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• The stop motion animated film Rudolph's Shiny New Year serves as a sequel to the 1964 holiday classic Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. Off on another adventure to save the holiday season, this time Rudolph must help track down the missing Baby New Year. Rudolph's Shiny New Year will air on television five different times on ABC Family during the 2008 holiday season.

• Fast Facts

  1. Created by: Rankin-Bass
  2. Network: ABC
  3. First aired: 1976
  4. Starring: Red Skelton, Billie Mae Richards, Morey Amsterdam, Frank Gorshin, Paul Frees
  5. Rudolph and Santa Claus were the only characters from the original to return

• Quadruple Duty

  Paul Frees took on four voices for Rudolph's Shiny New Year; he played the roles of Aeon, Eon, Santa Claus and General Ticker. In the same year that Rudolph's Shiny New Year hit television screens, the appropriately named Frees also played Jack Frost in another Rankin-Bass production, the Frosty the Snowman sequel Frosty's Winter Wonderland.

• 2008 Air Dates

  • December 10 at 9pm/8c on ABC Family
  • December 11 at 7pm/6c on ABC Family
  • December 13 at 5pm/4c on ABC Family
  • December 21 at 7:30am/6:30c on ABC Family
  • December 24 at 4pm/3c on ABC Family

• Related Mahalo Pages

  Rankin Bass Christmas Specials | Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer | The Year Without a Santa Claus 1974 | Santa Claus is Comin' to Town | Christmas | ABC | Santa Claus | Frosty the Snowman | Frosty Returns | Frosty's Winter Wonderland | A Charlie Brown Christmas | Christmas Special Schedule

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