Rudolph the Red- Nosed Reindeer (TV special)Rudolph the Red- Nosed Reindeer is a 1. Christmasstop motionanimatedtelevision special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions and currently distributed by Universal Television. It first aired Sunday, December 6, 1. NBC television network in the United States, and was sponsored by General Electric under the umbrella title of The General Electric Fantasy Hour. The special was based on the Johnny Marks song . Since 1. 97. 2, the special has aired on CBS, with the network unveiling a high- definition, digitally remastered version of the program in 2. As with A Charlie Brown Christmas and How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Rudolph no longer airs just once annually, but several times during the Christmas and holiday season on CBS.

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Unlike other holiday specials that also air on several cable channels (including Freeform), Rudolph only airs on CBS. It has been telecast every year since 1. Christmas TV special in history. Claus and we see Mrs. Claus fussing over Santa as she wants him to fatten up by Christmas Eve.

Sam then goes onto tell the story of a year Christmas was almost cancelled due to a snowstorm and how a very special reindeer saved the day. Via flashback, we see Donner, Santa's lead reindeer, and his wife and their new baby fawn, Rudolph. Upon admiring him, they are surprised to see that Rudolph has been born with a glowing red nose. When Santa arrives, he warns Donner that Rudolph won't make the sleigh team because of his nose. Donner then decides to hide the nose by covering it with mud to allow Rudolph to fit in with all the other reindeer.

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A year later, Rudolph goes out to the reindeer games where all the other new fawns will be inspected by Santa and learn to pull his sleigh. During flight practice, Rudolph becomes acquainted with a beautiful doe named Clarice who tells him he's cute, which causes Rudolph to fly.

However, while engaging in celebratory play with the other bucks, Rudolph's fake nose pops off, causing the others to make fun of him. Rudolph is then told he can no longer play in the reindeer games. Walking away, Rudolph meets up with Hermey, an elf who ran away from Santa's workshop because he wanted to be a dentist instead of making toys, and they decide to run away together. The pair then meet a prospector named Yukon Cornelius, who has fruitlessly searched his whole life for silver and gold. After escaping the Abominable Snow Monster of the North on an iceberg, the trio crash land on the Island of Misfit Toys where unloved or unwanted toys live with their ruler, a winged lion named King Moonracer. The king allows the group to stay one night on the island in exchange for returning to Christmastown to ask Santa to find homes for the unwanted toys. However, Rudolph awakens in the night and leaves the island on his own due to his concern that his nose, which attracts the Abominable, will endanger his friends.

Years go by and Rudolph has grown into adulthood. Returning home, he finds that his parents and Clarice have been looking for him for months.

He sets out once again to find them, only to discover that they have been kidnapped by the Abominable Snow Monster. Rudolph tries to save Clarice from being eaten, but the monster hits him in the head with a stalactite, dazing him. Later, Hermey and Yukon return to Christmastown and go to save Rudolph. Hermey, oinking like a pig, lures the monster out of his cave and Yukon drops rocks on his head to knock him out. Hermey then pulls out all the monster's teeth.

Realizing that the Abominable is now defenseless, Yukon drives the toothless monster back, only to fall over the cliff with all his pack dogs. Mourning Yukon's death, Rudolph, Hermey, Clarice, and the Donners return home where everyone apologizes to them. After hearing their story, Santa welcomes the group back to Christmastown, promises that he'll find homes for the Misfit Toys, Hermey opens his own dentist's office, and Donner apologizes for being so hard on Rudolph.

Yukon then returns with a reformed Abominable Snow Monster whom he hired to be a tree decorator. Christmas Eve comes and while everybody's celebrating, Santa fears that he'll have to cancel Christmas if the storm doesn't let up. Santa is soon distracted by Rudolph's red nose and realizes that it's light could cut through the storm. He asks Rudolph to lead the sleigh and Rudolph agrees. The team then flies off to the island where the Misfit Toys to pick them up. The special ends with Santa wishing the viewers a merry Christmas as he and Rudolph fly off into the night. Santa's Workshop.

Her misfit problem is never explained on the special; many decades later, on NPR's Wait Wait! Muller told an interviewer shortly before his death that he would have preferred to base the teleplay on May's original book, but could not find a copy. Rankin claimed in 2. Rudolph figure. Eventually seven were discarded.

At that time, their appraised value was between $8,0. The puppets had been damaged through years of rough handling by children and storage in an attic. It includes the original end credits, where an elf drops presents which list all the technical credits. It also includes commercials which were exclusively for GE small appliances with some of the same animated elves from the main program introducing each of the products, and closing NBC network bumpers, including promos for the following week's episodes of GE College Bowl and Meet the Press, which were presumably pre- empted that Sunday for the inaugural 5: 3.

PM (EST) telecast. The College Bowl quiz show was also sponsored by GE. He can be seen throughout the special tossing his pickax into the air, sniffing, then licking the end that contacts the snow or ice. Discarded in 1. 96. Santa traveling to the Island of Misfit toys, the audience was left to assume that Cornelius was attempting to find either silver or gold by taste alone.

Viewers of the 1. Santa was not shown fulfilling his promise to the Misfit Toys (to include them in his annual toy delivery). In reaction, a new scene for subsequent rebroadcasts was produced with Santa making his first stop at the Island to pick up the toys. This is the ending that has been shown on all telecasts and video releases ever since.

Until sometime in the 1. In 1. 97. 8, several sequences were deleted to make room for more advertising: the instrumental bridge from . The special's 1. 99. The special has been edited to make more time for commercial advertising by shortening some musical numbers. CBS telecasts since 2. Additional cuts have been made for more commercial time. Home media. All current video prints of Rudolph by Classic Media are a compendium of the two previous telecast versions of the special.

All the footage in the current versions follow the original NBC airing (without the original GE commercials) up until the . In 2. 00. 0, it was released on DVD, and on Blu- ray Disc in 2.

Blu- ray does not contain the bonus features from the previous DVD release.) This edit has been made available in original color form by former rights holders Classic Media. In November 2. 01. Classic Media released a 5. Blu- ray. In addition to the songs previously mentioned, the score also includes the film's love theme . Marks' holiday standard .

Also included in the soundtrack is an instrumental version of Marks' setting of the Christmas hymn . It contained all the original songs performed as they are in the special, with the exception of Burl Ives' material, which has been re- recorded. MCA Special Products released the soundtrack on CD in June 1. It is an exact duplication of the original LP released in 1. Tracks 1- 9 are the original soundtrack selections while tracks 1. Underworld Blood Wars (2017) Ipod Download.

Decca Concert Orchestra. On November 3. 0, 2. Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for selling over 5. Ives re- recorded . Rich Goldschmidt, who wrote Rudolph the Red- Nosed Reindeer: The Making of the Rankin/Bass Holiday Classic, says the scripts by Romeo Muller show the spelling to be .