Casper's First Christmas

Casper's First Christmas
Genre Animation
Comedy
Based on Casper the Friendly Ghost created by
Seymour Reit
Joe Oriolo
Story by Bob Ogle
Directed by Carl Urbano
Starring Julie McWhirter
Daws Butler
Don Messick
John Stephenson
Music by Hoyt Curtin
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
Production
Executive producer(s) William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Producer(s) Alex Lovy
Editor(s) Robert Ciaglia
Running time 30 minutes
Production company(s) Hanna-Barbera Productions
The Harvey Entertainment Company
Distributor Worldvision Enterprises
Release
Original network NBC
Original release December 18, 1979

Casper's First Christmas is a 1979 Christmas television special and crossover produced by Hanna-Barbera featuring Casper the Friendly Ghost and his friend Hairy Scary from the animated series Casper and the Angels with guest stars Yogi Bear, Boo Boo, Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss, Quick Draw McGraw, and Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy.

It aired on NBC on December 18, 1979. The theme song ("Comin' Up Christmas Time") sung by Yogi's pals was again used a year later in Yogi's First Christmas, which contradicts the events of this special in which Yogi and Boo Boo (who, being bears are supposed to be hibernating in the winter) can be seen celebrating Christmas with the other cast members.

This also marked the first and only time that this special pairs together the characters from its owners, Hanna-Barbera and Harvey Entertainment. Like many animated series created by Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s, the show contained an inferior laugh track created by the studio.

Plot

Casper and his friend Hairy Scary are in a house about to be demolished on Christmas Eve and go out to look for a new place to move to after Christmas in California. Then Yogi and his friends get lost and arrive at Casper and Hairy's house and clean and decorate it to celebrate Christmas. Then Casper befriends Yogi and company only for Hairy to try to ruin the party with Casper and his new friends. Then Hairy has a change of heart and celebrates Christmas with Casper and his new friends and ending with Santa Claus saving the house and turning it into Hairy's Haunting Lodge.

Cast

Production credits

Home Media releases

Turner Home Entertainment released Casper's First Christmas on VHS on September 26, 1995.[1] On July 31, 2012, Warner Bros. released Hanna-Barbera Christmas Classics Collection on DVD in region 1 via their Warner Archive Collection. This is a Manufacture-on-Demand (MOD) release, available exclusively through Warner's online store and only in the US. This collection features a trilogy of Christmas specials: Casper's First Christmas, The Town That Santa Forgot and A Christmas Story.

See also

References

  1. http://www.amazon.com/Caspers-First-Christmas-Daws-Butler/dp/156039577X

External links

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