I will be signing books during the broadcast tonight! ⛄️🎁❄️🎄🎅✍️

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Rudolph is back on NBC tonight!

Sixty years ago Television had great Premieres!

1965 was a great year for TV Premieres! I Dream of Jeannie, Get Smart!, Gidget, Green Acres, Lost In Space, I Spy, The Wild Wild West, Hogan's Heroes, The Loner, Hank, My Mother the Car, Honey West and more! Sixty years ago!

 

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas 🎄 #thursdayvibes

 

I am doing all kinds of interviews now 🎄 I just did one with my friend Jordan Newell White . I met Doug Herendeen at the Carlisle Comic Con, and we are taping an interview Monday to air next Saturday onWRTA Weekend (Saturdays 11 to 1) - Talk Radio 98.5 & 1240 WRTA in Pennsylvania. Rudolph's 60th is pretty big news, with the switch back to NBC-tv! Our Year without a Santa Claus and 'Twas the night before Christmas 50th Anniversary book is going gangbusters too! Bring on the best and busiest holiday season ever! 🇺🇸👏

Burl has been Sam for 60 years!

 

Doing another display set up and will bring books!

My shop is buzzing!

 

This is going to be a great and busy holiday season! Network TV and Radio/podcast interviews, book signings, mailing, etc!

 

Rankin/Bass Productions specials move from CBS to NBC

This year, Rankin/Bass Productions' Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman are moving to NBC-TV.  This is Rudolph's 60th Anniversary and it originally aired on NBC until 1972 (See my NEW book for NBC Puppet display case 1964-1971).  Rudolph will air December 6th, 2024 at 7 pm Central in a 75 minute time slot.   I am not sure how I feel about this.  I can't really go into it, but I don't have a lot of confidence in these companies.  Yesterday, I heard from a Producer at CBS Saturday morning, that wants to do a Rankin/Bass segment.  Frosty the Snowman has been on CBS, since it premiered in 1969.  It is strange for it to be moved to NBC, after all of this time and holding the record for the longest-running special on the same network.  Frosty will air on NBC December 5th at 7:30 PM Central time.  I can say this, I haven't liked the prints of Rudolph and Frosty that have been airing on CBS, with their bad editing, etc.  ABC-TV will air the heavily edited version of Santa Claus Is Comin' to town December 3rd at 8 pm Central time.

 

My Mother the car

Bonanza

The Tea Time's a clock

I found an ad I didn't have (probably the rarest one next to the newspaper Rudolph record ad I have)!  This one features Sam by my Tea Time's a clock! #Thegeneralelectricfantasyhour #Rudolphtherednosedreindeer

 

 

Rankin/Bass' The Ballad of Smokey the Bear appeared on NBC-tv Thanksgiving day 1966