darkfantasy.org - 12/17/2008
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Despite it being a ghost story, adaptations of A Christmas Carol are not common in actual genre fare. Christmas genre episodes tend to be about other things, usually the birth of Christ or a general meditation on the season’s message of peace and goodwill. But adaptations abound on regular TV shows
News: Christmas Who!
kasterborous.com 11/25/2008 — The BBC has published details of its Christmas lineup - and Doctor Who features heavily alongside a raft of homegrown adventure and comedy.
Alongside a remake of The 39 Steps and a new Wallace and Gromit adventure (A Matter of Loaf and Death), Doctor ...
Blog For A Beer: Favorite Holiday-Themed Adaptations
darkfantasy.org 12/19/2008 — This week we've talked about TV episodes and movies that use A Christmas Carol and It's A Wonderful Life as the basis for their plots. We even found some clips, trailers and full episodes online. Now it's your turn to tell us which of these is your favorite and why. You might even win $10!
In the Spirit of the Season ...
community.livejournal.com 12/15/2008 — I'm posting "Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol," in 11 parts. This ran as a serial on the Inferior 4 this time last year, so I've just cut-and-pasted those links. There's a brief intro to most of them, and in some cases the ...
TV Episodes that use the plot from It's A Wonderful Life
darkfantasy.org 12/18/2008 — Though it's not as common as "A Christmas Carol", there are plenty of television shows that use the premise from "It's A Wonderful Life". Not always during Christmas, but since that's when the original movie is set, that's usually when you'll see this trope. A notable exception: last ep of Dallas!
I'm dreaming of a wet Christmas...
hairygreeneyeball.blogspot.com 12/11/2008 — This is a Christmas story, sort of. It takes place on Christmas Eve over several years, as the owners of a mansion try to outwit a ghost who dampens their Christmas every year. "The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall" was written by John Kendrick Bangs, ...
News: Christmas 2008 Hints
kasterborous.com 10/11/2008 — So... let's put it to bed - the 2008 Christmas Special continues to generate discussion across the web and blogosphere. With Den of Geek's recent summary of the commentaries on the Doctor Who Complete Series 4 DVD, we've learned a lot this week.
So ...
Doctor Who Christmas Episode Info
bbc.co.uk 11/24/2008 —
It's Christmas Eve in 1851 and Cybermen stalk the snow of Victorian London, in this special Christmas edition of Russell T Davies's Bafta Award-winning time-travelling drama.
When the Doctor arrives and starts to investigate a spate of ...
Books for Christmas
jonathanstrahan.com.au 12/7/2008 — And so this is Christmas. I’ve spent most of 2008 either reading short fiction, working on anthologies, or doing Locus stuff. I’d meant to read a lot of novels, and I started quite a few that I found surprisingly easy to drop at the ...
Christmas Preview for Children in Need
doctorwhohideout.blogspot.com 10/24/2008 — The BBC have announced that the first two minutes of the forthcoming Christmas special, The Next Doctor - Highlight to reveal, will be televised at the Children in Need telethon. This Christmas preview is exclusive to the Children in Need telethon ...