The Year Without a Santa Claus

The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974)

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In Jules Bass' puppet-animated A Year Without A Santa Claus, an elf and a young boy have to rescue Santa from the evil Heat Meiser and Snow Meiser. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi

In Theaters
Jan 1, 1974 Wide
WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES

Critic Reviews

  • MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher

    What I remember most about [this] is always always the Snow Miser and the Heat Miser -- those warring warlocks of weather; heh, more pagan stuff...

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  • Luke B


    Another excellent Rankin and Bass Christmas special. Here, Santa decides to skip Christmas for a year. After all, he's sick and nobody appreciates his work anymore. Mrs. Claus isn't going to give up quite so easily, and with the help of Jingle and Jangle, they set about… More

  • Bruce B


    .Film 15 is another Rankin/Bass Production. This one is about the year Santa Claus wanted a holiday because kids stop believing in him and others didn't appreciate him. So Mrs. Claus to the rescue. The heat miser was a pretty cool figure. What's cool about these movies is… More

  • danny d


    this is a Christmas classic. rankin and bass put out all of the specials that my family watches two or three times every december and this is one of them, great show.

  • Andrew F


    Mickey Rooney's voice was not right for the part, but the Heatmiser and Snowmiser songs are so catchy that they make up for it.

  • Sarah P


    I enjoyed the Miser Brothers, but this wasn't something I watched as a kid, so I don't have a special place for it.

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