I am doing the Chad Silveus Radio show next Tuesday for 20th Century radio and an additional show. If you would like to book a radio show with me, just go to www.miserbros.com and fill out the radio request page

There is a lot to talk about this Holiday season, including all of the Rankin/Bass TV Special anniversaries, the additional networks showing them, my appearances, magazine articles, new book, etc.

One of my favorite Tashlin/Lewis films! #thegeishaboy #jerrylewis #franktashlin

Tuesday fun

I just did a podcast interview with Matt in Maryland 🎅 I met him at the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia con 🤶 Just got this photo from the photographer at the Haunted Halloween flea market #wheaton #november #monday ❄🦃 photograph by Robert Dicke

Happy Monday! Season's Greetings!

November is one of my favorite months! It has really started off with a bang! Busy Busy Busy!

Happy Birthday to my brother Chris!

Many people ask me about the original Animagic figures.....

We have sections in each of our books about the surviving figures.  This photo is from our 20th Anniversary edition of The Enchanted World of Rankin/Bass:  A Portfolio.   Our Frosty book will have a nice section on surviving figures too!

Sunday

Sunday

Don't forget to Fall Back Tonight/Sunday AM! #fallback www.miserbros.com

Almost!

 Wes Garlatz and Jonathan Johnson are working hard to finish up!

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Coming up quick! Thursday November 14th at 2pm in Orland Park, IL

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More exposure for Rankin/Bass' Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the snowman and Santa Claus is Comin' To Town this year, while I am out there signing books and making presentations during the season! 🎅🤶👍🦃 #cbs #abc #freeform #christmas #rankinbassproductions #rickgoldschmidtappearances www.miserbros.com — with Wes Garlatz.

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 Arthur Rankin, Jr. asked me to keep the History alive and going and I will!   Romeo Muller (Seen Above in his high school yearbook) was the creator of all the characters in Rankin/Bass' version of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and I hear from his family regularly!   He wrote all of the Rankin/Bass classics and deserves much of the credit for their longevity!

 Tony Peters or TP (As he signed above) designed all of the Rankin/Bass Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer characters, including the Bumble as seen above.   In other words, Muller/Peters were the Lee/Kirby of the Rankin/Bass Universe!

 

Paul Coker, Jr. (Still with us today at age 93) designed Frosty the Snowman, The Year Without A Santa Claus, Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town and more!   He was most responsible for the Rankin/Bass look that we have come to know and love!

   AMC is showing the rest of the Rankin/Bass Christmas specials that you can read about here:  https://www.amc.com/shows/best-christmas-ever/talk/2019/09/best-christmas-ever-amc-networks-presents-its-largest-slate-of-holiday-programming-yet?fbclid=IwAR1aF4VDv1uze7gSnJ8OJbzMgYZ0zcHt2ucsfSlzqP5w1iaI7FWo9QdgcQY

They show them uncut and I was planning on going into the history of them.

I am almost certain that FREEFORM will show the same bad version of Rudolph and Frosty that air on CBS and were released on Blu Ray and DVD in 2018.   Someone needs to restore the specials properly.  I was willing to do so with Universal in 2018 and then the $%^& hit the fan and that project went South.   The Blu Rays are literally garbage!

Happy Birthday to April Dancer! #stephaniepowers #thegirlfromuncle

Howdy Doody

When I see Howdy now I think of my late friend Rhoda Mann, who was Howdy's original puppeteer and my late friend Gary Busk, who owned the Happy Days Howdy!

I watched and collectrd lots of Munsters during October!

 TV GUIDE photo from the Fall Prevue issue!

RARE Grandpa paint set!

November morn....

I have the very best version on dvd with the McDonald's presentation!  Absoultely Wonderful!

IE Review 2006

I found this November 2006 IE review of my first CD today....