CBS Special Presentation - Rudolph

[nickimcc7]

Thank You So Much!

[GBev2K]

I think I"m going to cry.....

[louisa1832]

In the past few weeks I've thought of that Rudolph opening so many times!

[CanadaguyRudey]

CALL to danger.... that sound ment a Christmas special......

[johe64]

@ Raptor and Dixie... asolutely! In 1973 I was 9 and this CBS Special Presentation intro sent me into orbit too! Especially when Rudolph, Charlie Brown and Wizard of Oz came on!! TV now is so stupid.

[tritonrocks]

@MSTS1 I was being sarcastic with my post. No, I don't have them - my buddy has them. He still has the Philips machine, and it works. I guess the Ed Sullivan footage is worth some serious bucks - he's negotiating usage rights with someone in LA. The Money Maze episodes are worth gold on the game show circuit. He said only the pilot show exists, but he has portions of 6 episodes totaling about an hour. He has a lot of other stuff that he's sorting out now - all high quality, too.

[tritonrocks]

Truth be told ... if you had a friend who was very rich who was a video nut and it was 1973 you owned a Philips N1500 with 1/2" tape and around a 1 hour recording time. He recently dug up a bunch of vintage stuff, including 6 partial episodes of a short-lived game show (The Money Maze) and some very rare Ed Sullivan footage shortly after his show was canceled (and right before his death).

[freebird0147]

OMG I remember this when i was a kid. Thank you for bringing back the memories

[GateStudios]

That bumper should be remastered and upgraded to HD.

[murielsartre]

Rudolph! Yay!

[VirtuaCory]

wow...so awesome

[Dimension150]

Lets all write CBC and tell them they need to bring back that old bumper!! It would be so retro and cool!!

[Kev45x]

this bring back so maaany xmas memories....seeing & hearing the special presentation bumper would get me and my little sis soo excited cuz we knew rudolph or the grinch or charlie brown xmas was on>>>lol goood times

[johe64]

This is what EVERY kid my age (more or less) LIVED for every Christmas season...hearing that CBS bumper brings back all those great memories!

[Joe49er1964]

Cool Clip

I have A recording of rudolph from the 1985 brodcast I am gonna have to dig it out and watch it. even though I have it on dvd as well. an old network broadcast is fun to watch

[starwars21]

Look at all the headlines! The last time I saw this on CBS they began the show with the "Tough Going" headline at 0:28 skipping the others for even more commercial time.

[GBev2K]

This is from the time when you knew just about everyone you knew was watching the exact same thing you were...VCR, DVD, and 9000 satellite channels have killed that. They called it a holiday "Special" for a reason. It was special! It was an event and almost everyone was involved....

[hcaulfield77]

The VCR, the DVD, there wasn't none of that crap back in 1970......

[MSTS1]

But if it weren't for the VCR, this clip wouldn't be here on this page..

[GBev2K]

I think I'm going to weep....

[Idoljunky32]

Wow! This brings back such great memories! The CBS special presentation intro whould shut me and my siblings up in a heart beat! Those were the days! Us adults who grew up in the 70's-80's had the best programing when we were kids. I think kids today whould appreaciate the shows that we had as kids. TV today is so crappy! I find shows from the past on the internet more interesting to watch because cable and the major networks don't care anymore. All they care about are stupid reality shows! JMO

[johe64]

ij32...AMEN to that!

[Kartoonkid95]

0:28 That's my local newspaper!

[DixieDevil]

These were the good ol' days. Whenever you saw that CBS Special Presentation logo then you knew something great was coming on. TV has gone to shit, all these stupid reality shows, etc. Why can't tv be like it was in the day? This really takes me back to my childhood.

[Sean211]

Television is completely unwatchable today. Today we are in the "throw anything against the wall and see what sticks" era and it's just pathetic.

Television used to be programmed by real professionals who cared about the integrity of the product on their network. Today, it's all about advertising first, cutting costs second, programming a distant third. That's why NBC is willing to cut five primetime shows per week and throw Leno on at 10:00pm. They've given up.

[Warners30]

By this time, there had been changes made to the Rudolph special. For example, instead of "Rankin/Bass Present" it originally said "General Electric Presents"

[wmbrown6]

Not to mention changes in networks. Pre-1971, it aired every Christmastime on NBC.

[dpurves28]

Everything is so overproduced these days. Computer-generated this and computer-generated that. But there's more substance in that thirty-year-old "special" graphic than practically anything they've got today. It really is a shame they don't use it anymore.

And I also agree about the "good old days" when we only had a few channels. Even with just eight channels, there still always seemed to be something to watch. Now I have twenty times as many channels, and usually there's nothing on.

[Lakeview312]

Wow..great memories..I totally agree..when you're limited with channels as a kid, seeing these animation/cartoon specials was the best..any time I heard that CBS music for their Special Presentations, my heart always seemed to skip a beat b/c I knew something good was coming on TV!

[lifeoffbalance]

my heart still starts beating faster when i hear/see that! thanks for posting.

as the others have said, even though they still show many of those specials today it's just not the same without the "special" animation.

not to sound like an old fogey but kids today will never understand how exciting it was when a charlie brown or rudolph special was on. with only had 3 tv stations (plus pbs) and before even VCRs, seeing these specials was a huge deal to us.

[mdumas43073]

Yep, and if for some reason you happened to miss seeing one of these things, you were out of luck for a whole year!

I can remember one year missing (I believe) the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving special, and being utterly disconsolate for the better part of a week.

[radamail]

I would feel totally the same way as a kid, mdumas!

For me, it was debating whether or not to go shopping downtown with mom on Saturday evenings and letting her know what I'd REALLY like for Christmas. The down side was coming back & missing most or all of my holiday cartoons. Lol.

[roxme2]

I watch this every year on CBS since I was a toddler....I'm 42 years old.

[dj99surf]

wow just watching this i'm 8 yrs. old again.

[DixieDevil]

I know what you mean. Oh the memories!

[kaine1975]

burl ives as the snowman r.i.p.

[JP5466]

This classic Rudolph was made in 1966. I've been watching it on tv for the last 42 years!

[Copper20]

You're two years off.

[phillygrl69]

Me tooo!!! Well....for the past 39!!!

[JimmyDaKoik]

Man that "Special" animation brings back memories. As others have said, you always knew some cool cartoon was about to come on...Looking back as an adult, I usually associate it with the Charlie Brown specials more than anything else.

Speaking of Charlie Brown specials, I have the DVD's, and while they rock.....it's just not the same without that opening "Special" graphic or the Dolly Madison commercials.

Even though DM was product, it was so tied to those CB specials that I miss them.

[ssjup81]

I'm a bit young for the Dolly Madison thing, but my parents and my mother's sisters talk about that. When they think of the Peanuts specials, they always associate it with DM commercials.

[tacluvstoons]

My brother & I would get so excited when we saw that "special thing!"

[madfighter3]

rudolph commercials

[ssjup81]

Oh man, I remember that special CBS tag thing. When really young, I liked the colors. lol I haven't seen it in years. For me, whenever seeing it, it definitely makes me think of the Peanuts Specials as well as Rudolph. Sucks they got rid of it. I hated the fact that they moved the Peanuts specials off of CBS and moved it to ABC. Just not the same.

[vinylrecord68]

Amen!

[CadillacL]

Thanks for posting this, seeing that Special Presentation" was always fun. As someone said before, back then you didn't miss it cause you knew it would only be on once a year back then. Once again thanks for posting.

[eyeh8nbc]

At least now you can buy a lot of these specials on DVD- I usually watch them around the Fourth of July, just because I can!

Annoying bug this user puts on their videos, BTW.

[VideoloverFan2008]

Annoucer:Becuase Of The Holiday Special Rudolf The Red Nose Reindeer Seven Brides For Seven Brothers Will Not Be Presented This Evening!

[futbolt]

wow cool i was probably watching this!

[Pdasilva0324]

This brings back so many memories. The 80s and maybe early 90s were the end of 'old school' TV. I will always associate that chime and drum CBS Special Presentation intro with Rudolph and Charlie Brown Christmas.

[dcat918]

This is from 1982 actually .

[MSTS1]

Yes, I noted that in the 'About' description when I posted this.

[mbsjrcc06]

On the far right of the picture at the beginning is Drake Hogestyn, who currently plays John Black on "Days of our Lives."

[Raptor3400]

As a little kid, that special presentation tag would send me into orbit, excitement beyond belief. There was only one chance a year to see these specials, and you didnt miss it. Talk about appointment television. Great memories!

[palmercomm]

The special presentation tag doesn't exist on TV anymore. Not like it used to.

[jimtodd]

That talking snowman always gave me the creeps.

[QBCNetwork]

Seven Brides For Seven Brothers had the future MacGyver (Richard Dean Anderson) to Patty & Selma's delight. The youngest was played by the late River Phoenix. One of the middle sons (Tim Topper) was on a short lived NBC Saturday AM series "Going Bananas"

[heine71]

Notice at the start the CBS "NEW THIS FALL" Sever Brides for Seven Brothers card which seems out of place since it had already debuted on CBS 3 months ago before prempted a week for the Ruldolph special.

[wmbrown6]

The V/O indicating that "Seven Brides..." would not be seen this evening was veteran CBS announcer Hal Simms.