Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer

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Dec 02, 1998
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The tale of the most famous reindeer of all, Rudolph, is told in this classic Rankin & Bass special. Rudolph and his shiny nose are at first shunned from the community, but when a dense fog threatens to ground Santa and his sleigh full of toys for children, it's Rudolph and his shiny nose to the rescue! Originally broadcast on NBC in 1964, it has aired on CBS since 1972, and is currently the longest-running annual TV special.
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  • A true classic!

    10
    "Perfect"
    By sandbur, Jun 06, 2009
    When I was a kid this was, and remains today, my favourite Christmas show! Back in the "old days" before video or DVD ("OMG lady you are old!") it used to air ONCE every season and so you had to be home to see it. I never missed it.
    Once I had kids, we made it a tradition to start the Christmas season with a viewing of this, and to this day my almost grown children still want to watch the Santa Claus parade on TV with hot chocolate and popcorn, and then once its over, slip in the DVD of Rudolph. No other show can come first; it has to be Rudolph. I guess its things/traditions like this that make it a classic.
    Now if only we could guarantee that someone like Jim Carrey won't come along and try to "improve" it...moreless

  • Flying reindeer with bioluminescent nose becomes a HERO.

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    By SoylentYellow, Dec 12, 2007
    Will Rudolph the flying reindeer do a guest spot on HEROES? Flying around with Peter Petrelli at which point Sylar slices open his skull and eats his brain? Then would Sylars nose begins to glow? Could happen! Next season on the HEROES Christmas special.

    Theres definitely some strange goings on at the North Pole on the permanent polar ice pack. Santa better watch out - a nuclear Ohio Class ballistic missile sub, carrying 24 SLBMs packed with 192 warheads, might surface right under his workshop to take a look around and wreck everything! Hopefully his sonar is working. Santa dodged a bullet in 1957 when the USS Nautilus surfaced a mile away! This place has some kind of genetic mutant elves enslaved (I guess its cheaper than toxic Chinese imports or buying from Wal*Mart)to make toys 24/7/365 for some jolly fat man in a suit with a herd of flying reindeer. Has Mulder and Scully checked out that freaky place? I dont know the whole story, but I can tell you this: ALIENS ARE INVOLVED! One of the reindeer, Rudolph, has a glowing nose and is rejected by the others but saves the day in the end................

    Santas days are numbered with Global Warming and all - maybe Santa should relocate to the South Pole or build an underwater lab like the one on Sealab 2021? Theres also the issue regarding Al Gore and his Penguin Army but that a whole nother story.moreless

  • A Christmas classic from my childhood.

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    By tvking1, Dec 10, 2007
    When I was young, Christmas seemed like such a magical time, a time when nothing could go wrong, when the world stood still to say, "Happy Birthday, Jesus!". Well, I'm older and wiser now, and while Christmas is still a time for joy, the world does not quite stand still, and bad things can happen. All that said, one of the things that helped make Christmas seem so magic for me was this classic. The annual airing of Rankin-Bass's "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" was a big event for me. I remember it from its NBC years. There was something about the atmosphere that made it so Christmassy. There was conflict early on, like Rudolph being made fun of because of his shiny schnozz, Santa being so grumpy, and Hermie the Elf's struggle for acceptance. With the first scene, though, I knew it was a happy ending. Yukon Cornelius added a little innocent spice. Like a lot of children's holiday fare, it ignored the religious side to the holiday, and made Santa Claus a mere mortal man (I'd always thought of him as a heavenly being, operating out of the constraints of time, which enabled him to make his rounds all in one night), but it's for kids. For the religious side, see "A Charlie Brown Christmas", and a few Rankin-Bass productions.

    Christmas wouldn't have seemed like Christmas without this classic when I was a kid. That's not quite the case anymore, but I'll always hold a place for it, and watch it on DVD.moreless

  • Great Show!

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    By bsach, Dec 05, 2007
    Did anybody else ever notice that, at the end of the show, when they are tossing the misfit toys out of the sleigh, the elf looks at the bird (that can't fly, but swims) and then looks at the umbrella and looks back at the bird and then just tosses him out of the sleigh without an umbrella. Kind of cruel if you ask me. I guess the reviewers didn't catch that one before they aired the show the first time, now I kind of look for it every year. Just one of those things that makes it a classic.moreless

  • Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

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    By Water78, Dec 09, 2006
    Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, It is a classic.
    Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer special is a classic is perfect. No matter how many times the try to redue it they will never get as good as it in the 1964 editoin. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer legend lives on through the exciting parts and through the island of miss fit toys.
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