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December 10, 1974 – Another Rankin/Bass animated holiday special The Year Without A Santa Claus premiered on ABC-TV on this date. The names of the reindeer are consistent with the Clement Moore poem and other sources. Vixen is the baby reindeer who takes Jingle & Jangle to Southtown (and gets sick). Dasher is the oneContinue reading “The Year Without A Santa Claus premiered”

December 10, 1955 –The Mighty Mouse Playhouse began a long-standing ‘Saturday Morning Cartoon’ tradition on CBS-TV, on this date. Terrytoons Studios produced 80 theatrical Mighty Mouse cartoons between 1942 to 1961, which were shown on this cartoon TV series on Saturday mornings. Each episode contained three Mighty Mousetheatrical cartoons and a one-shot one (especially withContinue reading “The Mighty Mouse Playhouse premiered”

December 9, 1947 – An oft forgotten holiday classic, The Bishop’s Wife, starring Cary Grant, David Nivens, and Loretta Young premiered in NYC on this date. One scene shows Cary Grant and Loretta Young in a conversation. Director Henry Koster staged this with the two facing each other, but both complained that this showed theContinue reading “The Bishop’s Wife premiered”

He could not maintain his strict dedication to the all-natural fiber clothing manifesto and make it through the holiday season. Demand Euphoria!

December 8, 1976 – Asylum release the fifth studio album of the Eagles, Hotel California, on this date. Hotel California would go on to sell 16 million copies in the U.S. and double that figure worldwide.

It’s apparently National Brownie day today, as opposed to ‘Send Kevin the loose bills in your pocket day.’ According to several sources, Brownies seem to have made their first appearance at the Parker House Hotel in Chicago in 1893 celebrating the Columbian Exposition World’s Fair in Chicago, (you may find their original recipe for theContinue reading “Just in time for the holidays”

The Canadian postal service has been giving Jolly Old St. Nicholas a helping hand. For more than 38 years, Canada Post has been helping Santa with his huge holiday volume of mail. Thanks to Canada Post’s Santa Letter-writing Program, children can write to the jolly old fellow in virtually any language, including Braille, and receiveContinue reading “Kids, get those letters out”

I am going to send you directly to the group of old ladies in church, saying the rosaries on a Thursday afternoon in the back row of your church to explain this one to you: December 8, 1854 –Pius IX promulgates the doctrine of Immaculate Conception (Ineffabilis Deus) – the Virgin Mary is free fromContinue reading “It’s way above my pay scale to explain this one”

December 8, 1966 – The Star Trek episode The Conscience of the King first airs on this date. In it, Captain Kirk crosses paths with an actor suspected of having been a planetary governor who ordered a mass-murder twenty years earlier. In this episode, we learn that Kirk was on Tarsus IV, and was oneContinue reading “The Conscience of the King premiered”

December 8, 1957 –The CBS series, The Seven Living Arts aired, The Sound of Jazz, live from their NYC studios: an all-star program featuring swing era and contemporary jazz artists, including Count Basie, Billie Holiday, Lester Young, Gerry Mulligan, and many others, on this date. The show’s performance of Fine and Mellow reunited Billie HolidayContinue reading “The Sound of Jazz premiered”