More lockdown reading coming your way! #booksigning #bookstagram www.miserbros.com

Me TV's COLLECTOR'S CALL One Hour Premiere in one week!

A week from tonight, I will be at an event for the premiere! Finally, one week until Me TV airs the one hour Premiere at 9 pm Central time (our episode airs at 9:30 pm). My mom just saw the commercial during The Monkees. #metv #collectorscall #lisawhelchel #rankinbass #rickgoldschmidtcollection #quakecollectibles #batman #tvguide #captainaction #mego #martinandlewis #history #fun #popculture. Collector's Call Listing from Me TV site: 9:30pm Collector's Call

NOSTALGIC TOYS AND ADVERTISING - "Designer, author and artist, Rick Goldschmidt loved the toys of his youth so much, that as he grew older, he didn’t give them away, but rather bought more as his budget allowed. And Rick has a collection that now literally covers every surface and wall of his entire house. Rick is joined by his son, Josh who is a collector himself, as he shows Lisa parts of his collection including some original Rankin Bass relics, Mego dolls, a limited edition coloring book given to children on the set of “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and a nearly complete set of Captain Action toys and displays. And we’ve brought along David Gutterman, owners of Quake Collectibles to appraise Rick’s collection and perhaps make a trade with a vintage Kellogg’s lunchbox from his own collection."

Geekz Con Volume 2 smashed all records!!!

 My favorite Underdog artist is here, Matt Matthew Hansel We had a nice long chat about Commander McBragg and other things! #underdog #commandermcbragg #saturday Geekz Con vol. 2 the late, great Dick Locher (Dick Tracy, McDonald's) told Matt about my first book!

Rankin/Bass' Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is being Re-Broadcast on CBS tonight and I have been doing lots of interviews about Romeo Muller's creations in the Island of Misfit toys! Read about him in my books! Many more interviews to come!

 

The Huffington Post tried to cause some trouble with their click bait article a few weeks back, but people weren't buying any of it.  Romeo Muller, Jr. wrote a special TV special that has heart and warmth with characters that he created with wonderful qualities!  This is why it has lasted fifty four years and wins the ratings!

Read all about Romeo's characters and Romeo in my book and in my NEW book, which will be shipping very soon for Christmas!   The Making of Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town and The Daydreamer (MISER BROS PRESS)  www.miserbros.com

Celebrating 54 years today!

Guess what TV Special aired 54 years ago today?  I have seen all sorts of posts shared this year with the wrong dates, click bait articles with ridiculous comments, etc. and Rankin/Bass' Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer still shines as brightly as ever and will air again on CBS December 8th, followed by Frosty the Snowman,  Incidentally, Romeo Muller, Jr. created all of the characters except for Rudolph and Santa.  He created the misfit girl doll, Hermey the elf/dentist, Yukon Cornelius, Sam the Snowman, etc.  His name needs to be associated with any derivitive Productions, etc., so please share! #rudolphtherednosedreindeer #rankinbass #cbs #classic #television #news #history #animagic #thegeneralelectricfantasyhour #animation #tvspecial

 

art by Thomas Webb 

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AMC showed Rankin/Bass' The First Christmas: the story of the first Christmas snow and Rudolph's Shiny new year 🎅 I wanted to bring the stars on and give a little background on the productions. Maybe next year! #amc #thefirstchristmas #rudolphsshinynewyear #bestchristmasever #AMC

CBS disappoints with another airing of the horribly edited version of Rankin/Bass' Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer! Also, fielding many complaints about the 2018 Rudolph and Rankin/Bass blu rays and DVDs, which I had absolutely nothing to do with!

 

I talk about it every year and I am getting tired of it.   The Emmy for the "Worst edited TV Special classic" should go to CBS and all the others that put this badly restored special on the air.  The music still sounds like it is on a warped disc, the animation to "Fame and Fortune" is edited in chops to "We're A Couple of Misfits," as if the editor had a blind fold on, etc.   I talk about it year after year after year and they keep showing the same cut, year after year after year.  Now I am getting emails about the horrible 2018 blu ray and dvd releases.   I had nothing to do with those atrocities.   I will leave it at that.   They could have had value and rare content, but the people involved decided to go another way with them.   That is on them.  

Don't miss this one! Rooms are filling up fast and special guests announced and a few more big announcements coming!

 

Some big stars announced and more to be announced!  I am doing two presentations here and one may be with a star from a few R/B specials.