Remember when CBS had Christmas Bumpers Like This?

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[Nowhere Man]

Remember the days when CBS and other networks would have bumpers like these between the shows and specials?

[Nowhere Man]

I do remember this bumper when I was young. I was born in the same year this came out, 1966, but CBS still ran this in the early to mid 1970's. I also remember similar bumpers where a poor little girl walks to a department store Santa, secretly tells her wish and he give her his coat. Another one I also remember where you heard a match lighting an old style oil lamp and you saw a miniature Santa inside of it. Brings back memories when I was young, Mom an I decorating the tree, having cookies and so on. I just wanted to post a quick break to the terrible news thst is going on and reflect on what was.

[Nowhere Man]

For those of you in Rio Linda, here is the link: R.O Blechman's 1966 Christmas Bumper

[fieldmarshaldj]

Different time in a different country. Both long gone.

[fieldmarshaldj]

This charming Christmas one they’ve played since the ‘70s (still pops up) on the Nashville CBS affiliate:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_Z09zMvqqU

[fieldmarshaldj]

And yet another from our local CBS affiliate (Merry Christmas in different languages) from the ‘70s:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Myx7s7gZkSQ

[ExNewsExSpook]

Rather ironic that CBS would air a holiday bumper featuring a Christmas carol with a religious message. Just a year before that bumper began running, network executives pitched a fit when Charles Schulz and Bill Melendez screened a “Charlie Brown Christmas” for them. They didn’t like the concept of using child actors to voice the Peanuts characters, they didn’t like Vince Guraldi’s jazz score, and most of all they hated Linus’s recitation from second chapter of Luke’s gospel.

Unfortunately for CBS, Schulz had creative control over the project and refused to make any changes. Additionally, it had been something of a rush to get the special on the air and by the time the executives saw it, there was no time to find a replacement special. And the sponsor (Coca-Cola) had no problems with the program, so CBS reluctantly aired a Charlie Brown Christmas.

You know the rest: huge ratings, a Peabody Award and program that became a Christmas classic. If the suits at CBS had their way, the program would have never aired.

Secularism at CBS (and the other networks) has been in vogue for much longer than most people realize.

[skeeter]

There were misfits around trying to rain on everyone’s parade even then. Charles Schultz threatened he would pull his Christmas special off of CBS if they cut Linus’s quoting the gospel of Luke, which they were going to do. And that was also in ‘66.

[dljordan]

I remember that. Times long gone and lots of missing friends.

[wardaddy]

I remember

The norelco sled cartoon

Marlboro

And Clydesdales

All stand out

Its all over now .....

Won’t come back short of blood

[Nowhere Man]

I know...... I miss that country too. Although I’ve seen the changes, there is a still a side of me that feels like I launched in space 25 years ago, froze myself in suspended animation and I came down to a different world.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Peanuts without Vince Guaraldi just ain’t Peanuts.

[lee martell]

I had no idea, even that far back, the early 60’s ,many were at work trying to scrub the Christ out of Christmas.

[Nowhere Man]

Secularism at CBS (and the other networks) has been in vogue for much longer than most people realize.

I know. However, it was not as much "in your face" like now and despite their misgivings, Charles Schultz did get his way. Back then up to the mid 1980's, we did have more freedom then, be it Charles Schultz's religious message or Norman Lear's liberalism on "All in the Family." Even though the latter mocked conservatives many times, I still cannot see "All in the Family" on TV today with the PC speech codes we have today. Still, it was a different time and although the rot was starting then, we still have most of our sanity. When Peanut's Christmas aired, I was just a twinkle in Mom's eye, it is a special episode to me. The way Linus explained Christmas sends a chill down my spine and a tear to my eye.

Mom passed away last year, a week before Thanksgiving, so the holiday period is hard on me, I miss her very much. We were like Batman and Robin so to speak and now I feel like Robin without Batman. B-(

[MUDDOG]

Charlie Brown Christmas

Mark Levin played "Christmas Time Is Here" on his show a last week. Nice.

[Nowhere Man]

I remember those too. I also like the Miller’s ad where you’re riding in a sleigh and you pull up to a resort as you heard “I’ll Be Home For Christmas” in the background. I think I was 11 then so I think it came out in 1977. Sometimes we were able to get Channel 6 out of Johnstown in the Pittsburgh area and they played the old shorts from the 1950’s, “Suzy Snowflake,” “Hardrock, CoCo and Joe,” and “Frosty the Snowman.” Like Rudolph, there were stop action and the Santa in “Hardrock” was kind of creepy looking.

[Nowhere Man]

Won’t come back short of blood

I pray to God that is does not, but it seems like we are being shunted in that direction.

[vladimir998]

Heck, I’d be happy if they even used this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR6xGufBzbU

[darkangel82]

I was listening to his show then. He plays it every year.

[IDontLikeToPayTaxes]

The "C" word, (Christmas), has been almost completely exorcised from all advertising.

The only company that I know about that has used the word "Christmas" in its advertising the past few weeks is Wal Mart. Every other commercial is "Holiday" this and "Holiday" that. I even heard a local car dealership's commercial on the radio the other day use the phrase "Winter Holiday Deals."

Holiday presents

Holiday party

Holiday shopping

Holiday meal, etc etc etc.

It's damn obnoxious.

[greene66]

Look at old “TV Guide” listings from the week or weeks leading up to Christmas, back in the 1950s/1960s. And take note of the massive number of Christmas-themed shows. Not just variety shows, but ordinary sitcoms, anthologies, westerns and such. Even seemingly unlikely shows like “Have Gun Will Travel,” “77 Sunset Strip,” and “Dr. Kildare” would have episodes with a Christmas theme. Many had a strong spiritual message, others just utilized the seasonal backdrop, but the acknowledgment of the Holy day was huge on the networks.