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Pinocchio’s Christmas
Pinocchio’s Christmas
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Length:
65 minutes
Released:
Dec 3, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
? The Advent Calendar House gets overrun by earworms strong enough to burrow into wood as we carve into the 1980 Rankin/Bass Christmas special starring Pinocchio. **** ? Guests: Michael DiGiovanni (@theatomicgeeks, The Atomic Geeks, Classic Film Jerks, Pop Culture Retrofit). Michael May (@michaelmaycomix, MichaelMay.online, Sleigh Bell Cinema, Mystery Movie Night, Nerd Lunch Fourth Chair Army Invasion, and I think that might be it… FOR NOW). **** ? Topics & Tangents: 1. Two songs, Dancin’ and The Very Best Friend I Ever Had, were cut from and later restored to TV broadcasts. 2. Starstuff, a Philadelphia market, Saturday morning kids’ sci-fi TV series starring Todd Porter, the voice of Pinocchio. 3. The most disappointing gifts we’ve ever received, including what Santa gave me after I allegedly misspelled “Alpha Critters.” 4. We question the less-than-clear laws that govern Pinocchio’s lie-detecting nose, which appear to grant him a mulligan here. 5. Those classic Christmas puppet show characters, Don Quixote and an alligator. 6. 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. Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house. Say hi on Twitter @adventcalhouse.
Released:
Dec 3, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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