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Jules Bass (September 16, 1935 - October 25, 2022) was an American director, producer, composer, and author, best known for the stop-motion holiday classics he created with partner Arthur Rankin, Jr.
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14 October 1972
A guardian angel agrees to help Willie Mays win the National League Pennant if Mays agrees to take care of Veronica, a lonely, mischievous orphan girl.
21 February 1972
Two con men convince a king that they have woven for him a suit made of magical cloth that only stupid or incompetent people are unable to see.
13 December 1976
Aaron, the drummer boy, struggles to protect a bellmaker's great silver bells from seizure by Roman s
07 April 1970
The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians is a 1970 American animated television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions.
15 April 1980
An ivory ape escapes from a freighter and makes its way to Bermuda. Two anthropologists want to save it, but the local authorities hire a big-game hunter to track it down and kill it.
19 December 1975
A young shepherd, Lucas, is blinded by lightening, and some kindly nuns at a nearby abbey take him in.
15 November 1983
The Irresponsible Toad is in a mess and needs help from his friends try and save Toad Hall.
01 July 2011
Three young women vacationing in Paris find themselves whisked away to Monte Carlo after one of the girls is mistaken for a British heiress.
19 November 1982
A unicorn learns from a riddle-speaking butterfly that she is supposedly the last of her kind, all the others having been herded away by the monstrous Red Bull.
23 November 1968
The famous ship called Mayflower is trapped amidst a huge storm. The entire story is narrated by a church-mouse called Willum, from his viewpoint.
27 November 1977
The story follows the adventures of Bilbo Baggins, a diminutive creative who resides in a place called Middle-Earth before he is compelled to go on a quest to find a treasure buried deep in the heart of the Lonely Mountain.
13 January 1973
Anne Marie imagines herself in the stories "Alice in Wonderland," "Goldilocks and the Three Bears," "Hansel and Gretel," "The Wizard of Oz," and "Cinderella".
07 December 1969
A discarded silk top-hat becomes the focus of a struggle between a washed-up stage magician and a group of schoolchildren, after it magically brings a snowman to life.
06 December 1964
Sam the snowman tells us the story of a young red-nosed reindeer who, after being ousted from the reindeer games because of his glowing nose, teams up with Hermey, an elf who wants to be a dentist, and Yukon Cornelius, the prospector.
01 December 1973
A combination of live action and animation chronicinge the great journey of Marco Polo to the mysterious Orient.
11 May 1980
Two Hobbits struggle to destroy the Ring in Mount Doom while their friends desperately fight evil Lord Sauron's forces in a final battle.
17 August 1982
The realm of magic is being threatened by the realm of logic, so the green wizard, Carolinus, decides to shield it for all time.
19 December 1968
After being kidnapped and escaping, young drummer boy Aaron searches for his camel and finds him in the Nativity of the Baby Jesus.
10 December 1974
Feeling forgotten by the children of the world, old St. Nick decides to skip his gift-giving journey and take a vacation.
13 December 1970
A postman, S.D. Kluger, decides to answer some of the most common questions about Santa Claus, and tells us about a baby named Kris who is raised by a family of elf toymakers named Kringle.
27 January 1978
Scientists pursuing the mysteries of the deep are threatened by a beautiful girl who seems to have returned from the dead and by a prehistoric sea creature that dwells in the deadly Bermuda Triangle.
08 March 1967
When Dr Frankenstein decides to retire from the monster-making business, he calls an international roster of monsters to a creepy convention to elect his successor.
07 July 1977
Wealthy big game hunter (Boone), along with his group, gets trapped in pre-historic times where they are stalked by a ferocious dinosaur.
01 June 1966
A young Hans Christian Andersen goes in search of knowledge in the Garden of Paradise in order to make his studies easier.
27 May 1983
In this version of Oscar Wilde's tale, Dorian Gray is an actress who, desperate to become a worldwide star, makes a deal that switches her soul to her image on film, then proceeds to sleep and connive her way to the top, knowing that her screen test, and not she, will show the ravishes of time and of her immoral transgressions.
28 June 1983
In this animated pilot based on the SNL sketch, The Coneheads come to conquer Earth but they soon find themselves becoming domesticated.
02 December 1976
Years have passed since Frosty left for the North Pole, but his promise is kept when he hears news of the first snowfall of the season, and decides to return.
19 June 1981
A steel samurai blade that was to be given to the American ambassador by the Emperor of Japan is stolen.
01 July 1979
Winterbolt is trying to make the North Pole his evil wonderland, and it is up to Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and others to stop him.
04 April 1971
Peter Cottontail wants to be the #1 chief Easter Bunny, and everyone in April Valley agrees...except for Evil Irontail.
13 December 1979
Pardon-me Pete, the official groundhog of Groundhog Day, tells the story of Jack Frost, who falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begs Father Winter to make him human so that she can see him.
18 December 1967
A delightful, animated musical version of Charles Dickens' classic tale. A Cricket on the Hearth, tells the story of a poor toymaker and his daughter whom a helpful Cricket named Crocket befriends on Christmas morning.
23 December 1978
An animated adaptation of A Christmas Carol from Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass -- the duo behind some of the most enduring Christmas specials ever (including Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer).
23 June 1965
Little Willy McBean joins up with a Mexican monkey named Pablo to travel back in time and stop the evil Prof.
08 December 1974
When a town learns that Santa Claus has struck it off his delivery schedule due to an insulting letter, a way must be found to change his mind.
03 December 1977
Nestor the donkey is a bit of an oddity--his long ears are enough for six donkeys and stretch all the way to the ground.
17 December 1985
The Great Ak calls a council of the Immortals to ask that Santa Claus be given immortality. And to justify it, he tells the history of Santa Claus.
10 December 1976
Rudolph must find Happy, the baby new year, before the midnight of New Year's Eve.
09 December 1972
This animated feature casts the Red Baron as a hero, in a world of heroic anthropomorphic dogs and villainous anthropomorphic cats.
29 October 1972
A leprechaun, who had changed himself into a pumpkin seed to hibernate for the winter, comes to life as Mr.
09 April 1976
A beloved toy stuffed rabbit is rescued by a fairy to be the first Easter Rabbit.
06 April 1977
The Mailman decides to stop another deluge of letters by answering questions about the Easter Bunny: Sunny, a baby rabbit found and adopted by Kidville (a town of only kids--even a kid mailman).
17 December 1972
With the help of Charles Dickens, two young children attempt to save the essence of Christmas from the evil Mantu.
23 June 1986
The next generation of superheroes has arrived... SILVERHAWKS. They fly on silver winds - they fight with nerves of steel.
03 December 1980
As Geppetto prepares for Christmas, Pinocchio joins a puppet show to earn money for a present. There he meets and elopes with the beautiful girl puppet, Julietta, leaving Geppetto alone and worried.
02 December 1967
In this animated children's film, Mother Goose and her fairytale friends must stop a group of sneaky spies.
11 December 2006
Thoroughly disgruntled, Santa opts to take a year off from delivering presents, until a young man helps him rediscover the meaning of the holidays.
09 February 1964
Rather than adapt a later or create a new Oz story, this production has Dorothy still in posession of the shoes, and she clings to an apple tree during a tornado which takes her back to Oz.
23 December 1981
Sent in search of a Christmas tree, cabin boy Dinty Doyle lands on a mysterious, uncharted Irish island where he accidentally releases a bad-tempered banshee from her pine tree prison.
24 November 1966
"Ballad of Smokey the Bear" tells the story of how Smokey got his name. Smokey and his forest friends encounter a creature they've never seen before that is starting fires.
23 September 1972
All of Universal's greatest classic monsters gather at the Transylvania Astoria Hotel for Frankenstein's monster and his bride's Friday the 13th midnight wedding.
11 February 1973
Part of the animated anthology series 'Festival of Family Classics' by Rankin/Bass Productions, this adaptation follows a blonde, pig-tailed Alice as she visits the bewildering world of Wonderland.
06 December 2011
Snarf is in charge of watching Baby Lion-O. When a butterfly catches Baby Lion-O's attention, he follows it through town, narrowly avoiding disaster along the way.
