Question: A Miser Brothers' Christmas was based on some of the characters from a stop motion spcieal based on a book by who?

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. <SEP>  Distributed by Warner Bros. 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".  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. <SEP> 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. <SEP> Yellow Jacket: The Beach Crazy Cyclist is a short stop motion animated show for children made in France.  It features the quick and whimsical adventures of a bicycle racer weaing a yellow jacket and his nemesis, a black jacket-wearing cyclist, amongst other toy characters.  The cyclists are always model people but the spectators are toys and models like dolls and crabs.  Black Jacket and Yellow Jacket are always at the centre of the plot, with Black Jacket using some devious trick to try to win and Yellow Jacket generally not trying to stop him, letting fate or karma prevent Black Jacket from winning.  The show is always set at a beach and at a minuscule level.  Sometimes a human will, in stop motion form, enter the show.  After Yellow Jacket wins the first half of the closing credits plays then a small continuation gag plays and the rest of the credits roll.  The sand is real and the bikes leave trails though much of it is not filmed at an actual beach but in a studio.