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Rudolph must find Happy, the baby New Year, before midnight on New Year's Eve.Rudolph must find Happy, the baby New Year, before midnight on New Year's Eve.Rudolph must find Happy, the baby New Year, before midnight on New Year's Eve.
Red Skelton
- Father Time
- (voice)
- …
Frank Gorshin
- Sir 1023
- (voice)
Harold Peary
- Big Ben
- (voice)
Paul Frees
- Santa Claus
- (voice)
- …
Billie Mae Richards
- Rudolph
- (voice)
- (as Billie Richards)
Don Messick
- Papa Bear
- (voice)
- …
Iris Rainer
- Mama Bear
- (voice)
- …
June Foray
- Happy
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaRed Skelton voiced Father Time (whose model is based on Skelton's likeness), and also recreated his popular radio character "Junior" for the voice of the Baby Bear on Fairy Tale Island.
- GoofsFather Time mispronounced the "arch" in "archipelago" several times as "ARCH", before switching over to the correct pronunciation "ARK" later on in the story.
- SoundtracksRudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Written by Johnny Marks (uncredited)
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"Rudolph's Shiny New Year" was a nice sequel to the previous Rankin/Bass claymation special
Just finished this, the sequel to Rankin/Bass' "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer". With Red Skelton as narrator Father Time as well as the Baby Bear, Frank Gorshin as the knight Sir Ten-To-Three, Morey Amsterdam as the caveman-O.M. (One Million), Hal "Great Gildersleeve" Peary as the whale Big Ben, Paul Frees as various voices, Don Messick as Papa Bear, Iris Rainer as Mama Bear, and, returning as Rudolph, Billie Mae Richards. Written once again by Romeo Muller, "Rudolph's Shiny New Year" is a wonderful Tall Tale about how the reindeer with the shiny nose managed to make sure that it didn't become December 31st forever. Even as an adult, I was enthralled by the way Muller kept making things up as the story went along and didn't care a lick about logic or stuff like that as long as it was still believable. Although when Red said this story took place just after the events in the previous special, I did question why Rudolph's antlers had shrunk to when he was a kid. Other than that, I still highly enjoyed "Rudolph's Shiny New Year". P.S. I just found out Frees and Amsterdam were born in the same city as I, Chicago, Ill.
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- tavm
- Jan 8, 2009
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- Олененок Рудольф и маленький Новый Год
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By what name was Rudolph's Shiny New Year (1976) officially released in Canada in English?
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