Do the linear “Big 3” networks still air the Rankin/Bass specials anymore? I know they still show the big one, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, but I’m talking about all those “B team” ones they did like The Little Drummer Boy, Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph’s Shiny New Year, Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July, and Here Comes Peter Cottontail? I know people freaked out when Apple bought the Charlie Brown specials and yanked them off linear, but this all started way before streaming.
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Thanksgiving ’71 on TV: Cricket on the Hearth, Laurel & Hardy, Yogi & Marine Boy – a look back
This holiday TV season, let’s go back…waaaaaaaay back, to a Thanksgiving in a more innocent time, a more gentle time, a kinder time.
Continue reading Thanksgiving ’71 on TV: Cricket on the Hearth, Laurel & Hardy, Yogi & Marine Boy – a look back‘I Dream of Jeannie’ (Season 1): Classic sitcom will always please its Master – the audience
When are they coming for I Dream of Jeannie? I mean…the word “master” is thrown out at least ten times an episode by that scantily-clad genie slave Jeannie. Hasn’t this by now aroused the ire of some pajama-clad soy latte-drinking non-binary “pop culture author” who needs their “they/them” tantrum to be noticed today on Twitter? Isn’t a reckoning coming for this racist/sexist sitcom, and for all those who participated in it and who watch it today? Can’t someone please cancel 90-year-old Barbara Eden before it’s goddamn too late?
Continue reading ‘I Dream of Jeannie’ (Season 1): Classic sitcom will always please its Master – the audience‘Christmas Television Favorites’: A look back at 7 animated specials
It’s that time of year again here at the Drunk TV offices,
Continue reading ‘Christmas Television Favorites’: A look back at 7 animated specialsMice, cavemen, & Garfield: 3 forgotten animated Thanksgiving specials
With the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays approaching, you know what I’m thankful for?
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