The Christmas TV special is an American tradition. But they have changed over the years, and sometimes, not for the better. Back in the day, and that "day" being the 1960s, the 1970s, and to some ...

The Christmas TV special is an American tradition ... (i.e. those who grew up with the medium in the 1950s and 1960s, when TV was still relatively young) embraced the unreality of such television ...

It harks back to an earlier age – from the 1960s to the new millennium ... Girls three times in the past six months. Christmas TV is like brussels sprouts: a kind of revolting seasonal ...

“And that’s what Christmas is all about ... had only been widely available for a little over a decade by the 1960s. Television animation had been around for almost as long, but critics ...