Here's some holiday season leftovers from last year for your viewing pleasure...
In 1978, the SESAME STREET gang celebrated Christmas TWICE - Once at home on PBS...
and also on CBS with special guest stars ranging from Michael Jackson to Ethel Merman!!!
'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS was a Rankin-Bass animated special that still airs annually on cable. I always found it charming except for it's odd depiction of Santa's red nose and cheeks. He looked freakish to me.
What do you think?
Meanwhile, back in the Stone Age, The Flintstones are celebrating the birth of Christ before it even happened.
In fact The Flintstones celebrate Christmas through time travel as seen here where they frolic with anthropomorphic animals from the 1960s and the Jetsons, from the far future.
Even 'tweenage Peebles and Bamm-Bamm get in on the holiday fun.
Betty Rubble is absent from this gathering, she must be baby-sitting Boo-Boo Bear who is also not present.
Here Yogi Bear, sans Boo-Boo is taking a turn at playing Santa.
And here Yogi is "helping" Santa...or is he helping himself to Ranger Smith's new skis?
And finally here's Yogi and Boo-Boo decorating their tree with painted snowballs. Shouldn't they be hibernating?
Looks like Tom & Jerry have put all their feuding aside for the holidays - and Jerry's found himself a little gray mousefriend to celebrate with! Hope all my readers and friends have a wonderful holiday season whether they are spending it on Sesame Street, in Bedrock or in Jellystone Park. Peace on Earth and all that.
Yeah, they were the same old crappy mix of badly animated shows you could see on any given Saturday, but somehow having them air on a Friday made them seem really special. The local ABC station also added to the fun by show two of my favorite animated features over the holiday weekend...
HEY THERE IT'S YOGI BEAR (1964), which featured Yogi's Southern belle girlfriend Cindy Bear.
and THE MAN CALLED FLINTSTONE which features some great music, including a fun James Bond-like theme song. These two feature-length Hanna-Barbara took our Saturday-morning TV favorites and and gave them some big screen exposure. This tradition seems to have flourished as Nickekodeon, Cartoon Network and Disney Channel favorites now regularly appear in straight-to-dvd features in this mold. 
In fact this morning, I awoke to TWEETY'S HIGH-FLYING ADVENTURE, a cute all-star Warner Bros. musical farce featuring cameos by about two dozen Looney Tunes characters. It's pretty fun to see Sylvester interact with Pepé LePew and Penelope Pussycat, especially when it seems that Pepé is suggesting a three-way with the puddy tats! Boy, times have changed!
