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\"\"<\/a>This is Post 6 of 6, officially bringing to a close our 2023 Holiday ZOOM-Chat. But feel free to continue the video-chat, if you wish, and for as long as you wish!<\/p>\n

8) THANK YOU AND SIGN-OFF<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Before we present the answers to our Christmas quiz, posted earlier, we extend thanks to Keith Braithwaite, Cathy Palmer-Lister, and all of our contributing participants for organizing this Holiday ZOOM-Chat!<\/p>\n

We hope you have enjoyed your afternoon with us; don\u2019t forget to comment on today\u2019s online get-together.<\/p>\n

The club will resume activities in the New Year, beginning with our Saturday, January 13 meeting. Mark that date in your calendars as we have booked a pair of special astronomy guests, who will speak on the topic of the upcoming solar eclipse expected in April of 2024!<\/p>\n

Goodbye for now, and may you all enjoy a Cheerful Holiday Season, and a healthy, Happy New Year!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

9) ANSWERS TO CHRISTMAS QUIZ<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

And now, here are the answers to our 2023 Christmas Quiz. Compare your answers to these.<\/p>\n

1)<\/strong> In what town is set the classic Christmas film It\u2019s a Wonderful Life<\/em> (1946)?<\/p>\n

A) Pine Tree, VT; B) Lake George, NY; C) Stepford, CT; D) Seneca Falls, NY; or E) Bedford Falls, NY<\/em><\/p>\n

ANSWER<\/strong>: E) Bedford Falls, NY.<\/p>\n

FYI: Pine Tree, Vermont and Stepford, Connecticut are, respectively, the fictional settings of the movie musical White Christmas<\/em> (1954), and the novel (1972) and movies (1975 and 2004) The Stepford Wives<\/em>. Both Lake George and Seneca Falls are real towns in New York state. The latter claims to be the inspiration for Bedford Falls, based on unsubstantiated evidence of It\u2019s a Wonderful Life<\/em> director Frank Capra having visited the town prior to shooting the film. Regardless, Seneca Falls boasts a museum and annual festival dedicated to the film.<\/p>\n

2)<\/strong> Edmund Gwenn, Thomas Mitchell, Ed Wynn, Sebastien Cabot, and Richard Attenborough\u2014these five actors played the same character in five different productions of which feel-good Christmas story?<\/p>\n

ANSWER<\/strong>: Miracle on 34th Street<\/em>.<\/p>\n

3)<\/strong> Name the character they all played?<\/p>\n

ANSWER<\/strong>: Kris Kringle\/Santa Claus.<\/p>\n

Edmund Gwenn portrayed Kris Kringle\/Santa Claus in the original 1947 movie, for which he was awarded an Oscar. Thomas Mitchell, Ed Wynn, and Sebastien Cabot each played the part in television versions, Mitchell in 1955, Wynn in 1959, and Cabot in 1973. And Richard Attenborough interpreted the role in the 1994 remake of the original film.<\/p>\n

4)<\/strong> The first published mention of Santa Claus\u2019 sleigh and reindeer appeared in the 1821 illustrated poem \u201cOld Santeclaus with Much Delight.\u201d In said poem, how many reindeer are depicted as pulling Santa\u2019s sleigh?<\/p>\n

A) Four, B) Two, C) Eight, D) One, or E) Six\"\"<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

ANSWER<\/strong>: D) One.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>5)<\/strong> In the 1989 Christmas fantasy film Prancer<\/em>, what was the name of the reindeer appearing in the movie as the titular character?<\/p>\n

A) Canada, B) Olive, C) Boo, D) Rudolph, or E) Winter<\/em><\/p>\n

ANSWER<\/strong>: C) Boo.<\/p>\n

Pregnant at the time of filming, she was selected because of her onscreen rapport with human co-star Rebecca Harrell. Also, being pregnant, she would naturally retain her antlers for a longer period of time, long enough to allow filming to wrap!<\/p>\n

6)<\/strong> In which year did the military begin its annual \u201ctracking\u201d of Santa Claus\u2019 sleigh on its Christmas Eve flight?<\/p>\n

ANSWER<\/strong>: Although the US Air Force first issued a communique on Christmas Eve, 1948, outlining that radar was tracking an \u201cunidentified\u00a0sleigh, powered by\u00a0eight reindeer,\u201d this missive was a one-off publicity stunt. It was not until 1955 that the annual tradition began.<\/p>\n

7) <\/strong>Philip Van Doren Stern\u2019s short story, \u201cThe Greatest Gift,\u201d was self-published as a booklet in 1943 and given as a Christmas present to family and friends before it was sold to a magazine in 1944, then published as an illustrated book that same year. \u201cThe Greatest Gift\u201d served as the source material for which beloved Christmas movie?<\/p>\n

ANSWER<\/strong>: It\u2019s a Wonderful Life<\/em> (1946).<\/p>\n

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8) <\/strong>What is the name of Stern\u2019s protagonist in \u201cThe Greatest Gift\u201d?<\/p>\n

A) George Taylor, B) George Hegerman, C) George Milton, D) George Pratt, or E) George Jetson<\/em><\/p>\n

ANSWER<\/strong>: George Pratt, a character who became George Bailey in the famous film adaptation.<\/p>\n

FYI: Colonel George Taylor is the character played by Charlton Heston in Planet of the Apes<\/em> (1968); George Hegerman, also known as Minnesota Fats, is a fictional pool hustler, the creation of novelist Walter Tevis; George Milton is one of the principal protagonists in author John Steinbeck\u2019s novella Of Mice and Men<\/em>; and George Jetson, patriarch of the futuristic Jetson family, is a Hanna-Barbera cartoon character!<\/p>\n

9)<\/strong> In an episode of the original Twilight Zone<\/em>, a group of nameless individuals, having no memory of who they are or how they came to find themselves trapped in a giant metal cylinder with no apparent exit, contemplate the mystery of their situation, formulate a desperate plan of escape, and make the attempt. This group of characters numbers how many?<\/p>\n

ANSWER<\/strong>: Five.<\/p>\n

10)<\/strong> The dark twist-ending of the above described episode\u2014spoiler!<\/em>\u2014reveals that these characters are all, in fact, different sorts of dolls that have been dropped into a Christmas donations barrel collecting toys for an orphanage! What kinds of dolls are they?<\/p>\n

ANSWER<\/strong>: \u201cClown,\u00a0hobo,\u00a0ballet\u00a0dancer,\u00a0bagpiper, and an\u00a0army major,\u201d so listed by series creator Rod Serling in his opening narration.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

11)<\/strong> What was the title of this rather bleak Christmas Twilight Zone<\/em> episode?<\/p>\n

ANSWER<\/strong>: \u201cFive Characters in Search of an Exit\u201d (1961).<\/p>\n

12)<\/strong> Who was Harry Shoup and what unique association did he have to Christmas?<\/p>\n

ANSWER<\/strong>: USAF Colonel Harry Shoup was on duty the evening a young girl wanting to speak to Santa Claus accidentally telephoned CONAD (Continenal Air Defense Command) in Colorado Springs, Colorado\u2014CONAD predated NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command).<\/p>\n

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Colonel Harry Shoup, who came to be known as “The Santa Colonel.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While the details of the 1955 incident have differed from telling to telling, the gist of the story was that the child believed she was phoning Santa Claus on his private line. Initially supposing that someone was playing an ill-advised joke on him, Colonel Shoup quickly understood that he was speaking not to a prankster, but a child, and that an innocent mistake had been made.<\/p>\n

In the most common version of events, he pretended to be Santa, spoke with the girl for a time, and was eventually able to get her mother on the phone, who explained that an advertisement appearing in the local newspaper had encouraged youngsters to either call and talk to Santa on his private line, or visit him in person at Sears Toyland. Apparently, the misprinted phone number published was that of CONAD\u2019s Operations Center, an unlisted number!<\/p>\n

Realizing that a flood of calls from other children might be imminent, Shoup directed his staff to tell any child who called in looking for Santa Claus that CONAD was tracking his sleigh as he overflew North America, and to provide his current location.<\/p>\n

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Volunteers staff the phones at the NORAD Tracks Santa Operations Center, circa 2007.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And thus was launched what has become an annual tradition that carries on to this day. \u201cNORAD Tracks Santa\u201d is the defense organization\u2019s best-known community outreach program. Each year, the operation employs hundreds of volunteers, from both the U.S. and Canadian militaries, and from civilians, answering thousands upon thousands of queries from children the world over. With the advent of the digital era, and the involvement of Google and other corporate sponsors, tens of millions view NORAD\u2019s Santa tracking Website every December.<\/p>\n

Shoup, who was dubbed \u201cThe Santa Colonel,\u201d retired from the Air Force in 1968 and died in 2009.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>13) <\/strong>The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus<\/em> (1902) is a children\u2019s book penned by Wizard of Oz<\/em> author L. Frank Baum, offering a markedly different take on the story of Santa Claus. For example, rather than Clement C. Moore\u2019s familiar team of eight reindeer, featured in his poem \u201cA Visit from St. Nicholas\u201d\u2014also known as \u201c\u2019Twas the Night Before Christmas\u201d\u2014Baum\u2019s story identifies ten reindeer. Name them.<\/p>\n

ANSWER<\/strong>: Racer, Pacer, Fearless, Peerless, Reckless, Speckless, Ready, Steady, Flossie and Glossie.<\/p>\n

14)<\/strong> Name the two reindeer that Baum\u2019s Santa Claus relies on as his principal sleigh-pulling team in The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus<\/em>.<\/p>\n

ANSWER<\/strong>: B) Flossie and Glossie.<\/p>\n

15)<\/strong> Match these servings of Christmas cuisine to their country of origin.<\/p>\n

A) Multekrem\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 1) Iceland<\/p>\n

B) Pandora\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a02) Germany<\/p>\n

C) Colemono\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 3) Poland<\/p>\n

D) Hangikj\u00f6t\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a04) Norway<\/p>\n

E) Kruidnoten\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 5) Venezuela<\/p>\n

F) Bolo de mel\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 6) Sweden<\/p>\n

G) Bigos\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a07) Japan<\/p>\n

H) Hallacas\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a08) Chile<\/p>\n

I) Christmas Pudding\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 9) Italy<\/p>\n

J) Kentucky Fried Chicken\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 10) Netherlands<\/p>\n

K) Kn\u00e4ck\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a011) Portugal<\/p>\n

L) Springerle\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a012) England<\/p>\n

ANSWER<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

A-4: Multekrem is a traditional Norwegian dessert the main ingredients of which are cloudberries, whipped cream, and sugar. Customarily served with Christmas dinner.<\/p>\n

B-9: Pandora, a traditional Italian sweet bread shaped as an eight-pointed star, originated in the Veneto region and is popular during the Christmas\/New Year\u2019s season. Usually sprinkled with vanilla-scented icing sugar to resemble the snow-capped Italian Alps at Christmastime.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

C-8: Colemono, meaning \u201cmonkey\u2019s tail,\u201d is a traditional Chilean drink served at Christmas, the principal ingredients of which include aguardiente (alcoholic spirits), milk, sugar, coffee, and cloves.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

D-1: Hangikj\u00f6t, or \u201changing meat,\u201d is a traditional Icelandic festive food served at Christmas. Smoked lamb, mutton, or horse boiled and dished up sliced, either hot or cold. Often served with potatoes in French b\u00e9chamel\u00a0sauce and green peas, or thinly sliced on bread.<\/p>\n

E-10: Kruidnoten are hard, spiced, cookie-like confectionaries associated with Sinterklass (Saint Nicolas) in the Netherlands.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

F-11: Bolo de mel, originating from Portugal\u2019s Madeira, is a traditional cake first produced by nuns of the Convent of Santa Clara in the late 15th century, when Madeira, an archipelago in the North Atlantic some 500 kilometres west of Morocco, was an important producer of sugar. Their recipe called for molasses as opposed to the more prevalent honey used today. This \u201choney cake\u201d is enjoyed throughout the year, but is especially popular at Christmas, and time-honoured in Madeira is the practise of tearing pieces off with one\u2019s hands rather than cutting the cake into slices when serving.<\/p>\n

G-3: Bigos, or \u201chunter\u2019s stew,\u201d is a traditional Polish dish of chopped meats, sauerkraut, shredded fresh cabbage, and spices served hot and supplemented with additional vegetables and wine. Especially associated with Catholic holidays like Easter and Christmas.<\/p>\n

H-5: Hallacas are tamales that have been described as a Venezuelan national dish. Of indigenous origin and supplemented with ingredients introduced by Spanish settlers in the early-16th century, they are said to have been cooked up by slaves during the colonial era. Numerous regional variants emerged throughout Spanish holdings in the Americas, from Cuba to Argentina. Wrapped in Plantain leaves and boiled, Hallacas are a staple of Venezuela\u2019s Christmas celebrations.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I-12: Christmas pudding, a round, sweet, dried-fruit dessert, originated in medieval England and is traditionally served as part of Christmas dinner in the United Kingdom, and in former British colonies such as Canada. Ingredients include breadcrumbs, dried fruit, sugar, treacle, suet, and spices. The pudding mixture is thoroughly stirred, a process customarily involving each member of a household, then typically boiled in a \u201cpudding cloth\u201d or steamed in a basin for seven or eight hours, moistened with citrus juices, brandy or other alcohols, and allowed to cool and set. Usually stored until Christmas Day, at which time it is reheated, placed on a platter and topped with a sprig of holly for presentation at the dinner table, the pudding may be doused with warm brandy and \u201cflamed\u201d before serving.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

J-7: Kentucky Fried Chicken, while originating in the U.S., has become something of a traditional Christmas meal in, of all places, Japan<\/em>!<\/p>\n

With only about one percent of that nation\u2019s population identifying as Christian, Christmas is a secular holiday in the Land of the Rising Sun. American-style fast-food restaurants came to Japan in the early 1970s, including one of the most popular, Kentucky Fried Chicken.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The company, today rebranded as KFC, launched a national marketing campaign in 1974, \u201cKentucky for Christmas,\u201d apparently inspired by a visiting foreigner who had stopped in at a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet in Tokyo on December 25, remarking \u201cI can\u2019t get turkey in Japan, so I have no choice but to celebrate Christmas with Kentucky Fried Chicken.\u201d The first party buckets soon followed, aggressively promoted with feel-good television commercials linking Kentucky Fried Chicken with Christmas, and touting the \u201cdelicacy\u201d as a means of celebrating the holiday in a true, authentic American style! The truth was not permitted to get in the way of a good marketing campaign, and the idea took hold. By the early 1980s, Colonel Saunders was everywhere, dressed in a red Santa Claus suit, peddling chicken.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So popular is KFC at Christmastime in Japan today that orders must be placed months in advance, and on Christmas Day, people line up for hours to pick up their finger lickin\u2019 good chicken!<\/p>\n

K-6: Kn\u00e4ck, or Christmas Butterscotch, is a traditional Swedish hard toffee prepared for the festive season.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

L-2: Springerle originated in southwestern Germany, principally Swabia and the surrounding areas. A biscuit or cookie featuring an embossed design, springerle was traditionally baked for both religious and secular holidays, but today is most commonly associated with the Christmas season.<\/p>\n

16) <\/strong>In the perennial Christmas favourite It\u2019s a Wonderful Life<\/em> (1946), how much cash does George Bailey\u2019s building and loan business find itself short on Christmas Eve as a result of hapless Uncle Billy\u2019s absentmindedness while visiting the bank to make a deposit, and greedy, underhanded banker Potter\u2019s taking full advantage of the situation to surreptitiously misappropriate that money?<\/p>\n

ANSWER<\/strong>: $8000.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>17) <\/strong>What is Potter\u2019s first name?<\/p>\n

ANSWER<\/strong>: Henry.<\/p>\n

18) <\/strong>The Martian weapons brandished in the sci-fi\/Christmas movie Santa Claus Conquers the Martians<\/em> (1964) were simply off-the-shelf, store-bought toy guns! Which of these served as the Martians\u2019 handgun?<\/p>\n

A) Wham-O Airblaster, B) Daisy Buck Rogers XZ-38 Disintegrator Pistol, C) Topper Toys Johnny Seven O.M.A. (One-Man Army), D) Mattel Agent Zero M Snap-Shot (Camera to Safe Cap Pistol), or E) Rayline Rapid-Fire Tracer Gun<\/em><\/p>\n

ANSWER<\/strong>: A) Wham-O Airblaster.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
Voldar (standing, far left) holds a Wham-O Air Blaster on Santa Claus in the 1964 sci-fi\/Christmas film Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. Wham-O’s popular toy gun, with its packaging, is shown below.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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19)<\/strong> In It\u2019s a Wonderful Life<\/em>, what is the maiden name of George Bailey\u2019s wife, Mary?<\/p>\n

ANSWER<\/strong>: Hatch.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>20)<\/strong> A pivotal sequence in the film shows George, despondent over his Building and Loan\u2019s missing money, contemplating suicide, convinced that his family and friends would be better off without him! By way of Heavenly intervention, he is shown the dark and disturbing reality that would have been were he never born so that he may know the very important and positive impact he has had on his hometown, and the lives of his loved ones. The hope is that he will thus appreciate the life he has lived, and change his mind about throwing it all away by killing himself. In this unsettling alternate history, much is distressingly different, including the name of the town! What is that name?<\/p>\n

ANSWER<\/strong>: Pottersville, no doubt named for George\u2019s unscrupulous, hard-hearted, lifelong nemesis, who has been trying for decades to buy out or otherwise close the Bailey\u2019s building and loan business in order to monopolize banking in the community. And in this dystopian timeline, he has succeeded in doing so!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
TOP<\/strong>: George desperately tries to help Uncle Billy remember where the absentminded fellow might have misplaced $8000; BOTTOM, LEFT<\/strong>: George and Mary Bailey; BOTTOM, RIGHT<\/strong>: In the alternate timeline, Mary is a spinster who works as a librarian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

21)<\/strong> What is Mary\u2019s occupation in the alternate timeline?<\/p>\n

ANSWER<\/strong>: Mary, who in this reality is a spinster, works as a librarian.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>22)<\/strong> In his novelty Chanukah Song, comedian Adam Sandler\u2019s list of fellow Jewish celebrities who celebrate Chanukah includes two superstars of sci-fi television, or rather, the iconic characters they portrayed. Name these two, with whom, sings Sandler, \u201cyou can spin a dreidel.\u201d<\/p>\n

ANSWER<\/strong>: Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock\u2014actors William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, who played Kirk and Spock, respectively, are \u201cboth Jews.\u201d<\/p>\n

23)<\/strong> Scrooged<\/em> (1988) is a modern, comedic take on Dickens\u2019 A Christmas Carol<\/em>, in which star Bill Murray\u2019s character\u2014the Ebenezer Scrooge of the piece\u2014is visited by the familiar Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. Carol Kane plays the petite, delicate, fairy-like Ghost of Christmas Present, who proceeds to kick, slap, punch and generally batter Murray throughout their encounter. In a parting blow, she clocks him hard<\/em> in the chops with a toaster! Was that toaster a two-slice or four-slice model?<\/p>\n

ANSWER<\/strong>: A four-slice model.<\/p>\n

24)<\/strong> The animated film Gotta Catch Santa Claus<\/em> (2008) is about a young boy who sets out to capture Santa Claus in order to prove to his friends, and to the world, that Santa really does exist! Who voiced Santa Claus in this production?<\/p>\n

ANSWER<\/strong>: William Shatner.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>25)<\/strong> In the celebrated, uplifting Twilight Zone<\/em> Christmas episode \u201cThe Night of the Meek\u201d (1960), Art Carney plays an unemployed drunkard who, once a year, works as a department-store Santa. He finds an enchanted bag in a back alley on Christmas Eve, and from this bag is able to magically draw the Christmas gifts wished for by his fellow derelicts, and the poor children of the neighbourhood! His own Christmas wish is granted, too\u2014spoiler!<\/em>\u2014that of being able to distribute presents in this manner every year. The episode ends as a reindeer-drawn sleigh arrives and whisks him off into the night sky to become the real Santa Claus! What is this character\u2019s name?<\/p>\n

ANSWER<\/strong>: Mr. Henry Corwin, so introduced by Rod Serling at the top of the episode.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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