It’s hard to get the kids to understand how we watched TV. During the holidays we would rush home in time to watch Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer. For an hour we were hypnotized by the stop-go animation of Rankin and Bass. After it was over we would be shooed off to bed and spend the next few weeks discussing what we saw with our friends, not to be repeated until the next year.

Another sign of Christmas were the short holiday cartoons on our local Garfield Goose show. There were three magical cartoons – Frosty The Snowman, Suzi Snowflake and The Three Little Dwarfs or more commonly known as ‘Hardrock, Coco and Joe’; of which we would sing endless at recess to our teachers’ chagrin.

So, if you are old enough, feel free to see along – “Ol-die old lady o lady eye oh….”

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