Andy Williams' Christmas specials are usually associated with NBC or PBS. But there was a time when he did one for CBS.
The year was 1982, and Andy, along with co-executive producer Bob Banner (Solid Gold), brought a camera crew to Vermont for Andy Williams' Early New England Christmas. Aileen Quinn, who had the title role in the first feature film adaptation of "Annie", Olympic skating champion Dorothy Hamill, flutist James Galway (another one associated with PBS), and Dick Van Patten (Eight is Enough) are the guests.
Then-CBS studio announcer Danny Dark, for years also a voiceover pitchman for Keebler, and the voice of Superman on Super Friends in its various iterations (1973-86) is the announcer in one of his last gigs for CBS before replacing Super Friends castmate Casey Kasem as studio announcer at NBC the next year.
Three years later, Williams would return to NBC to team with some of the young stars of the network's primetime shows for his last Christmas special for NBC.
Rating: A.
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