Good Times, Great People, Excellent Programs

  New Year's Eve will never be the same without this man! The late, great Dick Clark (1929-2012)

 Before you start a new year, sit down and have a drink with a close friend!  Maybe you could also reflect on some memories from past too?

Kristin Kreuk - Happy 38th Birthday! Caity Lotz - Happy 34th Birthday!

Happy 55th Birthday!  The original "Boy" of Steel  

Some guys are blessed, this guy is extra blessed.  Happy 33rd Birthday to Adam Gregory.

This "Dallas" spin-off turns forty-one today!  It would go on to tie with "Dallas" each show produced fourteen seasons.  "Dallas" ended up with twelve episodes more though...welcome back to the cul-de-sac.     Back row left to right: Donna Mills, John Pleshette, Constance McCashin, Michele Lee Middle Row left to right: Joan Van Ark, Ted Shackelford, Julie Harris, James Houghton, Kim Lankford Front: Claudia Lonow 

  Did you get everything you wanted this year?  Are you making a trip to the mall for a little...exchange? The ladies of "Designing Women" - Dixie Carter, Jean Smart, Delta Burke and Annie Potts

 I hope you all had a blessed and peaceful Christmas!

  M E R R Y C H R I S T M A S ! ! Bob Hope and Lucille Ball My sister and I many many years ago! I still have that tree skirt... But not that game... :(

This "I Love Lucy" episode, "Drafted", has nothing to do with Christmas other than the fact that it originally aired on Christmas Eve in 1951... "The Honeymooners" - "Twas the Night Before Christmas" 12/24/1955 "I Love Lucy" - "Christmas Show" 12/24/1956 "The Donna Reed Show" - "A Very Merry Christmas" 12/24/1958 "The Lucy Show" - "Together for Christmas" 12/24/1962 "The Jeffersons" - "984 W. 124th Street, Apt. 5C" 12/24/1977

Jackie Gleason and Audrey Meadows as Ralph and Alice Kramden  Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore as Rob and Laura Petrie  Eve Arden as "Our Miss Brooks" with Gale Gordon as Principal Osgood Conklin Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk as Nick and Nora Charles with Asta Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers as Jonathan and Jennifer Hart

  Happy 40th Birthday!

 Sadly Winter is Here....

"Twas' the Nightmare Before Christmas" Original Airdate: December 20, 1986 It is Christmas time and the ladies plan to visit relatives for the holidays.  They plan to fly out on Christmas Eve and when they go to pick up the working grief counselor Rose (Betty White) they encounter a lonely sidewalk Santa with a gun who wants holiday companionship.  Will they make their planes? Pictured from left to right: Betty White (Rose Nylund), Terry Kiser (Santa), Rue McClanahan (Blanche Devereaux) and Beatrice Arthur (Dorothy Zbornak) "Have Yourself a Very Little Christmas" Original Airdate: December 16, 1989 The ladies decided to spend Christmas Day helping Rose and the members of her church serve Christmas dinner to the homeless and less fortunate.  Dorothy receives a shock when her ex-husband Stanley shows up announcing that he is now broke and homeless.  Can the Miami four get Stan out of his yuletide rut? Beatrice Arthur as Dorothy Zbornak with Herbert Edelman as Stan

  12/19/1960 - "The Andy Griffith Show" sees cantankerous business owner Ben Weaver (the late Will Wright) learn a lesson about the holiday spirit.  "The Christmas Story" was the only Christmas episode that the series produced during its eight season run.  It is hard to believe that this episode turns sixty this year.   12/19/1962 - "Home for the Holidays" was a Christmas episode during the first season of the series which quite honestly just saw the family going home for the holidays. 12/19/1970 - "Christmas and the Hard-Luck Kid II" first airs on this date fifty years ago.  In this season one episode Mary Richards (the late Mary Tyler Moore) is crushed to learn that she has to work on Christmas Day.  She tries to cope with the news and then finds herself committing to work Christmas Eve as well.  Will Mary Richards have a happy holiday?      12/19/1984 - "Dynasty" the 1980's mega hit had a lot going on in its fifth season.  Fallon

  54 years ago the animated version of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! starring Boris Karloff (1887-1969) first aired on CBS. -------------------------------------- Happy 42nd Birthday to the lovely and extremely talented Katie Holmes!

"The Simpsons" has been around for thirty-one years now...it began on this day in 1989 and there does not appear to be an end in sight...  The first episode was "Simpsons Roasting on a Open Fire"   Merry Christmas from the Simpson Family

 I loved this when I was a kid and I still love it today...! There is no song on Earth like Oh What a Merry Christmas Day...

Here is a fact - "Dragnet" turns 69 today. The show began a few years earlier on radio in 1949 before moving to television, running until 1959.  A revival to the series followed later lasting from 1967 to 1970...

Happy 57th Birthday! as Supergirl in the film Supergirl (1984) as Dr. Eliza Danvers with Melissa Benoist as Supergirl and Chyler Leigh as Alex Danvers on "Supergirl" as Dr. Eliza Danvers with Melissa Benoist as Supergirl on "Supergirl" as Dr. Eliza Danvers with Melissa Benoist as Kara Danvers on "Supergirl" ------------------------------------ "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman" - "Twas the Night Before Mxymas" O riginal Airdate: December 15, 1996 On Christmas Eve (24 years ago) Superman is challenged by that obnoxious imp from the fifth dimension Mister Mxyzptlk (played by Howie Mandel). Mxy traps everyone in a time warp where there is no tomorrow, hence no hope for a new day.  Can the Man of Steel get the cross dimensional intruder to say his name backwards in time to save Christmas Eve? 

  Did you ever snoop around under the tree?  If so, did you ever find what you were looking for?  Did you ever get caught? Irene Ryan (1902-1973) as Granny on "The Beverly Hillbillies" (1962-1971) Lucille Ball (1911-1989) as Lucy Carmichael with Gale Gordon (1906-1995) as Mr. Mooney on "The Lucy Show" (1962-1968)