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“The Last Unicorn is a 1982 animated film produced by Rankin/Bass and based on Peter S. Beagle’s acclaimed fantasy novel. It features innovative animation by Topcraft, known for its detailed and expressive style. The story follows a solitary unicorn as she searches to discover if others of her kind...

The Year Without a Santa Claus is a 1974 Christmas stop-motion animated television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions. Based on a poem by Phyllis McGinley, the plot centers on Santa Claus's decision to skip his Christmas deliveries after catching a cold and feeling unappreciated by children...

"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" is a stop-motion animated television special that premiered on NBC in 1964. Produced by Rankin/Bass Productions, it adapts the popular Christmas song of the same name by Johnny Marks. The narrative follows Rudolph, a reindeer ostracized for his glowing nose, as he be...

Frosty the Snowman is a 1969 animated Christmas special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions, bringing the popular 1950 holiday song to life through traditional cel animation by Mushi Production of Japan. The special tells the story of a snowman brought to life by a magical hat and his adventures wit...

Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town is a 1970 stop-motion animated television special produced by Rankin/Bass. The program explains the origins of Santa Claus, depicting his early life as Kris Kringle and his mission to deliver toys to children in the gloomy town of Sombertown. The narrative features the...

ThunderCats is an American animated science fantasy television series that aired from 1985 to 1989. Produced by Rankin/Bass, it follows a group of cat-like humanoid aliens who flee their dying home planet of Thundera and settle on Third Earth. Led by the young lord Lion-O, the group defends their ne...

The Year Without a Santa Claus is a stop-motion animated television special that aired in 1974, produced by Rankin/Bass Productions. The narrative follows a discouraged Santa Claus who decides to take a vacation, leading two elves to rally support from the personifications of Heat Miser and Snow Mis...

Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town is a 1970 American Christmas television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions. Using stop-motion Animagic, it presents a fictional origin story for Kris Kringle and explains traditions such as Christmas stockings, reindeer travel, and Santa's entry through chimney...

The Little Drummer Boy is a 1968 American stop-motion television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions and inspired by the Christmas song written by Katherine Kennicott Davis. It follows Aaron, an orphaned boy who distrusts people and communicates through music, as his journey eventually leads...

Twas the Night Before Christmas is a 1974 American stop-motion television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions. Inspired by the poem commonly attributed to Clement Clarke Moore, it tells an original story in which Santa stops visiting Junctionville after receiving an insulting letter, prompti...

The Return of the King is a 1980 animated television special produced by Rankin/Bass and directed by Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin Jr. It adapts the latter part of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, following Frodo and Sam's journey to Mount Doom and the conflict leading to the fall of Sauron. T...

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus is a 1985 stop-motion television special produced by Rankin/Bass. It adapts L. Frank Baum's 1902 book of the same name, which presents a fictional history of Santa Claus from his upbringing and early service to children through the development of traditions ass...

Pinocchio's Christmas is a 1980 stop-motion Christmas television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions. It adapts characters and situations from Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio, placing the wooden puppet in a holiday story in which he wants to obtain a Christmas present for his fat...

'Twas the Night Before Christmas is an American animated Christmas television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions in 1974. It incorporates Clement Clarke Moore's 1823 poem into a longer story set in the town of Junctionville, where a mouse family and a clockmaker try to keep Santa Claus from...

The Little Drummer Boy is a 1968 stop-motion Christmas television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions and animated through the company's Japanese production process. It follows Aaron, a boy who plays the drum, as he encounters the Nativity story and eventually performs for the infant Jesus....

Jack Frost is a 1979 stop-motion animated television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions. The story presents the winter sprite Jack Frost and follows his desire to become human, with Pardon-Me-Pete the groundhog serving as narrator; the special was written by Romeo Muller, directed by Jules...

Mad Monster Party? is a 1967 stop-motion animated musical comedy film produced by Rankin/Bass. Boris Karloff provides the voice of Baron Boris von Frankenstein, who summons well-known monsters such as Dracula, the Wolf Man, the Mummy, and Frankenstein's monster to an island meeting after deciding to...

Here Comes Peter Cottontail is a 1971 stop-motion animated television special produced by Rankin/Bass. It follows Peter Cottontail in a story connected with the Easter Bunny tradition and adapts material associated with the popular Easter song of the same name. Danny Kaye provides the narration. The...

Here Comes Peter Cottontail is a 1971 Easter television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions with stop-motion Animagic. Based in part on the 1957 book The Easter Bunny That Overslept by Priscilla and Otto Friedrich, it follows Peter Cottontail as he tries to fulfill his Easter responsibilitie...

'Twas the Night Before Christmas is a 1974 animated television special produced by Rankin/Bass. It takes its title and basic Christmas setting from Clement Clarke Moore's poem but tells an original story about a town where doubt about Santa Claus threatens the community's holiday traditions. The spe...

The First Easter Rabbit is a 1976 American animated Easter television special produced by Rankin/Bass. It presents a musical origin story for the Easter Bunny, with Burl Ives as narrator and Robert Morse among the voices. The special premiered on NBC on 9 April 1976 and was later broadcast on CBS; i...

The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus is a 1985 American stop-motion television special produced by Rankin/Bass. It is based on L. Frank Baum's 1902 book of the same name and presents a fictional account of Santa Claus's origins, upbringing, and development into the Christmas gift-giver. The special...

Rudolph's Shiny New Year is a 1976 stop-motion animated television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions. It is a direct sequel to the 1964 Rudolph special and follows Rudolph as he searches for Happy, a missing baby New Year. The story shifts the seasonal setting from Christmas to New Year wh...

The Stingiest Man in Town is a 1978 stop-motion animated television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions. It adapts Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol and follows Ebenezer Scrooge from his isolated, money-centered life through supernatural encounters that change his view of generosity and hu...

The Stingiest Man in Town is a 1978 animated television Christmas special produced by Rankin/Bass. It adapts Charles Dickens’s 1843 novella A Christmas Carol, centering on Ebenezer Scrooge and his moral transformation after supernatural encounters. The program belongs to the studio’s group of season...

The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town is a 1977 stop-motion television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions. The story uses a framed narrative to explain how the Easter Bunny became associated with eggs, candy, and other holiday customs. Fred Astaire provides the narration, and the production us...

Rudolph's Shiny New Year is a 1976 stop-motion animated television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions. It continues the story of Rudolph from the earlier Christmas special and follows him as he searches for Happy, a missing baby New Year. The program uses the studio's stop-motion style and...

Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey is a 1977 stop-motion animated television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions. It presents a fictional origin story for Nestor, a donkey associated with the journey that carried Mary to Bethlehem. The program is structured as a Christmas story and is p...

Frosty’s Winter Wonderland is a 1976 animated Christmas television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions. It follows Frosty the Snowman after children create him again and introduces Crystal, a snow woman who becomes his companion. The special is a sequel to the 1969 television program Frosty...