I spent a good portion of the day watching the Flintstones holiday marathon (with some breaks for “A Christmas Story,” “Knots Landing”-the Season One two-parter where Gary Ewing falls off the wagon and how and “Ken Burns: Country Music”). The marathon consists of 3 Christmas-themed shows-2 specials and 1 regular episode. Showing them in order as ( Read more... )

The Nutcracker Scoob

So one of the iterations of Scooby Doo during the 80s decided that they would do a holiday episode. It was “The New Scooby Doo Mysteries.” The one where Scooby, Shaggy, Scrappy Doo (yeah, he was there) and Daphne were running the ‘Scooby Doo Detective Agency’ and solving…cases. The typical real estate scammers and some with ( Read more... )

I realized during a particularly annoying episode of The Bold and The Beautiful, that I could change the channel and seek out my own holiday viewing. What I found was the 1984 British-American produced tv movie version of “A Christmas Carol,” starring Only American George C. Scott, surrounded by a cast that was loaded for bear. Some of the names ( Read more... )