Favorite Shows Leading Up To Christmas
Well that's Thanksgiving, (and the crazy sales!) out of the way for another year. It will soon be Christmas, another wonderful family occasion to prepare for. How exciting!
It's been just great having the children and grandchildren around the past week. If you're young at heart, or if have any little people around right now, or in the next few weeks, there's a few series that Joy and I would really recommend you share with them around this time of year.
Back in the 1930s and 1940s, there were several juvenile radio series broadcast between Thanksgiving and Christmas, such as Jump Jump and the Ice Queen, Jonathan Thomas and his Christmas on the Moon, and Cinnamon Bear, bringing alive the magical countdown until Santa's visit on Christmas day for children across the country.
We've all heard of, and probably listened to Cinnamon Bear, but you may not have known that there were a couple of other charming series that Joy and I just love to listen to between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Jonathan Thomas and his Christmas On The Moon is one of them - a wonderful little series following in the tradition of Cinnamon Bear.
Cinnamon Bear was first broadcast on radio in 1937 and was a huge success which went on to become a Christmas listening tradition. The following year in 1938 the makers of Cinnamon Bear also produced Jonathan Thomas’s Christmas on The Moon again a 26 part series leading from Thanksgiving through to Christmas Eve.
It has all the makings of a children’s fantasy tale as Jonathan in his quest to save Santa Claus meets with giants and goblins and Squeebublians who hate Christmas cheer and many hero’s in the form of his teddy bear Guz, Gorgonzola the Horse, the Fairy Queen and Whiskery Bill the Squirrel to mention but a few.
They visit wonderful places with names like Ohmagoodness, Merry-Go-Round River, Rumplestitch Land and the Valley of the Three Dwarfs and much of the story is told in whimsical rhyme.
But of course there is no need to worry as by the end of the story, just in time for Christmas Day Jonathan Thomas has kept his promise and saved Santa Claus.
Whilst you're busy listening to those series, I'm going to be busying myself adding lots more shows to our Christmas Radio Station. It's live now, and is great to listen to whilst you're putting up the Christmas decorations!
Happy listening my friends,
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