As much as I loved this as a kid, one memory I have of it was a commercial in which Santa rode around on top of the snow ... on a Norelco shaver. Years later, when I could shave, I bought one.
Awesome!!!!!!! Yea man, the norelco santa was simply too cool for cold! To me, seeing him was when Christmas officially started. I commend you on your purchase!
“The actors were only paid for the first two broadcasts of Rudolph, as nobody suspected that Rudolph was going to be repeated anymore times.” Man, they definitely underestimated that one! 🤣
I even bought a DVD player on Rudolph the red nosed reindeer years ago. It came out in 1964 and I was actually born in December 1966. I always love to watch it as a kid in the 70s and I will continue to watch it until my time is up.
I cannot for the life of me understand why they removed Rudolph and Hermie's "We're a Couple of Misfits" song and the peppermint mine scene. The former makes a lot more sense than the song they ended up putting in its place, and the latter actually brings Cornelius' whole character arc to a satisfying close and explains why he kept licking his pick after tossing it. And no, I don't believe that the extra few seconds that scene takes would've eaten up too much airtime.
Late to the thread here, but "We're a Couple of Misfits" is the only version I've ever seen from the time I was a kid---I saw it when it came out in '64.
I like both songs, but “Fame and Fortune,” doesn’t fit in as well as “We’re a couple of Misfits.” In one scene, during the original “Misfits” song, Hermie builds up a snowman shaped like his boss at the elf toy factory, and punches it in the nose! I always thought that was the funniest scene... And I don’t know why they removed it, except that it’s maybe they thought it was a bit too violent for a kids show. You can even see the Head Elf snowman in a background of a different scene, when they’re singing.
Funny thing is I had completely forgotten about "Fame and Fortune" until watching this video and hearing the song again after 30+ years. My current Bluray copy has the "Misfits" song instead and that's the version I've been accustomed to for quite a while now. I knew something was off about it though, but could never understand why. I figured perhaps it was a segment that I had missed as a kid having this taped on VHS, since it wasn't uncommon back then to have clips not get recorded. I had no idea they changed it...crazy.
The reason they used Canadian voice actors was that, although radio dramas were a thing of the past in the U.S., they were still a big thing on CBC Radio. As a result, there were a plethora of talented voice actors available in Canada.
There’s a version where Santa practically shouts his second “Merry Christmas” in a much higher pitch after the credits. This can be seen in Family home entertainment prints of the VHS.
i aint even gonna lie i always thought he was tasting for gold and he was just that damn good. i think ill stick to this idea as he is my favorite character and i think that just makes him that more intriguing
@@loribadgero1035 Believe it or not, it was because of her depression. Arthur Rankin. Jr said himself, "She has psychiatric issues since she was abandoned by her original owner."
Another possible reason for the cut of the scene of Rudolph's parents at the end of the movie is that his dad is part of the sleigh team. He was in 2 places at once.
I'll always have a soft spot for this Christmas special. I adore when Clarice and Rudolph first meet and how she accepts him for who he is. One thing that will always boggle my mind is why is it hard to find quality Rudolph merch? The plushies are lackluster at best and they're not readily available everywhere. You would think with such a timeless classic it would be a no brainier to have a dedicated company to make high quality plushies of Rudolph and the other characters.
really the only super good quality merch I've found for Rudolf is the Build a Bear plushies. I actually have both the Clarice AND the Rudolf build a bears lmao.
The Memory Lane Rudolph figures have good quality. Some of the plushies do to. But I completely agree, it shouldn’t be that hard to make good merch of him.
Sometime ago in the 1990s CVS had all the misfit toys for five dollars when you purchase something for five dollars I didn’t get them all I just have maybe five or six but they were pretty good plush toys
Many years ago, I found a Rudolph plush at Montgomery Ward. It was about 18 inches high and 2 feet long. The red bulb in the nose would light up when you squeezed the left ear. That same year my 3 year old nephew saw it under the Christmas tree and claimed it as his present. He is now 36, and Rudolph is now in the possession of his kids. Even though the nose no longer lights up, it has become a family heirloom.
I grew up on this, and Charlie Brown and many others. I can't bear to watch these on commercial television anymore. Today, the show interferes with commercials. The show used to run about 25 minutes. Now the show is about 15 minutes sandwiched in with about 15 minutes of commercials to fit in a 30 minute time slot. On commercial television it amounts to Rud-th-red-no-deer.
I can't bear commercial t.v., period. I despise the way the news or stories - the actual content - can be snipped and adulterated, but never thee advertisements. When I hear an interviewer say "We've only got 30 seconds," I think "Why are you lying? Surely your SHOW, which is why I'm watching, is more important than the freaking commercial!" So you think heart pills are more important than foreign policy?
The version you saw when you were 6 will always be the definitive version for you. I hope all the versions stay available so everyone gets to see theirs year after year. . .
For me, a definitive version of the special is a fusion of the 1964 version (Rankin Bass) with a movie from 1998 (Goodtimes), which has similarities and differences. Also, merge in other versions...
Montgomery Ward was the department store that originally owned the rights to the story, and the cel animated version from 1948, directed by Animation Veteran, Max Fleischer was produced by The Jam Handy Organization. This, the first animated version was used to control crowds of children waiting to see the store Santa Claus. A miniature theater was built in the store where the children were brought in at seven minute intervals. The Gene Autry recording was made the following year, 1949, and was such a hit identified with the character that it was recorded with a chorus for the 1949 re-issue to the stores. From appearances, the controllers of the book insisted upon retaining the "look" of the book illustrations since the book was also sold in the stores.
This is great video on this topic, I never knew there were deleted songs and scenes! It's also adorable that all those kids wrote in with such concern for the misfit toys!
I'm 47, yet I wore my enormous Bumble slippers to ring the bell for the Salvation army today lol..it was surprising how many people complimented me on them and donated!
As a kid we couldn’t wait for these to come on during Christmas time . We made sure at 7 pm we had the tv and popcorn and cookies watching these shows and Charlie Brown. I was born in 69 and I own all them now and will someday watch them with my grandkids like I did with my kids and I still do watch them every year ❤
My mom recorded this from TV when we were kids in the early 90's and that version had the Fame and Fortune song and no mention of the Peppermint mines. I got a DVD version about 10 years ago which had the Misfits song instead and also Rudolph's dad saying "This is man's work" when he was going out to search for Rudolph which wasn't in the TV version I grew up with so that line sounded so weird to me. Also the peppermint mine part was still not there. Just recently I saw a reaction video to this which had Yukon finding peppermint and then suddenly it all made sense. I even have a Rudolph Monopoly that has a Peppermint Mine space which I never understood it's relation to the Special until now. I always thought maybe he can taste sliver or gold. Glad to finally get this cleared up and I will be hunting for a version that includes that scene.
If there's one cardinal sin committed by the abridged reruns I've seen lately (on CBC), it's is the removal of the "Why weren't you at elf practice" moment, and in the December 2017 timeframe that it was a meme, too
Gosh darn it CBC! I've seen the one with misfits, the one with fame and fortune, with and without the peppermint mine... I watched the special on a few different channels over the years. CBC, NTV, and YTV amongst others.
Who here are like me, when Rudolph, Hermie and Yukon Cornelius in the cabin on the Island of misfit toys, as Rudolph leaves into the night he leaves the door open. How many of you spoke back to the tv, "Rudolph you need to close the door." 😂
Just saw this on my recommendations and loved it thank you. Since I was born in 1960, this was a childhood favourite. Still is - I have a nice Rudolph collection that grows every year (ornaments, records, books, Viewmaster reels, vintage plate, snowglobe, crackers and more). I had to watch my DVD copy after watching this video as I was sure it had the Misfits song... and I was correct. It does. The Fame and Fortune song is one of the special extra features. My DVD is dated 2007, and states it is "the original 1964 version" of the show. Hermey builds and punches his "snowman boss" (he and Rudolph simply climb over it during Fame and Fortune). It also still has the final commentary by Rudolph's parents with Clarice (I assumed that since there were only 7 reindeer pulling the sleigh that Donner did in fact stay home that year ;) ) and Yukon Cornelius is shown discovering his peppermint strike. However it also has the scenes where they DO go back to pick up the Misfit toys; so that seems like that was not the '64 version part. Thanks for all the information - really enjoyed it!
I remember watching Rudolph when I was a Child and loved it so when I was adult I got it on dvd 📀 but would love the blu ray copy l am 58 but still love watching it with my daughter happy times 👏👏👍
The best scene is when Hermie and Rudolph are singing “We’re a Couple of Misfits” and Hermie builds up a Snowman shaped like his Elf boss/The Head Elf, and during the line, “He can’t fire me, I quit!” He punches the snowman square in the nose! I can understand why this scene was removed, it was pretty violent, lol! But it was also the only scene that remember being truly laugh out loud funny! You can even see the Head Elf boss snowman in the background during another one of the “Fame and Fortune/We’re a Couple of Misfits” scenes, which doesn’t make sense without explaining why Hermie built it in the first place. You can see these scenes here: (Hermie punches a Snowman version of his boss) th-cam.com/video/OreAxN7X0V4/w-d-xo.html And here: (The Fame and Fortune song) th-cam.com/video/NZIeh8AS4Gk/w-d-xo.html Edit: In another “deleted scenes” video they said that the Hermie scene was removed, to shorten the animation to fit in with the shorter “Fame and Fortune” song, before replacing it again with the original “We’re a Couple of Misfits,” song. I think that’s the most accurate explanation, because the Snowman scene doesn’t really make any sense without the line about Hermie quitting and railing against his job/boss.
We loved this show. Before vhs tapes my brother , sister and I thought for sure one of the elves gets tossed out of the sled in ending credits. Years later when we could stop the vhs ,tape frame by frame, we found out it was just a doll.😁
I was born in '74, and oddly enough, I've only ever known the misfit's song. The version they played on t.v. when I was a kid, must have been closer to the original. Although, I don't think I've ever seen the peppermint mine sequences.
I have wonderful memories sitting around the TV with my sisters getting ready to watch Rudolph, we also loved the little drummer boy. I would always cry when his little lamb got ran over.
I saw this just the other night on television, and nothing was deleted. Also, I saw "The Little Drummer Boy", and that was in full as well. I have previously seen it where they cut out the part when his parents die...Thanks for your posting
Faces of the Forgotten did a tour in the cemetery where Robert L.May was buried, this channel always does a fantastic job of story telling different people’s lives and respecting their resting place. You’d think the man who created Rudolf would have had something more elaborate like a reindeer marking his grave, but it’s just a plack just referencing he created Rudolf. Definitely recommend watching that episode as there is further detail in May’s story.
God I’m glad someone mentioned the earlier 2D version. It was the one I remember so vividly and loved as a kid before I heard of the Rankin Bass version and it reminded me of Bambi at the time. I felt like I was the only one who knew of that version for the longest time.
I m 66 yrs old and i still watch the old Christmas Cartoons even the flintstones were great my favorite was Rudolf he is and he will always go down in History. Best Cartoon of ALL TIME
I was 5 in '64. I remember this. LOL! I had a hair dryer similar to the commercial. And TV was FREE! We had 3 channels in '64. Black and white TV. Didn't have color TV until the early 70's.
8:57 Universal Pictures currently bought the rights of Rankin-Bass Animated Entertainment prior to 1974 which under DreamWorks Animation's DreamWorks Classics (aka Classic Media) brand, in which NBCUniversal/Comcast purchased the entire DreamWorks Animation library.
A fun fact about Billie Mae Richardson. She would go on to voice such characters like TenderHeart Bear in the DiC version of The Care Bears as well as the first two Nelvana produced movies Care Bears Movie and Care Bears Move 2: A New Generation. Then she would voice Bright Heart Raccoon (switching voice rolls with Jim Henshaw) in the Nelvana produced tv series The Care Bears Family.
I remember when I was younger my parents got me that Rudolph the red nosed reindeer DVD and I remember going to the special features seeing game and fortune thinking it was a deleted scene
From what I've seen, Freeform appears to show the entire thing. The full, original version of We're a Couple of Misfits, the peppermint mine scene, the misfit toys being rescued, and no other noticeable cuts.
Would be great to have the whole thing restored with the original end and including the original commercials. Maybe even have the commercials colorized to match the film.
The downside is that without the scene of Rudolph and Santa fulfilling their promise to come to the Island of Misfit Toys and the montage over the credits of the elf dropping the Misfit Toys off at their new homes, it just makes it unsatisfactory that the Misfit Toys were forgotten as well as making the entire Misfit Island of Toys sequence and song pretty pointless to the narrative. I understand trying to restore it to the original airing as possible without the additional epilogue concluding the Misfit Toys’ storyline, but at the same time, it was a great thing it was added in a year later because if you’re not going to keep your promise of the characters of coming back to the island and getting the Misfit toys and abandon it entirely, then what’s even the point of having that entire sequence if there’s no satisfying emotional payoff?
It's actually still a pretty scary scene to me. He is one of the most scary monsters in all of film if you think about it. He's big like Kong, and Godzilla. All them teeth, - that get pulled out! The music, and the dark colored terrain and the wind. Makes me shake like Burl Ives.
Watched all my 57 years so far I was a infant in Dec 1964 but mom had me in my bassinet in front of the TV I was so quiet she knew id be forever in love with Rudolph ❤️🥰🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌
I bought a Blu-ray/DVD set in 2014 @ Best Buy that has the uncut version + many extras like the making of the show, singalongs, interviews and 50 years of Rudolph.
I am glad they added in some of the delete scenes at the end like Yukon Cornelius finding his peppermint mine and Hermes falling into the snow and the scene where Rudolph's parents and Clarisse watching him lead Santa's sleigh but with that scene being added always made me wonder and I hope I am not the only one who spotted this but Rudolph's father was Donner, one of Santa's reindeer. So how could he be on the ground watching, I mean Santa still had his original 8 reindeer pulling the sleigh? Who was next to Blitzen if it wasn't Donner?
The story of Rudolph was made into a colour cartoon by Fleisher studios it followed the audio recording of the story almost exactly I just watched it this afternoon. It was my favourite Christmas record as a child
This was a must see when I was a kid growing up in the sixties that and Frosty the Snowman and of course A Charlie Brown Christmas which is not seen on TV now because Netflix bought it I think. What a shame kids today don’t have much to look forward to
This year CBS cut and chopped the song 'We're a Couple of Misfits' pretty badly. It's always the same reason, to fit more stinkin' commercials in for the allotted time. If you have it on tape or DVD watch it on those. Don't waste your time watching it on TV, it will leave you disappointed.
That was the coolest commercial of that time. Sometimes I watched tv just hoping to catch it. I loved the trail the razor left in the snow. Then came the Evil Beaver vs Miller lite and things just changed.
Thank You for this I sure appreciate it my parents gave me a blow up Rudolph for Christmas when I was 8 years old and My Daddy posed next to it with his.bomber jacket that he got! It was hard to get him to pose in a picture but he did I think more because of the fact Rudolph was Daddy’s late brother’s name!
Has any one ever noticed that Hermie does not have long pointed ears as the other elves do? He's got shorter round human ears. What's up with that? The more obvious difference is he's got lots of blonde hair, while the other male elves are all bald, but all the female elves have hair.
5:08 so no one was gonna tell me there's a rudolph sequel? I was just supposed to find out by watching a lost media video about a christmas movie I loved as a kid?!
Thanks for putting together this historical review of an American cultural classic. I can't imagine how you found this great info... there's very little info available on Rankin Bass
The song asks if we've ever heard of him but also says that he's the most famous and that of course we already know the other reindeer. If the words of the song are true and we already know the other reindeer, and he is more famous than them, then....
You might be interested to know, I once saw an episode of Antiques Road Show where several of the original figures were found in an attic. (Apparently someone from the production DID take them home!) A number of them had deteriorated beyond repair, but three or four were rescued and appeared in the episode. Maybe you could track it down?
The guy only had a young Rudolph and Santa left...the rest melted and decomposed in his mom's hot attic...I just watched a video of an expert restoration of those two surviving puppets. Santa actually had rolled up japanese newspaper stuffing his boots! Here's the roadshow clip: th-cam.com/video/0t0GaNTdZA8/w-d-xo.html And the repair: th-cam.com/video/o_48Yv3EvrY/w-d-xo.html
I miss how the networks would have their Christmas specials. It was a night the whole family would sit and watch. A lot of the time my family would put up our Christmas tree. They usually played the specials near Thanksgiving. Even though it was the 1980s there was still a focus on family entertainment. Doesn't really feel that way anymore. Besides, who doesn't watch these every year no matter how old you are?
These videos are great as you are into lost media there is something I’d like to find in 1996 in the UK there was a McDonald’s advert where there was a referee who mistook a car wash for a McDonald’s drive thru and he got soaked I’d love to find this to see it again
I remember the Misfits song back being broadcast when I was a kid in the 80's. Also, no mention of the Bumble having a polka dot handkerchief on at the end of the special with Hermes saying that all the Bumble had was a toothache?
That was good. Did anyone else think Santa should have overruled or even fired the reindeer coach? Perhaps he took a hands off approach to internal matters. The special has been part of CBS' holiday tradition for years. If not for the liner notes on the soundtrack album, we might not know it originally aired on NBC. Since then, the Grinch has been on three broadcast networks and cable. Charlie Brown has been on two broadcast networks, PBS, and now Apple+. It should be back on broadcast TV. The story about Gene Autry's wife getting him to record Rudolph has been challenged. It was supposed to be a follow-up to Here Comes Santa Claus, which he cowrote. The original version was done for Columbia. Time Life's collection of Christmas songs included a remake he did for his own Challenge label. The version of Have a Holly Jolly Christmas we usually hear by Burl Ives is also a remake. Both versions were done for Decca, later MCA. This special did have a big influence on others. The movie Elf took its depiction of the North Pole directly from the special. Considering Buddy's sugar consumption, Hermie would be very busy. They'd definitely need at least one dentist.
There is a missing seen that now and then,they throw a few bits in to what they air.This is where Clarice sings ,there's always tomorrow. It was like a 1 to 2 minute song,where it show them looking into a lake while she sings.
I’ve never been able to find an explanation as to why the head elf’s voice changes for one line during ‘We Are Santa’s Elves’. He says ‘Yes Santa’ in a completely different voice. Was Carl Banas not available the day they did the looping lines?
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As much as I loved this as a kid, one memory I have of it was a commercial in which Santa rode around on top of the snow ... on a Norelco shaver. Years later, when I could shave, I bought one.
Awesome!!!!!!! Yea man, the norelco santa was simply too cool for cold! To me, seeing him was when Christmas officially started. I commend you on your purchase!
Same here! Loved that commercial as a kid and I also use one of those today!
I remember that!!!
Now I begin my quest to find that commercial
Same for me
I find it amazing that this 60 year old movie has been viewed by many generations without any reboot
I wouldn’t give them any ideas if I were you…
Right. My momma watched it as a kid !!!!!!! It will make u shed a tear
@@h-bitgraphics3858Yeah they’d turn it woke
There was another version done in 1998.
@Swmovan We don't talk about the Goodtimes version.
I was 7 the first time I watched this. I'm 64 now. And still love it.
Hi Linda Seel, me too, was 7 when Rudolph was first broadcast, I'm 64 as well and I never miss seeing this classic from my childhood 😁🎄☃️❄️🦌
Same!
@@susansanchez4794 Merry Christmas!
@@hardtfelt Merry Christmas!
@@lindaseel8633 Hi Linda! Merry Christmas to you too and a Happy New Year!
“The actors were only paid for the first two broadcasts of Rudolph, as nobody suspected that Rudolph was going to be repeated anymore times.”
Man, they definitely underestimated that one! 🤣
That's their excuse. Tightwads!
I even bought a DVD player on Rudolph the red nosed reindeer years ago. It came out in 1964 and I was actually born in December 1966. I always love to watch it as a kid in the 70s and I will continue to watch it until my time is up.
❤🎅🦌🎄
Oh for the days when you could only watch these shows when they aired. Now, that was always worth the wait.
Yes, you had to stop everything to make sure you didn't miss it. Those were the days!
As a 70's kid, I recall those days.
I cannot for the life of me understand why they removed Rudolph and Hermie's "We're a Couple of Misfits" song and the peppermint mine scene. The former makes a lot more sense than the song they ended up putting in its place, and the latter actually brings Cornelius' whole character arc to a satisfying close and explains why he kept licking his pick after tossing it. And no, I don't believe that the extra few seconds that scene takes would've eaten up too much airtime.
Late to the thread here, but "We're a Couple of Misfits" is the only version I've ever seen from the time I was a kid---I saw it when it came out in '64.
@@peterharrison5833 Indeed. And Yukon Corneilus tossing the pick and saying,"Peppermint." Was always there too.
@@lindaseel8633 Yes, you're right..
I like both songs, but “Fame and Fortune,” doesn’t fit in as well as “We’re a couple of Misfits.” In one scene, during the original “Misfits” song, Hermie builds up a snowman shaped like his boss at the elf toy factory, and punches it in the nose! I always thought that was the funniest scene... And I don’t know why they removed it, except that it’s maybe they thought it was a bit too violent for a kids show. You can even see the Head Elf snowman in a background of a different scene, when they’re singing.
Funny thing is I had completely forgotten about "Fame and Fortune" until watching this video and hearing the song again after 30+ years. My current Bluray copy has the "Misfits" song instead and that's the version I've been accustomed to for quite a while now. I knew something was off about it though, but could never understand why. I figured perhaps it was a segment that I had missed as a kid having this taped on VHS, since it wasn't uncommon back then to have clips not get recorded. I had no idea they changed it...crazy.
The reason they used Canadian voice actors was that, although radio dramas were a thing of the past in the U.S., they were still a big thing on CBC Radio. As a result, there were a plethora of talented voice actors available in Canada.
There’s a version where Santa practically shouts his second “Merry Christmas” in a much higher pitch after the credits. This can be seen in Family home entertainment prints of the VHS.
I actually know what you mean cause I used to have the vhs tape and heard it!!
I have that tape
Oh my GOD I completely FORGOT THAT
I think it’s the head elf’s voice.
I have that tape too.
i aint even gonna lie i always thought he was tasting for gold and he was just that damn good. i think ill stick to this idea as he is my favorite character and i think that just makes him that more intriguing
I have the old original DVD. Watched the heck out of it when I was a child! I love Rankin Bass specials!
Why was the little, pig tailed dolly on the Island of Misfit toys? Didn’t it have something to do with her gingham dress?
@@loribadgero1035 Believe it or not, it was because of her depression. Arthur Rankin. Jr said himself, "She has psychiatric issues since she was abandoned by her original owner."
@@pizzathefox8809 Wow!
They only had seven reindeer because Comet had to stay home to clean the sink. :)
Underrated comment! Well played, Norman.
Good one Norman ,ha ha
I remember hearing that joke at school in the late 60s and when I came home and told my Mom she laughed so hard. I was really proud of myself 😀
@@nathandebartolo8330 Funny! I play Santa every year and tell this joke to the kids all the time.
Another possible reason for the cut of the scene of Rudolph's parents at the end of the movie is that his dad is part of the sleigh team. He was in 2 places at once.
Considering the physics involved in delivering all those presents in so short a time, that's entirely plausible.
I'll always have a soft spot for this Christmas special. I adore when Clarice and Rudolph first meet and how she accepts him for who he is. One thing that will always boggle my mind is why is it hard to find quality Rudolph merch? The plushies are lackluster at best and they're not readily available everywhere. You would think with such a timeless classic it would be a no brainier to have a dedicated company to make high quality plushies of Rudolph and the other characters.
really the only super good quality merch I've found for Rudolf is the Build a Bear plushies. I actually have both the Clarice AND the Rudolf build a bears lmao.
The Memory Lane Rudolph figures have good quality. Some of the plushies do to. But I completely agree, it shouldn’t be that hard to make good merch of him.
Sometime ago in the 1990s CVS had all the misfit toys for five dollars when you purchase something for five dollars I didn’t get them all I just have maybe five or six but they were pretty good plush toys
And two of those I got were Clarice and Rudolph
Many years ago, I found a Rudolph plush at Montgomery Ward. It was about 18 inches high and 2 feet long. The red bulb in the nose would light up when you squeezed the left ear. That same year my 3 year old nephew saw it under the Christmas tree and claimed it as his present. He is now 36, and Rudolph is now in the possession of his kids. Even though the nose no longer lights up, it has become a family heirloom.
I grew up on this, and Charlie Brown and many others. I can't bear to watch these on commercial television anymore. Today, the show interferes with commercials. The show used to run about 25 minutes. Now the show is about 15 minutes sandwiched in with about 15 minutes of commercials to fit in a 30 minute time slot. On commercial television it amounts to Rud-th-red-no-deer.
I can't bear commercial t.v., period. I despise the way the news or stories - the actual content - can be snipped and adulterated, but never thee advertisements. When I hear an interviewer say "We've only got 30 seconds," I think "Why are you lying? Surely your SHOW, which is why I'm watching, is more important than the freaking commercial!" So you think heart pills are more important than foreign policy?
The version you saw when you were 6 will always be the definitive version for you. I hope all the versions stay available so everyone gets to see theirs year after year. . .
For me, a definitive version of the special is a fusion of the 1964 version (Rankin Bass) with a movie from 1998 (Goodtimes), which has similarities and differences. Also, merge in other versions...
Montgomery Ward was the department store that originally owned the rights to the story, and the cel animated version from 1948, directed by Animation Veteran, Max Fleischer was produced by The Jam Handy Organization. This, the first animated version was used to control crowds of children waiting to see the store Santa Claus. A miniature theater was built in the store where the children were brought in at seven minute intervals. The Gene Autry recording was made the following year, 1949, and was such a hit identified with the character that it was recorded with a chorus for the 1949 re-issue to the stores. From appearances, the controllers of the book insisted upon retaining the "look" of the book illustrations since the book was also sold in the stores.
It was Marshall Fields
@@MTNmomma22 Montgomery Wards. The guy who wrote it was an employee.
@@MTNmomma22 Wards
The recent rebroadcast of "Rudolph" on ABC Family had Yukon Cornelius' final line about finding the peppermint mine included!
Yukon Cornelius. A legend in his own right.
Rudolph is truly an icon of Christmas 🎄.
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Yeah he's my favorite Christmas Character I like 1998 Rudolph..
@@katelynthewhitewerewolf6376 Oh?
This is great video on this topic, I never knew there were deleted songs and scenes! It's also adorable that all those kids wrote in with such concern for the misfit toys!
when I saw the Rudolf special as an 8 year old. I never thought that my grandchildren would love it.
I'm 47, yet I wore my enormous Bumble slippers to ring the bell for the Salvation army today lol..it was surprising how many people complimented me on them and donated!
As a kid we couldn’t wait for these to come on during Christmas time . We made sure at 7 pm we had the tv and popcorn and cookies watching these shows and Charlie Brown. I was born in 69 and I own all them now and will someday watch them with my grandkids like I did with my kids and I still do watch them every year ❤
Hard to believe l was one when this was made! I love Rudolph......nothing says Christmas like Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer!🥰
My mom recorded this from TV when we were kids in the early 90's and that version had the Fame and Fortune song and no mention of the Peppermint mines. I got a DVD version about 10 years ago which had the Misfits song instead and also Rudolph's dad saying "This is man's work" when he was going out to search for Rudolph which wasn't in the TV version I grew up with so that line sounded so weird to me. Also the peppermint mine part was still not there. Just recently I saw a reaction video to this which had Yukon finding peppermint and then suddenly it all made sense. I even have a Rudolph Monopoly that has a Peppermint Mine space which I never understood it's relation to the Special until now. I always thought maybe he can taste sliver or gold. Glad to finally get this cleared up and I will be hunting for a version that includes that scene.
If there's one cardinal sin committed by the abridged reruns I've seen lately (on CBC), it's is the removal of the "Why weren't you at elf practice" moment, and in the December 2017 timeframe that it was a meme, too
How can they think it's a good idea to remove that moment? It's literally what introduces the head elf into that particular scene!
@@ElFreakinCid Possibly some political reason?
It's the funniest line in the show. I mean, they have to practice to be elves?
Glad I don't live in Canada lol.
Gosh darn it CBC!
I've seen the one with misfits, the one with fame and fortune, with and without the peppermint mine... I watched the special on a few different channels over the years. CBC, NTV, and YTV amongst others.
I love Rudolph. Thank you for this video. From a " misfit".
Who here are like me, when Rudolph, Hermie and Yukon Cornelius in the cabin on the Island of misfit toys, as Rudolph leaves into the night he leaves the door open. How many of you spoke back to the tv, "Rudolph you need to close the door." 😂
Just saw this on my recommendations and loved it thank you. Since I was born in 1960, this was a childhood favourite. Still is - I have a nice Rudolph collection that grows every year (ornaments, records, books, Viewmaster reels, vintage plate, snowglobe, crackers and more). I had to watch my DVD copy after watching this video as I was sure it had the Misfits song... and I was correct. It does. The Fame and Fortune song is one of the special extra features. My DVD is dated 2007, and states it is "the original 1964 version" of the show. Hermey builds and punches his "snowman boss" (he and Rudolph simply climb over it during Fame and Fortune). It also still has the final commentary by Rudolph's parents with Clarice (I assumed that since there were only 7 reindeer pulling the sleigh that Donner did in fact stay home that year ;) ) and Yukon Cornelius is shown discovering his peppermint strike. However it also has the scenes where they DO go back to pick up the Misfit toys; so that seems like that was not the '64 version part. Thanks for all the information - really enjoyed it!
This here is a very interesting follow-up on deleted scenes from the Rankin-Bass Specials.
I’ve watched it every year since the beginning.
Wow,that was 1964? I always thought late 60’s. A classic 4 sure!
I remember watching Rudolph when I was a Child and loved it so when I was adult I got it on dvd 📀 but would love the blu ray copy l am 58 but still love watching it with my daughter happy times 👏👏👍
I really loved those commercials! I remember that original airing so well.
The best scene is when Hermie and Rudolph are singing “We’re a Couple of Misfits” and Hermie builds up a Snowman shaped like his Elf boss/The Head Elf, and during the line, “He can’t fire me, I quit!” He punches the snowman square in the nose! I can understand why this scene was removed, it was pretty violent, lol! But it was also the only scene that remember being truly laugh out loud funny! You can even see the Head Elf boss snowman in the background during another one of the “Fame and Fortune/We’re a Couple of Misfits” scenes, which doesn’t make sense without explaining why Hermie built it in the first place.
You can see these scenes here: (Hermie punches a Snowman version of his boss) th-cam.com/video/OreAxN7X0V4/w-d-xo.html And here: (The Fame and Fortune song) th-cam.com/video/NZIeh8AS4Gk/w-d-xo.html
Edit: In another “deleted scenes” video they said that the Hermie scene was removed, to shorten the animation to fit in with the shorter “Fame and Fortune” song, before replacing it again with the original “We’re a Couple of Misfits,” song. I think that’s the most accurate explanation, because the Snowman scene doesn’t really make any sense without the line about Hermie quitting and railing against his job/boss.
We loved this show. Before vhs tapes my brother , sister and I thought for sure one of the elves gets tossed out of the sled in ending credits. Years later when we could stop the vhs ,tape frame by frame, we found out it was just a doll.😁
Rudolph was my Christmas show growing up. Born in 59. We owned one Christmas album, Dad would play Gene Audrey album while we opened gifts.
I was born in '74, and oddly enough, I've only ever known the misfit's song. The version they played on t.v. when I was a kid, must have been closer to the original. Although, I don't think I've ever seen the peppermint mine sequences.
Depends what channel you watched. CBC aired it the way you describe, but CBC is only in Canada. You Canadian?
Yeah, I'm in USA and I've only heard the Misfits song too
Same. Born in ‘76 and watched in the 80s in Pennsylvania and I only recall the misfits song because I sung along as a kid.
....I was 5 years old in 1964....have watched every year since!
I have wonderful memories sitting around the TV with my sisters getting ready to watch Rudolph, we also loved the little drummer boy. I would always cry when his little lamb got ran over.
When...??
I saw this just the other night on television, and nothing was deleted. Also, I saw "The Little Drummer Boy", and that was in full as well. I have previously seen it where they cut out the part when his parents die...Thanks for your posting
Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer is forever.
I could’ve sworn for the longest time there were two endings. Now I know why!
I really hope they release ALL parts of Rudolph! My fav show ever!! See it hundreds of times!💕
Faces of the Forgotten did a tour in the cemetery where Robert L.May was buried, this channel always does a fantastic job of story telling different people’s lives and respecting their resting place. You’d think the man who created Rudolf would have had something more elaborate like a reindeer marking his grave, but it’s just a plack just referencing he created Rudolf. Definitely recommend watching that episode as there is further detail in May’s story.
God I’m glad someone mentioned the earlier 2D version. It was the one I remember so vividly and loved as a kid before I heard of the Rankin Bass version and it reminded me of Bambi at the time. I felt like I was the only one who knew of that version for the longest time.
Phew,, what a relief that Santa rescued the misfit toys.
I m 66 yrs old and i still watch the old Christmas Cartoons even the flintstones were great my favorite was Rudolf he is and he will always go down in History. Best Cartoon of ALL TIME
Thank you for uploading. Your Rudolph research is impressive .
I was 5 in '64. I remember this. LOL! I had a hair dryer similar to the commercial. And TV was FREE! We had 3 channels in '64. Black and white TV. Didn't have color TV until the early 70's.
I watched this Christmas special MANY TIMES when I was growing up.
My mother backed Gene on piano during a veterans hospital stop in Battle Creek .
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Universal Pictures currently bought the rights of Rankin-Bass Animated Entertainment prior to 1974 which under DreamWorks Animation's DreamWorks Classics (aka Classic Media) brand, in which NBCUniversal/Comcast purchased the entire DreamWorks Animation library.
A fun fact about Billie Mae Richardson. She would go on to voice such characters like TenderHeart Bear in the DiC version of The Care Bears as well as the first two Nelvana produced movies Care Bears Movie and Care Bears Move 2: A New Generation. Then she would voice Bright Heart Raccoon (switching voice rolls with Jim Henshaw) in the Nelvana produced tv series The Care Bears Family.
Thank you. My favorite Christmas special.
I remember when I was younger my parents got me that Rudolph the red nosed reindeer DVD and I remember going to the special features seeing game and fortune thinking it was a deleted scene
From what I've seen, Freeform appears to show the entire thing. The full, original version of We're a Couple of Misfits, the peppermint mine scene, the misfit toys being rescued, and no other noticeable cuts.
You’re right, but it’s in a boxed version rather than full screen.
Excellent little video on a childhood favorite. Thanks!!!
🎄❤️🌟….I’m now 60 📺👀 absolutely Classic ✨
Interesting "tidbits" mentioned here regarding this wonderful Christmas classic holiday special!
Would be great to have the whole thing restored with the original end and including the original commercials. Maybe even have the commercials colorized to match the film.
The downside is that without the scene of Rudolph and Santa fulfilling their promise to come to the Island of Misfit Toys and the montage over the credits of the elf dropping the Misfit Toys off at their new homes, it just makes it unsatisfactory that the Misfit Toys were forgotten as well as making the entire Misfit Island of Toys sequence and song pretty pointless to the narrative. I understand trying to restore it to the original airing as possible without the additional epilogue concluding the Misfit Toys’ storyline, but at the same time, it was a great thing it was added in a year later because if you’re not going to keep your promise of the characters of coming back to the island and getting the Misfit toys and abandon it entirely, then what’s even the point of having that entire sequence if there’s no satisfying emotional payoff?
Always loved this as a child. It then the one about the little elf who wanted to be a dentist.
The 50'th anniversary CD has these deleted scenes. I have this CD. I remembered these deletions & was glad I was able to find the CD.
DVD
81 and look forward every year!
I thought it was just me, I remember those deleted scene
The Bumble used to scare me when I was little 😂
It's actually still a pretty scary scene to me. He is one of the most scary monsters in all of film if you think about it. He's big like Kong, and Godzilla. All them teeth, - that get pulled out! The music, and the dark colored terrain and the wind. Makes me shake like Burl Ives.
Watched all my 57 years so far I was a infant in Dec 1964 but mom had me in my bassinet in front of the TV I was so quiet she knew id be forever in love with Rudolph ❤️🥰🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌
I've only ever heard the "Couple of Misfits" song, never heard the "Fame and Fortune" one in my life.
I find it funny how many differing releases that this film had, with varying songs, scene, and whatnot.
Gene Autry released Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer in 1949 and it remained on the charts into 1950.
Yes, it was totally wrong to cut anything out in the story of Rudolph. Lucky for me, I found the uncut version vcr years ago.
HOW? A bootleg? What quality was it in? (Picture and sound.)
I bought a Blu-ray/DVD set in 2014 @ Best Buy that has the uncut version + many extras like the making of the show, singalongs, interviews and 50 years of Rudolph.
One of my favorite T-shirts is from the Misfit song, "Why don't I fit in?"
It's priceless to me.
Without the misfits, the whole story makes no sense.
I'm watching the movie now, "Couple of Misfits" and "Peppermint Mine" included.
Rudolph was my childhood and this year I have figured out just how deep it goes from puppets resurfacing to the deleated and added scenes
My girlfriend absolutely loves Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
I am glad they added in some of the delete scenes at the end like Yukon Cornelius finding his peppermint mine and Hermes falling into the snow and the scene where Rudolph's parents and Clarisse watching him lead Santa's sleigh but with that scene being added always made me wonder and I hope I am not the only one who spotted this but Rudolph's father was Donner, one of Santa's reindeer. So how could he be on the ground watching, I mean Santa still had his original 8 reindeer pulling the sleigh? Who was next to Blitzen if it wasn't Donner?
The story of Rudolph was made into a colour cartoon by Fleisher studios it followed the audio recording of the story almost exactly I just watched it this afternoon. It was my favourite Christmas record as a child
Kids now adays dont know what they missed with xmas specials like i had as a kid its a shame
Montgomery Ward..
History...
But Rudolph will never go away.
In 1967 on my birthday it was on it made me happy and this year on my 64 birthday it was on you bet I watched it
Gotta see this. I love Rudolph ❤️
This was a must see when I was a kid growing up in the sixties that and Frosty the Snowman and of course A Charlie Brown Christmas which is not seen on TV now because Netflix bought it I think. What a shame kids today don’t have much to look forward to
Apple, actually.
This year CBS cut and chopped the song 'We're a Couple of Misfits' pretty badly. It's always the same reason, to fit more stinkin' commercials in for the allotted time. If you have it on tape or DVD watch it on those. Don't waste your time watching it on TV, it will leave you disappointed.
I feel sorry for the kids that have no choice but to watch the television version.
That was the coolest commercial of that time. Sometimes I watched tv just hoping to catch it. I loved the trail the razor left in the snow. Then came the Evil Beaver vs Miller lite and things just changed.
Thank You for this I sure appreciate it my parents gave me a blow up Rudolph for Christmas when I was 8 years old and My Daddy posed next to it with his.bomber jacket that he got! It was hard to get him to pose in a picture but he did I think more because of the fact Rudolph was Daddy’s late brother’s name!
Has any one ever noticed that Hermie does not have long pointed ears as the other elves do? He's got shorter round human ears. What's up with that? The more obvious difference is he's got lots of blonde hair, while the other male elves are all bald, but all the female elves have hair.
Maybe one of his Parents is a Elve and the other is Human.
Looks like Buddy wasn’t the first human to work as an “elf” at Santa’s workshop.
5:08 so no one was gonna tell me there's a rudolph sequel? I was just supposed to find out by watching a lost media video about a christmas movie I loved as a kid?!
There is a reason no one talks about the sequel. Its not very good. My advice just stick to the original.
No one talks about it because it’s terrible it’s actually a knockoff not an official sequel
And its CGI, ugh
Thanks for putting together this historical review of an American cultural classic. I can't imagine how you found this great info... there's very little info available on Rankin Bass
Good work in making this video
The song asks if we've ever heard of him but also says that he's the most famous and that of course we already know the other reindeer. If the words of the song are true and we already know the other reindeer, and he is more famous than them, then....
You might be interested to know, I once saw an episode of Antiques Road Show where several of the original figures were found in an attic. (Apparently someone from the production DID take them home!) A number of them had deteriorated beyond repair, but three or four were rescued and appeared in the episode. Maybe you could track it down?
The guy only had a young Rudolph and Santa left...the rest melted and decomposed in his mom's hot attic...I just watched a video of an expert restoration of those two surviving puppets. Santa actually had rolled up japanese newspaper stuffing his boots!
Here's the roadshow clip: th-cam.com/video/0t0GaNTdZA8/w-d-xo.html
And the repair: th-cam.com/video/o_48Yv3EvrY/w-d-xo.html
@@mothergoose3766 - Wow that is so cool! I always wondered what the guy did with the figures he rescued. Awesome to hear they were restored. :) :) :)
I miss how the networks would have their Christmas specials. It was a night the whole family would sit and watch. A lot of the time my family would put up our Christmas tree. They usually played the specials near Thanksgiving. Even though it was the 1980s there was still a focus on family entertainment. Doesn't really feel that way anymore. Besides, who doesn't watch these every year no matter how old you are?
These videos are great as you are into lost media there is something I’d like to find in 1996 in the UK there was a McDonald’s advert where there was a referee who mistook a car wash for a McDonald’s drive thru and he got soaked I’d love to find this to see it again
I remember the Misfits song back being broadcast when I was a kid in the 80's. Also, no mention of the Bumble having a polka dot handkerchief on at the end of the special with Hermes saying that all the Bumble had was a toothache?
That was good. Did anyone else think Santa should have overruled or even fired the reindeer coach? Perhaps he took a hands off approach to internal matters. The special has been part of CBS' holiday tradition for years. If not for the liner notes on the soundtrack album, we might not know it originally aired on NBC. Since then, the Grinch has been on three broadcast networks and cable. Charlie Brown has been on two broadcast networks, PBS, and now Apple+. It should be back on broadcast TV.
The story about Gene Autry's wife getting him to record Rudolph has been challenged. It was supposed to be a follow-up to Here Comes Santa Claus, which he cowrote. The original version was done for Columbia. Time Life's collection of Christmas songs included a remake he did for his own Challenge label. The version of Have a Holly Jolly Christmas we usually hear by Burl Ives is also a remake. Both versions were done for Decca, later MCA.
This special did have a big influence on others. The movie Elf took its depiction of the North Pole directly from the special. Considering Buddy's sugar consumption, Hermie would be very busy. They'd definitely need at least one dentist.
They’ve returned the peppermint mine scene when you watch Rudolph on Freeform. It’s fun to see those deleted scenes now!
There is a missing seen that now and then,they throw a few bits in to what they air.This is where Clarice sings ,there's always tomorrow. It was like a 1 to 2 minute song,where it show them looking into a lake while she sings.
I’ve never been able to find an explanation as to why the head elf’s voice changes for one line during ‘We Are Santa’s Elves’. He says ‘Yes Santa’ in a completely different voice. Was Carl Banas not available the day they did the looping lines?
There are no better Christmas shows for television than these and they are almost 100 years old.
Actually the best Christmas story is approximately 2,000 years old
@@robertsmith-cj6gl Hallelujah to the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. You are correct. God bless you!