Latest Christmas specials Podcast Episodes
Frasier: Look Before You Leap
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials - February 29, 2024 08:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsThe Advent Calendar House has awoken early from its long winter’s nap to take the Leap Year challenge as prescribed by Dr. Frasier Crane on one unseasonably warm February morning in 1996. On the way we look up the “Frasier” cast’s Christmas connections, explore the world of complicated opera sol...
A Christmas Carol (1984)
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials - December 24, 2023 08:25 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 32 ratings🎄It’s 1984, and Ebenezer Scrooge is threatening to raise his asking price for a warehouse full of corn. This Christmas Eve episode not only drops on a Scrooge Sunday, but it’s also the Advent Calendar House’s 150th episode. To celebrate, I let listeners vote for which “Christmas Carol” to cov...
Yogi’s First Christmas
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials - December 22, 2023 08:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratings🎄It’s 1980, and my spoiled nephew just got beaten in a ski-jumping contest by a bear who’s never seen winter before. Join us we fail upward through middle to upper hotel management featuring a simultaneously very mature and very immature conversation about cartoon bears discovering mistletoe....
The Great Santa Claus Switch
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials - December 20, 2023 08:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratings🎄It’s 1970, and Santa’s been locked up in an underground cave with 2 giant Muppet monsters. Join us as we venture through the tunnels under Santa’s workshop to uncover Jim Henson’s first ever TV holiday special, presented by The Ed Sullivan Show and featuring the first Muppet performances by ...
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials - December 18, 2023 08:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratings🎄It’s 1983, and the Worst Kids in the World are taking over the church Nativity play, smoking in the ladies’ room, and helping themselves to the sacramental grape juice. Join us as we meet the Herdmans in a classic Christmas story turned TV movie starring Loretta Swit from M*A*S*H and a young...
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman: Season’s Greedings
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials - December 16, 2023 08:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratings🎄It’s 1994, and the Jeffersons are poisoning Metropolis with greed spray from toy atomic space rats. Join us on an unpredictable flight through the first Christmas episode of “Lois and Clark,” written by Dean Cain and starring Sherman Hemsley as the Toyman and Isabel Sanford as his reluctant ...
Santa, Baby!
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials - December 14, 2023 08:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratings🎄It’s 2001, and a magical partridge is sending me on a coat drive for some kind of Karate Kid-style Santa training. Hop in our light blue ’54 convertible and buckle up as we take you on a joyride through the very last and most forgotten Rankin/Bass Christmas special, featuring a mostly black ...
Tales From the Crypt: And All Through the House
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials - December 12, 2023 08:25 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings🎄It’s 1989, and a killer in a Santa suit is making it really hard to hide my dead husband’s body. You better watch out as we dig up the first filmed episode of “Tales From the Crypt,” a cozy Christmas nightmare directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring his then-wife and talented screamer, Mary...
An American Christmas Carol
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials - December 10, 2023 08:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratings🎄 It’s 1979, by way of 1933 — or the other way around — and the human from Fraggle Rock has broken into my garage with a haunted choir of singing children. Join us as we turn the dial on our haunted time-traveling radio to find Henry Winkler at the height of his fame as the Fonz hiding under ...
Full-Court Miracle
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials - December 08, 2023 08:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratings🕎 It’s 2003, and a team of Hebrew school basketball players think they’ve found the ghost of Judah Maccabee in a random guy living in a van. It’s time once again to think about the Seleucid Empire as we watch a Disney Channel Original Hanukkah Movie very loosely based on the true story of for...
A Mouse, A Mystery, and Me
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials - December 06, 2023 08:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratings🎄 It’s 1987, and someone stole Santa Claus in the middle of his hot dog break. Join us as we follow a renowned novelist who may or may not be a teenager and her animated mouse writing partner on a quest find out who kidnapped a department store Santa, while we solve the mystery of how anyone ...
The Soulmates in The Gift of Light
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials - December 04, 2023 08:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratings🎄 It’s 1991, and Santa Claus is fighting with a talking dog over a park bench. By some Christmas miracle, this obscure special was rediscovered over 30 years later. For years, people on the Internet tried to identify it on a TV in the background of an old family photo, until finally, thanks t...
Christmastime with Mister Rogers
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials - December 02, 2023 08:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratings🎄 It’s 1977, and Happy Gilmore’s grandmother is surrounded by dancing chickens. It’s a beautiful day for a podcast, and this season of the Advent Calendar House begins with a visit to Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood in a Christmas special that hadn’t been available for more than 40 years until it...
Trailer
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials - November 30, 2023 10:10 - 53 seconds ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsThis holiday season, experience the joy of rewatching the same TV specials you watch every year in podcast form! It’s the Advent Calendar House: A salute to all holiday specials, but mostly the Christmas ones. Revisit 12 holiday TV classics and not-so-classics each December and July. Theme son...
Animaniacs: A Christmas Plotz / Little Drummer Warners
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials - November 01, 2023 07:25 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings🎄 After spending 3 months locked in a water tower, the Advent Calendar House has escaped in time for Christmas Podcast Day, a fake holiday originally made up for a hashtag back when social media was slightly less stupid. It’s not Scrooge Sunday, but the theme for this year’s Christmas Podcast...
A Flintstones Christmas Carol
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials - July 23, 2023 07:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratings🎄 Previously on the Advent Calendar House, we watched a cavemen take over Santa’s job after he fell off the roof in “A Flintstone Christmas.” This time, our reunion tour of previously podcasted-about characters makes its final stop of the season in Bedrock, where Fred Flintstone is letting th...
ALF: Turkey in the Straw
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials - July 21, 2023 07:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsPreviously on the Advent Calendar House, we let the goofy alien puppet with the jokes toy with our emotions in “ALF’s Special Christmas.” 🦃 This time, join us around the Fappiano table as we aim a spoonful of squash back to 1988 for a special, 2-part Thanksgiving episode of “ALF.” Too bad he’...
The Little Drummer Boy, Book II
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials - July 19, 2023 07:25 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings🎄 Previously on the Advent Calendar House, we went on an apocryphal adventure with the story of The Little Drummer Boy. This time, Rankin/Bass drums up an unnecessary sequel from 1976, its busiest year for holiday specials. Join Aaron on a side quest to retrieve the stolen silver bells from a...
Elmo Saves Christmas
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials - July 17, 2023 07:25 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 32 ratings🎄 Previously on the Advent Calendar House, we spent Christmas Eve on Sesame Street, Hanukkah on “Shalom Sesame,” and even uncovered the oddity, “A Special Sesame Street Christmas.” This time, join us as we fly faster than time backwards around the globe to 1996 to watch Elmo save, then ruin, ...
It’s Punky Brewster: Christmas in July
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials - July 15, 2023 07:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratings🎄 Previously on the Advent Calendar House, we saved Punky Brewster’s Christmas spirit in “Yes, Punky, There Is a Santa Claus.” This time, join Punky in 1985 on an animated adventure to the North Pole, courtesy of Glomer, her new magical leprechaun-gopher Ewok lookin’ friend. The ’80s were wei...
Claymation Comedy of Horrors
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials - July 13, 2023 07:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsPreviously on the Advent Calendar House, we flew a sleigh made out of a dumpster into space with the California Raisins in “Will Vinton’s Claymation Christmas Celebration.” 🎃 This time, we’re reanimating a creepier creation of his from 1991 — a Halloween special that premiered in May for some...
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Alpha’s Magical Christmas
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials - July 11, 2023 07:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratings🎄 Previously on the Advent Calendar House, we were Dreaming of a White Ranger with the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. This time, they’re away helping Santa, so Zordon surprises Alpha by teleporting in a bunch of children for a Christmas party. Join us for this very bonkers Power Rangers home ...
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Merry Christmas, Mr. Carroll
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials - July 09, 2023 07:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratings🎄 Previously on the Advent Calendar House, our hearts and golden harmonicas went out to “A Chipmunk Christmas.” This time, it’s Scrooge Sunday, and our Christmas in July reunion tour arrives in Hollywood — or at least a nearby cartoon suburb where Alvin turns his greed up to 11 and blames it ...
A Rugrats Passover
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials - July 07, 2023 07:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratings🫓 Previously on the Advent Calendar House, we helped our favorite talking babies stop a true meanie in “A Rugrats Chanukah.” This time, we’re ignoring the rules of another long-standing tradition as we travel by baby basket back to 1995 to witness grown men throwing temper tantrums and ending...
’Tis the Season to be Smurfy
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials - July 05, 2023 07:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratings🎄 Previously on the Advent Calendar House, we witnessed goodness make the badness go away in “The Smurfs’ Christmas Special.” This time, we’re taking a one giant puppy open sleigh ride back to 1987 to help the Smurfs save Christmas for a poor human toymaker and his gravely ill wife, while Bra...
The Berenstain Bears’ Comic Valentine
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials - July 03, 2023 07:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratings💝 Previously on the Advent Calendar House, we visited the Easter Bunny’s underground nightmare factory in “The Berenstain Bears’ Easter Surprise.” This time, it’s 1982, and love and hockey are in the air as Brother Bear gets stalked by a secret admirer, and his Papa’s public displays of affecti...
The New Batman Adventures: Holiday Knights
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials - July 01, 2023 07:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratings🎄 It’s the Advent Calendar House’s 10th season, and to celebrate, every episode is revisiting familiar faces and places already covered on the podcast. Previously, we spent Christmas with the Joker in “Batman: The Animated Series.” This time, we’re on a festive tour of Gotham City through the...
Regift: The Muppets Valentine Show
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials - February 13, 2023 19:15 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings🎁 This is a Regift — an episode from the Advent Calendar House’s back catalog shared again for a limited time to spread even more holiday cheer. Our first Regift episode, originally published in February 2019, is a salute to “The Muppets Valentine Show,” a 1974 pilot of what would eventually ...
It’s a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials - December 24, 2022 08:25 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 32 ratings🎄 It’s 2002, and we’re trapped in a horrifying world where Kermit the Frog doesn’t exist. Join us for a spectacular, spectacular Christmas Eve extravaganza starring Kermit in the George Bailey role of the Muppets’ perfectly silly take on “It’s a Wonderful Life,” also featuring Joan Cusack, Dav...
The Snowman and The Snowdog
Advent Calendar House - TV Holiday & Christmas Specials - December 22, 2022 08:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratings🎄 It’s 2012, and I found a 60-year-old tangerine under a floorboard in my bedroom that’s the perfect size for a snowman’s nose… or is it? Join us for another walk in the air back to 2012 for the charming sequel to the British Christmas classic, “The Snowman,” by the now-late Raymond Briggs. ...
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