Question: A Miser Brothers' Christmas is a stop motion spin-off special based on some of the characters from a Rankin-Bass special that was originally broadcast on which day ?
Context: Stop motion (hyphenated stop-motion when used as an adjective) is an animation technique that physically manipulates an object so that it appears to move on its own.  The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a fast sequence.  Dolls with movable joints or clay figures are often used in stop motion for their ease of repositioning.  Stop motion animation using plasticine is called clay animation or "clay-mation".  Not all stop motion requires figures or models; many stop motion films can involve using humans, household appliances and other things for comedic effect.  Stop motion can also use sequential drawing in a similar manner to traditional animation, such as a flip book.  Stop motion using humans is sometimes referred to as pixilation or pixilate animation. Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too is a 1991 Christmas television special based on the Disney television series "The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh", originally broadcast on Saturday, December 14, 1991 on ABC and produced by Walt Disney Animation (France), S.A. and Walt Disney Television Animation. Will Vinton's Claymation Christmas Celebration is a Christmas television special originally broadcast on the American CBS TV network on December 21, 1987.  The special featured stop motion clay animation and was produced and directed by Will Vinton.  The special debuted alongside "A Garfield Christmas" and the two continued to be aired back to back in subsequent years. The New Adventures of Pinocchio is a syndicated stop motion animated television series produced by Rankin/Bass Productions in the United States and made by Dentsu Studios in Japan.  Created by Arthur Rankin, Jr. and his partner Jules Bass, it was based on the book "The Adventures of Pinocchio" written by Italian author, Carlo Collodi.  The series was Rankin/Bass' first production to be made in "Animagic", a stop motion puppet technique which, in association with the company, was done by Tadahito Mochinaga's MOM Productions (before Mochinaga leaves for China after the finished animation for "Mad Monster Party? ").  A total of 130 five-minute "chapters" were produced in 1960–61.  These segments made up a series of five-chapter, 25-minute episodes.  During 1963–64, the series was also aired in Japan on Fuji TV as part of another stop motion TV series, "Prince Ciscorn" (シスコン王子, lit.  "Ciscorn Ōji"), based on the manga by Fujiko Fujio and also produced by Tadahito Mochinaga for Studio KAI and Dentsu. Dragonframe is stop motion animation software.  It has been used to make several full-length motion picture films, including Disney's "Frankenweenie" and Laika's "Coraline", "The Boxtrolls", and "ParaNorman", as well as the stop motion television show "Shaun the Sheep".  It has also been used to shoot stop motion scenes in live action movies, including the holochess scene in "", and numerous stop motion shorts.  s of 2015 Dragonframe has been developed for use on the Windows and Mac operating systems. He-Man & She-Ra: A Christmas Special is a Christmas television special based on the animated series "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe" and its spin-off "", originally broadcast in syndication December 1985.  Although that date marked its only broadcast on television (save for some markets that aired it again for the next few years), it was later released on VHS and more recently, BCI Eclipse released it on DVD on December 6, 2005.  Classic Media acquired the rights for the DVDs and re-released this special on October 12, 2010. Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas is a British stop motion animated television special based on the television program "Shaun the Sheep" by Nick Park.  Produced by Paul Kewley and John Woolley and directed by Jay Grace, the program made its debut on Amazon Video in the USA on 13 November 2015 and on BBC One in the UK on Boxing Day 2015.  The special follows Shaun the Sheep (Justin Fletcher) as he gets the Farmer (John Sparkes) to bring home three llamas from the County Fair. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a 1964 Christmas stop motion animated television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions and currently distributed by Universal Television.  It first aired Sunday, December 6, 1964, on the NBC television network in the United States, and was sponsored by General Electric under the umbrella title of "The General Electric Fantasy Hour".  The special was based on the Johnny Marks song "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" which was itself based on the poem of the same name written in 1939 by Marks' brother-in-law, Robert L. May.  Since 1972, the special has aired on CBS, with the network unveiling a high-definition, digitally remastered version of the program in 2005.  As with "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and "How the Grinch Stole Christmas", "Rudolph" no longer airs just once annually, but several times during the Christmas and holiday season on CBS.  Unlike other holiday specials that also air on several cable channels (including Freeform), "Rudolph" only airs on CBS.  It has been telecast every year since 1964, making it the longest running Christmas TV special in history.  2014 marked the 50th anniversary of the television special and a series of postage stamps featuring Rudolph was issued by the United States Postal Service on November 6, 2014. The Year Without a Santa Claus is a 1974 Christmas stop motion animated television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions.  The story is based on Phyllis McGinley's 1956 book of the same name, illustrated by Kurt Werth.  It was originally broadcast on December 10, 1974 on ABC. A Miser Brothers' Christmas is a stop motion spin-off special based on some of the characters from the 1974 Rankin-Bass special "The Year Without a Santa Claus".  Distributed by Warner Bros.  Animation under their Warner Premiere label (the rights holders of the post-1974 Rankin-Bass library) and Toronto-based Cuppa Coffee Studios, the one-hour special premiered on ABC Family on Saturday, December 13, 2008, during the network's annual The 25 Days of Christmas programming.  Mickey Rooney and George S. Irving reprised their respective roles as Santa Claus and Heat Miser at ages 88 and 86.  Snow Miser, originally portrayed by Dick Shawn who died in 1987, was voiced by Juan Chioran, while Mrs. Claus, voiced by Shirley Booth in the original, was portrayed by Catherine Disher (because Booth had died in 1992).  The movie aimed to emulate the Rankin/Bass animation style.  This is the last Christmas special to feature Mickey Rooney as Santa Claus, as he died in 2014, as well as the last time George Irving voiced Heat Miser, as he died in 2016.
Answer: December 10, 1974