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Sources for some of the older shows

posted 16 years ago by tomtac
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I am very interested in some of them and would like either videos or scripts. (I am watching the ones being shown on PBS, but these haven't been among them yet, and the 1968 black and white ones certainly won't be.)

One would be the Santa Claus show. In Make-Believe everyone is very excited about an upcoming visit by Claus, except Daniel. Daniel is actually afraid of Santa.

Another, I call "The Assassination Show", a black and white one from 1968. It was mentioned in a retrospective about Mister Rogers Neighborhood. Robert Kennedy had just been shot and killed, and Fred Rogers produced this episode to explain a bit about why adults maybe were all being gloomy and upset.

The retrospective also showed a short clip. Daniel the Striped Tiger and Lady Aberlin are talking, then Daniel asks, slowly, "What does .. 'assassination' .. mean?" Lady Aberlin gets less cheerful (and the clip ends). I imagine, though, that she had some very basic and truthful things to tell him.

[–] tomtac 13 years ago

Updating this, I've recently found that the Christmas show I mentioned might be the Christmas special Fred Rogers made in the late 1970s.

So would like to see it.