About this episode
🎄 Experience Rankin/Bass’s first festive follow-up to Rudolph through our eyes as we explore a 1967 TV special based on Charles Dickens’s other Christmas story. **** 🎙 Guest: Brian Earl ( Christmas Past , @XmasPastPodcast ). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. The history of legends about crickets on hearths bringing good luck. 2. The Cricket on the Hearth soundtrack . 3. Brian’s Christmas Past episode on Golden Age Christmas TV Cartoons . 4. Christmas TV History’s Joanna Wilson on Rankin/Bass Voice Actors . 5. This special takes a bizarre, hard left turn into a song about Fish ’n’ Chips . 6. A clearly implied, off-camera murder in the Christmas show for families, right before cutting to commercial. **** “Cricket on the Hearth” ©1967 Rankin/Bass Productions, Inc. Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house . Say hi on Twitter @adventcalhouse . Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost . Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house .