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Thursday, November 27, 2025

Yet Another Happy Thanksgiving With Captain Kangaroo

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2025 marks the 70th anniversary of the Captain Kangaroo  TV series. This long-running program was broadcast on CBS for the next three decade...
Wednesday, November 26, 2025

The Muppets Meet Rockwell

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To recreate Norman Rockwell's famed (and often parodied) painting, "Freedom From Want," the Muppets team up for a Thanksgiving...
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Thanksgiving or Halloween?

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 Two holidays clash in the great comic strip, Lio .  
Monday, November 24, 2025

Mouse On The Mayflower Monday

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Celebrating Thanksgiving week with this publicity photo of images from the Rankin-Bass TV special, The Mouse on the Mayflower . This Rankin-...
Friday, October 31, 2025

Happy Halloween 2025!

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October 31st is here, and our 2025 Countdown is over. Once again this year, I wasn't able to do as much as I wanted to with my countdown...
Thursday, October 30, 2025

Spidey For Halloween

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Ch eck out my latest YouTube Short starring Spider-Man and some not so Marvel-ous monsters from classic Marvel comics. The short was creat...
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Archie's Here...Wait, No He's Not

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That comic-book/comic strip Archie superstar is a Countdown to Halloween perennial...but that redhead from Riverdale is nowhere near to be ...
Tuesday, October 14, 2025

No Muss, No Fuss—It's Those Monsterous Gremlins

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There are good Gremlins and bad Gremlins, but the problem is that the good leads to the bad (but only when fed after midnight). Released in ...
Monday, October 13, 2025

Return To Oz With Jack Pumpkinhead

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Jack Pumpkinhead from L. Frank Baum’s Oz books is a most suitable character for the spooky season. He is, after all, a living jack o’lantern...
Sunday, October 12, 2025

Granny Goodwitch Makes Some Not So Scary Music

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For Countdown to Halloween 2025: One of the least well-known but most delightful cartoon witches, Granny Goodwitch was created as a foil f...
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An author, historian, editor, researcher and blogger, Jim Fanning specializes in Disney. In a career dedicated to celebrating and exploring the work and life of Walt Disney, as well as his collaborators and those who carry on his legacy, Jim has recounted the history of many areas of the wide world of Disney. A contributor to Disney twenty-three Magazine and the D23 website, Jim has written books, articles, comics and a variety of other works, in addition to officially commissioned projects for many departments of The Walt Disney Company, including Publishing, Home Entertainment and Walt Disney Imagineering, as well as lending his expertise to many Disney licensees, including The Walt Disney Classics Collection (including Sketches Magazine), Technicolor, Dixie, NBC and Mattel. He also wrote many episodes of the groundbreaking documentary TV series, Disney Family Album, and has contributed writing and research to the Walt Disney Family Museum. Jim's philosophy is historical accuracy, dedication to uncovering new and little-known behind-the scenes stories, and lively and engaging storytelling that illuminates authentic Disney "magic."
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