BOOTLEG FILES 822: “John Denver and The Muppets – A Christmas Together” (1979 television special).
LAST SEEN: On YouTube.
AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: None.
REASON FOR BOOTLEG STATUS: It was never made available on any home entertainment format.
CHANCES OF SEEING A COMMERCIAL DVD RELEASE: Maybe next Christmas?
When I was kid in yesteryear, every Christmas season would bring a surplus number of television specials tied to the holiday. Some specials became annual events, such as “A Charlie Brown Christmas” or “Frosty the Snowman,” but most seemed to be one-and-done affairs that might have been lost to obscurity had it not been for the prescience of pop culture vultures to videotape those shows and save them for future viewing.
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