What’s up, dudes? A LOST EPISODE has been found! The Christmas Cousins, Chad and Seth, are here (back in August of ’24) to talk the 1986 special “Santabear’s First Christmas!” This “Reading Rainbow”-like special is narrated by Kelly McGillis and composed by Michael Hedges. In fact, it’s based on a book by Barbara Read and adapted by Thomas Roberts.
Synopsis
A crack in the ice separates a young snowbear from his parents. A young girl named Marie adopts him and takes him and takes him home. After a while, Marie and her grandfather teach the bear to read, speak, and bake cookies. Unfortunately, the girl’s grandfather falls ill, and the firewood runs low. The snowbear ventures out to collect firewood.
Subsequently, he falls in a snow drift and is trapped. A moose rescues him and takes him to some beavers, but they are all out of wood. Luckily, Santa shows up, gives the bear a saw and a sled, and the bear delivers the wood to the girl. Consequently, Santa Claus appoints the young bear as his helper in delivering toys to the animals in the forest, and he becomes known as Santabear. Oh, and he’s reunited with his family.
Friendly young girl? Check. Barbarian Santa? Yep. Unhygienic kitchen? Probably, if a bear is baking cookies. So grab your saw, cut down some firewood, and train a bear to listen to this episode on “Santabear’s First Christmas!”
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