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Episode 7: The Great Cabbage Patch Kids War of Christmas 1983
In Christmas 1983, one toy turned otherwise reasonable parents into a nationwide army of determined shoppers. Cabbage Patch Kids were oddly named, a little funny-looking, and almost impossible to find in stores. And yet, somehow, every child in America seemed to want one desperately. In this episode of Actually, we revisit the Great Cabbage Patch Craze of 1983, explore the forgotten folk artist whose handmade "Doll Babies" helped inspire the phenomenon — and who later sued for a million dollars over it — and ask the question that still lingers forty years later: how did a funny-faced fabric…
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