Of all the great things about television, the greatest is that it’s on every single day. TV history is being made, day in and day out, in ways big and small. In an effort to better appreciate this ...

Arthur Rankin, Jr. and Jules Bass have had the holiday cartoon market cornered since the 1960s. The creatives behind Rankin/Bass Productions cranked out an astonishing number of Christmas classics in ...

Every holiday season, we give thanks for Rankin/Bass, the team behind Christmas TV specials “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town.” The production company formed by ...

“Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer” has been a Christmastime TV classic since its debut in 1964. And while its characters like Yukon Cornelius, Bumble the abominable snowman and Hermie the dentist elf ...

The Rankin/Bass Productions specials remain a steady holiday watch tradition even all these decades later, but there are a few of them that deserve way more love than they get. Rankin/Bass Productions ...

Singing elves. Dancing snowmen. The awkward beauties of stop-motion animation. Yuletides threatened by mad professors, insane dictators, giant buzzards and Arab stereotypes. Welcome to the world of ...

Rankin and Bass’ first Christmas special is still their most enduring and popular. Based on Robert L. May’s 1939 short story of the same title (originally written on behalf of department store ...

With Christmas dominating the thoughts of many this week, it’s never been a better time to stream some classic holiday movies. The iconic offerings from Rankin/Bass jump to the forefront as many ...