Question about "Christmas Eve on Sesame Street"

[minor muppetz]

I've seen this special on PBS with the scene edited as well.

 

[Crazy31088]

Good, it's nice to know that that one broadcast wasn't just screwed up.

 

[JLG]

Off-topic, but this reminds me of Schroeder's scene in "It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" from 1966. Anyone know what I'm talking about? At one point the story stops dead in its tracks when Snoopy mosies on up to Schroeder's piano and starts dancing to a WWI-themed instrumental (I forget what it's called). Schroeder keeps switching back and forth from light and happy to mournful, and Snoopy gets all bipolar--giddy one moment and sobbing the next. The music gets so sad that Snoopy can't take it anymore and runs out of the house sobbing and howling. Then once he gets himself under control he sneaks into the pumpkin patch where Sally and Linus are waiting for the Great Pumpkin to show up.

I don't know if ABC has been showing it lately, but in the last bunch of years that CBS broadcast it, they cut out the scene entirely (it's about two and a half minutes long). The stupid part is that the first time that special was ever put on video in the mid-80s, they took it from a copy with the scene cut out. I only know it exists because I taped it in 1989 and they happened to show it that year. But clearly they had already cut it in other years before that, since the edited version already existed and was put on video.

It's odd that PBS would cut out the tag on CEoSS. Obviously the Peanuts cut is to get another commercial break in there, but unless it's a pledge drive, I can't think why PBS would do the same thing.

 

[Brinatello]

I know what you mean, JLG. Not meaning to go off-topic either, but I am also aware of TV stations cutting scenes from classic shows. We have a version of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" on Beta and there's a part cut right after the kids are catching snowflakes on their tongues. The scene that's cut is of Linus using his blanket as a whip to knock a soup can off of a fence. Instead, it goes right to Schroeder telling Lucy she has a customer at her psychiatrist booth. By then, the snow stopped falling, or it stopped during Linus' cut scene. So, it looks odd when one scene shows snow falling and in the next it's not!

But getting to the Sesame Street Christmas special, it's been a very long time since I've watched it on PBS and my most recent memory of it is the full, unedited version we purchased on VHS several years ago. What I want to know is another mention of a Christmas special at IMDb. There's two listings, one is what we all know: "Christmas Eve On Sesame Street" and the second one is "A Very Special Sesame Street Christmas." Both came out the same year (1978) but the latter has celebrities, even Barkley! Has anyone ever seen this show? Here's the Link to the page, but there's no additional info for it.

 

[Erine81981]

Someone has told me about that one but I had never heard of it until I read a discribsion on it. Here I found it on toughpigs. Take a look and read.

http://www.toughpigs.com/journalbluexmas.htm

 

[Brinatello]

*reads the review* Ooookay, I can see why "Christmas Eve on Sesame Street" is the more popular, better one!

 

[Muppet Matt]

I've seen it every year since I can remember, it's one of my favorite specials and even one of my dad's favorites! (And he's not a big fan of the Muppets.)