This episode on the origin of the Christmas carol "Silent Night" became an annual tradition in the mid to late 1950s. Every year, starting as a ten year old, I looked forward to watching the rerun of this simply told and well done episode including the introduction by the then white haired Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Well worth viewing again.
I wonder if it went off the air because it was in black and white and everything had to be in living color in the 1960s. There were any number of good anthology series in those early days of television, but this series was consistently the best. Another good one was Target hosted by Adolphe Menjou, and in genre TV, there was Science Fiction Theater. Of course you also had high toned shows like Playhouse 90 but they were too busy being high toned to be good, at least to a young boy.
I wonder if it went off the air because it was in black and white and everything had to be in living color in the 1960s. There were any number of good anthology series in those early days of television, but this series was consistently the best. Another good one was Target hosted by Adolphe Menjou, and in genre TV, there was Science Fiction Theater. Of course you also had high toned shows like Playhouse 90 but they were too busy being high toned to be good, at least to a young boy.