Twas the Night Before Christmas, is a 1974 Rankin-Bass animated Christmas television special based on the famous 1823 poem that opens with this line. The special originally aired on the CBS network on December 8, 1974.
Set in the fictional town of Junctionville, NY around the turn of the century (in a world where humans and intelligent humanoid mice apparently openly interact, at least on a professional basis), Santa Claus is offended by an anony...
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Twas the Night Before Christmas, is a 1974 Rankin-Bass animated Christmas television special based on the famous 1823 poem that opens with this line. The special originally aired on the CBS network on December 8, 1974.
Set in the fictional town of Junctionville, NY around the turn of the century (in a world where humans and intelligent humanoid mice apparently openly interact, at least on a professional basis), Santa Claus is offended by an anonymous letter printed in the town's newspaper (and signed "all of us") claiming that he doesn't exist. In response, Santa returns the entire town's letters to him unopened. Upon reading the anonymous letter printed in the newspaper, Father Mouse (voiced by George Gobel) — a mouse assistant to the human clockmaker Joshua Trundle (voiced by Joel Grey, the credited narrator) — immediately suspects that his brainy son Albert is its author. Albert (voiced by Tammy Grimes) confirms his suspicions, repeating the letter verbatim to him.
Father Mouse and...
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