Arthur Rankin Jr.

A young Boston writer goes back in time into an era where wizards and dragon reign and science is just barely known.(imdb)

A homebody demi-human in Middle Earth gets talked into joining a quest with a group of dwarves to recover their treasure from a dragon. (imdb)

A brave unicorn and a magician fight an evil king who is obsessed with attempting to capture the world's unicorns. (imdb)

Two Hobbits struggle to destroy the Ring in Mount Doom while their friends desperately fight evil Lord Sauron's forces in a final battle. (imdb)

A mailman reveals the origin of Santa Claus. (imdb)

When a town learns that Santa Claus has struck it off his delivery schedule due to an insulting letter, a way must be found to change his mind. (imdb)

An orphan drummer boy who hated humanity finds his life changed forever when he meets three wise men on route to Bethlehem. (imdb)

Mrs. Claus tells us about the time Santa had a bad cold and decided to take a vacation from Christmas. Two of his elves, Jingle Bells and Jangle Bells decided to go out (with Vixen) to find children to convince Santa that the Christmas spirit is still important to everybody else... (imdb)

A living snowman and a little girl struggle to elude a greedy magician who is after the snowman's magic hat. (imdb)

The Groundhog tells the story of how, for once, Jack Frost became human, and helped a knight win his lady love. (imdb)

The Great Ak calls a council of the Immortals to ask that Santa Claus be given immortality. And to justify it, he tells the history of Santa Claus. The Ak found an abandoned baby and gave it to a lioness and a fairy to raise, who named him Claus... (imdb)

Frosty's kind of lonely, so the kids think of making him a wife, Crystal. But will Jack Frost let them be happy? (imdb)

This simple tale is about a humble couple about to take a long journey to Bethlehem and a small, insignificant donkey who is destined to help them along. (Warner)

Aaron, after playing his song, helps Melchior to spread the word by ringing Simeon's silver bells. But when the Romans take the bells for taxes, it's up to Aaron and his animal companions to rescue them. (imdb)

Seymour S. Sassafrass, an eccentric yet friendly peddler, inventor, host, and narrator tells the tale of Peter Cottontail, a young Easter Bunny who lives in April Valley. April Valley is where all that is Easter (colored eggs, chocolate candy, etc.) comes from, all of it overseen by the Chief Easter Bunny. (Wikipedia)

Long ago the Lady Borealis placed the evil Winterbolt under a magic spell, and put the last of her magic into the nose of a newborn reindeer: Rudolph. But now Winterbolt's awake. He gives Frosty's family magic amulets to keep them from melting until the Fourth of July so that Frosty and Rudolph can help Lilly's circus and Milton can marry his girlfriend on the high-wire, and Santa will use his sleigh to make sure everybody gets back to the North Pole in time... (imdb)

Rudolph must find for Happy, the baby New Year, before midnight, New Year's Eve. (imdb)

Sent in search of a Christmas tree, cabin boy Dinty Doyl lands on a mysterious, uncharted Irish island where he accidentally releases a bad-tempered banshee from her pine tree prison. (amazon.com)

Anime based on Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol... (Wikipedia)

It's Pinocchio's first Christmas, and he sells the book Geppetto gives him for present money, but Cat and Fox trick him out of it. So, Pinocchio becomes part of a (Christmas) Marionette show to make present money. (imdb)

A cricket seeks to rescue a poor toymaker and his blind daughter from an exploitative miser. (imdb)

The Mailman decides to stop another deluge of letters by answering questions about the Easter Bunny: Sunny, a baby rabbit found and adopted by Kidville (a town of only kids--even a kid mailman). And when Sunny goes delivering eggs to the nearby town (which he has to dye to fool Gadzooks, the mean bear on the mountain), he discovers that there are no kids in the town, and that the rightful (kid) ruler is being suppressed by his aunt. (imdb)

A young shepherd, Lucas, is blinded by lightening, and some kindly nuns at a nearby abbey take him in. Sister Catherine describes snow to Lucas, who has never seen it. Lucas gets chosen to play an angel in the abbey's Christmas pageant, and the Christmas snow that falls during the pageant works a small miracle. (imdb)

Badger, Rat and Mole are trying to save Toad Hall and its owner, their rich irresponsible airhead playboy friend Toad, from himself, as well as financial ruin, the court and a gang of conspiratorial weasels who have their eye on the place.

The Mayflower journey as see through the experiences of a church mouse. (imdb)

A beloved toy stuffed rabbit is rescued by a fairy to be the first Easter Rabbit. (imdb)

This is one of the 'Animagical' titles from the children's film archive of Rankin/Bass. The story line is reminiscent of an earlier 1966 R/B Animagic film, 'The Daydreamer', both of which chronicles the fairy tales of Danish author, Hans Christian Andersen. (imdb)