Best Christmas TV Specials (Part One)

Have you seen these? What are your favorites?

“A Charlie Brown Christmas” is a beloved animated TV special based on Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip. It premiered on December 9, 1965, on CBS and was written by Schulz, with direction by Bill Melendez. The special features the voices of Peter Robbins as Charlie Brown, Christopher Shea as Linus, and Tracy Stratford as Lucy.

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Dune (1984)

I watched the 1984 Universal Pictures science fiction classic “Dune” on Netflix DVD. I hadn’t seen it since I went to Phipps Plaza, in Atlanta Georgia, in 1984. I wanted to watch it again before seeing the 2021 remake. It is the story of rival noble families that battle for control of the planet Arrakis, the only known source of the drug melange, also known as Spice. This Spice causes precognition, future vision, and is vital to space travel, making it the most vital commodity in the universe.

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