Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 50 min
- Age rating
- G
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Rudolph must find Happy, the baby new year, before the midnight of New Year's Eve.
- new year's eve
- holiday
- musical
- stop motion
- christmas
- rudolph
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Red Skelton
Father Time / Baby Bear (voice)
Frank Gorshin
Sir Ten-to-Three (voice)
Morey Amsterdam
One Million (voice)
Harold Peary
Big Ben (voice)
- Paul Frees — Santa Claus / Aeon / General Ticker / Seventeen Seventy Six
- Billie Mae Richards — Rudolph (voice)
- Don Messick — Papa Bear / Rumpelstiltskin (voice)
- June Foray — Happy (uncredited)
- Iris Rainer — Mama Bear (voice) (uncredited)
- Directed
- Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin, Jr.
- Written
- Romeo Muller
Production
- Rating
- 6.4 / 10 · 113 ratings
- Studio
- Rankin/Bass Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
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