Product: Classic Christmas Favorites (Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! / The Year Without a Santa Claus / Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July / Rudolph's Shiny New Year) (2008)
Rating: 1.0
IT SHOULDN'T BE THIS HARD...
I am disgusted with how ridiculously difficult it seems for Warner Home Video to get its act together and just release ALL of the Rankin/Bass Christmas programs into one DVD set instead of handing out a few never-before-released titles with several of their more established shows.An earlier reviewer spoke the same sentiment in asking what has become of "The Little Drummer Boy--Part 2", and one of my most-awaited titles, "The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus". Certainly there aren't any DVD copies of them available.Where is the Angela Lansbury 1975 classic, "(The First Christmas): The Story of the First Christmas Snow"? I caught it on television last month and was delighted by it, particularly as I'd never seen it before and am a long-time devotee of all Rankin/Bass holiday productions.But when I attempted to find it on DVD, I was met with the same absolute dearth of product as when I had looked for "The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus" in 2007.It's preposterous that the Warner company keeps re-packaging the "mainstream", if you will, specials, such as the latter-day Rudolph stories ("Shiny New Year" and "Christmas in July"). I actually have not seen any of the three newly-released titles contained in this compilation ("Leprechauns' Christmas Gold", "Pinocchio's Christmas", and "The Stingiest Man In Town"). Much as I would like to view them, I won't pay for this set for one very good reason:I am hoping and praying that Warner will wake up and finally put ALL of Rankin/Bass's Christmas specials in a DEFINITIVE DVD collection, for which I am waiting (impatiently)--and am not alone in my plea!