I loved this Christmas special when I was a kid. They eventually stopped playing it around Christmas and the last time I saw it was in the late seventies at a special showing in my elementary school's gymnasium which everyone from Kindergarten to 6th grade attended. Whenever I view the poem I immediately hear it to the tune of the version sung in this cartoon, and I never imagine it any other way.
I was amazed and appalled when Rankin-Bass did a vastly inferior version of this story in 1974. It was so bad I only watched it once. Why did they even bother? It was always a disappointment for me when the TV guide indicated the Night Before Christmas was going to be and it turned out to be the Rankin-Bass one.
But getting back to this one, the good one, I should say, I just started watching it for the first time in over 30 years and I still love it. I miss the days when TV was still fun to watch.
I was amazed and appalled when Rankin-Bass did a vastly inferior version of this story in 1974. It was so bad I only watched it once. Why did they even bother? It was always a disappointment for me when the TV guide indicated the Night Before Christmas was going to be and it turned out to be the Rankin-Bass one.
But getting back to this one, the good one, I should say, I just started watching it for the first time in over 30 years and I still love it. I miss the days when TV was still fun to watch.