Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every holiday season, we give thanks for Rankin/Bass, the team behind Christmas TV specials "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and ...

If you’re prone to picturing your favorite Christmas characters as stop-motion puppets, you can thank Rankin/Bass. The production company founded by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass found success in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rankin/Bass released some 17 Christmas specials for television, starting in 1964 with "Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and ending ...

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 ...

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 ...

From Rudolph to Frosty, no production company has done more to flood the airwaves with Christmas specials than Rankin/Bass Productions. Founded by Arthur Rankin, Jr. and Jules Bass, Rankin/Bass ...

While Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass may have encouraged everyone to get along and not to play favorites, we don’t care. It’s time to pick the best and the worst of the timeless, beloved, December ...

Of the five vintage TV Christmas specials that still command an annual network airing—Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer, A Charlie Brown Christmas, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, Frosty The Snowman, and ...

If you grew up anytime between the 1960s and the 1980s, then you are no doubt familiar with the extensive and peculiar world of Rankin/Bass. The production company dominated the holiday special genre ...

The animation company he ran with Arthur Rankin Jr. gave the world “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” “Frosty the Snowman” and much more. By Richard Sandomir See more of our coverage in your search ...

IndieWire reached out to a number of current animators about the eternal appeal of the Rankin/Bass stop motion and animated holiday specials like "Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer" and "Jack Frost." ...