Rankin/Bass-historian

Sunday, December 27, 2009

c. 1964 RANKIN/BASS PRODUCTIONS/RICK GOLDSCHMIDT ARCHIVES

Elvis Presley

When Elvis' birthday rolls around on January 8th, 2010...he would have been 75 years old! Hard to believe he died at age 42.

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NEW RANKIN/BASS THUNDERCATS statue

www.hardhero.com/thundercats-cheetara-statue.html

from THE ENCHANTED WORLD OF RANKIN/BASS: A PORTFOLIO
c. 1976 RANKIN/BASS PRODUCTIONS/RICK GOLDSCHMIDT ARCHIVES

Father Time says it is getting close to the end of the year!

Adam West and Burt Ward in Chicago 1975

RANKIN/BASS Eye Candy!

RANKIN/BASS' WILLY McBEAN & HIS MAGIC MACHINE (1965)

The cast of RANKIN/BASS' THE HOBBIT (1977)

from THE ENCHANTED WORLD OF RANKIN/BASS: A PORTFOLIO book
c. 1977 RANKIN/BASS PRODUCTIONS/RICK GOLDSCHMIDT ARCHIVES
from left to right: Arthur Rankin, Don Messick, John Stephenson, Paul Frees, Jack De Leon, Orson Bean, Jules Bass and Hans Conried

Saturday, December 26, 2009

RANKIN/BASS' THE LEPRECHAUN'S CHRISTMAS GOLD

from THE ENCHANTED WORLD OF RANKIN/BASS: A PORTFOLIO
c. 1981 RANKIN/BASS PRODUCTIONS/RICK GOLDSCHMIDT ARCHIVES

It's still Christmas around here!

Everyone liked this color changing Santa from BATH & BODY WORKS with the Vanilla Bean Noel scent

From the late, great Albert Hague

Hot Item!

We only have two XL Shirts left!

We had a mini blizzard today...much worse than predicted

Jerry Eisenberg's Holiday card came today...

along with his original drawing inside of FANGFACE. Jerry has been a pal for a while and worked on many of the classic HANNA-BARBERA shows including THE FLINTSTONES, the PETER POTOMUS show, The MAGILLA GORILLA show and many more!

SEASON'S GREETINGS!

from the book THE ENCHANTED WORLD OF RANKIN/BASS: A PORTFOLIO
c. 1971 RANKIN/BASS PRODUCTIONS/RICK GOLDSCHMIDT ARCHIVES

THE SMOKEY BEAR SHOW

Love the fact that we got in two volumes of THE SMOKEY BEAR SHOW! Billie Mae Richards (Rudolph) does the voice of SMOKEY JR. and Paul Soles (Hermey) does various voices as well.

Friday, December 25, 2009

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

from my Chicago Kid's TV book project

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We still have a few books left!

A Vintage HANNA-BARBERA CHRISTMAS!

BLEEEEP!

ARTHUR RANKIN, JR., DANNY KAYE and JULES BASS

From the book THE ENCHANTED WORLD OF RANKIN/BASS: A PORTFOLIO by Rick Goldschmidt
c. RANKIN/BASS PRODUCTIONS/RICK GOLDSCHMIDT ARCHIVES

BURL

They don't know how to make TV like this anymore :)

JACK DAVIS by MORT DRUCKER

from THE ENCHANTED WORLD OF RANKIN/BASS: A PORTFOLIO c. 1997 Rick Goldschmidt

GREER GARSON

MERRY CHRISTMAS from THE ENCHANTED WORLD OF RANKIN/BASS!

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Santa Claus IS Comin' to town!

Christmas Eve around here!

Stacey & Mike

Josh got his SONY HD Camcorder for filming Skateboard tricks..

Sara received her Lanikai Ukulele

Geoff & Lindsey

MERRY CHRISTMAS from THE ENCHANTED WORLD OF RANKIN/BASS!

Some cool CRAZY FOAM customs under the Christmas tree...

BATMAN & ROBIN looking for SANTA CLAUS (Andy Devine)

GIN BLOSSOMS are coming NEW YEAR'S EVE for the countdown...

...and they are part of ABC-TV's countdown to the New Year with Janet Davies and Mark Giangreco!

RANKIN/BASS' SILVERHAWKS

Always enjoy getting my pal SHAG's Christmas card!

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We always enjoy the FLEXITOON Christmas card!

www.flexitoon.blogspot.com

From THE MAKING OF THE RANKIN/BASS HOLIDAY CLASSIC: RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER
Art by Kirsten Ulve

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HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVE!

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

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Yukiko sent these pictures from Japan! They were taken at a mall in Nagoya, Japan!

ARTHUR RANKIN, JR.

I heard from Arthur Rankin yesterday! He wishes everyone a very Merry Christmas! He is also looking for copies of a mini-series made for RAI in ROME titled "Enid" or "Enide." It was made in 1971 and consists of 7 hours of film and starred his lovely wife Olga Karlatos (Rankin). The mini-series made her a star in Italy!

Diana's blog

I had fun looking at Diana's blog today! She has good taste! Check it out at http://diiixdixo.blogspot.com/

http://www.cultradioagogo.com/ Doing a phoner interview this Saturday night at 7pm Pacific! We'll be talking RANKIN/BASS and more! Tune in!

"Cult Radio A-Go-Go!" ; a.k.a CRAGG; is a 24/7 pop culture themed radio station that features a live call in show every Saturday from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm pacific. Our station is available on the internet internationally as well as in local syndicated markets around the country. We've reached listeners as close as LA (our biggest market) and as far as Iraq, Europe, and Australia. The radio station garners approximately 500,000 to 900,000 listeners on average per month (just via our broadcast and not counting our syndicates) as we are available locally and also in international online media markets including Shoutcast Radio, Terra Radio, Chumby Radio Networks, Live365 Radio, on select cell phones, Stickam networks, and various other syndicates. We have guests on the live show that had / have anything to do with pop culture, tv, film, b-movies, comedy, retro music, cult / drive-in themed films, horror, sci-fi, thrillers, and family entertainment from kids shows to sitcoms to cartoons, etc. Basically we highlight anything and / or anyone who could've ever been considered iconic in the world of pop culture at one time or another. Our show is also syndicated live every Saturday night and rebroadcast every Thursday night, further extending our span of promotion and increasing our listening audience.

posted by Thomas Frederick

WLS RADIO

with Mancow last Holiday season. My ROE CONN SHOW appearance on WLS today was cancelled. There was some sort of shake up there the past few weeks.

My friends David and Pat at WLS RADIO

Posted by Thomas Frederick

This came out yesterday! BEST BUY didn't have it???!!! What they did have was trashed and disorganized isles with very little help (or help that knew nothing about anything)! I dare you to try to find a DVD/BLU RAY like this at one of those places....I double dare you :)

Posted by Thomas Frederick

I picked these up many years ago at UNCLE FUN in Chicago!

BIRTHDAY LUNCH

My sister Lindsey and her boyfriend Geoff at 94 WEST in Orland Park, IL. Great food on a snowy day! My Mom went along too.

posted by Thomas Frederick

We would like to THANK Jerry Beck www.cartoonresearch.com and Patrick Owsley www.powsley.blogspot.com for the nice book mentions today! We heard from many, many people today about the book :) We still have some copies BUT hurry!

posted by Thomas Frederick

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

ARNOLD STANG passes at age 91

One of our favorite comedians and cartoon voices passed away at age 91. Arnold Stang was the voice of HERMAN in the HERMAN & KATNIPS cartoons (One of my favorites!) as well as TOP CAT in HANNA-BARBERA'S TOP CAT series. He was in many other films and TV projects including IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD. A legend!