Little Drummer Boy

The Little Drummer Boy is an American stop-motion animated Christmas television special from the Rankin/Bass production house, taken from the song of the same name. It originally aired on the NBC television network and is now found in syndication on ABC Family. Please check our Christmas television schedule for actual show times.

Katherine K. Davis's simple song of a boy who has no gift for the newborn Jesus Christ and instead plays a drum for him needed a bit of fleshing out to become a beloved seasonal television special. Romeo Muller added a backstory of a boy who has come to hate the world because of the violence in his life, until the gratitude of the the baby Jesus erases the anger from him.