Christmas 1973 episode with guest William Conrad. Opening song "Jingle Bells." Skits: Indian and bear searching for snow, hobo looking for dinner. Last half of show has Christmas songs and Sonny's Pizza skit.
The Christmas show opens with Cher singing White Christmas and segueing into We Need a Little Christmas. After introducing the show, she puts on a beard to play Santa to daughter Chastity (now Chaz Bono). Then the Hudson Brothers sing Here Comes Santa Claus to introduce a comedy skit of a court case involving the characters from 'Twas The Night Before Christmas, with Redd Foxx as the judge. This is followed by another skit featuring Cher visited by some ghosts of sailors a la Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Then is a dialogue with Redd Foxx who delivers an inspired Christmasmas wish for all the bigots of the world. Cher tells about prolific song writer Alfred S. Burt and introduces the Lennon Sisters singing one of his songs and then follows by singing another one herself. Redd Foxx solos in a skit as an elf in Santa's workshop after which Cher plays a rude and unresponsive returns clerk in a store. Everybody joins in a skit with songs in a 1920s holiday ballroom setting including Chastity
What happens when religiously conservative Christian parents have children who "become homosexual?" FAMILY FUNDAMENTALS is filmmaker Arthur Dong's personal attempt to answer that explosive question.
Welda Koenig
/ Self William Koenig
/ Self John McGraw
/ Self - California Republican Party Chair, 2000 Shawn Steel
/ Self - California Republucan Party Chair, 2001 Manuel Taboada
/ Self Nancy Taboada
/ Self Bill Green
/ Self (voice) Michele Kort
/ Self (voice) Arthur Dong
/ Self (voice) Heather Beberay
/ Self - Lesbian and Gay Men's Community Center (archive footage) Chaz Bono
/ Self - Out at last (archive footage) (as Chastity Bono) Sonny Bono
/ Self - U.S. Representative (archive footage) Pat Buchanan
/ Self (archive footage) George W. Bush
/ Self - Presidential candidate (archive footage) Laura Bush
/ Self - First Lady (archive footage) Mary Cheney
/ Self - daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney (archive footage) Robert Dornan
/ Self - U.S. Congressman, 1977-1997 (R-CA) (archive footage) (archive sound) (as Bob Dornan) Barney Frank
/ Self - Member of Congress (archive footage) Mike Haley
/ Self - former gay activist (archive footage) Jim Hill
/ Self - North Clairemont United Methodist Church (as Pastor Jim Hill) Michael Jackson
/ Self - Michael Jackson radio show, KABC Radio (voice) (archive sound) Bill Jones
/ Self - Music Director, Holy Rosary Catholic Church Pete Knight
/ Self - Father of a gay son (archive footage) (as State Senator Pete Knight [R-CA]) Joseph Nicolosi
/ Self (archive footage) (as Dr. Joseph Nicolosi) Oliver North
/ Self (archive footage) Jim Ready
/ Self - Partner of Barney Frank (archive footage) Nancy Reagan
/ Self - First Lady (archive footage) Phyllis Schlafly
/ Self - Mother of a gay son (archive footage) Gerry Studds
/ Self - Member of Congress (archive footage) Andrew Sullivan
/ Self - The New Republic (archive footage) Maria Velasquez
/ Self - KFMB, News 8 (archive footage) (archive sound) Ed Zschau
/ Self - Senatorial Candidate (archive footage)
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