List of Rankin/Bass Productions films

Rankin/Bass Productions was an American production company, best known for its animated seasonal television specials. Television series and films pre-1974 are owned by NBCUniversal and post-September 1974 are owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.

Television specials

Title	Year	Directed by	Written by	Music	Animation Production	Style
Return to Oz	1964	F.R. Crawley Thomas Glynn Larry Roemer	Romeo Muller	Gene Forrell Edward Thomas James Polack	Crawley Films	Traditional
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer	1964	Larry Roemer	Romeo Muller	Johnny Marks	MOM Production	Stop-motion
The Ballad of Smokey the Bear	1966	Larry Roemer	Joseph Schrank	Johnny Marks	MOM Production	Stop-motion
The Cricket on the Hearth	1967	Arthur Rankin, Jr. Jules Bass	Romeo Muller Arthur Rankin Jr.	Maury Laws	TCJ Animation Center	Traditional
The Mouse on the Mayflower	1968		Romeo Muller	Maury Laws	Toei Animation	Traditional
The Little Drummer Boy	1968			Colin Romoff	MOM Production	Stop-motion
Frosty the Snowman	1969			Maury Laws Jack Rollins Steve Nelson	Mushi Production	Traditional
The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians	1970			Maury Laws	Mushi Production	Traditional
Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town	1970			Jules Bass Maury Laws	Video Tokyo Production	Stop-motion
Here Comes Peter Cottontail	1971			Jack Rollins
Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes	1972			Maury Laws
Mad Mad Mad Monsters			William J. Keenan Lou Silverstone		Mushi Production	Traditional
Willie Mays and the Say-Hey Kid			Romeo Muller		Topcraft
The Red Baron			Leonard Starr
That Girl in Wonderland	1973		Stu Hample
'Twas the Night Before Christmas	1974		Jerome Coopersmith
The Year Without a Santa Claus	1974		William J. Keenan		Video Tokyo Production	Stop-motion
The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow	1975		Julian P. Gardner		Video Tokyo Production	Stop-motion
The First Easter Rabbit	1976		Julian P. Gardner		Topcraft	Traditional
Frosty's Winter Wonderland			Romeo Muller	Jack Rollins Steve Nelson	Topcraft	Traditional
Rudolph's Shiny New Year			Romeo Muller	Johnny Marks	Video Tokyo Production	Stop-motion
The Little Drummer Boy: Book II			Julian P. Gardner	Maury Laws
The Easter Bunny is Comin' to Town	1977		Romeo Muller
The Hobbit					Topcraft	Traditional
Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey					Video Tokyo Production	Stop-motion
The Stingiest Man in Town	1978			Fred Spielman	Topcraft	Traditional
Jack Frost	1979			Maury Laws	Video Tokyo Production	Stop-motion
Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July	1979			Johnny Marks Maury Laws	Video Tokyo Production	Stop-motion
The Return of the King	1980			Maury Laws	Topcraft	Traditional
Pinocchio's Christmas	1980				Video Tokyo Production	Stop-motion
The Leprechauns' Christmas Gold	1981				Video Tokyo Production	Stop-motion
The Flight of Dragons	1982				Topcraft	Traditional
The Coneheads	1983		Al Franken Tom Davis	Bernard Hoffer	Topcraft	Traditional
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus	1985		Julian P. Gardner	Bernard Hoffer	Pacific Animation Corporation	Stop-motion
The Wind in the Willows	1987		Romeo Muller	Maury Laws	Cuckoo's Nest	Traditional
Santa, Baby!	2001	Lee Dannacher	Peter Bakalian Suzanne Collins	Glen Roven	Pacific Animation Corporation Hanho Heung-Up	Traditional

Feature films

Title	Year	Directed by	Written by	Music	Animation Production	Style
Willy McBean and His Magic Machine	1965	Arthur Rankin Jr.	Arthur Rankin Jr.	Edward Thomas	MOM Production	Stop-motion
The Daydreamer	1966	Jules Bass	Arthur Rankin Jr.	Maury Laws
Mad Monster Party?	1967		Len Korobkin Harvey Kurtzman	Maury Laws
The Wacky World of Mother Goose	1967		Romeo Muller	George Wilkins	TCJ Animation Center	Traditional
The Last Unicorn	1982	Arthur Rankin Jr. Jules Bass	Peter S. Beagle	Jimmy Webb	Topcraft
The King and I	1999	Richard Rich	Peter Bakalian Jacqueline Feather David Seidler	William Kidd	Rich Animation Studios

Animated TV series

With the exception of "The New Adventures of Pinocchio" (stop-motion), all of the TV shows were traditionally animated.

Title	Year	Animation Production	Network	No. of episodes
The New Adventures of Pinocchio	1960	MOM Production	Syndication	130
Tales of the Wizard of Oz	1961	Crawley Films	Syndication	110
The King Kong Show	1966	Toei Animation	ABC	26
The Smokey Bear Show	1969	Toei Animation	ABC	17
The Tomfoolery Show	1970	Halas and Batchelor	NBC
The Reluctant Dragon & Mr. Toad Show	1970	Mushi Production	ABC
The Jackson 5ive	1971	Halas and Batchelor Pegbar Production		23
The Osmonds	1972	Halas and Batchelor		17
Kid Power		Topcraft		17
Festival of Family Classics		Mushi Production (17 episodes) Topcraft (3 episodes)	Syndication	20
ThunderCats	1985	Pacific Animation Corporation		130
SilverHawks	1986			65
The Comic Strip TigerSharks Street Frogs The Mini-Monsters Karate Kat	1987			65

Live-action productions


Title	Year	Directed by	Written by	Music	Distribution
King Kong Escapes	1967	Ishirō Honda	Takeshi Kimura	Akira Ifukube	Universal Pictures (theatrical)
Marco	1973	Seymour Robbie	Romeo Muller	Maury Laws	Cinerama Releasing Corporation (theatrical)
The Last Dinosaur	1977	Alexander Grasshoff Shusei Kotani	William Overgard		ABC (television)
The Bermuda Depths	1978	Tom Kotani
The Ivory Ape	1980			Bernard Hoffer Maury Laws
The Bushido Blade	1981			Maury Laws	Aquarius Releasing (theatrical)
The Sins of Dorian Gray	1983	Tony Maylam	Ken August Peter Lawrence	Bernard Hoffer	ABC (television)