EPISODE · Dec 3, 2019 · 1H 4M
Pinocchio’s Christmas
from Advent Calendar House · host Mike Westfall
🎄 The Advent Calendar House gets overrun by earworms strong enough to burrow into wood. 🎙️ Michael DiGiovanni and Michael May drop in to help carve into a 1980 Rankin/Bass special starring that beloved Christmas icon… Pinocchio. **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: Two songs, “Dancin’” and “The Very Best Friend I Ever Had,” were cut from and later restored to TV broadcasts. “Starstuff,” a Philadelphia market, Saturday morning kids’ sci-fi TV series starring Todd Porter, the voice of Pinocchio. The most disappointing gifts we’ve ever received, including what Santa gave me after I allegedly misspelled “Alpha Critters.” How does Pinocchio’s nose detect lies, and does it grant him a mulligan here? The strange flash-forward to the rest of Pinocchio’s better-known adventures, even though Rankin/Bass already made a Pinocchio TV series, its first ever stop-motion animation project. **** “Pinocchio’s Christmas” ©1980 Rankin/Bass Productions, Inc. Find us at adventcalendar.house. #s3 #1980s #rankinbass
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🎄 The Advent Calendar House gets overrun by earworms strong enough to burrow into wood. 🎙️ Michael DiGiovanni and Michael May drop in to help carve into a 1980 Rankin/Bass special starring that beloved Christmas icon… Pinocchio. **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: Two songs, “Dancin’” and “The Very Best Friend I Ever Had,” were cut from and later restored to TV broadcasts. “Starstuff,” a Philadelphia market, Saturday morning kids’ sci-fi TV series starring Todd Porter, the voice of Pinocchio. The most disappointing gifts we’ve ever received, including what Santa gave me after I allegedly misspelled “Alpha Critters.” How does Pinocchio’s nose detect lies, and does it grant him a mulligan here? The strange flash-forward to the rest of Pinocchio’s better-known adventures, even though Rankin/Bass already made a Pinocchio TV series, its first ever stop-motion animation project. **** “Pinocchio’s Christmas” ©1980 Rankin/Bass Productions, Inc. Find us at adventcalendar.house. #s3 #1980s #rankinbass
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