Andy Williams and the NBC Kids Search for Santa
Show Notes
🎄 What if Mr. Christmas was on the naughty list this entire time, thanks to a curse on his family for generations?
🎙️ Gerry Davila from Totally Rad Christmas and Guy Hutchinson from Pointless Nostalgia join us on a Christmas quest back to 1985 as Andy Williams leads a dozen “true believers” on a trip to Finland to find Santa and answer for his totally-not-made-up ancestor.
📺 You can watch “Andy Williams and the NBC Kids Search for Santa” on the Internet Archive.
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💬 Topics & Tangents:
The NBC Kids are: Soleil Moon Frye, Cherie Johnson, Ami Foster, and Casey Ellison from “Punky Brewster”; Lisa Bonet, Tempestt Bledsoe, Keshia Knight Pulliam, and Malcolm-Jamal Warner from “The Cosby Show”; Alfonso Ribeiro from “Silver Spoons”; and Joey and Matthew Lawrence from “Gimme a Break!” But not Mindy Cohn from “The Facts of Life,” who shows up, sings half a line, and that’s it.
Guy visits New York City’s Christmas cinematic landmarks, including locations from “Mr. T and Emmanuel Lewis in A Christmas Dream.”
Not Just Theo: Malcolm-Jamal Warner’s Surprising Career.
Alfonso Ribeiro’s Pepsi Commercial with Michael Jackson (1984)
The painting supposedly featuring Lars Sven Olaf Williams, from 1863.
The Sàmi.
Porvoo Cathedral (pronounced like “Borga”).
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📼 Commercials:
NBC “Let’s All Be There” ID with Santa (1985)
Polaroid: “Christmas – Santa Claus” (1985)
Tinsel Tunes - The Christmas Music Podcast.
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“Andy Williams and the NBC Kids Search for Santa” © 1985 Pierre Cossette / Barnaby Productions.
Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
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