Nearly every square inch of author Rick Goldschmidt's Oak Lawn home is filled with a collectible item, many of them connected to the prolific TV producers Arthur Rankin and Jules Bass. Rankin/Bass ...

“You really can't describe it,” historian and author Rick Goldschmidt said of the creative soup that was allowed to bubble at the Rankin/Bass studio. “It's why you have to watch the shows ...

According to Rankin/Bass historian Rick Goldschmidt, frequent Rankin/Bass collaborator Romeo Muller was the one who created Heat Miser and Snow Miser, who became the special’s breakout stars.

The claymation special was the first Christmas stop-motion film produced by Arthur Rankin, Jr. and Jules Bass, who went on to make movies like Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town and The Year Without a ...