, A Wish for Wings that Work, Claymation Christmas Special, etc.

Here's one that I just remembered from my childhood which I just checked, aaaaand it's on YouTube. "A Cosmic Christmas." Basically a retelling of the Three Wise Men with aliens coming to Earth around Christmas. I'll have to set aside some time for that.

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83. Me too. I don;t know why but I am, Maybe because they always have a happy ending?

[IcyPeas]

85. Suzy Snowflake (1953)

A cartoon short based on the song was made in 1953 by Centaur Productions, with stop-motion animation created by Wah Ming Chang.[1] It is annually shown during the Christmas season on WGN-TV in Chicago and WJAC-TV in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, along with another production by Centaur, Hardrock, Coco and Joe and an early UPA version of Frosty the Snowman.

Clooney later re-recorded the song for her 1978 Mistletoe Records album Christmas with Rosemary Clooney. It has been covered by other artists, most notably Soul Coughing in 1997.

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86. Oh thank you , IcyPeas.

[rurallib]

87. I remember seeing it when I was really young then

looked it up on you tube a decade or so back - Just love its simplicity!

[ailsagirl]

88. I used to love any movie about Ebenezer Scrooge

I should have just said “A Christmas Carol”(Nothing animated, though)

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89. I did like Mr Magoo but it was not true to the book--it was like a cartoon.

[bamagal62]

101. The Grinch

And
A Christmas Carol

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103. Yes, Thank you.

[Grokenstein]

102. Always and forever, Richard Williams and Chuck Jones' A Christmas Carol (1971)

With Alastair Sim! Made for TV yet won an Oscar; the only adaptation to win one. The scene with Marley traumatized me and I loved it.

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104. That scene is haunting, I agree