ROMEO MULLER: RANKIN/BASS writer

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Tempe, AZ URANUS RECORDING March, 2008

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RANKIN/BASS' THE NEW ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO

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RANKIN/BASS' PINOCCHIO'S CHRISTMAS

This was not a good day in 1980

I absolutely love this!

This is sensational (Love having them all on one DVD)! Wonderful quality and a great DVD to relax to when it is snowing outside (We are expecting about 3 inches tomorrow:)) I just watched THAT GIRL "Christmas and the hard luck kid" from 1966 with Chris Shea, one year after he did the voice of Linus in A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS which airs on ABC this Tuesday night.

posted by Thomas Frederick

MAURY LAWS: The man who made all of that enchanting RANKIN/BASS music!

Heavily Edited!

I did tune into the ABC Network airing of RANKIN/BASS' SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN and they started editing it about 2 minutes into the classic special? It looked like they showed the ABC FAMILY cut of the special that leaves time for about 100 annoying commercials including McDonald's and some awful looking Disney thing called PREP & LANDING? Great name for a holiday special. At least they did show the RANKIN/BASS logo at the end this time but had some crazy announcement over it.

posted by Thomas Frederick

MARVELMANIA

from Ron Murphy

c. 1976 RANKIN/BASS PRODUCTIONS/RICK GOLDSCHMIDT ARCHIVES

RANKIN/BASS' THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY, BOOK 2 is always fun to watch this time of year! I have it on a collector's DVD and am watching it right now!
posted by Thomas Frederick

KODAK Commercial RANKIN/BASS style figures

From our friend Gary

ROCKY, THE FLYING SQUIRREL

from Ron Murphy

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I asked Rich Koz about Jerry G. Bishop the other day. It has been a while since I have been out to his San Diego restaurants. Apparently Jerry had a stroke a while back and has retired from radio completely now. Rich said he asked Jerry if he misses it and he said "No."

RANKIN/BASS' SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN is on ABC tonight at 7pm Central

I'm glad they brought this one back to network television in recent years...it never should have left!

posted by Thomas Frederick

Also from THE MAKING OF THE RANKIN/BASS HOLIDAY CLASSIC: RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER. Hiroshi Tabata works on RANKIN/BASS' SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN
c. 1970 RANKIN/BASS PRODUCTIONS/RICK GOLDSCHMIDT ARCHIVES

from the book THE MAKING OF THE RANKIN/BASS HOLIDAY CLASSIC: RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER

WALGREENS has the older DVDs I was talking about with RANKIN/BASS on the cover for $9.99. We saw FROSTY THE SNOWMAN and SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN. They also have some RANKIN/BASS popcorn tins.

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Kyoko Kita works on RANKIN/BASS' RUDOLPH

c. 1964 RANKIN/BASS PRODUCTIONS/RICK GOLDSCHMIDT ARCHIVES

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THE BEATLES CHRISTMAS

I have this original VEE JAY sleeve and love it! I love listening to all of THE BEATLES Christmas messages and songs on CD this time of year! They were great to their fans!

HAPPY KRINGLE!

HIROSHI animates the Kringles

in RANKIN/BASS' SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN

c. 1970 RANKIN/BASS PRODUCTIONS/RICK GOLDSCHMIDT ARCHIVES

LEE PHILLIP Christmas 1959

Ron Murphy gave this to me..

BILL JACKSON: Chicago TV Legend

Bill Jackson as FRECKLES THE CLOWN from his first visit to Chicago!

BILL with Josh on his last visit to Chicago!

I brought him some RANKIN/BASS Drummer Boy figures and he said they have sentimental value to him because that character was one of the first he drew on the air.

RICH KOZ (SVENGOOLIE/STOOGAPALOOZA) from ME TV (one of our favorites channels...ME TOO too!) Rich has been a friend and very kind over the years with plugs for my books, etc.

Jim Engel's collage from the program and event poster!

Santa leaves Dean Richards (WGN TV/Radio) a surprise!

BJ signed my DVD cover!

Bill says something amusing to George Pappas and Dean. He enjoyed his appearance on WGN MORNING NEWS!

My friend David Plier (MUSEUM OF BROADCAST COMMUNICATIONS) has a bloody mary. David and I were on the MANCOW Radio show together last Christmas.

I wrote a chapter on BILL JACKSON that was featured in this book! I think it is still available at http://www.amazon.com/ and at http://www.tvparty.com/ I also have several articles on Chicago Kid's TV at http://www.tvparty.com/

Bill with his lovely wife Jo

Santa visits David and his son Josh

Bill visits with my son Josh

Two of my favorites together!

Leonard Kohl talks to Santa. I haven't seen him since our days at COLUMBIA COLLEGE in Gordon Sheehan's Animation class. Gordon worked on all the classic Fleischer cartoons and I believe Leonard wrote a book on the POPEYE cartoons.

One of Bill's dear friends and puppeteers!

Did you say "No Mail?"

Jim's art from the event Program. THANKS to George Pappas for giving me one!

Jim Engel says hello! Jim was kind enough to contribute to both of my RANKIN/BASS books!

HO! HO! HO!

Posted by Thomas Frederick

MERRY CHRISTMAS from BOZO'S CIRCUS!

Getting nostalgic and going through my CHICAGO KIDS TV book stuff! Found this cool shot!

Love THE DONNA REED CHRISTMAS episode with Buster Keaton! Just watched the BLU RAY colorized version of IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (twice)!

This came in the mail from my dear friend Phyllis Diller!

She does her own Christmas cards every year and never forgets me :) Besides being a very funny lady, she is a wonderful artist and musician!

CBS goofs again!

This time the network uses the classic RANKIN/BASS FROSTY THE SNOWMAN and pairs him up with a voice that is inappropriate, distasteful and off color for a promo/commercial....and apparently, thinks it is funny. I am hearing many complaints from people that are fans of the classic RANKIN/BASS TV Special, that grew up with FROSTY. Who is minding the store there? Who thinks this is funny? What is the world coming to?

c. 1960 RANKIN/BASS PRODUCTIONS/RICK GOLDSCHMIDT ARCHIVES

We are almost out of these...ORDER SOON!

OCTAVIA from RANKIN/BASS' THE FIRST CHRISTMAS as she appears today!

Those are her mouths and eyes in the container on the base.

c. 2008 RICK GOLDSCHMIDT ARCHIVES

c. 1974 RANKIN/BASS PRODUCTIONS/RICK GOLDSCHMIDT ARCHIVES

KYOKO KITA makes ANIMAGIC for RANKIN/BASS' RUDOLPH & FROSTY'S CHRISTMAS IN JULY (1979)

c. 1979 RANKIN/BASS' PRODUCTIONS/RICK GOLDSCHMIDT ARCHIVES

RANKIN/BASS' SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN

c. 1970 RANKIN/BASS PRODUCTIONS/RICK GOLDSCHMIDT ARCHIVES

c. 1968 RANKIN/BASS PRODUCTIONS/RICK GOLDSCHMIDT ARCHIVES

HERMEY & RUDOLPH

Paul Soles and Billie Mae Richards

Hiroshi Tabata works on a classic scene in RANKIN/BASS' THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY

UNCLE MISTLETOE

From my Chicago Kids TV book project

I get asked this each Holiday season...

What is the BEST commercially released DVD of RANKIN/BASS' RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER?...this is it! It came out around the time it was re-mastered 2000-2001. It also correctly credits me for the cover photo and has the name RANKIN/BASS on the front cover. It also has a nice introduction by ARTHUR RANKIN on it with behind the scenes photos that I provided for the doc. All of this stuff was inexplicably removed and all the DVD releases since have been missing class and quality content. I prefer to watch the 1964 version with commercials and original ending, etc.

posted by Thomas Frederick

BJ is back in town!

from my CHICAGO KIDS TV book project

Here is a game for you RANKIN/BASS THUNDERCATS fans!

http://www.kidswb.com/event/thundercats/game/thundercats-the-rescue

RANKIN/BASS' THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY

Pick up those LITTLE DRUMMER BOY figures! They may not be around for long! RANKIN/BASS' THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY, BOOK 2 was up for an Emmy when it was released. Always enjoy watching that one on our collector's DVD!

Victor Sanchez : THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY

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JUST IN!

We just got in the NEW 2009 edition of the SNOW MISER & HEAT MISER RANKIN/BASS postcard set! This time they were printed on a classy, natural parchment card! You can get the postcard set for just $6 shipped....PRICED TO SELL! These were VERY popular when we had them at www.rankinbass.com We are going to send some to PAUL COKER to have him sign. The signed edition will be $14.99. You can PAYPAL wonderfullife01@aol.com HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Posted by Thomas Federick

FRECKLES THE CLOWN is in town! I will hang out with him a little on Saturday :)

Jon Waterhouse is going to do a phoner interview with me early next week for his radio show based out of Atlanta called "The Pop Culture King Show." It airs weekly on AM 1690 The Voice of the Arts (www.1690wmlb.com).

MAKING ANIMAGIC!

CBS does it again?!

I did watch tonight's airing of RUDOLPH and was not surprised to see it in the poor condition it has been in for the last several years. All of the newly discovered scenes missing??? The FAME AND FORTUNE animation cut in with the wrong song "We're a couple of misfits" and the mouths were not even close to the lyrics. Tons of commercials and the boasting of HD that was not apparent. In other words, a shamble. I can only hope one day the special gets into the right hands again. It definitely deserves better.

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Making ANIMAGIC!

Tad Mochinaga and Hiroshi Tabata work on WILLY McBEAN & HIS MAGIC MACHINE (1965)

c. 1970 RANKIN/BASS PRODUCTIONS/RICK GOLDSCHMIDT ARCHIVES

RANKIN/BASS' SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN

c. 1970 RANKIN/BASS PRODUCTIONS/RICK GOLDSCHMIDT ARCHIVES

Brookfield Zoo appearances Christmas 2007

from my CHICAGO KID'S TV book project

KMOV shoots down RUDOLPH...

Contrary to TV listings (or blog posts) you might have seen, KMOV (Channel 4) will preempt CBS’ airing of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, not the much-promoted Grammy nominations concert at 8 p.m. An hour of paid programming airs at 7. This was actually always the plan, the station says; KMOV has had trouble recently getting its listings correct, which messes up DVR users, among others. But stop crying, kids. KMOV plans a late-night “Rudolph” repeat (2:12 a.m. Thursday, so make sure the little ones get a nap), and the classic Christmas cartoon will also air at 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 12, on CBS.

from the ST. LOUIS DISPATCH

TONIGHT!

I prefer the 1964 version to the time compressed, butchered version CBS shows each year BUT I am glad to see it still on the networks! The longest running, highest rated TV Special of all-time!

ANIMAGIC! Design by the late Tony Peters!