The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Not a Christmas Story

🎄 We’re snowed in a bit earlier than expected, so we’ve hunkered down to have a Christmas feast from around the world. Our colleagues from the newsroom upstairs are less than enthusiastic, but that’s not stopping us from enjoying this 1974 non-Christmas Christmas episode of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.”  

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🎙 Guest:  

Alonso Duralde (Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas, The Film Verdict, Linoleum Knife, Maximum Film, Breakfast All Day, Deck the Hallmark, Hollywood Pride, Bluesky).  

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💬 Topics & Tangents:  

Pre-order the Revised and Updated Edition of “Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas.”  

IMDb’s photo gallery for this episode has 20 screenshots of Mary in a towel.  

Betty White’s amazing Christmas dress.  

Harrison Ford recalls what he told George Lucas while shooting the first “Star Wars” movie.  

I couldn’t find a recipe for “soufflé tour légende,” but here’s one for “Mr. Grant You Took Half Veal Prince Orloff!”  

Today’s TV Trope: Social Semi-Circle.  

Michael Scott triumphantly singing “Happy Birthday” on “The Office.”  

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📼 Commercials:  

Burger King Gift Certificates Christmas Commercial (1974)  

Season’s Eatings.  

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“The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “Not a Christmas Story” © 1974 MTM Enterprises, Inc.

Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.  
Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.