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March 17, 2022 Episode 19: The Sins of Dorian Gray (1983)
We continue to hop around in the filmography of Rankin & Bass as we look at the last live-action film they produced with the 1983 made-for-TV movie The Sins of Dorian Gray, a gender-swapped version of Oscar Wilde's tale wherein Dorian (Belinda Bauer) is a model/actress whose screen test weathers the storm of her myriad sins while Anthony Perkins plays a Mephistophelian character.

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49 min
February 04, 2022 Episode 18: The Bermuda Depths (1978)
On this episode Richard Hatem, Chris Stachiw, and Mike White discuss the Rankin & Bass film The Bermuda Depths. It's a live action (and stop motion) film about a man, a mysterious woman, and a giant turtle.

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43 min
December 20, 2021 Episode 17: 'Twas the Night Before The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus
We're scraping the bottom of the Rankin & Bass Christmas barrel with a look at the 1974 animated special 'Twas the Night Before Christmas and 1985 animagic story The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus which re-tells the Santa story by way of L. Frank Baum. Did you know that Santa suckled at the teat of a lioness?

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44 min
November 25, 2021 Episode 16: Mouse on the Mayflower
Did you know that there are Native American mice? We learned this and other fun facts about the pilgrims coming over on the Mayflower in this Rankin & Bass animated Thanksgiving special.

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42 min
October 25, 2021 Episode 15: The Monsters Come Out
We really wanted to like Mad Monster Party? and Mad, Mad, Mad Monsters but just couldn't We discuss the lame voices of both spooky specials which celebrate Friday the 13th far more than Halloween.

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57 min
October 07, 2021 Episode 14: The Flight of Dragons
Based on the first book of Gordon R. Dickson's series, The Flight of Dragons, stars Harry Morgan as a disgruntled wizard whose way of life is threatened. He travels through time to retrieve John Ritter to help defeat James Earl Jones.

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46 min
September 16, 2021 Episode 13: The Daydreamer
Rankin & Bass combine live action and animagic in the secret bio-pic of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daydreamer (1966) in which Paul O'Keefe plays the titular role along with a cavalcade of voice talent.

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39 min
August 18, 2021 Episode 12: Willy McBean & His Magic Machine
We're going back to the first Rankin & Bass animagic feature, Willy McBean & His Magic Machine in which Willy is joined by talking monkey Pablo to defeat the evil Professor Von Rotten by traveling time and making sure history is not rewritten.

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59 min
July 01, 2021 Episode 11: An Unexpected Journey to Middle Earth
In 1977 Rankin & Bass did one of the first successful adaptation of JRR Tolkien's work with their adaptation of The Hobbit. In 1979 they tried again with The Return of the King. Between those two, Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings complicated matters. We discuss these animated specials in a post Peter Jackson LOTR world.

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1 hr 6 min
June 08, 2021 Episode 10: The Last Unicorn (1982)
Directed by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass, The Last Unicorn was adapted for the screen by Peter S. Beagle and based on his book. It's an offbeat look at legacy, legend, and immortality. It's the story of a unicorn (Mia Farrow) who thinks she may be the last of her kind and her quest to find the truth.

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52 min

About Rankin on Bass

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Welcome to Rankin on Bass, an offhanded joke that became a short-lived podcast where we discuss the stopmotion and animated works of Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass.

Your hosts: Chris Stachiw…