• The stop motion-animated Rankin/Bass Christmas classic Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is the longest-running holiday special on TV.CBS: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

• Fast Facts

  1. First aired: December 6, 1964
  2. Original network: NBC
  3. Has aired on CBS since 1972
  4. Voices include: Billie Mae Richards, Burl Ives, Paul Soles, Larry D. Mann, Stan Francis, Janet Orenstein
  5. Writers: Robert May and Romeo Muller
  6. Muller would go on to adapt another classic holiday tune for animated TV, Frosty the Snowman in 1969
  7. 2005: CBS released a high-definition, digitally remastered version of Rudolph
  8. Airs close to Christmas every December

• Synopsis

  The other reindeer in Christmastown don't make Rudolph feel very welcome and they constantly make fun of his shiny red nose. But when bad weather threatens to keep Santa Claus from making his annual toy-giving rounds, Rudolph is added to the team precisely for that bright nose, which guides Santa's sleigh like a beacon in the night.

• Background

  Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was originally written by Johnny Marks in 1939 as an advertising gimmick for a catalog and recorded 10 years later by Gene Autry.Christian Science Monitor: Rudolph, Charlie Brown not for kids anymore? (November 29, 2004)

• Trivia

  • The doll on the Island of Misfit toys was not physically broken, but was there because "She was cast off by her mistress and clinically depressed, and they didn't have Prozac back then" according to her creator Arthur Rankin Jr.Pittsburgh Tribune Review: Trivia about TV's Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (December 4, 2007)

  • The show was worked on in 4 different countries at the same time and took 18 months to create. It was developed in New York, the animation was created in Japan, the music was recorded in England and the voice actors were recorded in Canada.Pittsburgh Tribune Review: Trivia about TV's Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (December 4, 2007)

  • Each figure cost $5,000 to make.Pittsburgh Tribune Review: Trivia about TV's Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (December 4, 2007)

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