I suppose this is my own version of Proust’s madeleine…

I was waxing rhapsodic last week about the really great movie-of-the-week intros of bygone days of yore…  But if you’re anywhere in my age bracket (i.e. old), I suspect this will transport you back to your childhood, specifically Christmas time.  This six-second promo preceded the annual airing of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” and (starting in ’72 when it moved from NBC) “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.”  I still recall the joyful anticipation that this little intro imbued in me every single year…