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[[File:CaspersFirstXmasCover.jpg|thumb|250px|Cover to the VHS release.]]
 
 
 
'''''Casper's First Christmas''''' is a television special produced by [[Hanna-Barbera]], featuring {{WikipediaLink|Casper the Friendly Ghost}} and his friend Hairy Scary from ''{{WikipediaLink|Casper and the Angels}}'', along with guest starring appearances by [[Yogi Bear]], [[Boo Boo Bear|Boo Boo]], [[Huckleberry Hound]], [[Snagglepuss]], [[Quick Draw McGraw]], [[Augie Doggie]] and [[Doggie Daddy]]. It originally aired on [[Wikipedia:NBC|NBC]] on December 18, 1979.
 
'''''Casper's First Christmas''''' is a television special produced by [[Hanna-Barbera]], featuring {{WikipediaLink|Casper the Friendly Ghost}} and his friend Hairy Scary from ''{{WikipediaLink|Casper and the Angels}}'', along with guest starring appearances by [[Yogi Bear]], [[Boo Boo Bear|Boo Boo]], [[Huckleberry Hound]], [[Snagglepuss]], [[Quick Draw McGraw]], [[Augie Doggie]] and [[Doggie Daddy]]. It originally aired on [[Wikipedia:NBC|NBC]] on December 18, 1979.
   
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==Availability==
 
[[File:CaspersFirstXmasCover.jpg|thumb|250px|Cover to the 1990s VHS release.]]
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''Casper's First Christmas'' was first released on VHS by Kid Klassics in 1987. It was released on VHS again by [[wikipedia:Warner Home Video|Warner Home Video]] in the late 1990s. Warner Home Video eventually made the special available on the ''Hanna-Barbera Christmas Classics Collection'' manufacture-on-demand DVD, released through Warner Archive on July 30, 2012.
   
 
==Cast==
 
==Cast==

Revision as of 18:53, 31 July 2012

Casper's First Christmas is a television special produced by Hanna-Barbera, featuring Casper the Friendly Ghost and his friend Hairy Scary from Casper and the Angels, along with guest starring appearances by Yogi Bear, Boo Boo, Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss, Quick Draw McGraw, Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy. It originally aired on NBC on December 18, 1979.

Synopsis

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. Yogi and his friends get lost and arrive at the house to celebrate Christmas. Casper befriends Yogi and company only to give Hairy try to ruin the fun for Casper and his new friends. But Hairy eventually has a change of heart and joins the celebrations as Santa Claus comes to save the house and turn it into Hairy's Haunting Lodge.

Songs

Availability

CaspersFirstXmasCover

Cover to the 1990s VHS release.

Casper's First Christmas was first released on VHS by Kid Klassics in 1987. It was released on VHS again by Warner Home Video in the late 1990s. Warner Home Video eventually made the special available on the Hanna-Barbera Christmas Classics Collection manufacture-on-demand DVD, released through Warner Archive on July 30, 2012.

Cast

Voice actor Character
Julie McWhirter Casper
Daws Butler Yogi Bear
Huckleberry Hound
Augie Doggie
Quick Draw McGraw
Snagglepuss
Don Messick Boo Boo Bear
John Stephenson Doggie Daddy
Hairy Scary
Hal Smith Santa Claus

See also

External links

Hanna-Barbera
Productions
Shorts and episodes The Night Before ChristmasGood Will to Men • "Christmas Flintstone" • "A Dickens of a Christmas" • "Baby's First Christmas" • "The Nutcracker Scoob" • "Insanity Claus" • "A Jetson Christmas Carol" • "Happy Howlidays" • "The Nativity" • "The Magic Sack of Mr. Nicholas" • "The Ghost of Christmas Paddington" • "Santanapped" • "Don Coyote and the Christmas Bell" • "George and Junior's Christmas Spectacular" • "Santa Klutz" • "A Cavekid Christmas" • "Dexter Vs. Santa's Claws" • "Twas the Night" • "Happy Baboon Holidays" • "Scary Christmas" • "Scroogey Doo" • "It's a Wacky Life" • "Dashing Thru the Snow" • "Signed, Sealed and Wacky" • "The Spirit of Frostnos"
Specials and movies A Christmas StorySilent Night, Holy NightA Flintstone ChristmasCasper's First ChristmasYogi's First ChristmasThe Smurfs' Christmas SpecialChristmas Comes to Pac-LandYogi Bear's All-Star Comedy Christmas CaperThe Little Troll PrinceThe Tom and Jerry Christmas Special'Tis the Season to Be SmurfyThe Town Santa ForgotA Flintstone Family ChristmasA Flintstones' Christmas CarolA Scooby-Doo! ChristmasTom and Jerry: A Nutcracker TaleScooby-Doo! Haunted HolidaysTom and Jerry: Santa's Little HelpersTom and Jerry: Snowman's Land
Albums
Merry ChristmasPebbles & Bamm-Bamm Singing Songs of ChristmasExciting Christmas Stories with Scooby-Doo and FriendsHanna-Barbera's Christmas Sing-A-LongA Christmas in BedrockA Flintstones Motown Christmas