Twas the Night Before Christmas (1974 TV special)

Twas the Night Before Christmas is a 1974 animated Christmas television special produced by RankinBass Productions and based on the famous 1823 poem that opens with this line. The special first originally aired on CBS on December 8, 1974 where it aired annually until 1994, when The Family Channel now ABC Family took over its syndication rights.

The program is Set in the fictional town of Junctionville, NY around the turn of the 20th century. Santa Claus is offended by an anonymous letter printed in the towns newspaper and signed all of us claiming that he doesnt exist. In response, Santa returns the entire towns letters to them unopened. Upon reading the anonymous letter printed in the newspaper, Father Mouse voiced by George Gobel a mouse assistant to the human clockmaker Joshua Trundle voiced by Joel Grey, the credited narrator immediately suspects that his brainy son Albert is its author. Albert voiced by Tammy Grimes confirms his suspicions, repeating the letter verbatim to him.Father Mouse and the Trundle Family devise a plan to appease Santa by building a singing clock tower for him, built with a special recording to play a song to coax him not to bypass Junctionville on Christmas Eve. Unfortunately, Albert enters the clock to explore it without permission, and inadvertently damages it seriously, thus rendering it inoperable and seriously damaging Trundles professional reputation. Furthermore, the mayor voiced by John McGiver, publicly embarrassed at the clock towers failure, refuses to give the clockmaker access to it for repairs. ........

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