Based on a 1950's children's book, Rankin-Bass adapted Here Comes Peter Cottontail into a tune-filled Animagic special for ABC in 1971. Casey Kasem (Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?, Josie & The Pussycats, American Top 40) has the title role, with Danny Kaye narrating as Seymour S. Sassafrass, and Vincent Price as the nefarious Irontail.
This is also the first instance of Kasem trying to sing, as he contributes to the soundtrack. We think.
Peter delivering Easter eggs on other holidays was silly, but fun.
Rating: B+.
2 comments:
I know it's well after Easter as I post this, but it's too bad that Easter(like other non-Christmas and Halloween holidays), seems to be ignored as far as special programming(like cartoon specials) on TV anymore... as I can remember watching this, the Charlie Brown Easter special and I think the Family Circus Easter special as a kid, and when I was still in school back in the mid to late 1990s and early part of the 2000s.
It ain't like it was, true, but, then, we're now in an age where a senior citizen with the mental capacity of a toddler is running the country, and......!
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