Cheesetastic TV alert: "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" is on tonight.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

If you can't get enough Rankin/Bass, this is your lucky day. Or one of them; the show has run already this holiday season.

http://www.cbs.com/schedule/

Don't believe the fake news; "Red-Nosed" has a hyphen.

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a 1964 Christmas stop-motion animated television special produced by Videocraft International, Ltd. (later known as Rankin/Bass Productions) and currently distributed by Universal Television. It first aired Sunday, December 6, 1964, on the NBC television network in the United States, and was sponsored by General Electric under the umbrella title of The General Electric Fantasy Hour. The special was based on the Johnny Marks song "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" which was itself based on the poem of the same name written in 1939 by Marks' brother-in-law, Robert L. May. Since 1972, the special has aired on CBS, with the network unveiling a high-definition, digitally remastered version of the program in 2005. As with A Charlie Brown Christmas and How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Rudolph no longer airs just once annually, but several times during the Christmas and holiday season on CBS. Unlike other holiday specials that also air on several cable channels (including Freeform), Rudolph only airs on CBS. It has been telecast every year since 1964, making it the longest continuously running Christmas TV special in history. 2014 marked the 50th anniversary of the television special and a series of postage stamps featuring Rudolph was issued by the United States Postal Service on November 6, 2014.

{Warning: depiction of same-sex companionship follows}

[Brother Buzz]

1. Rudolph, the Red, knows rain, dear

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. Hahahahaha. Thanks.

Wait: how do I know you're not working for them?????

[Brother Buzz]

4. If I was working for them, I'd be pitching scantly clad weather women

[Squinch]

9. Well. Isn't that creepy of you.

[Brother Buzz]

11. Before you can pry any secrets from me, you must first find the real me.

Which one will you pursue?

[rsdsharp]

3. I love Rudolph!

I saw the very first airing of this show on December 6, 1964. It was on NBC, and aired at 5:45 CST, after AFL football. I have no memory of NBC doing any promotion for the show (I was 10 at the time), and it was like it just magically appeared. I've seen it dozens of times since, in color, HD, and big screen, but nothing will ever match that first time on my family's 19 inch black-and-white Zenith.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. "The quality goes in before the name goes on."

My first TV (fall 1969) was a 19" black and white Zenith portable. My family had TV for years before that, but this was MY first TV.

Portable in the sense that it had a carrying handle. All-tube, of course. Handwired. Fake walnut finish ABS cabinet. I think they had ABS then; maybe it was polystyrene. No power transformer.

I'd could go for a Trans-Oceanic, but I don't know why. There's not much to listen to anymore.



Zenith® The quality goes in before the name goes on.

Phil's Old Radios: Home: Gallery: TransOceanics Zenith Model R-7000-2 TransOceanic Radio (1981)

[OriginalGeek]

7. I was born in 63

so I don't remember seeing the first - but I don't remember a Christmas without Rudolph (or the Grinch). I can barely wrap my head around the fact that there are people alive who had christmases without them.


I've owned all those holiday shows on VHS/DVD/Blu-ray and I will always have them in whatever the next format is. My grandkids may not get much money from me but they damn sure will have cheesy holiday shows from my youth.

[Va Lefty]

6. "Silver and Gold"

[Squinch]

8. CHEESE?????!!!! CHEESE?????!!!!! How DARE you???? It's a searing examination of the

human condition!!!!

It's an expose on labor conditions in northern humanoid settlements!!!!!

It's a story of love and redemption and dental aggression!!!!

And the bunnies SING!!!!

Cheese. My god, have you no shame?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

10. No. Why do you ask? NT