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Ahem!

@octothorpe
One of the totally cool things about being an old Boomer is that I remember the night in December, 1965, when the show premiered on CBS. I was12. We had just gotten our family's first color TV.

Who knew how it would still be loved by so many people 59 years later

It is The Spirit of Christmas Present, showing Scrooge what the true spirit of Christmas and Christian faith is about.

"A Christmas Carol," by Charles Dickens, published December 19, 1843.

Here's a puzzle. This sounds as though it was written today, for late 2024.

But what is this from and when did it appear?

(Answer in first reply)

"There are some upon this earth of yours," returned the Spirit, "who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name, who are as strange to us and our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us."