Mickey Rooney stars as the tired and disillusioned Santa Claus. Shirley Booth, winner of an Academy Award for “Come Back Little Sheba” and a Tony Award for “Time of the Cuckoo,” narrates the story, and steps into the cast as Mrs. That changes his mind about taking a holiday on Christmas much to everyone’s joy. Santa, disguised in ordinary civilian clothes, goes after them.įor a while, things look very grim for Santa and the elves, but eventually, he does run into some people who haven’t lost the Christmas spirit. Snow Miser controls the northern part of the world, and attempts to turn everything into icicles and Heat Miser, his nasty brother, tries to keep the south so hot that there are never any snowflakes. Santa is very upset when he learns where the two elves are headed, because he is worried about them getting into a mess of trouble with Snow Miser and Heat Miser. They hop aboard the littlest reindeer of Santa’s team, Vixen, for the long journey. Claus is distressed about this bit of news and sends Santa’s head elf, Jingle Bells, and his number two elf, Jangle Bells, “down there” to find an example of Christmas spirit to bring back and thereby convince Santa that all is right with the world. The musical tale tells of the year Santa Claus woke with a cold and decided that instead of climbing into his sleigh and delivering gifts to people who didn’t believe in him anyway, he would just stay in bed and catch up on his sleep. The show will feature the vocal talents of Shirley Booth, Mickey Rooney, Dick Shawn and George S. The program will be presented in Animagic, the unique three-dimensional process, created by Rankin-Bass Productions, which combines stop-motion photography with animation. “The Year Without a Santa Claus,” based on a story by the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Phyllis McGinley, will be presented as a Christmas special on the ABC television network as an addition to the holiday season schedule. The Year Without a Santa Claus: When old Santa takes a year off Let’s hear a “Ho, ho, ho” for two of the most memorable characters from the stop-motion animated Christmas specials of the seventies: Heat Miser & Snow Miser.įeatured 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.
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