Prime Time Specials!

[gaastra]

Miss them so much. Nothing more great to a kid pre 2000s who saw that cbs special bumper and knew charlie brown, garfield or bugs bunny was coming on. Cartoons in prime time! Kids today don't get how great that was back then.

The Smurfic Games is an animated prime-time special, starring the Smurfs. It was produced by Hanna-Barbera and broadcast over NBC on 20 May 1984. This special was quite fitting for 1984, since the Summer Olympics occurred later that year.

Note the smurfs adventures intro with Gargamel making earthquakes and fires smashing up smurf village in the intro was from this special! An Olympics smurfs special that opens with a wizards (not Gargamel) death and ends with pure chaos! Who would have thought?!

[gaastra]

[James]

Michael Giacchino and Kevin Feige on the New Marvel Studios Special Presentation Intro

[droosan]

☑ been there

☑ done that

☑ and I own the t-shirt!
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I wear it on 'special' occasions.

[Ben]

I see what you did there, tee-hee!

[gaastra]

Garfield on the Town is a 1983 animated television special, directed by Phil Roman and based on the Garfield comic strip by Jim Davis. It once again starred Lorenzo Music as the voice of Garfield (who also co-wrote the special with Davis), and also featured the voices of Thom Huge, Gregg Berger and Julie Payne.

The special was first broadcast October 28, 1983 on CBS. It won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program and has been released on LaserDisc and DVD.

This is the second of twelve Garfield television specials made between 1982 and 1991.

Who shrunk saturday morning was a nbc saturday morning preview special paired with an episode of saved by the bell in prime time. It had karate kid, alf in live action, live john candy, captain N and chipmunks among others.

[gaastra]

Dennis the Menace in Mayday for Mother is a 1981 animated TV movie. It was produced by DePatie–Freleng Enterprises. It is based on Hank Ketcham's 1951 comic strip.[1] This was the first time Dennis the Menace was animated.[2] The storyline was written by Ketcham.[3]

In the special, it's Mother's Day and Dennis has not decided what to give his mother for a gift.

[gaastra]

Ninja turtles planet of the turtleoids prime time special!





This was a prime time cbs special that was a full hour. Other prime time specials include cuplink caper an a hour long "Easter" one with another episode "once upon a time machine".

[gaastra]

Smurfs official page has smurfquest the movie on it for free looks like. Sorry to say its the edited episodes cut over the full movie cut.

Rumors it was planned as a big-screen movie than changed to a tv movie after.

It aired on nbc as a tv movie special than later split into parts for the show.

Here is the tv show cut. Opening titles are not here of course.

[gaastra]

As for new years--

[EricJ]

Always liked to watch RudolphSNY on disc during the in- between week before New Year’s, since the Rudolph specials were some of the….better Rankin-Basses?
In that they didn’t use the usual corny ear-bending one-foot-in-front-of-the-other cookie-cutter Maury Laws-Jules Bass songs, but went back to Rudolph’s original Johnny Marks, who had a better way with a tune:
https://youtu.be/HUbUaCA0b5Y?si=XP91eW2Z86L9rtQ4

Plus, being a Red Skelton fan (and hearing him bring back Junior for,one character) is always a plus.

[gaastra]

First time in 50 years cbs loses its big specials to nbc!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/cbs-h ... fba4&ei=19

[Ben]

I guess this is just Comcast making sure their properties are all under one umbrella as more and more licenses run out. After all, Comcast own NBC/Universal, which owns DreamWorks, which owns the Classic Media library including…the Rankin/Bass titles. So, yeah, they’re just pulling all their titles back in-house, in quite the impressive way as to rival Disney's dominance.

With Zaslav’s essentially messing around with WB, Universal has quietly become, and is becoming more, a coherent studio/entertainment conglomerate that is playing smart and reverentially with what they own.

I still see some kind of joint venture/merge with Paramount/CBS at somepoint in the future, but NBCU will dominate.

[Daniel]

Ooh, unedited airing! Nice.

[gaastra]

On nbc? Have you not seen the 60s grinch airings on nbc. Chopped to pieces for more ads. It's butchered! Expect more ads.