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EPISODE · Jul 3, 2021 · 1H 10M

A Cosmic Christmas

from Advent Calendar House · host Mike Westfall

🎄 We’re teaching aliens about Christmas again, but this time, George Lucas is watching.  🎙 Jeff Fox from Name That Christmas Special is our special guest as we go on a domesticated goose chase back to 1977 through “A Cosmic Christmas,” the first fully animated feature by Canadian studio Nelvana.  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  Jeff’s collection of “A Cosmic Christmas” music and scanned promotional items.  Joanna Wilson’s Christmas TV History.  This special got George Lucas’s attention and led to Nelvana producing the animated segment of the “Star Wars Holiday Special.”  “The Nelvana Story: Thirty Animated Years.”  Today’s TV Trope: Big Ball of Violence.  Jellybean looks like the red-eyed Pac-Man on the side of the arcade cabinet.  Duncan Regehr (Amalthor) as Dracula in “The Monster Squad.”  Marian Waldman, Mrs. Mac from “Black Christmas,” also has a quick line or two.  The Castle Thunder stock sound effect.  ****  📼 Commercials:  Burger King Doll Christmas Commercial (1977)  Weird Christmas.  ****  “A Cosmic Christmas” © 1977 Nelvana Enterprises, Inc.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.  #s6 #1970s #nelvana

🎄 We’re teaching aliens about Christmas again, but this time, George Lucas is watching.  🎙 Jeff Fox from Name That Christmas Special is our special guest as we go on a domesticated goose chase back to 1977 through “A Cosmic Christmas,” the first fully animated feature by Canadian studio Nelvana.  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  Jeff’s collection of “A Cosmic Christmas” music and scanned promotional items.  Joanna Wilson’s Christmas TV History.  This special got George Lucas’s attention and led to Nelvana producing the animated segment of the “Star Wars Holiday Special.”  “The Nelvana Story: Thirty Animated Years.”  Today’s TV Trope: Big Ball of Violence.  Jellybean looks like the red-eyed Pac-Man on the side of the arcade cabinet.  Duncan Regehr (Amalthor) as Dracula in “The Monster Squad.”  Marian Waldman, Mrs. Mac from “Black Christmas,” also has a quick line or two.  The Castle Thunder stock sound effect.  ****  📼 Commercials:  Burger King Doll Christmas Commercial (1977)  Weird Christmas.  ****  “A Cosmic Christmas” © 1977 Nelvana Enterprises, Inc.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.  #s6 #1970s #nelvana

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