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Frosty's Winter Wonderland is a 1976 animated Christmas television special and a standalone sequel to the 1969 special Frosty the Snowman, produced by Rankin/Bass Productions [1] and animated by Topcraft. It is the second television special featuring the character Frosty the Snowman.
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The special begins with a musical number showing that the Beansboro Elementary School is canceled for the day due to a seven-inch snowfall, while the adults incessantly complain about the problems snow and ice cause, and the children enjoy the opportunity for playing with it. (Later in the special, however, many of the same children are shown rally...
"Frosty the Snowman""We Love the Snow""Let There Be Snow"Despite its association with the 1969 special, Frosty Returns has a notable lack of continuity with it. For example, Frosty has a different physical appearance and is able to live without his top hat. In the original special and its sequels, the removal of Professor Hinkle's magic hat from Frosty's head caused him to cease being "all living" and be...
After Frosty is hit by the spray, Holly and Charles say that there isn't any more snow on the ground, when in fact there is.
The plot of this special is markedly more politically aware than its predecessors and successors, alluding to climate change, environmentalism corporate enterprise, and instead of a Christmas celebration, the term "winter carnival" is used. In fact, Christmas is not mentioned at all and Charles makes mention of creating a "fertility goddess" in the...
Frosty Returns has been released several times in the home media market. Up until 2019, it was included on most DVD releases and all Blu-ray releases of the original Frosty the Snowman, with the exceptions of the 2001 DVD release by Sony Wonder and the 2018 DVD and Blu-ray releases by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Universal released the sp...
On CBS' more recent broadcasts, the opening and closing bookend shots with the narrator were inexplicably edited to remove the narrator himself, yet his narration was left in. The snowfall was also digitally erased.
Frosty's Winter Wonderland is a sequel to the Rankin/Bass Christmas special Frosty the Snowman. It was originally broadcast on ABC on December 2, 1976. Years have passed since Frosty left for the North Pole, but kept his promise to the children that he'd be back again someday. When he hears the news about the first snowfall of the season, he decides to come back to them. They are overjoyed ...
6 days ago · Unfortunately, it appears that Frosty the Snowman’s 1992 sequel, Frosty Returns, has been lost in the shuffle. The CBS-produced special won’t air on broadcast TV at all in 2024. It’s unclear if a cable network will pick up the John Goodman-starring sequel, but TV Guide currently has no listings for the program as of press time.
Frosty’s Winter Wonderland is a 1976 animated Christmas television special and a standalone sequel to the 1969 special Frosty the Snowman produced by Rankin/Bass Productions. It returns Jackie Vernon as the voice of Frosty, while Andy Griffith stars as the narrator (replacing Jimmy Durante, who had been incapacitated by a stroke three years prior and retired from acting) with the rest of the ...
Jackie Vernon returned as the voice of Frosty for the final time. Jack Frost also makes a brief return from Frosty's Winter Wonderland. Although set during the Fourth of July, this sequel is the only one to mention Christmas, and Santa Claus plays a major role. This is also the only Frosty special not to feature a narrator.
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Frosty's Winter Wonderland is a Christmas Special produced for Rankin/Bass released in 1976, and a direct sequel to Frosty the Snowman.It features narration by Andy Griffith, and features the voices of Dennis Day and Shelley Winters.
