Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook With Christmas dominating the thoughts of many this week, it’s never been a better time to stream ...

#10. The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974) | Directors: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. – IMDb user rating: 7.7 – Runtime: 51 minutes | Mickey Rooney voices Santa Claus in this stop-motion animation ...

More than five decades ago, Arthur Rankin Jr., a producer-director working in stop-motion animation, had an idea to develop a family-oriented TV special around a popular Christmas song. He hoped a ...

The Year Without a Santa Claus, a Christmas special from Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin, Jr., turns 50 this December But McGinley’s book had just the most basic story — about Santa wanting a year off ...

Arthur Rankin, Jr., one-half of the iconic animation duo Rankin/Bass, died on January 30th at his Harrington Sound, Bermuda home. He was 89. The news was first reported by his local paper The Royal ...