The only shortcoming is that occasionally the story does get a bit bizarre (even for Rankin-Bass) and the elves are a bit annoying to adults-though kids probably won't notice or want to kill them. The film is lovely to look at-with excellent stop-motion animation. Claus also comes to help and ends up making visits to the Snow Miser and his brother the Heat Miser-two totally bizarre creations of R-B Studios who have nothing to do with the holiday but they do dance to a really rocking song. To make this choice even worse, she sends them with a young and fragile reindeer and soon they get into trouble-so much that Santa must come to the rescue. She picks two very nice but seriously dumb elves to go on a mission to find out what kids REALLY think about Christmas. The Year Without a Santa Claus: When old Santa takes a year off Have you been told.
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Claus is worried but instead of trying to persuade him to deliver toys, she concocts a stupid plan. Featured in the 1974 holiday classic TV special, The Year Without a Santa Claus, the brothers voiced by actors George S Irving (Heat Miser) and Dick Shawn (Snow Miser) memorably performed their signature tunes, with their minions as backup singers. The Year Without a Santa Claus by Phyllis McGinley, Kurt Werth (Illustrator) 4.10 Rating details 255 ratings 47 reviews Get A Copy Kindle Unlimited 0.00 Amazon Stores Libraries Or buy for 3.99 Hardcover Published January 1st 1957 by HarperCollins Children's Books (first published 1956) More Details. Instead of seeking therapy or anti-depressants, he decides to just skip Christmas this time-after all, he thinks no one really cares about the holiday any more. The score includes such holiday favorites as.
The plot involves Santa having Seasonal Affective Disorder-in other words, he's depressed. Animated fantasy about a saddened Santa who decides not to make his annual ride. The Year Without a Santa Claus isn't quite as magical as the earlier specials and it is quite bizarre in some ways, but it is still among the studio's better films. A few, such as Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and Santa Claus is Coming to Town are true classics and a few are really milking the franchise a bit too much (such as Rudolph's Shiny New Year and Rudolph and the Island of Misfit Toys). The 1960s and 70s brought the world several wonderful Christmas specials from Rankin-Bass.
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