I mentioned at the start of the Fest that we had a couple of old TV specials this year, and here's the other one. This was a tremendous treat for me to come across. Back on December 14, 1979, the TV legends Kukla, Fran and Ollie reunited for a TV special. The show -- which was wonderfully titled 'Tis the Season to Be Ollie (a line from their much-earlier rendition of "Deck the Halls") -- was made for WMAQ, the NBC-owned station in Chicago (where I think they produced their TV series back in the 1950s and early 1960s. I don't know for sure if this was syndicated to other NBC "owned-and-operated" stations, but I suspect so. The storyline here is the Ollie is trying to figure out plans for what kind of special they should do. It's slow and gentle, the way that Kukla, Fran and Ollie always were are are -- though there's a sequence where Ollie suggests that make things a lot more hip -- but a joy, especially for fans, to see them reunited. So, as their long-time theme song said, "here we are, back with you again Yes, by gum and yes, by golly, Kukla, Fran and dear old Ollie" -- and Burr Tillstrom with the Kuklapolitans.
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