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The Year Without a Santa Claus
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Based on
The Year Without a Santa Claus by Phyllis McGinley
Written by
William Keenan
Directed by
Jules Bass Arthur Rankin Jr.
Voices of
Shirley Booth Mickey Rooney Dick Shawn George S. Irving
Narrated by
Shirley Booth
Composer
Maury Laws
Country of origin
United States Japan
Production
Producers
Jules Bass Arthur Rankin Jr.
Cinematography
Akikazu Kono Ichiro Komuro
Running time
51 mins
Production company
Rankin/Bass Productions
Original release
Network
ABC
Release
December 10, 1974 (1974-12-10)
Related
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)[a]
Frosty the Snowman (1969)[b]
Santa Claus is Comin' to Town (1970)[c]
Here Comes Peter Cottontail (1971)[d]
'Twas the Night Before Christmas (1974)[e]
The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974)[f]
The First Easter Rabbit (1976)[g]
Frosty's Winter Wonderland (1976)[h]
Rudolph's Shiny New Year (1976)[i]
The Easter Bunny is Comin' to Town (1977)[j]
Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey (1977)[k]
The Stingiest Man in Town (1978)[l]
Jack Frost (1979)[m]
Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July (1979)[n]
Pinocchio's Christmas (1980)[o]
Frosty Returns (1992)[p]
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys (2001)[q]
The Legend of Frosty the Snowman (2005)[r]
A Miser Brothers' Christmas (2008)[s]
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The Year Without a Santa Claus is a 1974 stop motion animated Christmas television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions. The story is based on Phyllis McGinley's 1956 book of the same name. It is narrated by Shirley Booth (her final acting credit before her retirement from acting) and starring the voices of Mickey Rooney, Dick Shawn, and George S. Irving.[1] It was originally broadcast on December 10, 1974, on ABC.[2]
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^Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. pp. 348–349. ISBN 9781476672939.
^Woolery, George W. (1989). Animated TV Specials: The Complete Directory to the First Twenty-Five Years, 1962-1987. Scarecrow Press. pp. 461–463. ISBN 0-8108-2198-2. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
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