12-12 1984 Carson Christmas specials
Johny at the desk with ed. both men are wearing black suits, with white shirts and black ties. I guess the original men in black.
" Have you seen any of the Christmas specials yet?"
ED;' No i havent"
"Well, there will be a lot of them between now and Christmas, although this is a lovely time of year sometimes they get a little satiated with Chritmas specials. Here is partial list :
It's ho ho Hopes jolly christmas hour-Bob Hopes special includes Brooke Shields, Mary Lou Retton, the AP all-american football team and a chorus of 'silver bells.'
Yes Punky there is a Santa Claus-an hour long version of NBC sitcom Punky Brewster
Emmet otters Jug band christmas-muppets enter a talent contest for christmas cash
Dot and santa Claus-an animated special from Australia featuring Santa Claus and a Kngaroo drawn sleigh
Yogi Bear all star comedy christmas caper-Yogi and boo-boo escape from Jelly-stone park and wind up as department store santa's
Johny Cash christmas on the road
The night they saved christmas-former Charlie Angels start Jaqueline smith stars as a wife of a oil driller who discovers explosivs designed to find hidden crude are endangering Santa's workshop.
A christmas dream Mr T a black santa with a mohawk befriends websters Emanuel Lewis and teaches him the true meaning of christmas
Kenny and Dolly- Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton christmas special
if you think those are just some of the christmas specials -OUR crack research department came up with a few more
Ronald Reagans christmas at the whitehouse-Followed by walter Mondales christmas in a Minneapolis bowling alley
A cabbage patch christmas-in this animated special the lovable cabbage kids wrestle santa to the ground, shave his beard and use the whiskers to re-stfuff one of their cabbage patch buddies who had a blow-out
An organized crime christmas-an under-world informer is hand-cuffed to the stick shift of a 1957 mercury in a New Jersey automobile wrecking yard, as the car enters the giant car compactor the stool-pigeon is forced to sing: "I'll be small for christmas."
Christmas in the barn- country and western recording artist Merle Haggard returns to his old Oklahama farm and spends his christmas eve burping a sick baby pig.
the Harlem globe-trotters tower of London Holiday special-The Basketball clowns liven up the holiday season by slam-dunking the heads of Henry the eighth's wives.
Donahue live from the north pole-day time talk show host Phil Donahue journeys to the arctic for one of his most controversial shows, a discussion about birth control among catholic elves
A wild kingdom christmas-Marlin Perkins sends his trusted assistant Jim Fowler down the river so Marlin can hang ornaments on Jim's wife
The Los Angeles raiders yuletide special- Lyle Alzado combs out his beard finds one hundred and seventy-three chili-dog remnants and the half eaten hat of Tom Landry.
George Burns Christmas special-george recalls his very first christmas as an entertainer doing a stand-up routine at the lounge of the MGM Grand in Bethlehem
Santa Cruz's sunset-a street walker hails down Santa's sled and tells the jolly old elf that she will ho-ho-ho for dough-dough-dough
Christmas on the people court-Judge Wapner lifts up his robe to reveal..three french hens , two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree.
Note: that as good a cross-section of the year 1984 as you are going to get, including Brooke shields, Phil Donahue, judge wapner- the only thing missing is Michael Jackson to get a real feel of the mid-80s
Note: there were a lot more Christmas special back then, but television is splintered off into a thousand cable channels now, though cable TV existed in 1984, there were still kid shows on the major networks, like Punky and webster. Network TV was a little more soft-edged then it is now. And of course people like Bob Hope were still around, his annual christmas show always drew big ratings. This year -2016, you would be hard pressed to find any christmas shows on the Networks. Are there any people left, out there, who can sell a holiday special?