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Christmas Show

posted 6 years ago by [email protected] (1732)
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As Most would know this holiday offering aired once on CBS, December 24, 1956. Since
it was considered more nostalgic, than funny, and didn't possess any real plot, the episode
was taken out of the syndication package and never rerun until around 1990.

In any case, I'm glad it's included in the DVDS, as I find it enjoyable and cute. The clips
are good, and it's nice to see the first apartment here (an apartment all four characters seems
to have forgotten about when it was time to move. Odd, Since Mrs. Benson, who traded
with Lucy and Ricky, were mentioned occasionally).

Watched this last night while putting up my tree. Fun offering.

[–] [email protected] (5497) 6 years ago

I watched the show in syndication for years and never knew this episode existed until I bought the DVD. It's a little strange to see it colorized, interesting but a little odd.

Shows which do flashbacks are a lot of fun though, so I enjoy this one.

However, one thing that I wonder is why they have the foursome do the flashbacks after making a point of sending little Ricky off to bed so they can trim the tree? As a child, I remembered having so much fun decorating the tree with my sisters. That was one of the big highlights of the holiday.

Sure they probably didn't want little Ricky in the whole episode. I think it would've been better if the episode started where they had finished trimming the tree with him. Then they would send him off to bed and the adults would've reminisced over glasses of eggnog.

[–] [email protected] (1732) 6 years ago

Mine's in black-and-white, and I have one hundred percent no interest in colorized Lucy, Bewitched, or any film.
Black-and-white isn't "less" than color; it's merely different.

[–] [email protected] (5497) 6 years ago

That reminds me of Siskel and Ebert who did a few shows about colorization. They did one show called "Colorization- Hollywood's New Vandalism." I totally agreed with them. Movies which are filmed in black and white should not be tampered with. It is such an artificial process.

They did another show discussing the art of black and white. It uses shadow and light in a particular way. It's an art form all to itself.

I saw an episode of Bewitched a long time ago when I was channel surfing. It was in color, but I was sure the episode was from season two! After a while I realized that it had been colorized. It was too hard to watch. I turned it off.