When did The Year Without A Santa Claus first air?”
The Year Without a Santa Claus is a 1974 Rankin/Bass stop-motion animated television special. The story is loosely based on Phyllis McGinley’s 1956 book of the same title, illustrated by Kurt Werth. Contents [show] The Year Without a Santa Claus is a story told by Mrs. Claus, of the year that there almost wasn’t a Christmas. Santa had fallen ill, and under the recommendation of his doctor, decided to issue a press release that Christmas was cancelled so that he may take a holiday. Humoring her husband for the time being, Mrs. Claus assigns two elves with a task. She orders Jingle and Jangle to leave the North Pole in the weeks leading up to Christmas, to find a town where they could rally up some Christmas cheer. Riding the reindeer Vixen, the dim-witted elves set off to the south, when they’re immediately attacked by Heat Miser as his half-brother Snow Miser looks on. Although they escape, their troubles are far from over as they receive a court summons from a a cop in the first town
