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|director=[[wikipedia:Robert Alvarez|Robert Alvarez]]
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|writer=Charmaine Severson<br>[[wikipedia:Glenn Leopold|Glenn Leopold]]
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|writer=Charmaine Severson {{s|(poem)}}<br>{{w|Glenn Leopold}} {{s|(teleplay)}}
 
|release=December 3, 1993
 
|release=December 3, 1993
|runtime=22 minutes
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'''''{{PAGENAME}}''''' (also known as '''''The Town That Santa Forgot''''') is an animated [[Christmas]] television special produced by [[Hanna-Barbera]]. Originally broadcast on {{w|NBC}} on December 3, 1993, it is based on the poem ''[[Jeremy Creek]]'' by Charmaine Severson.
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'''''The Town Santa Forgot''''' (also known as '''''The Town That Santa Forgot''''') is an animated [[Christmas]] television special produced by [[:Category:Hanna-Barbera|Hanna-Barbera]]. Originally broadcast on [[wikipedia:NBC|NBC]] on December 3, 1993, it is based on the poem ''[[Jeremy Creek]]'' by Charmaine Severson.
 
   
This special and ''[[A Flintstone Family Christmas]]'' were both nominated for the 1994 [[wikipedia:Primetime Emmy Award|Primetime Emmy Award]] for [[wikipedia:Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour)|Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than One Hour)]]. However, it lost to ''The Roman City''.
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Th special and ''[[A Flintstone Family Christmas]]'' were both nominated for the 1994 {{w|Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour)}}. However, it lost to ''The Roman City''.
   
== Synopsis ==
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==Synopsis==
The special opens with a framing device featuring an elderly gentleman and his two grandchildren on [[Christmas Eve]]. The grandkids are anxiously waiting for [[Santa Claus]], thinking only of the toys that he will bring them. The grandpa sits down to tell the kids the main story.
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The special opens with a framing device featuring an elderly gentleman and his two grandchildren on [[Christmas Eve]]. The grandkids are anxiously waiting for [[Santa Claus]], thinking only of the toys that he will bring them. Their grandfather sits down to tell the kids the main story.
   
[[File:JeremyWritingHisLetterToSanta.jpg|thumb|250px|Jeremy writing his letter to Santa.]]
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[[File:JeremyWritingHisLetterToSanta.jpg|thumb|250px|Jeremy writing his letter to Santa]]
The story is about [[Jeremy Creek]], a little boy who knows nothing but greed. He throws temper tantrums every time he sees what he wants, and he wants everything he sees. After many complaints (and a huge crack in the wall), Jeremy's mother and father inform him that he will get no more toys from them. Jeremy goes to his room and starts playing with the thousands of toys that he already owns. He comes to a realization: If his parents wouldn't get him the toys, then he should ask Santa Claus instead. With a red crayon and papers taped together to form a list half a mile long, Jeremy writes every toy he can think of on the list. He quickly finishes it and mails it in June.
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The story is about [[Jeremy Creek]], a little boy who knows nothing but greed. He throws temper tantrums every time he sees what he wants, and he wants everything he sees. After many complaints (and a huge crack in the wall), [[Mr. and Mrs. Creek|his mother and father]] inform him that he will get no more presents from them. He goes to his room and starts playing with the thousands of toys that he already owns. He comes to a realization: if his parents wouldn't get him the presents, then he should ask Santa Claus instead. With a red crayon and papers taped together to form a list half a mile long, he writes every toy he can think of on it. He quickly finishes it and mails it in June.
   
 
[[File:The-town-that-santa-forgot-09.jpg|thumb|250px|Pomp finds the town of Jeremy Creek on Santa's map.]]
 
[[File:The-town-that-santa-forgot-09.jpg|thumb|250px|Pomp finds the town of Jeremy Creek on Santa's map.]]
July, August, and September soon pass, and Jeremy remains in his room waiting for Christmas to come. By this time, Santa has received the letter and, through his wisdom, believes that the half-mile list has to come from a town, for no one boy could possibly want so much. So, looking at a Church-sized map, he and the elves look all over the world for the town of "Jeremy Creek". One elf named Pomp finds it, and points out that it has never been on his route. Feeling guilty, Santa orders everything on the list, one for each boy and girl in the little forgotten town.
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July, August, and September soon pass, and Jeremy remains in his room waiting for Christmas to come. By this time, Santa has received his letter and, through his wisdom, believes that it has to come from a town, for no one boy could possibly want so much. So, looking at a church-sized map, he and his elves look all over the world for the town of "Jeremy Creek". One elf named Pomp finds it, and points out that it has never been on his route. Feeling guilty, Santa orders everything on the list, one for each boy and girl in the little forgotten town.
   
[[wikipedia:Halloween|Halloween]] and [[wikipedia:Thanksgiving|Thanksgiving]] pass, and soon it is Christmas Eve. When night falls, Jeremy goes up on the roof of his house and waits for Santa to arrive, intending to snatch the toys from the sleigh. Santa eventually comes, but Jeremy is devastated when Santa passes by him without stopping at his house, and he cries himself to sleep.
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{{w|Halloween}} and {{w|Thanksgiving}} pass, and soon it is Christmas Eve. When night falls, Jeremy goes up on the roof of his house and waits for Santa to arrive, intending to snatch the toys from the sleigh. He eventually comes, but Jeremy is devastated when he passes by without stopping at his house, and he cries himself to sleep.
   
[[File:The-town-that-santa-forgot-13.jpg|thumb|250px|To his dismay, Jeremy finds that Santa left no gifts for him.]]
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[[File:The-town-that-santa-forgot-13.jpg|thumb|250px|To his dismay, Jeremy finds that Santa left no presents for him.]]
When Jeremy awakens the next morning, he rushes downstairs, hoping maybe Santa sneaked in through the window and left his presents under the tree after all. But to his dismay, he finds no presents under the tree. Upset about this, he goes to watch the news with his parents. While watching TV, he witnesses a report on television stating that Santa Claus has brought holiday cheer to a swamp town that happens to share the same name as him. Upon hearing this, Jeremy is at first resentful that the kids in this town got all the toys he wanted, but when the kids on the TV state that they'd like to give a thank-you to whoever wrote to Santa telling him to come to their town, his cold heart melts and he realizes that this accidental good deed of his makes him feel better than any present ever could.
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When Jeremy awakens the next morning, he rushes downstairs, hoping that maybe Santa snuck in through the window and left his presents under the tree after all. But to his dismay, he finds none there. Upset about this, he goes to watch the news with his parents. While doing so, he witnesses a report on television stating that Santa has brought holiday cheer to a swamp town that happens to share the same name as him. Upon hearing this, he is at first resentful that the kids there got all the toys he wanted, but when the kids on TV state that they'd like to give a thank-you to whoever wrote to Santa telling him to come to their town, his cold heart melts and he realizes that this accidental good deed of his makes him feel better than any present ever could.
   
[[File:TownSantaForgot.jpg|thumb|250px|Santa and Jeremy make a delivery.]]
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[[File:TownSantaForgot.jpg|thumb|250px|Jeremy helping Santa deliver gifts]]
Immediately following Jeremy's newfound change of heart, Santa appears in a small size, telling him that he's come to grant the swamp town's hero whatever he wants. Jeremy replies that he doesn't really want anything, for he has learned that it is better to give than to receive. In the end, Santa makes Jeremy his assistant for helping him deliver Christmas presents, a task he lovingly accepts and continues to perform until he outgrows his seat in Santa's sleigh. Outside of Christmas, Jeremy also becomes a more caring boy and shares his toys with his neighbors.
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Immediately following Jeremy's newfound change of heart, Santa appears in a small size, telling him that he's come to grant the town's hero whatever he wants. Jeremy replies that he doesn't really want anything, for he has learned that it is better to give than to receive. In the end, Santa makes him his assistant for helping him deliver Christmas presents, a task he lovingly accepts and continues to perform until he outgrows his seat in Santa's sleigh. Outside of Christmas, he also becomes a more caring boy and shares his toys with his neighbors.
   
[[File:The-town-that-santa-forgot-20.jpg|thumb|250px|The elderly Jeremy Creek with his grandchildren.]]
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[[File:The-town-that-santa-forgot-20.jpg|thumb|250px|The elderly Jeremy Creek with his grandchildren]]
The special closes with the narrator and his grandchildren, who have taken the story to heart and now don't care what they get from Santa. The grandfather then tells them that every few Christmases, Santa still picks out a little boy or girl to assist him in his annual journey. On the very last shot, some snow falls off the grandfather's mailbox outside to reveal the name "J. Creek", revealing to the audience that the narrating grandpa was Jeremy Creek himself.
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The special closes with the narrator and his grandchildren, who have taken the story to heart and now don't care what they get from Santa. The narrator then tells them that every few Christmases, Santa still picks out a little boy or girl to assist him in his annual journey. On the very last shot, some snow falls off the narrator's mailbox outside to reveal the name "J. Creek", revealing to the audience that he was Jeremy Creek himself.
   
== Songs ==
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==Song==
* "[[So Little Time 'Til Christmas Day]]"
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*"[[So Little Time 'Til Christmas Day]]"
   
 
== Broadcast history ==
 
== Broadcast history ==
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[[File:ca674712530aadbd6325d8a8b3911bb1.jpg|thumb|250px|One of the commercial bumpers used in the special's NBC premiere]]
''The Town Santa Forgot'' was later shown on [[wikipedia:Cartoon Network|Cartoon Network]] as part of its annual Christmas marathons from 1995 to 2004. It was also regularly shown on [[Wikipedia:Boomerang (TV channel)|Boomerang]]'s Christmas marathons from its launch in 2000 through 2013.
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The special was later shown on [[Cartoon Network]] as part of its annual Christmas marathons from 1995 to 2004. It was also regularly shown on {{w|Boomerang (TV channel)|Boomerang}}'s Christmas marathons from its launch in 2000 through 2013.
   
 
== Availability ==
 
== Availability ==
[[Wikipedia:Turner Entertainment|Turner Home Entertainment]] released ''The Town Santa Forgot'' on VHS as part of their Cartoon Network Christmas video collection in 1996. In addition to the special, the video tape also contained bonus episodes of ''[[wikipedia:Wacky Races|Wacky Races]]'' and ''Pfish and Chip'' (a short originally aired on ''The What-A-Cartoon! Show''). [[wikipedia:Warner Home Video|Warner Home Video]] eventually made the special available, along with ''[[A Christmas Story (Hanna-Barbera)|A Christmas Story]]'' and ''[[Casper's First Christmas]]'', on [[wikipedia:Warner Archive Collection|Warner Archive]]'s ''Hanna-Barbera Christmas Classics Collection'' manufacture-on-demand DVD, released on July 30, 2012.
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{{w|Turner Home Entertainment}} released the special on VHS as part of their Cartoon Network Christmas video collection in 1996. In addition it, the tape also contained bonus episodes of ''{{w|Wacky Races}}'' and ''Pfish and Chip'' (a short originally aired on ''The What-A-Cartoon! Show''). [[Warner Home Video]] eventually made the special available, along with ''[[A Christmas Story (Hanna-Barbera)|A Christmas Story]]'' and ''[[Casper's First Christmas]]'', on {{w|Warner Archive}}'s ''Hanna-Barbera Christmas Classics Collection'' manufacture-on-demand DVD, released on July 30, 2012.
   
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TownSantaForgotVHS.jpg|{{Gallery note|VHS|Turner Home Entertainment<br />September 24, 1996}}
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TownSantaForgotVHS.jpg|{{GNH|VHS|Turner Home Entertainment<br>September 24, 1996}}
Hanna-Barbera Christmas Classics Collection DVD.jpg|{{Gallery note|''Hanna-Barbera Christmas Classics Collection'' DVD|Warner Home Video<br />July 30, 2012}}
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Hanna-Barbera Christmas Classics Collection DVD.jpg|{{GNH|''Hanna-Barbera Christmas Classics Collection'' DVD|Warner Home Video<br>July 30, 2012}}
 
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</gallery>
   
== Cast ==
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==Cast==
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
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{|class="wikitable"
! Voice actor !! Character
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!Voice actor/actress !! Character
 
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| [[Wikipedia:Dick Van Dyke|Dick Van Dyke]] || Narrator (Old [[Jeremy Creek]])
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|{{w|Dick Van Dyke}} || [[Jeremy Creek]] {{s|(old)}}
 
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| [[Wikipedia:Miko Hughes|Miko Hughes]] || Young [[Jeremy Creek]]
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|{{W|Miko Hughes}} || [[Jeremy Creek]] {{s|(young)}}
 
|-
 
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| [[Hal Smith]] || [[Santa Claus]]
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|[[Hal Smith]] || [[Santa Claus]]
 
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| [[Wikipedia:Phil Proctor|Phil Proctor]] || Jeremy's Dad
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|{{w|Phil Proctor}} || [[Mr. and Mrs. Creek|Mr. Creek]]
 
|-
 
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| Melinda Peterson || Jeremy's Mom
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|Melinda Peterson || [[Mr. and Mrs. Creek|Mrs. Creek]]
 
|-
 
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| [[Wikipedia:Ashley Johnson|Ashley Johnson]] || Old Jeremy's Granddaughter
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|{{w|Ashley Johnson}} || [[Old Jeremy's Grandchildren|Jeremy's Granddaughter]]
 
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| [[Wikipedia:Paul Williams (songwriter)|Paul Williams]] || [[Miscellaneous elves#pompandpout|Pomp the Elf]]
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|{{w|Paul Williams (songwriter)|Paul Williams}} || [[Miscellaneous elves#pompandpout|Pomp the Elf]]
|- valign="top"
 
| Troy Davidson || Old Jeremy's Grandson
 
 
|-
 
|-
 
|Troy Davidson || [[Old Jeremy's Grandchildren|Jeremy's Grandson]]
| [[Wikipedia:Neil Ross|Neil Ross]] || [[Miscellaneous elves#pompandpout|Pout the Elf]]
 
 
|-
 
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|{{w|Neil Ross}} || [[Miscellaneous elves#pompandpout|Pout the Elf]]
| [[Wikipedia:Julie McWhirter|Julie Dees]] || ''unknown''
 
 
|-
 
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|{{w|Julie McWhirter|Julie Dees}} || ''unknown''
| [[Wikipedia:B.J. Ward|B.J. Ward]] || Neighbor
 
 
|-
 
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|{{w|B.J. Ward}} || Neighbor
| Haven Hartman || Little Swamp Girl
 
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|-
 
|Haven Hartman || Little Swamp Girl
 
|}
 
|}
   
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==Gallery==
== External links ==
 
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* {{Imdb title|0356140}}
 
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hannabarbera-christmas-03.jpg|Jeremy having just received more toys
* {{Bcdb title|55343}}
 
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* {{TVtropes link|WesternAnimation/TheTownSantaForgot}}
 
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Jeremy check his calendar.jpg|Jeremy checks his calendar.
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Jeremy climbs back into his room.jpg
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Santa makes Jeremy his assistant.jpg|Santa makes Jeremy his assistant.
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Jeremy giving toys.jpg|Now reformed, Jeremy shares his toys with his neighbors.
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</gallery>
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==External links==
 
*{{Imdb title|0356140}}
 
*{{Bcdb title|55343}}
 
*{{TVtropes link|WesternAnimation/TheTownSantaForgot}}
   
 
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Revision as of 10:19, 22 April 2020

The Town Santa Forgot (also known as The Town That Santa Forgot) is an animated Christmas television special produced by Hanna-Barbera. Originally broadcast on NBC on December 3, 1993, it is based on the poem Jeremy Creek by Charmaine Severson.

Th special and A Flintstone Family Christmas were both nominated for the 1994 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour). However, it lost to The Roman City.

Synopsis

The special opens with a framing device featuring an elderly gentleman and his two grandchildren on Christmas Eve. The grandkids are anxiously waiting for Santa Claus, thinking only of the toys that he will bring them. Their grandfather sits down to tell the kids the main story.

JeremyWritingHisLetterToSanta

Jeremy writing his letter to Santa

The story is about Jeremy Creek, a little boy who knows nothing but greed. He throws temper tantrums every time he sees what he wants, and he wants everything he sees. After many complaints (and a huge crack in the wall), his mother and father inform him that he will get no more presents from them. He goes to his room and starts playing with the thousands of toys that he already owns. He comes to a realization: if his parents wouldn't get him the presents, then he should ask Santa Claus instead. With a red crayon and papers taped together to form a list half a mile long, he writes every toy he can think of on it. He quickly finishes it and mails it in June.

The-town-that-santa-forgot-09

Pomp finds the town of Jeremy Creek on Santa's map.

July, August, and September soon pass, and Jeremy remains in his room waiting for Christmas to come. By this time, Santa has received his letter and, through his wisdom, believes that it has to come from a town, for no one boy could possibly want so much. So, looking at a church-sized map, he and his elves look all over the world for the town of "Jeremy Creek". One elf named Pomp finds it, and points out that it has never been on his route. Feeling guilty, Santa orders everything on the list, one for each boy and girl in the little forgotten town.

Halloween and Thanksgiving pass, and soon it is Christmas Eve. When night falls, Jeremy goes up on the roof of his house and waits for Santa to arrive, intending to snatch the toys from the sleigh. He eventually comes, but Jeremy is devastated when he passes by without stopping at his house, and he cries himself to sleep.

The-town-that-santa-forgot-13

To his dismay, Jeremy finds that Santa left no presents for him.

When Jeremy awakens the next morning, he rushes downstairs, hoping that maybe Santa snuck in through the window and left his presents under the tree after all. But to his dismay, he finds none there. Upset about this, he goes to watch the news with his parents. While doing so, he witnesses a report on television stating that Santa has brought holiday cheer to a swamp town that happens to share the same name as him. Upon hearing this, he is at first resentful that the kids there got all the toys he wanted, but when the kids on TV state that they'd like to give a thank-you to whoever wrote to Santa telling him to come to their town, his cold heart melts and he realizes that this accidental good deed of his makes him feel better than any present ever could.

TownSantaForgot

Jeremy helping Santa deliver gifts

Immediately following Jeremy's newfound change of heart, Santa appears in a small size, telling him that he's come to grant the town's hero whatever he wants. Jeremy replies that he doesn't really want anything, for he has learned that it is better to give than to receive. In the end, Santa makes him his assistant for helping him deliver Christmas presents, a task he lovingly accepts and continues to perform until he outgrows his seat in Santa's sleigh. Outside of Christmas, he also becomes a more caring boy and shares his toys with his neighbors.

The-town-that-santa-forgot-20

The elderly Jeremy Creek with his grandchildren

The special closes with the narrator and his grandchildren, who have taken the story to heart and now don't care what they get from Santa. The narrator then tells them that every few Christmases, Santa still picks out a little boy or girl to assist him in his annual journey. On the very last shot, some snow falls off the narrator's mailbox outside to reveal the name "J. Creek", revealing to the audience that he was Jeremy Creek himself.

Song

Broadcast history

Ca674712530aadbd6325d8a8b3911bb1

One of the commercial bumpers used in the special's NBC premiere

The special was later shown on Cartoon Network as part of its annual Christmas marathons from 1995 to 2004. It was also regularly shown on Boomerang's Christmas marathons from its launch in 2000 through 2013.

Availability

Turner Home Entertainment released the special on VHS as part of their Cartoon Network Christmas video collection in 1996. In addition it, the tape also contained bonus episodes of Wacky Races and Pfish and Chip (a short originally aired on The What-A-Cartoon! Show). Warner Home Video eventually made the special available, along with A Christmas Story and Casper's First Christmas, on Warner Archive's Hanna-Barbera Christmas Classics Collection manufacture-on-demand DVD, released on July 30, 2012.

Cast

Voice actor/actress Character
Dick Van Dyke Jeremy Creek (old)
Miko Hughes Jeremy Creek (young)
Hal Smith Santa Claus
Phil Proctor Mr. Creek
Melinda Peterson Mrs. Creek
Ashley Johnson Jeremy's Granddaughter
Paul Williams Pomp the Elf
Troy Davidson Jeremy's Grandson
Neil Ross Pout the Elf
Julie Dees unknown
B.J. Ward Neighbor
Haven Hartman Little Swamp Girl

Gallery

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