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Well I did manage to dig out and watch one anime Christmas special on Christmas Eve: The Love Hina Christmas Special: Silent Eve: The premise of the episode is the belief that if you profess your love to your intended on Christmas Eve, all your dreams will come true. So the pressure is on the...

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I botched the recording again--third or fourth time I've tried, in as many years. (I only got the first hour of it this time.) Apparently, I'm destined never to see the whole thing--unless someone puts it on YouTube.

I keep missing it, so I'm wondering if TCM will repeat its airing of "A Carol for Another Christmas" (1964), an anti-war allegory written by Rod Serling and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz with an all-star cast including Sterling Hayden and Peter Sellers, who were both in DR. STRANGELOVE...

A favorite Japanese Christmas episode:

Power Rangers Megaforce ran a Christmas episode on Saturday (on Nickelodeon), "The Robo Knight Before Christmas." In it, Robo Knight is told by one of the Power Rangers to stand still at the mall for 24 hours so he can observe shoppers and understand the meaning of Christmas. Unfortunately, he...

A number of Japanese animated series have had Christmas episodes (including "Sailor Moon," "Pokémon," "Urusei Yatsura," "Ranma 1/2," to name a few of the most popular ones). But I'm going to show a picture from "The Trapp Family Story" (1991) because NBC is rebroadcasting its live production...

I've never heard of this. I just looked it up on IMDB. It's from 1971 and was directed by Richard Williams (THE THIEF AND THE COBBLER). The voice cast includes Michael Redgrave and other great Brit actors. Sounds like a must-see to me! I was originally gonna ask if they used Sim's recorded...

Black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. once wrote in The New York Times about the Christmas episode of "Amos 'n' Andy" and how much it meant to him and other southern blacks when it aired every year. When he found the episode on VHS tape as an adult, he tried to interest his daughters in it, only...