About this episode
🎄 It’s 1986, and we’re hiding out in a cabin in the mountains with modern-day Snow White and real-life Christmas angel Dolly Parton. Join us as we try to wrap our heads around this Henry Winkler-directed TV movie that gets really weird really quickly. **** 🎙 Guest: April Ryley ( @Where2NextApril , 📸 @motherchristmascosplay ). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Dolly Parton Meets the Kids . 2. Muppet doppelgänger Polly Darton . 3. Dolly Parton saved a girl’s life on the set of Christmas on the Square . 4. Gennie James (Cindy) in The Hugga Bunch Movie . 5. Claude Earl Jones (Bartender) in the Seinfeld episode, The Race . 6. Lee Majors (Mountain Dan) and Jean Speegle Howard (Old Woman Jezebel) in The Night the Reindeer Died , the movie-within-a-movie from Scrooged . 7. How South Jersey Keeps Muskrat on the Menu (Gastro Obscura). **** 📼 Retro Commercial Break: 1988 Dollywood Commercial . **** 🎤 And Now, These Messages: Christmas Clatter , Santa by the Minute . “A Smoky Mountain Christmas” © 1986 Sandollar Productions. Say hi on Twitter , Instagram , and Facebook . Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost . Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house . Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost . Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house .