1980s Forgotten Christmas Specials!

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1. A Garfield Christmas Special and the 1984 Version of A Christmas Carol with George C. Scott were My Mom's Favorites

2. I really love the George C Scott version of Scrooge. I still make it a habit to watch it every year.

3. A better time in America

4. I love Christmas and those classic Christmas movies, episodes, shows and specials were always amazing and fun to watch. cool video. ^_^

5. cannot recall 90% of these specials ,where was i ,well i guess I WAS NOT IN FRONT TO THE T.V. MUCH.?

6. Hi! I remember a lot of these, thanks Rhetty! You are fun! My husband wants to know if you could do something about Fourth of July? He was raised on Route 66 in the 70's and misses all the fantastically dangerous fireworks- LOL!

7. They forgot Mr. Magoo's "Christmas Carol" and little known religious stop animation "Christmas Is". Though it may have had its origins in the 70s the Lutheran church put it out so perhaps commercially didn't do well.

8. The Life And Adventures of Santa Claus is my favorite Christmas movie 🎄💜

9. I think i see most of the cartoon Christmas specials! I do miss them. Thank you for remind me what some of the good day were! Miss those!

10. I can't believe you forgot The Star Wars Holiday Special, a show so awful that George Lucas vowed to hunt down and destroy every copy… and then along came the internet, and the show 'slipped through his fingers'…
    To this day, people ask what 'Holiday' is it? Christmas? Thanksgiving? Hanukkah? Perhaps 'Halloween' would be the best choice, with all the groaning sounds – from the audience.
    Yes, it was only shown once (in 1977, I believe) on network TV, and yet even with Lucas using his industrial-light-and-magic size influence to ban this strange supplement to the Star Wars cannon, it can still be viewed on the internet, on sites like You Tube.
    (I highly recommend this to anyone with an ounce of 'snarcasm' in their body… you should have a blast!)

11. Babe’s in Toyland is a a huge piece of my Christmas childhood. We rewatched it over 200x since my dad taped it😂. I still watch it. It was my first Keanu film.

12. I still scream out “IT’s SNOWING!” Like Peewee on the Special😂

13. My favs going way back are The House Without A Christmas Tree, Andy Williams Christmas, Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol, The Snowman/narrated by David Bowie

14. You forgot the Peanuts Christmas
    Nestor the long, eared Christmas donkey
    Christmas Eve on Sesame Street
    Twas the night before Christmas
    The little drummer boy
    Santa Claus the movie
    Rudolph the red nose reindeer
    Rudolphs shiny new year
    Frosty the Snowman
    Frosty’s winter Wonderland
    How the Grinch stole Christmas
    Cricket of the hearth
    Prancer
    Yeah, without a Santa Claus
    Frosty returns
    Santa Claus is coming to town
    Will vinton
    Clation Christmas

15. If you FORGOT Garfield's Christmas Special, you weren't an 80's kid. Just saying 🤷🏼‍♂

16. Loved these shows back then..kinda weird b.c having a Christmas special seeing as it was before Christ was born lol

17. I got most of these. Ziggy's and garfield are favorites of mine.

18. I actually have all of these on VHS😂

19. When I was a kid in the 1950s, my favorite Christmas special aired on TV was "The March Of The Wooden Soldiers" with Laurel and Hardy. It was so captivating to a 6 – and 7-year-old !

20. These are amazing examples i've never heard of! That being said, I'm surprised you never mentioned 'Emmit Otter's Jug Band Christmas' – a special that has aged rather well; OR- the laughably bad Star Wars Christmas Special which truly deserves to be forgotten…still, these are some crazy obsure examples…nice list!

21. The magic garden Christmas special.

22. BC is it a newspapers anymore? Guess that goes to show how long it's been since I looked at the comic section in an actual newspaper😂

    I used to have the BC game to play on my Commodore 128!

    Thanks for this video it's nice to see the old Christmas classics from the '80s.

23. Loll. At the 4:57 mark, it says in the TV Guide ad, "Central Virginia Edition." I live in VA so that's interesting!!!!

24. He Man. Where Skeletor saves the kids was amazing.

25. Santa's little helper lol ❤😂

26. Anything with the Muppets oh yes one of my fav movies yes. Especially Muppets Christmas Carol. ❤

27. I love stop motions life n adventure of Santa C i always thought I dream that up lol. We actually recorded that off the tv. Lol..

28. Snow cartoon is giving me Heman vibes

29. I had a glow worm i was born in 84..lol.

30. Happy Holidays ❤❤❤❤ to all and Jesus is the season ❤❤❤❤.
    #DisneyDiva. ❤❤❤❤..

31. This really doesn't count, as it was from 1991, but Opus: A Wish For Wings That Work. From the Bloom County/Outland comic strip. Loved that one!

32. Those Christmas specials were good. On the Chipmunk Christmas Special, Alvin had a dream that he went to Clyde Crashcup's place. Clyde tried to invent Santa Claus. Everything turned into a disaster for him. That part got skipped. I felt sorry for Clyde. He wanted to improve by inventing things that have already been invented. He wanted to improve stuff.

33. I've watched the Pee-wee special a handful of times already this year. That one is definitely not forgotten to me.

34. I forgot about the B.C. Glasses

35. I loved the Garfield special!! It was funny, but also incredibly heartwarming!

36. Dude, a few of these are top-ten Christmas specials. A Garfield Christmas is up there with the Charlie Brown Christmas, Rankin-Bass's Rudolph and A Christmas Story. It's FAR from forgotten. Same applies to Mickey's Christmas Carol and several others here. If you want obscure Christmas, try 'The Little Troll Prince', 'Why The Bears Dance on Christmas Eve' or something along those lines. :3

37. Crack open ‘a coke’? C’mon.. a beer-or glass of wine-much healthier than a coke!!

38. Very nice video for me I always try to do a christmas special marathon with the episode of Dukes of Hazzard christmas special, family first xmas the simpsons first xmas and some movies like miracle in willow creek, christmas carol with the muppets and the version with patrick stewart

39. I was in HS and an undergrad during the 80s, so I wasn't into watching the Christmas specials like I was in the 70s. I do remember some of them. I vaguely remember the B.C. special only because I read the comic strip in the paper. The George C. Scott version of "A Christmas Carol" was excellent. I was at my grandparent's house when it first aired. I don't remember the Ziggy Christmas special at all, and almost forgot about the comic completely. It was very popular back in the 80s. And it is hard to believe that it is almost forgotten today!

40. I would say the Star Wars Christmas special, but that one's pretty well known, and how bad it was.

41. I was born in 1981 so some of theses 80’s Christmas specials mean a lot to me as a kid like Garfield Christmas, Claymation Christmas Celebration, A Disney Channel Christmas, Welcome to Pooh Corner Christmas Special, A Muppet Family Christmas & Mickey’s Christmas Carol
    All of those I loved as a kid
    The 80’s was a wonderful time to be a kid
    Thank you Rhett

42. Another one I loved back in the 80s was for better or for worse Christmas special, it was Canadian so I don't know if It got broadcast in the states

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