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 ...

From Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer to Tolkien tales, EW celebrates the inventive, festive, and timeless output of the classic animation studio. Perhaps the most famous Rankin/Bass production and one ...

For more than 20 years the Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass partnership produced some of TV's best-loved holiday specials. Below are some of the duo's more famous Christmas shows, all available on DVD ...

Every holiday season, we give thanks for Rankin/Bass, the team behind Christmas TV specials “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town.” The production company formed by ...

Of the five vintage TV Christmas specials that still command an annual network airing—Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer, A Charlie Brown Christmas, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, Frosty The Snowman, and ...

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 ...

Three years after producing 1964’s Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer but before going on to make other warm-hearted and sincere animated holiday standards like Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town, The Little ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The annual December television trend has begun. Year after year, we can count on the major ...

Rankin and Bass’ first Christmas special is still their most enduring and popular. Based on Robert L. May’s 1939 short story of the same title (originally written on behalf of department store ...