The Year Without a Santa Claus/Shiny New Year/Nestor

Family, Rated-G, 1Disc/00:00
Content: TV Specials 00:00, Extras 0:00
- The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974, Animagic) 50:45
- Rudolph's Shiny New Year (1976, Animagic) 50:01
- Nestor, The Long-Eared Christmas Donkey (1977, Animagic) 24:22
- We are Santa's Elves - Rankin/Bass Documentary 16:34
- School of Stop Motion - the Chiodo Brothers 9:37
The Year Without a Santa Claus (IMDB Yahoo All Bcdb Moviemistakes): Crew - Shirley Booth (Mrs Claus, Narrator), Mickey Rooney (Santa). Details - Feeling exhausted and unappreciated by the children of the world, Santa Claus decides to take a year off from Christmas. Unable to rouse him from his sickbed, Mrs. Claus sends elves Jingle and Jangle and the reindeer Vixen to bring back proof that children still hold faith and admiration for Christmas (Yahoo Movies summary).
Rudolph's Shiny New Year (IMDB Yahoo All CBS): Crew - fill in. Details - Feeling (Yahoo Movies summary).
Nestor, The Long-Eared Christmas Donkey (IMDB Yahoo All CBS): Crew - fill in. Details - Feeling (Yahoo Movies summary).
Eggs: None. Factoids:
1. The Year Without a Santa Claus is loosely based on Phyllis McGinley's 1956 book, illustrated by Kurt Werth.
2. In The Year Without a Santa Claus when Jingle, Jangle, and Mrs. Claus pay a visit to Mother Nature, Mother Nature calls her sons beside her - Snow Miser and Heat Miser. She then turns to Snow Miser and asks him to allow a little snow fall in the South, and then turns to his brother, Heat Miser, and asks to allow just "one Spring day at the North Pole." The words are correct dialog, but she should have said each of those lines to the other brother.
3. In The Year Without a Santa Claus when Mrs. Claus first visits Snow Miser, he refers to Heat Miser as his "step-brother" but if they are both Mother Nature's sons, he would be his half-brother.
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