A television special is a television program which interrupts or temporarily programming normally scheduled for a given time slot. Sometimes, however, the term is given to a telecast of a theatrical film, such as The Wizard of Oz or The Ten Commandments, which is not part of a regular series of such anthology series as NBC Saturday Night at the Movies (1961–1978).
The term originally applied especially to major dramatized presentations of an hour...
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TV programs of this genre:
- A Charlie Brown Christmas ,
- It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown ,
- Totally Minnie ,
- Battle of the Network Stars ,
- MTV Movie Awards ,
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer ,
- Twas the Night Before Christmas ,
- Rudolph's Shiny New Year ,
- Alien Planet ,
- Legends of the Superheroes