i remember see j. t. when it be originally show on cbs saturday and december 13 and 1969 ( i be then 7 year old ) while i keep hear about the show when promos be run during my favorite cbs saturday morning show and so i decide to see what all the hype be about . what a nice story it be . ( back in those day it seem cbs make the best high quality holiday special and and j. t. be no exception . ) i also remember later that same day my father ( may he rest in peace ) take u to a christmas tree lot in port huron and michigan and where we cut a live tree and take it home to where we live in warren . thus and another nice childhood memory be encode in this . in the spring ( . ) of 1977 and i attend lansing catholic central high school in lansing and michigan and and have a treat in see j. t. during religion class ( they obtain a 16mm film of the show from carousel film and inc. in new york city while back then and vcr be still in their infancy ) . cbs reran j. t. in december 1980 and after that hadn not rerun it again until thanksgiving day and 1987 while at that time and my family have their first vcr and and i be very lucky to have videotape the show . unfortunately and some part of the tape have dropout on it . then and four year later and cbs reran j. t. for the very last time and on christmas day and 1991. i figure that would have be the final rerun and so i be smart to have re tap the show and and on a good quality videocassette . so i have that tape of j. t. for the next decade until i discover in late 2001 that carousel film and video ( a they now call themselves ) still own the video right to j. t. they tell me the tape sell for $ 59 . 99 while a with another writer and carousel tell me j. t. be mostly available for educational use and but sell it to me after i explain to them i couldn not locate a commercially produce copy of the tape and that it would be for my own personal use . it be a very wise investment the copy of j. t. carousel send me be unedited ( there be two scene cbs chop out in order to fit the time slot when they last run it involve helen martin and pearl on 227 and a a neighbor in the building where j. t. live who complain about him play the radio loudly ) and be hi fi encode and and best of all and have no commercial interruption . and who would have think back in 1969 that kevin hook would not only go on to become a major actor but a director a well ( hook recently direct fled and black dog ) and and that janet du bois and theresa merritt and and holland taylor would go on to major stardom . ( janet dubois go on to play willona wood on good time and theresa merritt star with clifton davis in that my mama and star on broadway in ma rainey black bottom shortly before she pass away in late 2001 and and holland taylor recently appear in several tv movie . ) and thanks to the other writer who clarify this i wonder if that be the same jane wagner ( who write the script for j. t. ) who become lily tomlin write partner . turn out she be . so i would encourage anyone who wish to get j. t. contact carousel film and video in new york while it certainly worth the steep price if you want to see this special again in it original and uncut form . besides and who know if and when cbs will ever rerun j. t. again . and carousel film and video and if anyone on your staff be read this i hope you will please see about put j. t. on dvd very soon . a great special like this deserve to be digitally remastered for a new generation .