Rankin/Bass Animated Entertainment
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Oct 30, 2026
Travis KnightGUEST
I love the Ray Harryhausen creature features, you know, Seventh Voyage of Sinbad and Jason and the Argonauts and some of that stuff ended up finding its way into my work later.
Travis KnightGUEST
You know, the Rankin-Bass, you know, holiday specials.
Travis KnightGUEST
I actually saw Clash of the Titans in the cinema when I was a kid, which I think that might have been Ray Harryhausen's kind of last big thing, his last big hurrah.
Travis KnightGUEST
Yeah, I think you're right.
Travis KnightGUEST
And it's just been a huge part of my life.
Travis KnightGUEST
I understand.
Sean FennesseyHOST
Interesting experience with it where I took my daughter, who's five, to go see Mad Monster Party, which is the Rankin-Bass Halloween special.
Sean FennesseyHOST
You don't need to tell me that.
BugHOST
Yeah.
BugHOST
It's also the plot of the Rankin-Bass Year Without a Santa Claus, isn't it? Like he's an orphan kid and the new Santa or the one Santa.
BugHOST
Isn't that Santa's life story?
MossHOST
I don't know.
Richard LawsonHOST
And stop motion became even more boutique than it had been.
Rebecca AlterGUEST
Yeah, and also the fact is like it wasn't seen as this like particularly impressive thing with the Rankin-Bass specials because they were sort of...
Rebecca AlterGUEST
They were janky.
Rebecca AlterGUEST
They were a little janky.
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Rebecca AlterGUEST
Fox, which has a sort of a really herky jerky.
Alison WillmoreHOST
Yeah.
Alison WillmoreHOST
That calls back to Rankin-Bass very specifically.
Alison WillmoreHOST
Yeah,
John SiuntresHOST
Well, you know, you mentioned some of your Marvel books from the day and everything, but lately a lot of Filmation adaptations for Dynamite for you?
Ed BrissonGUEST
Yeah, I've been doing the Rankin-Bass Thundercats, and then I did some Silverhawks for about a year, but mostly Thundercat stuff.
Ed BrissonGUEST
So I wrapped my last one a little bit earlier this year, but I'm working on one that's not announced.
Ed BrissonGUEST
So I'm not sure how much I'm supposed to say about it, but there's one that's coming up.
Ed BrissonGUEST
Any stop motion at all.
Ed BrissonGUEST
Wow.
Ed BrissonGUEST
So not just the Rankin-Bass stuff.
Ed BrissonGUEST
It's disturbing to you.
Austin PaulsonHOST
some reason.
Justin SwindleHOST
But this is a 1967 movie, Rankin-Bass production.
Justin SwindleHOST
It's a claymation movie.
Justin SwindleHOST
They are the people that made all those 60...
Chris GraceGUEST
And then I did watch the original, that Hobbit animated film back in the day, which I enjoyed.
Chris GraceGUEST
Rankin Bass.
Chris GraceGUEST
And then I watched the Ralph Bakshi one.
Chris GraceGUEST
And I remember, so Bilbo must be in that, right? At the beginning.
Caleb MastersHOST
So
Sara Michelle FettersGUEST
Return of the King got a release through Rankin Bass Entertainment, the team that did The Hobbit, which if you haven't watched their version of The Hobbit, their Hobbit is fantastic.
Sara Michelle FettersGUEST
I have seen that.
Sara Michelle FettersGUEST
That thing is amazeballs and puts Peter Jackson to shame because it shows that you can actually do the story in 90 minutes and not 27 billion hours.
Emily St. JamesGUEST
Somehow I was like, let's do Frank Capra to celebrate my book.
Emily St. JamesGUEST
And it turned into let's rank Rankin Bass.
Emily St. JamesGUEST
So
Clay KellerHOST
that's the
Joseph ScrimshawHOST
apps.
Joseph ScrimshawHOST
Rankin Bass special someday.
Joseph ScrimshawHOST
The island of forgotten social media apps.
Ken NapzokHOST
There you go.
J.W. OckerGUEST
And in those five essays are everything we celebrate today.
J.W. OckerGUEST
It's like snow, and ivy, and carols, and feasting, and being with family, and church, all the things that are modern-day Christmas minus Rankin-Bass specials, right? So when that was published in America, Americans loved that version of Christmas.
J.W. OckerGUEST
Like, why isn't Christmas like this? And really embraced this Christmas that today is kind of what we know minus, again, the commercialism.
J.W. OckerGUEST
It's kind of how we know Christmas.
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