A Miser Brothers' Christmas is a 2008 Christmas stop motion spin-off special, based on the characters from the 1974 Rankin/Bass special The Year Without a Santa Claus.[2] Distributed by Warner Bros. Animation under their Warner Premiere label (the rights holder 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.[1]
Mickey Rooney (at age 88) and George S. Irving (at age 86) reprise their respective roles as Santa Claus and Heat Miser.[1][3][4] Snow Miser (originally portrayed by Dick Shawn, who died in 1987) is voiced by Juan Chioran,[4] while Mrs. Claus (voiced in the original by Shirley Booth, who died in 1992) is portrayed by Catherine Disher.[5] The movie aimed to emulate the Rankin/Bass animation style.[6] This is the last Christmas special to feature Mickey Rooney as Santa Claus, who died in 2014, as well as the last time George Irving voices Heat Miser, who died in 2016.
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- ^ Robert Lloyd (2008-12-13). "A few holiday tugs at the heartstrings". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2013-01-09.
- ^ "New Christmas shows aren't destined to be classics - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette". Post-gazette.com. 2008-12-11. Retrieved 2013-01-09.
- ^ a b "New 'A Miser Brothers' Christmas' save Christmas". NY Daily News. 2008-12-13. Retrieved 2013-01-09.
- ^ Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. pp. 197–198. ISBN 9781476672939.
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