Anyone ever see "The Christmas That Almost Wasn't?" It's a 1966 musical about a Scrooge-like character who buys the North Pole and charges Santa Claus rent to destroy Christmas. Santa doesn't have to pay the rent if he promises never again to give Chirstmas presents to children. So Santa enlists the aid of a small-town lawyer to help him. Paul Tripp, the children's television pioneer, starred as the lawyer, and Rossano Brazzi was the guy who bought the North Pole.

HBO showed it every year in the seventies but you can't find it anywhere now. :(

The title sounds familiar, but I can't rmember the film.

I'll have to look it up.

Remember the Simpsons episode entiled 'Skinner's Sense Of Snow' where the kids got snowed-in at Springfield Elementary and Principal Skinner made them watch an awful movie called 'The Christmas That Almost Wasn't But Then Was'? :lol:
Were there "christmas hobgoblins" in this movie too?! :crazy:

Originally posted by Mossopp
Remember the Simpsons episode entiled 'Skinner's Sense Of Snow' where the kids got snowed-in at Springfield Elementary and Principal Skinner made them watch an awful movie called 'The Christmas That Almost Wasn't But Then Was'? :lol:
Were there "christmas hobgoblins" in this movie too?! :crazy:

Uh, no, they weren't. :p

I have the copy of "The Christmas That Almost Wasn't" since I taped off of PAX back in 1999. I have it on VHS. It was a rare Christmas movie from 1966.

I loved Paul Tripp in that movie. I used to watch his show "The Birthday House" when I was three years old. :)

Its amazing you remember that far back Stevie :)

I remember hearing of this movie but I havent ever seen it or I dont remember seeing it.....