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Another method of avoiding the effort and expense of a new series installment is to pre-empt it with a replay of what the networks like to call "holiday classics." On NBC, the most persistent ghost of Christmas past is Mr. Magoo portraying Scrooge, which was repeated last week for the sixth consecutive sea son. Other animated perennials are CBS's "A Charlie Brown Christmas," NBC's "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," CBS's "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," and a new NBC entry, "The Cricket on the Hearth." Of course, as happened last week...
...MAGOO'S CHRISTMAS CAROL (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). In this animated version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Mr. Magoo (the voice of Jim Backus) stars as Ebenezer Scrooge. Repeat...
Saturday, December 17 MR. MAGOO'S CHRISTMAS CAROL (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Scrooge by the nearsighted Magoo in a comic animation of the Dickens classic...
...MAGOO'S CHRISTMAS CAROL (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A repeat of a special (of Christmas past), with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Bob Merrill and Scrooge by Magoo...
...Better Radio and Television, has published in the February issue of Parents' Magazine an inclusive critique of all prime-time TV, judged on its potential value, or harm, to children. "The best of the new shows," says NAFBRAT, "are Slavery's People, Many Happy Returns, Bewitched, Mr. Magoo, World War I, and Twelve O'clock High" But on the dark side, NAFBRAT looks after its own in very unmealy language. For example, NAFBRAT says that Candid Camera is a "Peeping Tom show, without taste or sincerity." The Bob Hope Theater is summarized as being just so many...