110 Minutes of Christmas Crackers

**110 Minutes of Christmas Crackers** is a UK VHS release by Tempo Pre-School and Abbey Home Entertainment Distribution on 4th November 1996.

## Description

This festive, fun-packed feast contains all your favourite characters in 110 minutes of seasonal situations. A cracking Christmas is guaranteed.

## Programme Plots

* **RUPERT AND THE MISSING SNOW** - Something is wrong, it’s nearly Christmas and there is no snow! Father Christmas enlists Rupert’s help to investigate the mysterious disappearance. Where would you start to look for missing snow? At the North Pole of course!
* **MR MEN AND THE CHRISTMAS RESCUE** - The wicked Queen of Miseryland hates a dastardly plot to stop Christmas from happen. Can the Mr Men save the day, or is it too late, has Christmas been cancelled?
* **SUPERTED MEETS FATHER CHRISTMAS** - Children’s Christmas presents are being stolen and Father Christmas is getting the blame. This cannot be right! SuperTed and Spottyman need to sort things out.
* **BABAR AND FATHER CHRISTMAS** - Elephants want to enjoy Christmas as well as everyone else. Babar sets of to visit Father Christmas to see what he can arrange.
* **NELLIE THE ELEPHANT** - Winter can be a very funny thing when Nellie the Elephant is around.
* **CAREBEARS - SKI TROUBLE** - Bright Heart thinks he can ski on his own, but he soon finds himself in big trouble.
* **THE TEDDY BEARS CHRISTMAS** - Two Teddy Bears embark in a hazardous journey which involves become unteddied!

## Credits

There are the credits to these shows on this compilation Video.

#### **Rupert**

##### ***("Rupert and the Missing Snow")***

* Written by David Finley.
* Storyboard by Gilles Cazaux.
* A Nelvana-Ellipse Production.
* Based on the Rupert characters from The Daily Express.
* Executive Producers: Michael Hirsh, Patrick Loubert, Philippe Gildas, Robert Rea and Clive A. Smith.
* Supervising Producers: Stephen Hodgins and Philippe Grimond.
* Produced by Patricia R. Burns.
* Directed by Dale Schott.
* Assistant Director: Gary Hurst.
* Story Editors: David Finley and Dale Schott.
* Creative Consultants: J. Nigel Pickard and Ian Robinson.
* Associate Producer: Neil Court.
* Program Consultant: Ian E. Miles.
* Voice Director: Debra Toffan.
* Casting Director: Jessie Thomson.
* Principal Voice Cast: Julie Lemieux as Rupert, Torquil Campbell as Bill Badger, Hadley Kay as Podgy Pig,
Guy Bannerman as Mr. Bear, Valerie Boyle as Mrs. Bear, Keith White as Algy Pug and Colin Fox as Professor.
* Production Supervisors: Steve Chadwick and Nicolas Pesques.
* Production Managers: Ruta Cubes and Laurence Pourtalé.
* Production Co-ordinator: Jocelyn Hamilton.
* Production Assistants: Caroline Simmons and Erica Strobel.
* Unit Manager: Kokila Jeffrey.
* Animation Supervisor: Al Jeffery.
* Storyboard Supervisor: Dave Quesnelle.
* Storyboard Clean-up by David Thomas, Vincenzo Natali and Dan Nosella.
* Storyboard Co-ordinators: Sue Conley and Shelly Theaker.
* Character Designed by Cynthia Ward.
* Designed by Andrew Hickson, Vincent Mommeja, François Perreau, Mark Boreal, Ross Campbell and
Tian-Xiao Zhang.
* Posers: Scott Fiander, Morgan Ginsberg, John de Klein, Tony Tulipano, Mike Tweedle, Alan Knappett and
Lynn Reist.
* Animation Directors: Chris Schouten and Don Spencer.
* Assistant Animation Supervisor: Tony Egizii.
* Animated by Robert Shedlowich, Marc Sevier, Terry Pike, Jill Halliday, Eric Fredrickson, Bruno Lamat,
Olivier Le Discot, Eric Loussaut, Jean Michel Senasson, Graham Falk, Trish Stolte, Wendo Vanessen,
Hana Kukal, Mike Fallows, Julien Grycan, Philippe Leconte, Joese Lemaire, Oliver Malric and Fernand Wallet.
* Colour Design by Karyn Booth-Chadwick.
* Backgrounds by Michael Doraty.
* Paint Supervisor: Mary Bertoia.
* Score by Milan Kymlicka.
* Music produced by Cantus Productions Ltd.
* Supervising Edited by Rob Kirkpatrick.
* Post Production Manager: Lan Lamon.
* Post Production Co-ordinator: Gregory Hutchinson.
* Supervising Sound Edited by Mac Holyoke.
* Picture Edited by Karen Lawrie.
* Supervising Dialogue Edited by Keith Traver.
* Supervising Sound Effects Edited by Jon Baktis.
* Supervising Music Edited by Stephen Hudecki.
* Supervising Pre-production Edited by Darrell MacDonald.
* Supervising Breakdown Edited by Rick Dubiel.
* Additional Production Facilities by Hanho Heung Up Co. Ltd, Le Studio Ellipse and Funbag Studios.
* Negative Cutting Services by Catherine Rakin Productions.
* Laboratory Services by Command Post and Transfer Corp., The Film House Group, Multitrack Digital, Inc., Studio 306 and International Image.
* A Canda - France Coproudction in Association with Scottish Television, plc and YTV Canada, Inc. With the participation of Telefilm Canada and Le Centre International de Cinemaématographie.
* Rupert Characters TM and © Express Newspapers, plc.
* Series © 1992 Nelvana Limited and Ellipse Programme S.A., the owners and the authors of the copyright in the film.
* Music © 1992 Nelvana Limited. All Rights Reserved.
* Companies: Ellipse Programme / Nelvana.

#### **Mr Men, Little Misses**

##### ***("Mr Men and the Christmas Rescue")***

* Painters: Pauline De Witt and Linda Mawson.
* Tracers: Angela Bristow, Chris Coates and Anne Ward.
* Animated by Janet Nunn and Rosemary Welch.
* Layout Artist: Janet Nunn.
* Production Assistant: Tracey Dean.
* Paint & Trace Co-Ordinator: David Pedley.
* Recording Studio by Silk Sound Studios Ltd.
* Film Processing by Technicolor.
* Dubbing Theatre by Studio Sound.
* Video Editing by SVC Television Ltd.
* Camera by Filmfex Services.
* Film Edited by Morgan Daniels Ltd.
* Production Co-ordinator: Andy Dixon.
* Music by Mark London.
* Character Voices by David Shaw Parker and Jill Shilling.
* Script Written by Bernie Kay.
* Directed by Terry Ward.
* Produced by Flicks Films Ltd.
* © TV-am Enterprises Ltd.
* © Mr Films Ltd 1991.

#### **SuperTed**

##### ***("SuperTed meets Father Christmas")***

* Produced by Mike Young.
* Directed and Designed by David Edwards.
* Written by Robin Lyons.
* Based on the characters created by Mike Young.
* Film Producer: Roger Fickling.
* With the Voices of (in alphabetical order): Derek Griffiths, Peter Hawkins, Melvyn Hayes, Roy Kinnear,
Jon Pertwee, Victor Spinetti and Sheila Steafel.
* Key Animators: Les Orton and Chris Fenna.
* Assistant Animator: Lloyd Sutton.
* Inbetweeners: Toni Ardolino Burn, Gary Hurst, Steve John and Mike Price.
* Background Artist: Ian Henderson.
* Storyboard and Layouts by Andrew Offiler, John Perkins and Wayne Thomas.
* Editing and Sound Effects by Terry Brown and Charlotte Evans.
* Dubbing Studio by Mag Masters.
* Music Composed by Chris Stuart and Mike Townend.
* Arranged and Conducted by Mike Townend.
* Music Produced by Ambarel.
* Colour Mixed by Wendy Keay-Bright.
* Assistant Colour Mixer: Lisa-Ann James.
* Checkers: Sue Rider and Sara Markham.
* Special Effects by Graham Bebbington.
* Infotec Operator: Christopher Plummer.
* Trace and Paint Supervised by Philip Watkins.
* Trace and Paint by Ron Erikson, Fiona Fenna, Melania Hill, Valerie Howlett, Peter Jessett, Frank Koller,
Carol Leslie, Jacqui Miller, Sue Paton, Lorna Phillips, Samantha Reynolds, Philip Simmonds, Mike Stubbs,
Martyn Yates and Anna-Louise Roberts.
* Siriol Line-Test Camera by Nic Jayne.
* Rostrum Camera by Graham Orrin Rostrums.
* Film Laboratories by Studio Film & Video Laboratories.
* Made in Wales by Siriol Animation Ltd.
* Films © 1984 S4C.
* SuperTed © Mike Young and Petalcraft Demonstrations Ltd.
* Company: WALES4CYRMU (Sianel Pedwar Cymru).
* © W&G Industrial Leasing Ltd 1984.

#### **Babar and Father Christmas**

* Based on the book by Jean De Brunhoff.
* Narrated by Laurent De Brunhoff.
* Executive Producer: Merilyn Read.
* Produced by Alison Clayton.
* Directed by Gerry Capelle.
* Written by Gerry Capelle, Laurent De Brunhoff and Merilyn Read.
* Music by Gary Morton.
* Lyrics for "Christmas in Celesteville" by Merilyn Read.
* Voices (in order of appearance) by Jim Bradford, Rick Jones, Kemp Edwards, Kai Engstead, Rock Lafortune, Derek Diorio, Louise Villeneuve, Les Lye, Courtney Carroll, Brahm Olzynko, Noel Council and
Bridgitte Robinson.
* Singers: John Brough, Teresa Dunn, Geri Childs and Craig Kennedy.
* Production Manager: Lesley Harris.
* Film Co-Ordinator: Jonathan Deachman.
* Executive in charge of production for C.B.C.: Nada Harcourt.
* Layout Director: Michel Breton.
* Layouts by Tim Deacon, Blair Peters and Robert Walker.
* Background Director: Peter Moehrle.
* Backgrounds by Greg Gibbons, Blake James, Eloise Lennox and Genevieve Selby.
* Animation Directors: Chris Schouten and Shivan Ramsaran.
* Animation Layout by Drew Edwards, Glenn McDonald and Steve Whitehouse.
* Senior Animators: Sebastian Grunstra, Rick Morrison, Mark Sevier and Glenn Wright.
* Animated by Graham Falk, Larry Cariou, Curtis Crawford, Gerard Desouza, Jill Halliday, Kathy Harker-Fiander, Allan Jeffery, Jean Morel, Karen Munro-Caple, Gerard Paquette, Terry Pike and Trish Stolte.
* Senior Assistant Animator: Robert A. Waldren.
* Assistant Animators: Chris Damboise, Cam Drysdale, John Guertin, Gloria Hsu, Paula Irvine, Hana Kukal, Calvin Leduc, Don Perro, Greg Sullivan, Glen Sylvester and Lee Williams.
* Production Co-Ordinators: Dave Mepham and Cindy Moehrle.
* Production Assistants: Florence Bach and Kathie Robillard.
* Quality Control Supervisor: Weldon Poapst.
* Technical Supervisor: John Duggan.
* Xerography Supervisor: Pam Pilkington.
* Xerographers: Malcolm Collins, Kim Murdock, Rick Eraut, Shane Pearce and Craig Wilson.
* Matching Supervisor: Oscar Capiral.
* Matching by Linda Bruyere and Lorraine Decoste.
* Opaquing Color Co-Ordinators: Lise Murka, Susan Spriggs and Anne-Marie Ouellette.
* Color Checking by Gary Smith and Clayton Jacobs.
* Opaquing Supervision by Nancy White and Ann Mullens.
* Opaquers: Myrna Blair, Steve Bissonnette, Suzanne Boutin, Marty Butler, Andre Charette, Steven Gelling, Rebecca Greenwood, Eleanor Hamilton, Michelle Heroux, Jerry Holbrook, Kelly Kinkaid, Shirley Kwan, Carole Lavertue, Susan Mundell, Terry O'Reilley, Nicole Patry, Dal Ralph, Myra Tarkka and Barbara Woodruff.
* Special Effects Supervised by Lee Cadieux.
* Special Effects by Ben Ballon.
* Final Check Supervised by Michael Mitchell.
* Final Check by Ron Black, Maryann Capling and Miora Moxley.
* Camera by Doug Williams, Ulrich Blazejewski, Jan Topper and Paul Webster.
* Edited by Susan Robertson.
* Assistant Editors: Keith Davidson, John Mullens and François St-Amour.
* Re-Recording by Robert Leclair, Shalini Kelly and Peter Clements.
* Music Recording by John Cybanski.
* Produced by Atkinson Film-Arts and MTR Ottawa Productions Ltd. In association  with The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
* © 1985 Copyright MTR Ottawa Productions Ltd.

#### **Nellie the Elephant**

##### ***("Nellie on a Snowy Day")***

* Painters: Pauline De Witt, Roger Lougher, Simonette Mougne, David Pedley, Charlotte Sackett and
John & Kozue Tillet.
* Tracers: Sharon Cawdrey, Chris Coates and Katherine R. Cowan.
* Trace and Paint Co-ordinator: Anne Ward.
* Animated by Paul Donnellon, Alan Green, Dick Horn, Bill Lee, Geoff Laynes and Rosemary Welch.
* Background Design by Janet Nunn and Terry Ward.
* Animation Equipment by Chromacolour Ltd.
* Film Processing by Studio Film + Video Laboratories Ltd.
* Dubbing by Ted Spooner at Video London Sound Studios Ltd.
* The Voice of Nellie by Lulu.
* Narrator and Character Voices by Tony Robinson.
* Title Song by Ralph Butler and Peter Hart. © 1956 Dash Music Ltd. 8-9 Frith Street, London W1. Sung by Lulu.
* Production Co-Ordinator: Andy Dixon.
* Assistant Director / Layouts by Janet Nunn.
* Rostrum Camera by Filmfex Services.
* Incidental Music by John Hyde.
* Film Editing by Morgan Daniels Ltd.
* Written by Richard Everett and Bernie Kay.
* Produced and Directed by Terry Ward.
* A 101 Film Production for Central. © 1989.

#### **Care Bears**

##### ***("Ski Trouble")***

* Written by Mike Silvani.
* Produced by Michael Hirsh, Patrick Hirsh and Clive A. Smith.
* A Neil B. Saul Presentation.
* Supervising Producer: Lenora Hume.
* Line Producer: Peter Hudecki.
* Co-Ordinating Producer: Heather Walker.
* Creative Consultants: Jack Chojnacki & Harvey Levin.
* Story Edited by John De Klein.
* Directed by Joseph Sherman and Laura Shepard.
* Casting by Arlene Berman.
* Assisting Voice / Casting by Collene Ferguson.
* Voice Directors: Debra Toffan.
* Cast: Tracey Moore, Dan Hennessey, Bob Dermer, Pauline Rennie, Luba Goy, Michael Beattie, Tara Charendoff, Abby Hagyard, Keith Knight, Melleny Brown, John Stocker, Billy Mae Richards, Susan Roman, Chris Wiggins, Mairon Bennett, Don Francks, Jim Henshaw, Adam Simpson and Sunny Thrasher.
* Character Development Directed by Ralph Shaffer, Linda Edwards and Tom Schneider.
* Production Supervisors: Richard Pimm and Dale Cox.
* Unit Managers: Alexis Wallrich.
* Additional Production Facilities by Hanho Heung Up Company Limited, Wang Film Productions Co. Ltd and Shanghai Animation film Studio.
* Storyboard Director: John Van Bruggen.
* Art Directors: Kim Cleary and Craol Bradbury.
* Posing Supervisors: Shane Doyle, Gary Hurst, Scott Glynn and Paul Riley.
* Care Bears Countdown Written and Performed by John Sebastian.
* Score by Tom Szczesniak, Ray Parker, Jim Morgan, Acrobat Music and Patricia Cullen.
* Post Production Supervisor: Rob Kirkpatrick.
* Post Production Manager: Gregor Hutchinson.
* Picture Edited by Scott Labarge.
* Sound Effects Edited by Mac Holyoke.
* Music Edited by Stephen Hudecki.
* Produced in Association with the Global Television Network.
* Produced with the Participation of Telefilm Canada.
* Care Bears Characters and Designs Copyright © 1988 Those Characters From Cleveland, Inc.
All Rights Reserved.
* Program Copyright © 1988 C.B.I.S. Productions Inc.
* A Nelvana Release.
* Company: Nelvana.

#### **The Teddy Bear's Christmas**

* A Lacewood Productions presentation.
* Written by Patrick Granleese.
* Based on a story by Bill Speers & Gerald Tripp.
* Music by Edmund Eagan.
* Animation directed by Norman J. LeBlanc.
* Executive producer: Sheldon S. Wiseman.
* Produced by Gerald Tripp.
* Directed by Paul Schibli.
* With the voices of Jonathan Crombie, Stuart Stone as Wally, Kyle Schibli as Sally, Ryan Lindsay as Simon, Jonathan Cameron as Boy on Sled, Samantha Rushforth as Betty, Jim McNabb as Santa, Thelma Farmer as Store Clerk / Mother and Johni Keyworth as Night Watchman / Old Man.
* Executive in Charge of Production: Ann Anderson.
* Animation Produced by Lacewood Studios Inc.
* Executive in Charge of Production for Lacewood Studios: Dulcie Clerk.
* Production Manager: Cathy Morrisey.
* Character Design by Bill Sperrs and Paul Schibli.
* Storyboard by Paul Schibli.
* Layouts by Doug Williams, Barbara Woodruff and Tim Deacon.
* Backgrounds by Gordon Coulthart, Greg Gibbons, Knud Skov and Michel Breton.
* Animation Layout: Norman LeBlanc, Jamie Oliff, Rick Morrison, Nick Rijgersberg and Paul Schibli.
* Layouts / Background Co-ordinator: Ronald Black.
* Animated by Danny Craig, Norman DeRepentigny, Eric Frederickson, Norman LeBlanc, Ted MacLeod,
Eileen Middleton, Mark Scvier, Terry Pike, Mike Csunyoscka, Scott Fiander, Grace Lam, Wayne Lee Pack,
Luc Marier, Chris Schouten, Susan Spriggs and Glenn Wright.
* Assistant Animation Supervisor: Gloria Hsu.
* Assistant Animatiors: Dan Barnaby, Benoit Cecyre, Graham Falk, Jane Gardner, Barry Jack, Dave Simmons, Suzanne Boutin, Sheryl Drury, Kathy Harker-Fianderm Rebecca Greenwood, Heather Sawter, Paul West and Moira Moxley.
* Animation Camera by Ronald E. Haines.
* Production Co-ordinator: Weldon Poapst.
* Technical Co-ordinator: Craig R Wilson.
* Paint Supervisors: Michelle Costisella and Lloyd Marchand
* Special Effects by Ben Ballon, Mitsuko Jones and Martin Butler.
* Animation Check & Camera Supervisor: John Surmachynski.
* Animation Checkers: Michael Mitchell and Ann Mullens.
* Post Production Supervisor: Paul Harris.
* Vice-President, operations for Lacewood Productions: Frank Taylor.
* Assistant to executive producer for Lacewood Productions: Elizabeth Smith.
* Completion Bond by Motion Picture Guarantors Ltd.
* Produced in association with CTV Television Network Ltd. and with the participation of Telefilm Canada, The Ontario Film Development Corporation and Rogers Telefund.
* © 1992 Lacewood Productions Inc. All Rights Reserved.
* Company: Lacewood Productions.

## Opening

* Tempo Video copyright warning (1987-1997)
* Abbey Home Entertainment/Tempo Video logo
* Tempo Pre-School logo (1996-2005)
* Party Time at the Fun Song Factory trailer
* Christmas Crackers title card
* Rupert Opening titles
* Rupert and the Missing Snow title card
* Start of Rupert and the Missing Snow (1992)

## Closing

* End of the Teddy Bears Christmas (1992)
* The Teddy Bears Christmas closing credits
* Lacewood Productions logo
* Abbey Home Entertainment/Tempo Tempo Video logo
* Tempo Pre-School logo (1996-2005)

## Trailers and info

The "Party Time at the Fun Song Factory" video advert from 1996.