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'''''The Year Without a Santa Claus''''' is a [[Rankin/Bass Productions]] [[Stop Motion]] puppet-animated [[Christmas Special|holiday special]] (called "Animagic") from 1974.
[[Santa Claus]] (voiced by Mickey Rooney, reprising his role from 1970's ''[[Santa Claus is Comin' to Town]]'') decides to take a holiday from Christmas when he becomes convinced that nobody really cares anymore. In an effort to get Christmas back on, [[Mrs. Claus]] (voiced by [[Academy Award]]- and [[Emmy Award]]-winner [[Shirley Booth]] in her final role) sends a pair of elves out to find enough Christmas spirit left in the world to make Santa change his mind. [[Hilarity Ensues]], contributed to in no small part by the memorable obstructiveness of the climate-ruling Miser Brothers, Snow Miser ([[Dick Shawn]]) and Heat Miser ([[George S. Irving]]).
The script was written by [[Wiliam Keenan]] as opposed to the usual Rankin/Bass stalwart [[Romeo Muller]], and is based on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZDKdCdL0ls the 1956 book] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9CjpskT_NY by Phyllis McGinley], with the studio's usual mixture of classic Christmas tunes with original songs by Maury Laws and co-producer Jules Bass.<!--That means we gotta trope the book eventually.-->
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