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Christmas specials just aren't what they were in TV's golden age. TV isn't what is was back then either.
Art Carney as Santa in the Twilight Zone. Tom Lowell as the ghost of a WWII hero (Artie Beechcroft ) in "Changing of the Guard", also a Twilight Zone.
The Messiah on Mott Street: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0660863/
My first Christmas without mom. The last gift she bought for my before she got so sick early last December sits in my view from my recliner. I've always loved trains. It is Santa driving a choo choo engine.
My family has much to be thankful for.
To my extended family on the DU, have a very Merry Christmas!
OS
Night of the Meek: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005HQP7L4/ref=atv_feed_catalog?tag=imdb-amazonvideo-20
Changing of the Guard: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005HQM2IK/ref=atv_feed_catalog?tag=imdb-amazonvideo-20
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)My whole family would watch this every year, for years. We knew all the words to all the songs. It's a wonderful Christmas cartoon show. I was thrilled when I found the DVD.
I recently recommended it as a good Christmas show. http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1018&pid=241368
The Gathering...was that with Ed Asner? That was pretty good.
I saw Christmas Memory only once.
We watched Andy Williams AND Bing Crosby Christmas shows. It was tradition. So was White Christmas (again, we knew all the words to all the songs). We also watched It's a Wonderful Life ("Burt! Burt! It's me! Don'tcha know me, Burt?"
Now it's all those corny, schmaltzy Hallmark network made for TV Christmas movies.
Also...if you get a chance to see Blackadder's Christmas Carol, it is hilarious.
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)& (obviously) great story.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)no_hypocrisy
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I loved that movie and cry every time I watch it. Maureen Stapleton and Ed Asner.
Of course, I'm always waiting for the recitation of "Christmas in the Work House".
It's in segments on youtube:
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)forgive him and take him in, just because he's dying. That was the kind thing to do, and maybe I would've done the same thing, so I wouldn't have the guilt and would know I did the right thing. But he'd been a real a-hole and deserted his family and been a lousy husband and father. I didn't see how his dying changed any of that.
But I may feel that way 'cause my dad left us. And yeah, we made peace iwth him years later. Still....we all know he was an a-hole. Can't change the past.
But it was a touching made for TV movie. One of the good ones.
no_hypocrisy
(46,245 posts)People tend to give second chances because of the humanism behind the holiday. And he did change his attitudes towards his family which made it easier for them to give him a second look. Especially when he welcomed back his son, Bud, who fled to Canada instead of going to Vietnam.
Plus, only his wife and his doctor (and later another son) knew that he was dying. The rest of the family forgave him without feeling that this was their only chance to reconcile.
You're right. It was a complex movie.
Raine
(30,541 posts)touching memories for me.
KG
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Omaha Steve
(99,796 posts)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158681/
J. T. Gamble, a shy, withdrawn Harlem youngster, shows compassion and responsibility when he takes on the care of an old, one-eyed, badly injured alley cat days before Christmas and secretly nurses it back to health.
1970 Won Peabody Award (CBS-TV).
Produced for a Saturday morning children's anthology on CBS, the film garnered such rave reviews that CBS decided to give it a prime time airing the following week.