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Romeo Muller (writer)
Release Date:
10 December 1976 (USA) more
Plot:
Rudolph must find for Happy, the baby New Year, before midnight, New Year's Eve. full summary | add synopsis
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One of the first things I saw as a little kid- and it can stick with you more (13 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Red Skelton | ... | Father Time / Baby Bear (voice) | |
| Frank Gorshin | ... | Sir Ten-To-Three (voice) | |
| Morey Amsterdam | ... | One Million (O.M) (voice) | |
| Harold Peary | ... | Big Ben (voice) | |
| Paul Frees | ... | Santa Claus / Eon / General Ticker / Seventeen Seventy Six 'Sev' (voice) | |
| Billie Mae Richards | ... | Rudolph (voice) | |
| Don Messick | ... | Papa Bear (voice) | |
| Iris Rainer | ... | (voice) |
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USA:60 min
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Red Skelton recreated his popular radio character "Junior" for the voice of the Baby Bear on Fairy Tale Island. more
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Sir Ten-To-Three:
Oddsbodkins! Methinks that sounds like...
One Million:
Me thinks, too. Sounds like, looks like, smells like... It is!
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Referenced in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Pod People (#4.3)" (1991) more
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Have a Little Faith in Me more
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Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Rudolph's Shiny New Year (1976) (TV)| Recent Posts (updated daily) | User |
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| When Happy falls off Eon... | StephG72 |
| Rudolph is no hero... | carniveroushamster |
| First Post! | Sixteencandles77 |
| Which New Year? | bgrubb |
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Rudolph's Shiny New Year can be striking, and entertaining, if you're watching it when you're little - little enough that by the time you're my age you have no clear memory of the first time you watched it, just that you did over and over. As a kid you get introduced to claymation someway or another (even those of today who don't have Gumby get Wallace and Gromit), and this plays for a fine hour for the little ones, but can perhaps be of worth for the parents here and there. The story of Rudolph saving the "baby new-year" from the clutches of Eon, a vulture looking to keep December 31st on a loop, is pretty simple, with conflicts and characters that are typical and funny enough to take. But what can be memorable for a child is how some of this special is dark (with Eon) when it's not cute (most scenes with the baby). It's also interesting as a kind of sequel-cum-remake of the original Rudolph story, as the baby has to contend with having big ears- something that a child might find more relatable than a shiny nose. The songs are also a bit of a treat, if dated, and Red Skeleton does a fine double-job with the voicing of Father time and the little Bear on the island. Basically, it's the kind of special that is worth checking out with the kids for a few minutes, and if they get into it, it may prove a treat, and if not, there's still Nickelodeon.