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	Christmas television special - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Christmas television specials are also where non-animated characters from other media may first cross over into animation; examples include the Peanuts comic strip, the Bloom County comic strip, and the Dr.
		In British television, a Christmas special is a one-off episode of a regular television series which may not otherwise be running in the winter or even that year, as in Britain television series tend to run on limited schedules of 6 to 13 episodes rather than year-round.
		The Beverly Hillbillies: Christmas at the Clampetts (1963)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christmas_television_special (995 words)

	Perry Como's Christmas Concert '93
		Perry's very first Christmas television special was broadcast on Christmas Eve, 1948, a founding moment within the new medium and the beginning of one of television's most successful and enduring traditions.
		His television specials would continue for the next thirty years, changing only from weekly to bi-monthly, then monthly followed by seasonal specials celebrating Easter, Spring, Thanksgiving and Christmas festivities, ending in 1987, from all parts of the world including England, Rome, Austria, France and many locations throughout North America.
		Perry's Christmas Concert in Ireland would be his final special and the last of his commercial recordings albeit not for his original label RCA Victor.
	kokomo.ca /cd_review/press/christmas_concert_1993.htm (541 words)

	Muppet Central News - "Kermit's Christmas Capers" to air this holiday season
		The plans for an all new Muppet Christmas television special in was announced a few months ago by Chris Curtin, the vice president and general manager of the Muppets.
		The Muppets Holding Company is impressed on the overall response the past Muppet Christmas specials and films have gotten from viewers, and have said that they would like to allow the Muppets to be part of families’ annual Christmas traditions.
		Christmas is one of the things the Muppets do best, and Christmas specials are things people love to watch year after year.
	www.muppetcentral.com /news/2005/091705.shtml (631 words)

	Television special - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A television special is a television program, typically a short film or television movie, which interrupts or temporarily replaces programming normally scheduled for a given time slot.
		In the 1960s, multi-part Specials, over several days in a week, or on the same day for several weeks, evolved from this format, though these were more commonly called miniseries.
		Christmas television special), irregular documentary events (usually of a sporting nature, e.g.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Television_special (204 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The League of Gentlemen -- Christmas Special [1999]: DVD: Corrie Greenop,Steve Bendelack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This Christmas special is set in Royston Vaseys church on christmas eve with the vicer getting ready to close for the night when she is visited by 3 men who each tell there tale about christmas.
		The last and my favourite tale from the christmas special is told from Mr chinnary and we find out why he is like he is with animals, this tale is set back around 200 years and includes a few familier faces.
		All through this, Bernice has her own Christmas woes to worry about, as she relives a Christmas past where her mother was taken by an evil stranger at her front door posing as Santa Claus, and it is only at the very end that all is revealed...
	www.amazon.co.uk /League-Gentlemen-Christmas-Special/dp/B00006JY8N (1777 words)

	Christmas Day television 2002
		These tarts had got to number one for Christmas with no effort at all and gone of the days when this week’s number one was last week’s number two or lower.
		During the Christmas week it was on Monday, because Monday is the usual day for the soap to be seen.
		Christmas Eve however saw the original version of the show, with host Nicholas Parsons and an air-fix knight Anglia Television logo to boot at the beginning.
	www.webspawner.com /users/televisionnostalgia/christmas.html (2812 words)

	JS Online:
		A reporter reads a letter from an 8-year-old whose one wish is a new mother for herself and a wife for her widowed father.
		Noon "Christmas Snow" HALL A widow (Katherine Helmond) and her two adopted children face eviction by a mean-spirited landlord (Sid Caesar) the day after Christmas.
		A man who died on Christmas Eve returns to his wife and son one year later in the form of a snowman.
	www.jsonline.com /enter/tvradio/nov02/98967.asp (9625 words)

	Amazon.com: I Love Lucy Christmas Special: Video: Ralph Levy,William Asher,James V. Kern,Lucille Ball,Desi Arnaz,Vivian ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The episode is set on Christmas Eve and while Ricky has told Little Ricky that Santa is not going to bring the tree and presents until he is asleep, the kid is worried because the Ricardos do not have a chimney.
		In this video we have a unique installment from the classic series in the one and only Christmas special produced during the shows run and it has been rarely seen since its first and only screening in the 1950's as it wasn't included in the original rerun deal because of its specific Christmas theme.
		The "I Love Lucy Christmas Special" might not be the best individual episode of the series but it is a funny and heartwarming viewing experience that is essential for every Lucy collection.
	www.amazon.com /I-Love-Lucy-Christmas-Special/dp/6302541697 (1792 words)

	ABC News: Viking Angels and Christmas Creches
		We saw kindergartners singing in ancient churches, met white-bearded blokes playing Father Christmas and spent an intimate afternoon with a local friend as she prepared the figgy pudding and mincemeat pies for a fairy-tale English Christmas.
		But we did get to Drøbak, the self-proclaimed Christmas capital of Norway, to take part in Santa Lucia Day on December 13, which brings everyone out to dance around the trees… with their crowns of real, lighted candles.
		The highlight was filming the midnight Mass at the Vatican on Christmas Eve — which happened to be Pope John Paul II’s last Christmas.
	abcnews.go.com /Travel/RickSteves/story?id=1402840 (649 words)

	A Charlie Brown Christmas
		The first of nearly 50 Peanuts television movies, A Charlie Brown Christmas is the longest-running cartoon special in history, airing every year since its debut in 1965.
		It would include ice-skating; a pageant (Mendelson and Schulz had both flubbed parts in school shows); a mix of Christmas carols and Guaraldi's contemporary jazz; and the message that Christmas is really about the joyful miracle of Jesus's birth.
		And though the special was made in California, Schulz wanted it to include snowy scenes that recalled his native Midwest.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/cbrown1.html (555 words)

	westcoastmusic: Christmas DVD
		Harry Connick, Jr.'s holiday special with his Big Band and a string section was filmed in high definition video at the historic Bowery Savings Building/Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City in October 2003.
		The special first aired on NBC and features musical guests Marc Anthony and Kim Burrell as well as comedy sketches with Whoopi Goldberg and Nathan Lane.
		This DVD includes a bonus song ("I Pray On Christmas") plus 20 minutes of material not previously broadcast, including interviews and outtakes of Harry and his special guests.
	noted.blogs.com /westcoastmusic/christmas_dvd/index.html (313 words)

	PlusLine : "All is Bright" Adventist Christmas Show 2005
		The Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America is releasing its fourth Christmas program entitled "All is Bright." This hour long program will be broadcast during the month of December on many local affiliate stations in the United States, Canada, and Bermuda, as well as the Trinity Broadcasting Network.
		The premise of the story surrounds a father who is enlisted in the military and is trying to get home to his family for the Christmas holiday.
		You can also call your local station to request "All Is Bright." If the station's program director has not already been contacted by the AMS (Adventist Media Services) Agency, the director may contact the agency at (805) 955-7675 to obtain the program.
	www.plusline.org /article.php?id=5438 (348 words)

	National Christmas Center \| Family Attraction \| Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
		We will be featured on their "Extreme Christmas" television special.
		See how Christmas customs and traditions changed with each decade as you walk through historically recreated room settings of each time period, accurately furnished and decorated to represent a precious piece of Pennsylvania Christmas history.
		Guests accompanying pass holders are admitted at a reduced fee, and special offers will be available exclusively to season pass holders throughout the year.
	www.nationalchristmascenter.com /htm/news.htm (347 words)

	Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (TV special) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It first aired December 6, 1964 on the NBC television network in the USA and was sponsored by (eventual owner of NBC) General Electric.
		The removal of the scene near the end of the special (for subsequent telecasts) in which Yukon Cornelius discovers a "peppermint mine" by that method near Santa's workshop left audiences assuming that he was attempting to find either silver or gold by taste alone.
		It is notable as the final Rankin-Bass Christmas special and final use of their "Animagic" stop-motion animation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rudolph_the_Red-Nosed_Reindeer_(television_special) (2369 words)

	A Charlie Brown Christmas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		None of the special's technical problems detracted from the show's appeal; to the contrary, it is thought that these quirks, along with several other choices, are what lent the show such an innovative, authentic and sincere feeling.
		A Charlie Brown Christmas won an Emmy and a Peabody award, and is now considered a timeless holiday classic and an annual tradition by millions of viewers.
		The special has not been seen in its original, uncut form since the first three telecasts in 1965, 1966 and 1967.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/A_Charlie_Brown_Christmas (2116 words)

	X-Entertainment - A Very Brady Christmas Television Special, 1988
		Carol expresses her joy with this by dancing around the room and making her eyes move independently from each other, like a Jackson chameleon or a veiled chameleon or a really hyper tv mom who needs to stop doing smack on the set just before that guy snaps the clackerboard.
		I think this scene could've benefited with a closing shot of Alice throwing up piles of snakes and frogs into the middle of their living room, followed up by a 'you sure you still want me to live here?' quip.
		Instead of hiring someone who'd be remotely close to the real Sam's age, they used a guy who couldn't have been more than 30 years old and tried to mask that fact with a cotton beard.
	www.x-entertainment.com /articles/0703 (3045 words)

	Chanticleer returning with its Christmas show 12/05/02
		That will be the format this time around, on Saturday, Dec.7, as it will for a Christmas special, set to air over PBS at 3 p.m.
		"Although we've filmed our special for our 25th anniversary, we've been working on this concept for a long time," said Wilder, who sings countertenor and contralto and is education director of the group.
		Chanticleer, which completed a tour of France last month, looks ahead to another European tour and its next CD (music by Henry Purcell) in the spring, besides the Christmas special and its concerts in San Francisco.
	www.irvineworldnews.com /Bstories/dec5/chant.html (842 words)

	I Wish It Could Be Christmas Forever ~ 1982 Compilation
		ecorded for Perry Como's French-Canadian Christmas Television Special, 1981
		"Christmas Dream" is from the original soundtrack recording of "The Odessa File" recorded August 7, 1974
		"I Wish It Could Be Christmas Forever" from a 1981 Perry Como Christmas Television Special.
	kokomo.ca /album_45.htm (257 words)

	Christmas television special (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ideas for gifts and presents - our resource contaings all resources you might need about Christmas television special, including first anniversary gift idea as well as gift idea for man - Web sites directory, goods and articles.
		Christmas television specials are also where non-animated characters from other media may first cross over into animation; examples include the Peanuts comic strip, the Bloom County comic strip, and the Dr. Seuss children's book How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
		A Charlie Brown Christmas: The Original Sound Track Recording Of The CBS Television Special
	www.gift-and-ideas.com /article/Christmas%20television%20special (566 words)

	KTLN Press Release
		Worship music has always played an integral part of my growth as a Christian, and I think Christmas is probably the most intense time of the year, so this project really made sense for me," Tesh says.
		One hour prior to Christmas Worship-A Musical Celebration, viewers will be treated with an encore presentation of John Tesh's interview and performance on Total Living with Jerry Rose and Aspiring Women; the encores will air 7-8 PM CST.
		Note: Tesh' holiday special coincides with his nationwide Christmas tour, which kicks off November 29.
	www.ktln.tv /view.html?pressid=128 (217 words)

	The Case for Christmas
		Who was REALLY in the manger on that first Christmas morning -- a prophet, as Muslims claim, a mere human being, as atheists believe, or the unique Son of God, as Christians have proclaimed for 2,000 years?
		Mark Mittelberg is the Executive Director of Evangelism for the Willow Creek Association and a frequent teacher on CCN broadcasts, partnering with Lee Strobel to lead CCN's evangelism track.
		Also joining us for the Case For Christmas broadcast is musician Neal Morse, a celebrated singer/songwriter who was formerly the front man for the band Spock’s Beard and the international super-group Transatlantic.
	www.ccn.tv /programming/event/evt_04dec05.htm (522 words)

	Adventist on Television World-Wide Christmas 2005
		Hope Channel is pleased to announce special programming December 17 through 31 on Hope Channel and Hope Channel International.
		The Hope Channel Special report can be seen beginning December 17.
		Christmas program entitled "All is Bright." This hour long program will be broadcast during the month of December on many local affiliate stations in the United States, Canada, and Bermuda, as well as the Trinity Broadcasting Network.
	www.bahamasconference.org /christmas2005.htm (373 words)

	Bay Area Christmas Concerts
		Among the favorites to be performed are Gregorian chant; Renaissance sacred music; traditional carols; Franz Biebl’s “Ave Maria” (Chanticleer’s most-requested Christmas selection) and a medley of spirituals arranged by Mr.
		The popularity of these holiday concerts has grown since the release of the ensemble’s Christmas public television special, which has aired across the country and two years ago was released on home DVD.
		Tickets to A Chanticleer Christmas are $42 and $37 (reserved seating) and $25 (general admission, except at Davis), with a $3.00 discount for students and seniors.
	www.chanticleer.org /BayAreaChristmasConcerts.htm (423 words)

	Christmas with a Twist (BroadwayWorld.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A Very Bette Christmas is the hypothetical situation of sliver screen star Bette Davis rehearsing for a live 1962 Christmas television special featuring festive music and skits along with other notable names such as Bing Crosby, Liberachi, Brenda Lee and Bette’s very own favorite, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane co-star Joan Crawford.
		However, to Bette’s misfortune, she finds that she and Amish, the Russian actor playing the minor role of “the elf,” along with the director, are the only ones able to attend rehearsal.
		Although A Very Bette Christmas is completely fictional, Fuller says that, “I imagine it depicts Bette exactly as she would have acted, butting heads with her director, slinging icy zingers at Crawford and mingling with the audience as a sly method to take full control of the television special.
	www.broadwayworld.com /printcolumn.cfm?id=6210 (911 words)

	Item #1701200FK - A Charlie Brown Christmas - Piano Sheet Music
		I can't think of a person who at some point in their life has not seen, heard, or been touched by that little Charles Schultz creation that is Charlie Brown.
		Charlie Brown and his Christmas television special have been a mainstay of the holidays for quite a long time.
		Transcribed for piano solo with optional vocals and chords, these classic Christmas songs are sure to bring holiday cheer to all who hear them!
	www.superdupermusic.com /1701200.html (442 words)

	SoundStage! Various Artists - 40 Years: A Charlie Brown Christmas
		roduced by pianist David Benoit, this album is a tribute to Vince Guaraldi’s 1965 soundtrack for A Charlie Brown Christmas television special.
		If you are a fan of the artists that appear on this disc, then you will likely enjoy this recording.
		If, after you’ve worn that one out, you need more jazzy Christmas CDs, I’d suggest a few others before this one, such as the new re-release of Herb Alpert's Christmas Album [Shout Factory DK 34411] or Yule Struttin’ [Blue Note 94857], which features many Blue Note greats.
	www.soundstage.com /music/reviews/rev763.htm (262 words)

	Christmas TV Specials & Gifts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A family experiences the excitement and anticipation of the holidays, while trying to keep the true meaning of Christmas at the center of their preparations.
		This delightful story tells of a town where Christmas almost didn't come and how its erring citizens learned their lesson.
		Benji isn't very excited about playing the second shepherd in the school Christmas play, that is, until he meets the REAL second shepherd.
	www.lhm.org /evergreen (167 words)

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