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The general formula of these holiday specials was to take one or more classic holiday songs and to build a script (usually by staff writer Romeo Muller) around the music, featuring a celebrity narrator as an [[Ink Suit Actor]] in the story and interspersing it with original songs with music by Maury Laws and lyrics by co-producer Jules Bass. Very likely a majority of the characters will be voiced by [[Paul Frees (Creator)|Paul Frees]].
Rankin/Bass also produced non-holiday [[Animated Shows]]. Best known is probably ''[[ThunderCats (1985 series)|ThunderCats]]''; its other series included ''King Kong'', ''[[The Jackson 5ive]]'' and ''The Osmonds''. The popularity of ''
Its most ambitious projects were animated adaptations of [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]'s books, with ''[[The Hobbit (novel)|The Hobbit]]'' and ''[[The Lord of the Rings|The Return of the King]]''. (Not to be confused with [[Ralph Bakshi]]'s [[So Bad It's Good|ill-fated]] [[The Lord of the Rings (animation)|attempt]], which bridged the series.)
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* ''Kid Power'' (1972)
* ''Festival of Family Classics'' (1972)
* ''[[
* ''[[Silverhawks]]'' (1986)
* ''[[The Comic Strip]]'' (1987)
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