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A Special Sesame Street Christmas is a 1978 CBS Christmas special, made the same year as the better-known Christmas Eve on Sesame Street.The special was first broadcast on Friday, December 8, 1978, at 8 PM ET on CBS, pre-empting Wonder Woman that week, starring Leslie Uggams.
One of the special's competitors that year was a lesser-known, critically panned Sesame Street special on CBS-- A Special Sesame Street Christmas. In 1988, the production was converted to a live show and performed on ice for a single show in Philadelphia, PA.
Christmas Eve on Sesame Street (1978/PBS) A Special Sesame Street Christmas (1978/CBS) John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together (1979/ABC) The Christmas Toy (1986/ABC) A Muppet Family Christmas (1987/ABC) Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree (1995/CBS) Elmo Saves Christmas (1996/PBS) It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (2002/NBC) A ...
This special also featured the voices of the great Billy De Wolfe (The Doris Day Show) and Bass/Rankin/Miller stalwarts Paul Frees and June Foray. IMDB A Christmas Carol (Syndicated, 1969)
These productions, however, were not produced by Sesame Workshop. Also excluded from this list are Julie on Sesame Street (1973) and A Special Sesame Street Christmas (1978)—while both featured the same elements and characters of Sesame Street, these specials were not produced by Sesame Workshop.
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Calloway appeared in several made-for-television movies and specials by the Children's Television Workshop for over eleven years, including Christmas Eve on Sesame Street (1978), A Special Sesame Street Christmas (1978), Don't Eat the Pictures (1983), and Put Down the Duckie (1988). In 1989, Calloway retired from the series for medical reasons.
McGrath said that his two favorite moments on Sesame Street were Christmas Eve on Sesame Street (a 1978 Christmas special that included a pastiche of "The Gift of the Magi"), and the 1983 sequence that candidly addressed the death of longtime character Mr. Hooper, played by his good friend Will Lee who had died the previous year. [20]