Tag Archives: TV Specials

Shrek the Halls

Posted on December 2, 2012 by Morgan R. Lewis

I’ll admit that I’m probably not the audience Dreamworks was looking for when they made Shrek the Halls. I’m not a kid, and I don’t have kids of my own. And I was growing tired of the Shrek film franchise … Continue reading →

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No Thanks to Specials?

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Morgan R. Lewis

Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Americans! I imagine visits to the site are going to be pretty light today, but just in case anybody is poking their head in, I’ve got a question for you to ponder: Why is it … Continue reading →

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Mockingbird Lane

Posted on October 27, 2012 by Morgan R. Lewis

1313 Mockingbird Lane was a proposed series for NBC, featuring an updated take on The Munsters, making it arguably a touch darker and shifting it to a dramatic comedy instead of the pure farce of the original series. As production … Continue reading →

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Halloween is Grinch Night

Posted on October 19, 2012 by Morgan R. Lewis

As I mentioned previously, Halloween is Grinch Night is one Halloween special I’m certain I must have seen, yet have no recollection of. The TV special originally aired in 1977 on ABC, and I can’t imagine that was the only … Continue reading →

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Scared Shrekless

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Morgan R. Lewis

Halloween specials. In some ways, they felt like a thing of the past to me for a while. Maybe it’s just nostalgia speaking, but I remember there being a lot of them that aired in my youth. It’s the Great … Continue reading →

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A Christmas Carol (1971)

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Morgan R. Lewis

There are many, many adaptations of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, as I noted before. One which seems to have fallen by the way-side is a TV special released in 1971, animated under the eye of none other than Chuck … Continue reading →

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Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Morgan R. Lewis

With the Christmas season comes TV specials, and while the 90s seemed content to just rehash a few of the classics, the 2000s and onward have seen an upsurge in new specials. Most of them are unabashedly for children, and … Continue reading →

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