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Happy Sunday Christmas-lovers! Today “Sitcom All Ye Faithful” goes back to school and goes all the way back to the year 2024 to talk about TWO episodes of a show for the price of one! Not exactly a “two-part” episode of television, but they compliment each other and they did air on the same night so…Hey, I make the rules!

• Show Title: Abbott Elementary
• Episode Title: "Winter Show" & "Winter Break"
• Original Air Date: December 15, 1998
• Season: 4
• Episodes: 7 & 8

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It’s the first Saturday of “Sitcom All Ye Faithful” my friends, and today I stayed in the 20th Century – but only by a couple years as I went back to 1998 to watch a show I every so often I think, should I have watche that show when it was first on? Should I go back and watch it now that I can stream it on Hulu?

Well, you’re going to have to listen to find out the answer to that question. So, what the hell are you waiting for? Go! Listen! Now!

• Show Title: Just Shoot Me!
• Episode Title: “How the Finch Stole Christmas”
• Original Air Date: December 15, 1998
• Season: 3
• Episode: 10

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Happy Friday Televisionaries! We’ve reached the end of the work week, well not really, since "Sitcom All Ye Faithful" goes seven days a week until Christmas day. Today, I watch a show from the 70s that I am not familiar with at all except that I know it stars the legendary Cloris Leachman and is a spin-off of the legendary Mary Tyler Moore Show. Hey, it’s my second spin-off in a row!

And the cool thing about this show is the version I watched on YouTube is from the original KNXT airing in LA, complete with all the December 1976 commercials!

Thank you to The Museum of Classic Chicago Television for posting this on their YouTube channel

• Show Title: Phyllis
• Episode Title: "The Christmas Party"
• Original Air Date: December 20, 1976
• Season: 2
• Episode: 13

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It’s day four of “Sitcom All Ye Faithful,” my Holidarians, and today we are heading back to the 1980s. I definitely watched this show early on, so there’s a good chance I watched this when it first came on – but I have zero memory of it and zero memory of a big Oscar winning star that came out of this show.

And no, before you go look it up, Sinbad did not win an Oscar. I watched this on Netflix and for some reason they decided to use AI to try to upscale the quality - and it was pretty terrible.

• Show Title: A Different World
• Episode Title: “The Gift of the Magi”
• Original Air Date: December 17, 1987
• Season: 1
• Episode: 10

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On the third day of “Sitcom All Ye Faithful,” my true love gave to me, a classic episode of TV…Yes today, we go back to the 60s to a comedy classic as I watched an episode of Green Acres for the first time since I was probably in junior high. It was on Nick and Nite – I’m not that old.

You can watch this episode of “Green Acres” for free right now on YouTube.

• Show Title: Green Acres
• Episode Title: “An Old-Fashioned Christmas”
• Original Air Date: December 21, 1966
• Season: 2
• Episode: 13

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Welcome back, Christmateers! It’s day two of “Sitcom All Ye Faithful” and today I moved up about 40 years to the 1990s to revisit a show that I was not a regular viewer of – but I probably should have been. What makes this choice even more interesting is this is the third episode of television that’s been featured on Sitcom All Ye Faithful from the night this aired back in 1995.

Back in 2023, I talked about an episode of Frasier and last year I discussed an episode of NewsRadio. NBC was on fire with sitcoms in the mid-90s.

You can watch this episode of “Wings” for free on Pluto.

• Show Title: Wings
• Episode Title: “‘Twas the Heist Before Christmas”
• Original Air Date: December 19, 1995
• Season: 7
• Episode: 10

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Happy Holidays, television fans! It’s here! It’s here! Year Five of “Sitcom All Ye Faithful” is finally here!

For our first episode of this season, I went back 72 years ago to watch an episode of “Make Room For Daddy” before it turned into the “Danny Thomas Show.” If you like a 10 minute song/dance/joke club routine in the middle of your television episodes, than boy oh boy do I have the show for you!

Proudly brought to you by the good people at the American Tobacco Company!

You can watch this episode on Tubi – or check out a copy the way I watched it, with all the wonderful cigarette commercials on YouTube.

So gather your family, your friends, and four of your sworn enemies. Bring them together around the tree and put on your podcast app of choice. It’s time to celebrate 25 days of sitcom holiday magic as year 5 of Sitcom All Ye Faithful begins!

• Show Title: Make Room For Daddy
• Episode Title: “Christmas”
• Original Air Date: December 22, 1953
• Season: 1
• Episode: 13

Surprise! Golden Jawgust is not over yet! Well, okay it is - But JAWSTEMBER is here! Today! And only for today (imagine if I just kept going and started over?)

Today I wanted to - well I wanted to sing a September song, that's mostly what I wanted to do. But I thought it would be fun to talk about some extra Jaws related stuff. Some silly. Some trying to be serious. Some trying to be fun. None of them all that successful.

But we'll always have yesterday....

In this episode I talk about issue 129 of Cracked Magazine, issue 180 of Mad Magazine, an old Marvel Comic of JAWS 2, and I play a video game from 38 years ago.

We did it! We made it! The final day of Golden Jawgust! Today, not only did I celebrate the final moments of JAWS - but I also celebrated the ENTIRE movie as I went to see at our nearby AMC theater on their IMAX Screen!

Not only that – but I spoke to my good friend Jason who also went to see it down in FL – but his experience was very different – and I was jealous of all of it!

As this project comes to an end – I just want to say thank you to everyone who joined the show. Thank you Chris! Thank you Eric!

And a big thanks to Mike B for his comments and support – and his great gift!

Special shout out to my wife for putting up with me all month! And thanks to everyone who listened along the way. I really appreciate it. JAWGUST FOREVER!!!

What a great day today was! Not only did I spend the afternoon/evening up in Maine with my wife - but I also got to record a few things for the today's penultimate episode of Golden Jawgust! And on top of that, I get to share an amazing Cameo video I got from listener - and contributor to the show - Mike B.

And of course I cover the next 4 minutes of JAWS - where Quint meets his demise, The Orca is going down fast, and Brody is left desperately hanging on for dear life.

And I notice a stuntman or two...

ONE MORE DAY! ONE DAY MORE! I can't believe it all comes to an end tomorrow! Let's GOOOO!