About this episode
🎄 By special request, this episode of the official podcast of teaching aliens about Christmas takes you on a domesticated goose chase back to 1977 through the first fully animated feature by Canadian studio Nelvana. **** 🎙 Guest: Jeff Fox ( Name That Christmas Special , @chrspecials ). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Jeff’s collection of A Cosmic Christmas music and scanned promotional items . 2. Joanna Wilson’s Christmas TV History . 3. This special got George Lucas’s attention and led to Nelvana producing the animated segment of the Star Wars Holiday Special . 4. The Nelvana Story: Thirty Animated Years . 5. Today’s TV Trope: Big Ball of Violence . 6. Jellybean looks like the red-eyed Pac-Man on the side of the arcade cabinet . 7. Duncan Regehr (Amalthor) as Dracula in The Monster Squad . 8. Marian Waldman , Mrs. Mac from Black Christmas , also has a quick line or two. 9. The Castle Thunder stock sound effect. **** 📼 Retro Commercial Break: Burger King Doll Christmas Commercial , 1977. **** 🎤 And Now, These Messages: Weird Christmas . “A Cosmic Christmas” © 1977 Nelvana Enterprises, Inc. Say hi on Twitter , Instagram , and Facebook . Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house . Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost . Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house .