All your favorite animated Christmas classics are coming to the TV. Arthur Rankin and Jules Bass’ animated holiday specials have all the classics like “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” “Frosty the ...

Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin Jr., who died in 2014, produced Christmas stop motion classics like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Jack Frost and The Little Drummer Boy Jules Bass, the director behind ...

The red-nosed reindeer sets out in a midnight fog to find Happy, the New Year baby.

I love the holiday season, especially all the best Christmas movies that I sit around and watch with my family. Among the ones I love are the Rankin and Bass claymation movies that are so delightfully ...

Jules Bass, whose work as a producer and director of stop-motion and animated television specials such as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town and The Year Without A Santa ...

Arthur Rankin, Jr. and Jules Bass have had the holiday cartoon market cornered since the 1960s. The creatives behind Rankin/Bass Productions cranked out an astonishing number of Christmas classics in ...

Thanksgiving is Thursday - already - which means one thing: ABC Family will soon begin its “25 Days of Christmas” programming, complete with the classic Rankin/Bass specials from the 1960s and ’70s.

We watch them every year on television, the timeless holiday specials created by the now-defunct Rankin/Bass Productions. Arthur Rankin, Jr. and Jules Bass are best known for producing some of the ...

Rankin/Bass released some 17 Christmas specials for television, starting in 1964 with “Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and ending in 1985 with “The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus.” Most of these ...

If you’re prone to picturing your favorite Christmas characters as stop-motion puppets, you can thank Rankin/Bass. The production company founded by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass found success in ...

Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town (8 p.m., ABC) - This 1970 Rankin Bass stop-motion classic is maybe the greatest Christmas special ever created (my opinion, but I’m right). Fred Astaire explains the ...

The Christmas classics are back on the TV. Arthur Rankin and Jules Bass’ animated holiday specials have all the Christmas favorites like “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” “Frosty the Snowman,” and ...