Sabrina: Oh Ambrose, Aunt Hilda: what a beautiful Christmas tree!
Aunt Zelda: I wish you wouldn't call it, that, Sabrina. It's a Yule tree.
Well, I can die happy now: I've just seen television's first Winter Solstice holiday special.
Courtesy—of course—of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.
And believe me, this isn't your mother's Sabrina, the Teenage Witch.
Come on, admit it: Sabrina's lots of fun. It's way campy and (unlike those silly Wiccans who want to protest how “inaccurate” it is) doesn't take itself too seriously. In fact, it doesn't take itself seriously at all.
And it did bring us TV's first Winter Solstice holiday special.
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Nice article with one correction: as far as I know, the first fully-devoted winter solstice TV episode was "Northern Lights," a 19
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I stand corrected, Susan, and happily so. Good old Northern Exposure. A friend who loved the series insisted that I watch the Rave
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That was the one with the string of raven lights right? Where Marilyn told the story of how Raven brought back the Sun.