Favorite Holiday specials?

[Mikey]

Back in the 70's there was a Christmas cartoon that had animals that could talk the night Jesus was born.

They never show it on TV anymore

Maybe I dreamed it

[Hedji]

Academy Award Winner, 1972, Best Animated Film.

Criminally overlooked. Impossible to find on Home Video. Yet lavishly animated. Every frame is a masterpiece of linework.

Richard Williams / Chuck Jones version of A Christmas Carol.

[Werewolf]

One of my favorites is pretty obscure these days-A Cosmic Christmas from 1977...

Wowzers, I actually remember that. That reminds me, all the Nelvana specials in the 70s were pretty trippy.

[MRP]

One of my favorites is pretty obscure these days-A Cosmic Christmas from 1977...



A Year without a Santa Clause is another favorite from when I was a kid.


Another favorite is the Bloom County Christmas special-A Wish for Wings that Work, but that's from my college years not childhood, and I was big into Bill and Opus when I was at university though I got into that strip in high school.

I love some of the classics too-Charlie Brown (the Vince Guaraldi Trio soundtrack is my favorite Christmas music), Rudolph, Frosty especially.

-M

[PNGwynne]

The ones I can never pass up:

*A Charlie Brown Christmas

*How the Grinch Stole Christmas (the original animated special)

*The Year Without a Santa Claus

Hon. Mention: Santa Claus is Coming to Town

[Werewolf]

Here's some of mine.

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
A Garfield Christmas
He-Man and She-Ra a Christmas special "I am not nice, I am not kind and I am not wonderful."

And of the newer ones I really like the two Prep and Landing specials.