The Animagic world of Rankin-Bass

Follow Pinocchio and Cricket on their zany adventures.

A young girl is whisked away to a magical land, joined by a brainless Scarecrow, heartless Tin Man, and cowardly Lion on a quest to find the powerful Wizard who can help her return home.

After Dorothy's friends are robbed of their prizes by a revived Wicked Witch, she is sent back to Oz to set things straight once again.

A young reindeer Rudolph lives at the North Pole. His father is one of Santa's reindeer and it is expected that Rudolph will eventually be one too. However, he has a feature which is a setback and causes him to be ostracized: his red nose.

Little Willy McBean joins up with a Mexican monkey named Pablo to travel back in time and stop the evil Prof. von Rotten from changing history.

An anthology of fairytales by Hans Christian Andersen: "The Little Mermaid", "The Emperor's New Clothes", "Thumbelina", and "The Garden of Paradise".

An animated series about the adventures of King Kong and his young pal Bobby Bond. Also featured were the adventures of "Tom of T.H.U.M.B.", a 6" tall secret agent.

The origin of the great bear forest conservation crusader.

On the Isle of Evil, Baron Boris von Frankenstein reveals his imminent retirement and that he has refined the secret of total destruction, only to be upset when the other monsters try to steal the secret and kill his nephew, Felix Flanken.

Animated feature film based on Charles Perrault's stories and nursery rhymes. It features Humpty Dumpty, The Old Woman Who Lives in a Shoe, and the Crooked Man.

The evil Dr. Who captures King Kong to dig for Element X when his robot duplicate, Mechani-Kong, is unable to do the job, but Kong soon escapes and battles his doppelganger.

A cricket seeks to rescue a poor toymaker and his blind daughter from an exploitative miser.

The Mayflower journey as seen through the experiences of a church mouse.

An orphan drummer boy who hates humanity finds his life changed forever when he meets three wise men en route to Bethlehem.

Smokey Bear recalls his adventures and misadventures as a cub, growing in the forest with his friends, always threatened by fire.

A living snowman and a little girl struggle to elude a greedy magician who is after the snowman's magic hat.

Tomfoolery was an animated cartoon series based on the nonsense poetry of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll. There were several recurring characters, including the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo from the Lear poem "The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo."

The show follows the adventures of Tobias, the well-meaning, kind-hearted and reluctant dragon, living in the kingdom of Willowmarch and the story of the irrepressible Mr. Toad and his friends, Badger, Mole and Water Rat.

Animated TV special by Rankin/Bass depicting famous vaudeville acts such as Flip Wilson's Columbus, Jack Benny and George Burns' Maxwell, Groucho Marx's Napoleon, W. C. Fields' Sportsman and The Smothers Brothers' song to woo a princess.

A mailman reveals the origin of Santa Claus.

The animated musical adventures of the Jackson brothers.

With the help of a time machine, Peter Cottontail must rescue Easter from the hands of the malicious Irontail.

In the early 1970s, white America could not allow the success of the Jackson 5 to go unchallenged. The Osmonds were their answer. It was not a great answer.

Based on the comic strip "Wee Pals" by Morrie Turner, this half-hour animated ABC series followed the Peanuts-like adventures of the "Rainbow Club," a group of multi-racial kids. Each show featured a song by The Curbstones, several of which were released as an album on Pride (MGM) Records.

This is one of the 'Animagical' titles from the children's film archive of Rankin/Bass. The story line is reminiscent of an earlier 1966 R/B Animagic film, 'The Daydreamer', both of which chronicles the fairy tales of Danish author, Hans Christian Andersen.