The popularity of ThunderCats resulted in two follow-up series, SilverHawks and TigerSharks (the third appearing along with three other shows as The Comic Strip). The best known is probably ThunderCats other series from the studio included Tales of the Wizard of Oz, The King Kong Show, The Jackson 5ive and The Osmonds. Rankin/Bass also produced non-holiday Animated Shows. While some of the specials use traditional cel animation, most of them feature a puppet-based Stop Motion technique known as "Animagic". Very likely a majority of the characters were voiced by Paul Frees. The general formula of these holiday specials was to take one or more classic holiday songs and to build a script (usually by staff writer Romeo Muller) around the music, featuring a celebrity narrator as an Ink-Suit Actor in the story and interspersing it with original songs with music by Maury Laws and lyrics by co-producer/co-director Jules Bass. Such titles as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town, The Year Without a Santa Claus, and Here Comes Peter Cottontail have been shown more or less annually since they first aired, and many subsequent holiday specials produced by other companies will contain homages to these shows. and Jules Bass in 1960 as Videocraft International, the New York City-based studio is responsible for a series of animated holiday specials that are virtual fixtures of seasonal television programming. If you're an American and have had a childhood since the 1960s, then you know Rankin/Bass Productions.įounded by Arthur Rankin Jr.
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