List of Rankin/Bass Productions films explained

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 post-September 1974 are owned by Warner Bros. Entertainment.

Television specials

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

Feature films

Title	Year	Directed by	Written by	Music	Animation Production	Style
Willy McBean and His Magic Machine	1965	Arthur Rankin Jr.	Arthur Rankin Jr.	Edward Thomas	MOM Production	Stop-motion
The Daydreamer	1966	Jules Bass		Maury Laws
Mad Monster Party?	1967		Len Korobkin Harvey Kurtzman
The Wacky World of Mother Goose			Romeo Muller	George Wilkins	TCJ Animation Center	Traditional
The Last Unicorn	1982	Arthur Rankin Jr. Jules Bass	Peter S. Beagle	Jimmy Webb	Topcraft
The King and I	1999	Richard Rich	Peter Bakalian Jacqueline Feather David Seidler	William Kidd	Rich Animation Studios

Animated TV series

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

Title	Year	Animation Production	Network	No. of episodes
The New Adventures of Pinocchio	1960	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 TigerSharks Street Frogs The Mini-Monsters Karate Kat	1987

Live-action productions

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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)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Return to Oz (1964) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast . AllMovie . December 9, 2012.
2. Web site: Burl Ives . Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast . AllMovie . December 9, 2012.
3. Web site: The Ballad of Smokey the Bear (1966) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast . AllMovie . November 24, 1966 . December 9, 2012.
4. Web site: Mouse on the Mayflower (1968) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast . AllMovie . December 9, 2012.
5. Web site: the Vienna Boys Choir . The Little Drummer Boy (1968) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast . AllMovie . December 9, 2012.
6. Web site: Jimmy Durante . Frosty the Snowman (1969) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast . AllMovie . December 9, 2012.
7. Web site: Santa Claus Is Coming to Town (1970) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast . AllMovie . December 9, 2012.
8. Web site: Here Comes Peter Cottontail (1971) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast . AllMovie . December 9, 2012.
9. Web site: The Emperor's New Clothes (1972) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast . AllMovie . February 21, 1972 . December 9, 2012.
10. Web site: Mad Mad Mad Monsters (1972) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast . AllMovie . December 9, 2012.
11. Web site: 'Twas the Night Before Christmas (1974) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast . AllMovie . December 9, 2012.
12. Web site: Jules Bass' . The Year without a Santa Claus (1974) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast . AllMovie . December 9, 2012.
13. Web site: The First Christmas (1975) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast . AllMovie . December 9, 2012.
14. Web site: The First Easter Rabbit (1976) . AllMovie . December 27, 2020.
15. Web site: Frosty's Winter Wonderland (1976) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast . AllMovie . December 9, 2012.
16. Web site: Rudolph's Shiny New Year (1976) . AllMovie . December 27, 2020.
17. Web site: Zero Mostel . The Little Drummer Boy: Book 2 (1976) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast . AllMovie . December 9, 2012.
18. Web site: The Easter Bunny Is Coming to Town (1977) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast . AllMovie . December 9, 2012.
19. Web site: The Hobbit (1978) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast . AllMovie . December 9, 2012.
20. Web site: Nestor the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey (1977) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast . AllMovie . December 9, 2012.
21. Web site: The Stingiest Man in Town (1978) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast . AllMovie . December 9, 2012.
22. Web site: Jack Frost (1979) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast . AllMovie . December 9, 2012.
23. Web site: The Return of the King (1980) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast . AllMovie . May 11, 1980 . December 9, 2012.
24. Web site: Pinocchio's Christmas (1980) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast . AllMovie . December 9, 2012.
25. Web site: Leprechaun's Christmas Gold (1981) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast . AllMovie . December 9, 2012.
26. Web site: The Flight of Dragons (1982) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast . AllMovie . December 9, 2012.
27. Web site: Mutations: The Coneheads briefly starred in a Rankin-Bass cartoon series. 2021-12-16. The Dissolve.
28. Web site: L. Frank Baum . The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (1985) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast . AllMovie . December 9, 2012.
29. Web site: The Wind in the Willows (1987) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast . AllMovie . July 5, 1987 . December 9, 2012.
30. Web site: The Enchanted World of Rankin-Bass News. 2021-12-16. www.rankinbass.com.