Like an eight year old boy waiting for Christmas, I looked through the TV Guide picking out the Christmas Shows that I wanted to watch. A Charlie Brown Christmas, Frosty the Snowman and the always timeless classic Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
But this wasn’t yesterday nor last year, but as a teen and young adult in the 70′s. A day when the shows were only on TV once a year and it was the only time you saw them. They were the classic of my youth and pretty much the last ones.
It seems as if Video have turned these favorites into just another show. Once you were able to buy them on VHS and then DVD, the shows no longer seem to have the old wondrous charm. Perhaps because now any time, whether it’s on a cold Christmas Eve night or a hot July day, you can pop the video into the player and watch it.
The old favorites are still considered classics. Some of us still get excited when they turn up on TV during the Holidays. But when has there been a New Classic born? Every year there’s new shows, The Happy Elf for example. But it’ll never be that classic show. Not when the day after it appeared on Network TV it was available on DVD.
Many of these old favorites I have on VHS, but watch them seldom. I’ve yet to purchase any of them on DVD. Maybe that is why I still get excited when they turn up on TV.
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