Is this the best christmas tv show ever ?
Posted by ChaileyJem on 19 December 2007 - 10:29am.
'Charlie Brown. You're the only person I know who could take a wonderful season like Christmas and turn it into a problem"
Still on CBS every year in the states and has been every year since 1965. It really is about the birth of Jesus. Has the scene(s) parodied by the Hey Ya Charlie Brown/Outkast video. Snoopy is funny. Has *the* finest, mournful jazz score from Vince Guaraldi including the first appearance of the "linus and lucy" theme (you will know it!)
Never on british tv for some reason. A relief after the astonishing, ambitious and mad Liverpool nativity. (the icicle works ? david yip ?)
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Wonderful
Wonderful. Thanks for putting it up. I'll watch the whole thing later.
Lucy: I always get stupid toys or clothes or a bicycle or something. I never get what I really want for Christmas.
Charlie: What do you want?
Lucy: Real estate
Didn't dare watch the Liverpool nativity. Having enjoyed mercilessly ridiculing the Manchester Passion to irk my Mancunian pals, I couldn't believe it when I heard Liverpool were doing something equally pretentious and preposterous. Was it truly awful?
The Liverpool Nativity
Interesting that you mention the Liverpool Nativity as I was wondering what Word readers had thought of it? I agree it was bonkers but there was something gloriusly enjoyable about seeing Geoffrey Hughes attempt to sing 'Bouncing Babies' by the Teardrops!
liverpool nativity
it was definitely bonkers. its here if you want to see it
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b008j2lq.shtml
best bit was getting love is a wonderful colour - icicle works in there somehow and nerys hughes of course.
Shack - Comedy
Agree, it was bonkers. Great to hear/see a version of "Comedy" by Shack. My family looking on bemused as i stutter "Comedy, comedy, shack, comedy"!!!
I was looking forward to it
but it sounded terrible! Switched off at that point I'm afraid.
"A Charlie Brown Christmas" on DVD
"A Charlie Brown Christmas" is available on DVD in the UK. Bizarrely, it's an extra added on to "I Want A Dog For Christmas":
http://tinyurl.com/2ktnpa