# List of Rankin/Bass Productions films

Rankin/Bass Productions was an American production company, best known for its animated seasonal television specials. Television series and films pre-1974 are owned by NBCUniversal through DreamWorks Animation and post-September 1974 are owned by Warner Bros. Entertainment through Telepictures.

## Television specials

| Title | Year | Directed by | Written by | Music | Animation Production | Style |
| Return to Oz | 1964 | F.R. Crawley Thomas Glynn Larry Roemer | Romeo Muller | Gene Forrell Edward Thomas James Polack | Crawley Films | Traditional |
| Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer | 1964 | Larry Roemer | Romeo Muller | Johnny Marks | MOM Production | Stop-motion |
| The Ballad of Smokey the Bear | 1966 | Larry Roemer | Joseph Schrank | Johnny Marks | MOM Production | Stop-motion |
| The Cricket on the Hearth | 1967 | Arthur Rankin, Jr. Jules Bass | Romeo Muller Arthur Rankin Jr. | Maury Laws | TCJ Animation Center | Traditional |
| The Mouse on the Mayflower | 1968 | Arthur Rankin, Jr. Jules Bass | Romeo Muller | Maury Laws | Toei Animation | Traditional |
| The Little Drummer Boy | 1968 | Arthur Rankin, Jr. Jules Bass | Romeo Muller | Colin Romoff | MOM Production | Stop-motion |
| Frosty the Snowman | 1969 | Arthur Rankin, Jr. Jules Bass | Romeo Muller | Maury Laws Jack Rollins Steve Nelson | Mushi Production | Traditional |
| The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians | 1970 | Arthur Rankin, Jr. Jules Bass | Romeo Muller | Maury Laws | Mushi Production | Traditional |
| Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town | 1970 | Arthur Rankin, Jr. Jules Bass | Romeo Muller | Jules Bass Maury Laws | Video Tokyo Production | Stop-motion |
| Here Comes Peter Cottontail | 1971 | Arthur Rankin, Jr. Jules Bass | Romeo Muller | Jack Rollins | Video Tokyo Production | Stop-motion |
| Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes | 1972 | Arthur Rankin, Jr. Jules Bass | Romeo Muller | Maury Laws | Video Tokyo Production | Stop-motion |
| Mad Mad Mad Monsters | 1972 | Arthur Rankin, Jr. Jules Bass | William J. Keenan Lou Silverstone | Maury Laws | Mushi Production | Traditional |
| Willie Mays and the Say-Hey Kid | 1972 | Arthur Rankin, Jr. Jules Bass | Romeo Muller | Maury Laws | Topcraft | Traditional |
| The Red Baron | 1972 | Arthur Rankin, Jr. Jules Bass | Leonard Starr | Maury Laws | Topcraft | Traditional |
| That Girl in Wonderland | 1973 | Arthur Rankin, Jr. Jules Bass | Stu Hample | Maury Laws | Topcraft | Traditional |
| 'Twas the Night Before Christmas | 1974 | Arthur Rankin, Jr. Jules Bass | Jerome Coopersmith | Maury Laws | Topcraft | Traditional |
| The Year Without a Santa Claus | 1974 | Arthur Rankin, Jr. Jules Bass | William J. Keenan | Maury Laws | Video Tokyo Production | Stop-motion |
| The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow | 1975 | Arthur Rankin, Jr. Jules Bass | Julian P. Gardner | Maury Laws | Video Tokyo Production | Stop-motion |
| The First Easter Rabbit | 1976 | Arthur Rankin, Jr. Jules Bass | Julian P. Gardner | Maury Laws | Topcraft | Traditional |
| Frosty's Winter Wonderland | 1976 | Arthur Rankin, Jr. Jules Bass | Romeo Muller | Jack Rollins Steve Nelson | Topcraft | Traditional |
| Rudolph's Shiny New Year | 1976 | Arthur Rankin, Jr. Jules Bass | Romeo Muller | Johnny Marks | Video Tokyo Production | Stop-motion |
| The Little Drummer Boy: Book II | 1976 | Arthur Rankin, Jr. Jules Bass | Julian P. Gardner | Maury Laws | Video Tokyo Production | Stop-motion |
| The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town | 1977 | Arthur Rankin, Jr. Jules Bass | Romeo Muller | Maury Laws | Video Tokyo Production | Stop-motion |
| The Hobbit | 1977 | Arthur Rankin, Jr. Jules Bass | Romeo Muller | Maury Laws | Topcraft | Traditional |
| Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey | 1977 | Arthur Rankin, Jr. Jules Bass | Romeo Muller | Maury Laws | Video Tokyo Production | Stop-motion |
| The Stingiest Man in Town | 1978 | Arthur Rankin, Jr. Jules Bass | Romeo Muller | Fred Spielman | Topcraft | Traditional |
| Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July | 1979 | Arthur Rankin, Jr. Jules Bass | Romeo Muller | Johnny Marks Maury Laws | Video Tokyo Production | Stop-motion |
| Jack Frost | 1979 | Arthur Rankin, Jr. Jules Bass | Romeo Muller | Maury Laws | Video Tokyo Production | Stop-motion |
| The Return of the King | 1980 | Arthur Rankin, Jr. Jules Bass | Romeo Muller | Maury Laws | Topcraft | Traditional |
| Pinocchio's Christmas | 1980 | Arthur Rankin, Jr. Jules Bass | Romeo Muller | Maury Laws | Video Tokyo Production | Stop-motion |
| The Leprechaun's Christmas Gold | 1981 | Arthur Rankin, Jr. Jules Bass | Romeo Muller | Maury Laws | Video Tokyo Production | Stop-motion |
| The Flight of Dragons | 1982 | Arthur Rankin, Jr. Jules Bass | Romeo Muller | Maury Laws | Topcraft | Traditional |
| The Coneheads | 1983 | Arthur Rankin, Jr. Jules Bass | Al Franken Tom Davis | Bernard Hoffer | Topcraft | Traditional |
| The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus | 1985 | Arthur Rankin, Jr. Jules Bass | Julian P. Gardner | Bernard Hoffer | Pacific Animation Corporation | Stop-motion |
| The Wind in the Willows | 1987 | Arthur Rankin, Jr. Jules Bass | Romeo Muller | Maury Laws | Cuckoo's Nest | Traditional |
| Santa, Baby! | 2001 | Lee Dannacher | Peter Bakalian Suzanne Collins | Glen Roven | Pacific Animation Corporation Hanho Heung-Up | Traditional |

## Feature films

| Title | Year | Directed by | Written by | Music | Animation Production | Style |
| Willy McBean and His Magic Machine | 1965 | Arthur Rankin Jr. | Arthur Rankin Jr. | Edward Thomas | MOM Production | Stop-motion |
| The Daydreamer | 1966 | Jules Bass | Arthur Rankin Jr. | Maury Laws | MOM Production | Stop-motion |
| Mad Monster Party? | 1967 | Jules Bass | Len Korobkin Harvey Kurtzman | Maury Laws | MOM Production | Stop-motion |
| The Wacky World of Mother Goose | 1967 | Jules Bass | Romeo Muller | George Wilkins | TCJ Animation Center | Traditional |
| The Last Unicorn | 1982 | Arthur Rankin Jr. Jules Bass | Peter S. Beagle | Jimmy Webb | Topcraft | Traditional |
| The King and I | 1999 | Richard Rich | Peter Bakalian Jacqueline Feather David Seidler | William Kidd | Rich Animation Studios | Traditional |

## Animated TV series

With the exception of The New Adventures of Pinocchio (stop-motion), all of the TV shows were traditionally animated.
| Title | Year | Animation Production | Network | No. of episodes |
| The New Adventures of Pinocchio | 1960 | MOM Production | Syndication | 130 |
| Tales of the Wizard of Oz | 1961 | Crawley Films | Syndication | 110 |
| The King Kong Show | 1966 | Toei Animation | ABC | 26 |
| The Smokey Bear Show | 1969 | Toei Animation | ABC | 17 |
| The Tomfoolery Show | 1970 | Halas and Batchelor | NBC | 17 |
| The Reluctant Dragon & Mr. Toad Show | 1970 | Mushi Production | ABC | 17 |
| Jackson 5ive | 1971 | Halas and Batchelor Pegbar Production | ABC | 23 |
| The Osmonds | 1972 | Halas and Batchelor | ABC | 17 |
| Kid Power | 1972 | Topcraft | ABC | 17 |
| Festival of Family Classics | 1972 | Mushi Production (17 episodes) Topcraft (3 episodes) | Syndication | 20 |
| ThunderCats | 1985 | Pacific Animation Corporation | Syndication | 130 |
| SilverHawks | 1986 | Pacific Animation Corporation | Syndication | 65 |
| The Comic Strip TigerSharks Street Frogs The Mini-Monsters Karate Kat | 1987 | Pacific Animation Corporation | Syndication | 65 |

## Live-action productions

| Title | Year | Directed by | Written by | Music | Distribution |
| King Kong Escapes | 1967 | Ishirō Honda | Takeshi Kimura | Akira Ifukube | Universal Pictures (theatrical) |
| Marco | 1973 | Seymour Robbie | Romeo Muller | Maury Laws | Cinerama Releasing Corporation (theatrical) |
| The Last Dinosaur | 1977 | Alexander Grasshoff Shusei Kotani | William Overgard | Maury Laws | ABC (television) |
| The Bermuda Depths | 1978 | Tom Kotani | William Overgard | Maury Laws | ABC (television) |
| The Ivory Ape | 1980 | Tom Kotani | William Overgard | Bernard Hoffer Maury Laws | ABC (television) |
| The Bushido Blade | 1981 | Tom Kotani | William Overgard | Maury Laws | Aquarius Releasing (theatrical) |
| The Sins of Dorian Gray | 1983 | Tony Maylam | Ken August Peter Lawrence | Bernard Hoffer | ABC (television) |