![]() Scott’s version of A Christmas Carol anyway.) There are too many of them to mention, and the right answers are always It’s a Wonderful Life and George C. (I am going to leave aside Christmas movies. ![]() These Christmas specials are now beloved by multiple generations and they have ruled cable and network television for a half century or more.Īnd so I thought I would spread my own curmudgeonly version of holiday cheer by slagging most of them and reminding you that only a few are truly worth watching, because I suspect they make people happy and I cannot allow that to continue. Unlike the earlier Boomers raised on insipid 1950s television that provided no real Christmas specials, I grew up with a torrent of holiday programming that included Rudolph, Frosty, Charlie Brown, and many others. I mean, of course, that my age makes me a member of Generation Jones, a child of the late 1960s and early 1970s. No, it’s not about remembering to double up on our statins before chugging the eggnog. ![]() I just turned 61 years old, and people my age know what that means at Christmas. This article originally appeared in Tom Nichols’ newsletter, Peacefield, available with an Atlantic subscription.
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