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My mum first taped this cartoon one weekday afternoon, along with many others that year, just before Christmas 1980 for my son to watch. However th...
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My mum first taped this cartoon one weekday afternoon, along with many others that year, just before Christmas 1980 for my son to watch. However this particular cartoon stood out and quickly became a favourite. Since then it has become an annual event to watch it. Family Circus was, and still is, pretty much unknown in the UK. At first I thought it was one of the many US cartoons that had never made it onto UK screens but I later learned that it was actually a comic strip in a newspaper. Nevertheless with the advent of the internet and Youtube, I expected to see it appearing as an uploaded video. Strangely however this never happened and I was puzzled that when searching for any 'Family Circus' content all I could find were smug shorts made by people ridiculing the strip.
Like I say, I only have this particular cartoon to go by so i can only judge Family Circus by this one example. But this particular cartoon is one of the best Christmas cartoons I have ever seen, and certainly the best for capturing that aura of excitement that children experience in the build-up to the big day. To those who ridicule it, I can only say that you have forgotten what it is to be a child at Christmas, and hopefully that magic may return to me when you have chuildren of your own.
In honour of Tyne Tees Television, the local TV station who had the wit to televise this in 1980, I have left on the continuity link with the 'Birttday Greeting' slot. The announcer is the venerable Neville Wanless.
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~Anna