Hello faithful readers! As you are likely aware, the Holiday Season is just around the corner! We're planning to post some special reviews between now and January.
If you’re not aware, the year 2019 is a big year for anniversaries in film and television. Back in February, we mentioned that this year marks the 50th anniversary of the premier of Scooby Doo, Where Are You?, which introduced everyone’s favorite mystery solving talking Great Dane. Scooby and the gang were a big part of our Saturday mornings when we were kids.
Sesame Street also celebrates its 50th birthday this year. Big Bird, Susan, Gordon, Maria, Bob and Oscar et al helped us learn how to read out count.
If that’s not enough, The Simpsons turns 30 this year! We’ve been fans of the Simpsons since they first appeared in short cartoons on The Tracy Ullman Show. In fact, the first full-length episode of The Simpsons was a Christmas episode.
Needless to say, we’ve got reviews of holiday episodes of all these series on the way!
Furthermore, Rankin/Bass’ animated special Frosty The Snowman turns 50 this year. We covered the show in one of our early reviews, back in 2007 when were still figuring out what we wanted this blog to be. We may say a bit more about Frosty this December.
And Rudolph, The Rednosed Reindeer turns 55 this year. We haven’t reviewed that classic special yet, since we figured it’s well known enough without our help, and because we didn’t know if we had anything to say about Rudolph that hasn’t already been said. Perhaps we’ll weigh in on the most famous reindeer of all, if we have the time.
We’ve previously reviewed other specials and episodes that feature these characters, here are links to those reviews:
Scooby Doo:
The Scooby Doo Show: "The Headless Horseman Of Halloween"
A Scooby-Doo Halloween
The Simpsons:
"Bart Vs. Thanksgiving"
"The Simpsons Halloween Special II"(A.K.A. "Treehouse Of Horror II")
"Treehouse Of Horror XXIV"
“Miracle on Evergreen Terrace”
Sesame Street:
A Muppet Family Christmas (features Muppets from Sesame Street)
Check back tomorrow when we celebrate Scooby Doo’s 50th birthday!
J.A. & Rigbymel
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