List of Rankin/Bass Productions films

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Rankin/Bass Productions was an American production company, best known for its animated seasonal television specials. Television series and films pre-1974 are owned by NBCUniversal through DreamWorks Animation, and those aftr September 1974 are owned by Warner Bros. Entertainment through Telepictures.

Television specials

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Title Year Directed by Written by Music Animation Production Style Network Ref
Return to Oz 1964 F.R. Crawley
Thomas Glynn
Larry Roemer		 Romeo Muller Gene Forrell
Edward Thomas
James Polack		 Crawley Films Traditional NBC [1]
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Larry Roemer Johnny Marks MOM Production Stop-motion [2]
The Ballad of Smokey the Bear 1966 Joseph Schrank [3]
The Cricket on the Hearth 1967 Arthur Rankin, Jr.
Jules Bass		 Romeo Muller
Arthur Rankin Jr.		 Maury Laws TCJ Animation Center Traditional [4]
The Mouse on the Mayflower 1968 Romeo Muller Toei Animation [5]
The Little Drummer Boy Colin Romoff MOM Production Stop-motion [6]
Frosty the Snowman 1969 Maury Laws
Jack Rollins
Steve Nelson		 Mushi Production Traditional CBS [7]
The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians 1970 Maury Laws ABC [citation needed]
Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town Jules Bass
Maury Laws		 Video Tokyo Production Stop-motion [8]
Here Comes Peter Cottontail 1971 Jack Rollins [9]
Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes 1972 Maury Laws [10]
Mad Mad Mad Monsters[a] William J. Keenan
Lou Silverstone		 Mushi Production Traditional [11]
Willie Mays and the Say-Hey Kid[a] Romeo Muller Topcraft [12]
The Red Baron[a] Leonard Starr [13]
That Girl in Wonderland[a] 1973 Stu Hample [14]
'Twas the Night Before Christmas 1974 Jerome Coopersmith CBS [15]
The Year Without a Santa Claus William J. Keenan Video Tokyo Production Stop-motion ABC [16]
The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow 1975 Julian P. Gardner NBC [17]
The First Easter Rabbit 1976 Topcraft Traditional [18]
Frosty's Winter Wonderland Romeo Muller Jack Rollins
Steve Nelson		 ABC [19]
Rudolph's Shiny New Year Johnny Marks Video Tokyo Production Stop-motion [20]
The Little Drummer Boy: Book II Julian P. Gardner Maury Laws NBC [21]
The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town 1977 Romeo Muller ABC [22]
The Hobbit[b] Topcraft Traditional NBC [23]
Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey Video Tokyo Production Stop-motion ABC [24]
The Stingiest Man in Town 1978 Fred Spielman Topcraft Traditional NBC [25]
Jack Frost 1979 Maury Laws Video Tokyo Production Stop-motion [26]
The Return of the King[c] 1980 Maury Laws Topcraft Traditional ABC [27]
Pinocchio's Christmas Video Tokyo Production Stop-motion [28]
The Leprechauns' Christmas Gold 1981 [29]
The Flight of Dragons 1982 Topcraft Traditional [30]
The Coneheads[d] 1983 Al Franken
Tom Davis		 Bernard Hoffer NBC [31]
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus[e] 1985 Julian P. Gardner Pacific Animation Corporation Stop-motion CBS [32]
The Wind in the Willows[f] 1987 Romeo Muller Maury Laws Cuckoo's Nest Traditional ABC [33]
Santa, Baby! 2001 Lee Dannacher Peter Bakalian
Suzanne Collins		 Glen Roven Pacific Animation Corporation
Hanho Heung-Up		 Fox [34]
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Feature films

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Title Year Directed by Written by Music Animation Production Style Distribution
Willy McBean and His Magic Machine 1965 Arthur Rankin Jr. Arthur Rankin Jr. Edward Thomas MOM Production Stop-motion Magna Pictures Distribution Corporation
The Daydreamer 1966 Jules Bass Maury Laws Embassy Pictures
Mad Monster Party? 1967 Len Korobkin
Harvey Kurtzman
The Wacky World of Mother Goose Romeo Muller George Wilkins TCJ Animation Center Traditional
Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July 1979 Arthur Rankin Jr.
Jules Bass		 Johnny Marks
Maury Laws		 Video Tokyo Production Stop-motion Avco Embassy Pictures (limited)
ABC (television)
The Last Unicorn 1982 Peter S. Beagle Jimmy Webb Topcraft Traditional Jensen Farley Pictures
The King and I 1999 Richard Rich Peter Bakalian
Jacqueline Feather
David Seidler		 William Kidd Rich Animation Studios Traditional Warner Bros. Pictures
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Animated TV series

With the exception of The New Adventures of Pinocchio (stop-motion), all of the TV shows were traditionally animated.

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Title Year Animation Production Network No. of
episodes
The New Adventures of Pinocchio 1961 MOM Production Syndication 130
Tales of the Wizard of Oz 1961 Crawley Films 110
The King Kong Show 1966 Toei Animation ABC 26
The Smokey Bear Show 1969 17
The Tomfoolery Show 1970 Halas and Batchelor NBC
The Reluctant Dragon & Mr. Toad Show Mushi Production ABC
Jackson 5ive 1971 Halas and Batchelor
Pegbar Production		 23
The Osmonds 1972 Halas and Batchelor 17
Kid Power Topcraft
Festival of Family Classics Mushi Production (17 episodes)
Topcraft (3 episodes)		 Syndication 20
ThunderCats 1985 Pacific Animation Corporation 130
SilverHawks 1986 65
The Comic Strip 1987
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Live-action productions

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Title Year Directed by Written by Music Distribution
King Kong Escapes 1967 Ishirō Honda Takeshi Kimura Akira Ifukube Universal Pictures (theatrical)
Marco 1973 Seymour Robbie Romeo Muller Maury Laws Cinerama Releasing Corporation (theatrical)
The Last Dinosaur 1977 Alexander Grasshoff
Shusei Kotani		 William Overgard ABC (television)
The Bermuda Depths 1978 Tom Kotani
The Ivory Ape 1980 Bernard Hoffer
Maury Laws
The Bushido Blade 1981 Maury Laws Aquarius Releasing (theatrical)
The Sins of Dorian Gray 1983 Tony Maylam Ken August
Peter Lawrence		 Bernard Hoffer ABC (television)
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Notes

  1. [a]
    Originally aired as part of The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie.
  2. [b]
    The Hobbit (1977) is based on the 1937 novel of the name, written by J. R. R. Tolkien.
  3. [c]
    The Return of the King (1980) is based on the 1955 volume of The Lord of the Rings novel of the same name, written by J. R. R. Tolkien.
  4. [d]
    The Coneheads (1983) is based on the Coneheads sketches from Saturday Night Live, first airing in 1977.
  5. [e]
    The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (1985) is based on the 1902 children's story of the same name, written by L. Frank Baum.
  6. [f]
    The Wind in the Willows (1987) is based on the 1908 children's story of the same name, written by Kenneth Grahame.

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