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...Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer," "A Charlie Brown Christmas," and "Frosty's Winter Wonderland," all aired last week. A seasonal newcomer, "Ziggy's Gift," has also already made its appearance. (In case you're wondering, Ziggy--of comic strip fame--did not speak at all during the half-hour ABC special...
Someone from ABC apparently heard "Jingle Bells" in the jingle of coins at a video arcade recently. And the result means big bucks for the people who gave video-gobbler Pac-Man his own Saturday morning cartoon. Based on this show's success as the highest-rated children's show on television, the agents behind Pac-Man's TV career now bring us "Christmas Comes to Pac Land Presumably, Ms. Pac-Man will guest star in the Dec. 16 special, with Marty Engels as the voice of the electronic big-mouth...
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...could be expected, each of the three major networks has at least one show that just couldn't survive the bitter cold of winters past. ABC executives still have nightmares about "Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey,"--shown in 1977--while CBS took the stuffing out of "Raggedy Ann and the Great Christmas Caper" after it ran in 1978. For NBC, one of the more forgettable holiday specials employed those special ingredients that inexplicably continued to dominate the schedules--a 1979 special called "A Country Christmas," which set Scrooge's misdeeds to a truly sinister beat...
...teen-age son and a young daughter (Kathy Maisnik) who is enjoying some success as a country-and-western singer does not make him measurably less like Archie Bunker, even if his brains are heavier and his social conscience a little lighter. In Star of the Family (ABC, Thursdays, 8:30-9 p.m. E.S.T.) Dennehy hangs around the firehouse, an easily irked captain, while his troop of fire fighters bring him the same kinds of problems the barflies import into Archie Bunker's place. Nor does it much matter, once past the initial shock, that the cast of Seven...