RANKIN/BASS' THE BALLAD OF SMOKEY THE BEAR starring James Cagney

Aired on NBC's THE GENERAL ELECTRIC FANTASY HOUR on Thanksgiving Day, 1966! Smokey appeared in the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade to promote it too!

Photos by Tom Repetny

Josh's friend Nick in the studio...

Recording crunch guitar parts for our new song "Toxic Box." I am sporting my new Duffel shoes from my pal William at OSIRIS!

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My friend Wes and I are looking into doing T-shirts again...this time in Grey and possibly some larger sizes too. We would also like to incorporate the ANIMAGIC! logo too.

A VERY popular title for the month of November! Schools love to show this classic RANKIN/BASS TV Special!

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NOVEMBER is here!

I have a very LIMITED number of books for this Holiday season... $55 shipped. PAYPAL Rickgoldsc@aol.com Order early :)

I have HORROR OF DRACULA on right now! Love PETER CUSHING and CHRISTOPHER LEE in all of the GREAT HAMMER Films BUT this one is my favorite!

KRUSH yesterday

Josh and his friend Nick

Josh off in a corner...

Rich "Svengoolie" Koz showed ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN last night! He said Walter Lantz did all the animation in the titles and in the film....I never thought about it BUT it makes sense, since it was at UNIVERSAL.

HALLOWEEN in Oak Lawn

Giving out lots of candy as I watch RANKIN/BASS' MAD MONSTER PARTY!

Josh's friend Nick went and Trick or treated a neighbor's house....Beautiful day for TRICK OR TREATING! Josh and Nick went up to WALGREEN's for some more candy :)

Getting lots of TRICK OR TREATERS right now...

I picked up a really cool PEANUTS Christmas display at MENARD'S today with the 1950's style PEANUTS! I saw it there a few weeks ago. Hopefully they will do more with the early PEANUTS!

c. 1967 RANKIN/BASS PRODUCTIONS/RICK GOLDSCHMIDT ARCHIVES

HAPPY HALLOWEEN from THE ENCHANTED WORLD OF RANKIN/BASS!

They had a bunch of these candy bags at the toy show last weekend...