The Year Without a Santa Claus

The Year Without a Santa Claus is a 1974 Christmas stop motion animated television special produced by RankinBass Productions. The story is based on Phyllis McGinleys 1956 book of the same name, illustrated by Kurt Werth. It was originally broadcast December 10, 1974 on ABC.

The elves take Vixen, but they are shot down between the Miser Bros. fortresses. Traveling on, they become lost in Southtown, a small town in the Southern United States. They receive a citation from a policeman for riding a vixen the wrong way on a oneway street, crossing the white line, and wearing funnylooking clothes on a Sunday. They try to disguise Vixen as a dog, but Vixen is captured and sent to the dog pound, where she becomes very sick. They befriend a boy named Ignatius Iggy Thistlewhite and visit the skeptical Mayor of Southtown. The Mayor laughs hysterically at their story but agrees to free Vixen if Jingle and Jangle prove that they are elves by making it snow in Southtown on Christmas Day.On their behalf, Mrs. Claus visits the Miser Bros. to ask Snow Miser to make it snow in Southtown. Snow Miser declares that the town is under Heat Misers control. Mrs. Claus proposes a compromise. Heat Miser will agree only if Snow Miser will surrender the North Pole to his control. When Snow Miser refuses, Mrs. Claus appeals to their mother, Mother Nature, who forces them to compromise. ........

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