Poll of the Day > Best of The Rankin/Bass Christmas Specials

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I have a hard time deciding.
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Little Drummer Boy.
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fishy071 posted...

I have a hard time deciding.

Well take your time, I will try and keep this topic till Dec 25th.

Fierce_Deity_08 posted...

Little Drummer Boy.

Always enjoyed that one, not on the list (would fall under other) as I did the top 9 according to IMDb, as there is 14 or 15 movies from them, so I just did the first 9 on the list they showed.
But my favorite is Santa Claus is coming to town. Its the one I always loved watching as a kid

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"Santa Claus is Comin' to Town" and "The Year Without A Santa Claus" are probably my two favorites but I'm a fan of just about all of them. The ones I found less entertaining when I was a young child became more interesting to me as I grew older.

One I always seemed to like more than other people I know is "The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus." I get that some people find that one somewhat unusual but I always found it really exciting and a fascinating version of the story. The story is actually based on a book of the same name by L. Frank Baum, who also wrote the Wizard of Oz books.

I've already managed to catch three from this list on TV this year: "The Year Without A Santa Claus," "'Twas the Night Before Christmas," and "The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow." I've also seen (so far this year) "The Little Drummer Boy," "The Little Drummer Boy: Part 2," "Rudolph's Shiny New Year," "Frosty Returns," and "Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July." Hopefully I'll see some more on later.

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I just saw "Jack Frost" on TV today

I also saw the Rankin/Bass Frosty sequel again and realized it is not, as I wrote before, called "Frosty Returns," but is actually called "Frosty's Winter Wonderland." It's the one where they build Frosty a wife and he gets married (they also build a "snowparson" to perform the ceremony). I got the title confused with a different special, which was not actually made by Rankin/Bass. It's the one where John Goodman is the voice of Frosty.

I also saw yet another Frosty sequel today that I hadn't seen before. It's a completely different animation style than either the Rankin/Bass specials or Frosty Returns, but it actually makes explicit references to characters in the original Rankin/Bass Frosty the Snowman. This time Frosty was voiced by Bill Fagerbakke, the same person who voices Patrick in SpongeBob Squarepants.

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Of course I'd be partial to 'Twas the Night Before Christmas.



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