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"	Dark-brown-haired male child: Aw, Frosty, nosotros don't care what grownups say. Red-haired male child: Nosotros know you did come to life. Karen: We know, Frosty. Nosotros just know.	"
— Karen and her friends right earlier the title carte du jour

Frosty the Snowman is an animated Christmas special that beginning aired on CBS on December vii, 1969 and has aired annually since then. The special, written past Romeo Muller and produced and directed by Arthur Rankin and Jules Bass, is based on the holiday song of the same name, which was originally written past Jack Rollins and Steve Nelson and first performed past Cistron Autry in the 1940s. Information technology is Rankin/Bass's second most prominent special to be aired on broadcast channels, behind Rudolph the Blood-red-Nosed Reindeer, and is notably the longest-running blithe telly special to have consecutively aired annually on its original network.

1 Synopsis
two Boob tube rights
three Sequels
iv Availability
v Notes
- five.1 Edits
- 5.2 Goofs
6 Cast
7 Gallery
8 External links

Synopsis

SPOILER: Plot details or story follow.

Professor Hinkle and the children are surprised to see that the hat has brought Frosty to life.

On Christmas Eve, a girl named Karen and her classmates are waiting for the end of the school day on Christmas Eve. After seeing an attempted magic act by inept magician Professor Hinkle, the kids get out to enjoy the newly-fallen snow. They build a snowman and, after several suggestions of what to name him (including "Christopher Columbus"), Karen decides on "Frosty." They then larn the Hinkle'due south at present-discarded meridian hat, and when Karen places it on top of Frosty's head, the snowman comes to life (and says "Happy Altogether!" in response). Hinkle, having seen the magic power his chapeau really possesses, takes information technology back and departs, pretending that he did non see Frosty come to life. Notwithstanding, Hinkle'due south pet rabbit, Hocus Pocus, before long returns the hat to Frosty.

Frosty and the kids march to the train station.

Frosty soon senses the temperature is rising and worries nearly melting. The children suggest putting him on the next train to the Due north Pole, where he will never cook, and they all parade into the metropolis on the way to the train station, where Frosty has his confrontation with the traffic cop mentioned in the song's lyrics. When Karen explains that Frosty came to life and is just coming to terms with his environs, the cop lets Frosty go. At the train station, Frosty stows away aboard a refrigerated boxcar, since neither he nor the children have any money for a railroad train ticket. Every bit the train is nearly to leave the station, Karen and Hocus make up one's mind to join Frosty for the ride to go along him company. With that, Frosty, Karen, and Hocus moving ridge cheerio to the other kids as the train takes off. Little do they know Hinkle has also hitched a ride on the train, intending to become his hat back.

As the railroad train continues up north, however, Frosty notices Karen is freezing and starting to take hold of a cold, so they go off the train, leaving Hinkle backside once again. Hinkle, seeing them escape, jumps off the train too, but falls downward a mountain and crashes into a tree where a pile of snow falls on him. At Frosty's request, Hocus convinces some wood animals who are preparing for Christmas to build a campfire for Karen. Fearing that Karen nonetheless cannot survive for long in the cold weather, Frosty asks Hocus who might be able to help them. Hocus suggests (past pantomiming) the U.s.a. Marines and the President of the United States, before suggesting Santa Claus. Frosty agrees, and promptly takes credit for the idea himself (much to Hocus' annoyance). Hocus gets Santa, but Hinkle then confronts Frosty and Karen in one case more and blows out Karen's campfire. They are over again forced to flee, this time with Karen riding on Frosty's back as he slides head first down a loma. At the bottom of the gradient, they detect a greenhouse filled with Christmas poinsettias. Despite Karen'due south objections, Frosty steps inside the greenhouse with her, proverb that he could afford to lose a piffling weight. Unfortunately, Hinkle catches upward to them immediately after and locks them inside.

Santa, having just revived Frosty, confronts Hinkle.

Hocus brings Santa to the greenhouse merely to find a heartbroken Karen in tears and Frosty melted on the flooring. Santa explains to Karen that Frosty is made from Christmas snow, and that he can never completely disappear, only take the grade of summertime rain, until next December. With a gust of common cold wind through the open up greenhouse door, the pool that was Frosty blows out the door and magically changes dorsum into his inanimate snowman course. Hocus brings the magic hat outside, just before they tin can put it dorsum on Frosty's head, Hinkle once again arrives on the scene and again demands they return the chapeau to him. He relents only when threatened with being put on Santa's naughty listing for the residual of his life if he so much every bit lays one finger on the brim. Santa states that if Hinkle is truly repentant for his criminality, and if he goes dwelling house and writes "I am really sorry for what I did to Frosty" a hundred zillion times, he may discover a gift in his stocking on Christmas morning. Hinkle promptly bids Frosty and Karen goodbye and runs home to repeatedly write his apologies, assuming he may get a new hat. Santa then places the magic hat back on elevation of Frosty's head and brings him dorsum to life. After jubilant, Santa takes Karen domicile and Frosty to the North Pole, but promises that Frosty will exist dorsum adjacent winter.

Frosty leaves for the Northward Pole with Santa.

The closing credits show all the characters the next Christmas marching through the town square with Frosty in the lead, singing the titular song. Among them is a redeemed Hinkle, who is proudly wearing his new hat. At the end of the parade, Frosty gets back into Santa'south sleigh and they return to the North Pole, with Frosty proclaiming, "I'll be back on Christmas Day!"

Idiot box rights

CBS has broadcast the special in the USA since its debut, even afterwards the pre-1974 Rankin/Bass library was sold beginning to Broadway Media, then to Gilded Books, and then to Archetype Media, a successor of the British-owned Amusement Rights company, which was purchased past Classic Media's own successor, Boomerang Media. In July 2012, DreamWorks purchased Classic Media, and in plough, DreamWorks Animation was later purchased by NBC Universal in Apr 2016. The special made its cable debut on Freeform'south 25 Days of Christmas in December 2019.

In Canada, CBC holds the dissemination rights.

Sequels

The special was followed upwardly by two more Christmas specials produced past Rankin/Bass - Frosty's Wintertime Wonderland in 1976, and Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July in 1979. In 1992, CBS produced a new follow-up special, Frosty Returns, which has followed up their broadcasts of the original special since and so, and too accompanied information technology on most DVD and Blu-ray releases. Classic Media created a straight-to-video sequel titled The Legend of Frosty the Snowman in 2005.

Availability

The special was released on home video by Family Abode Entertainment in 1989 and 1993, so by Sony Wonder in 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2004, past Genius Amusement in 2007, by Vivendi Entertainment in 2010, and by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment in 2018. Virtually of the DVD and Blu-ray releases also included Frosty Returns.

Notes

When the special was originally in production, June Foray was the voice of Karen and Paul Frees voiced some of her classmates. Nonetheless, before long before it first aired, the kids' lines were redubbed by unknown actors (though a few of Foray's vocal noises for Karen were retained). Nevertheless, Foray and Frees' original audio recordings were made available on the album Santa Claus is Comin' to Town and Frosty the Snowman: The Original Television Soundtrack Recordings. Foray recalled her experiences in the book The Enchanted World of Rankin/Bass:

I was called in to vox the little girl Karen. I was disappointed to learn after that my work for the Karen graphic symbol was replaced by some other extra. To this day I am unsure of the reason, only I yet enjoy the special.

In addition to narrating the special, Jimmy Durante sang the vocal, recording it for the second time in his career. He is one of the few recording artists to release the song with both its original and modernistic lyrics that are more familiar today.
From 2002 through 2005, Nickelodeon ran a parody of the special during their commercial breaks at Christmas, titled Patrick the Snowman and featuring Patrick Star from SpongeBob SquarePants in the title office. Coincidentally, Patrick's vocalisation role player, Pecker Fagerbakke, would vocalism Frosty himself a few years later on in The Legend of Frosty the Snowman.

Edits

On most DVD releases, when Frosty says "Great!" the blitheness repeats itself in one case.
Since 2010, all electric current home media releases (as well as the Freeform airings) utilize an early "workprint" master of the special. This master omits the "Rankin/Bass Present" credit at the very outset, likewise as some other differences:
- Some of the audio effects are more in sync.
- The line "Aye, Frosty information technology is. Frosty the Snowman!" is spoken by June Foray's demo track.
- Later on Frosty says "Let's have a parade!", the children'due south cheering of "Yay, we're going to the railroad railroad train!" is more than audible.
- The instrumental at the get-go of the special is slightly different.
- The background music has been lowered in volume in most spots, and come half a 2nd early in other spots.
- Certain sound effects have been removed, including office of the children's laughter at the start, the springy sound that Hocus Pocus makes when he lands on the schoolhouse floor, the sound that Hocus Pocus makes when he falls out of the lid afterwards returning information technology to the children, and the sounds of the squirrel that laughs at Hinkle after he crashes into a tree and is covered up in snow.

Goofs

Many times in the special, the petals of the blossom on Frosty'south hat switch between 5 and six.
Santa simply has four reindeer pulling his sleigh instead of eight.
When Frosty says they'll have a parade and the kids are ready to march, the boy in the bluish sweater is backside Karen. During the parade, the boy in the brown sweater is in that location.
The edges of Frosty'south hat repeatedly switch from abrupt to smooth and dorsum many times in the special.
When Karen says "Then we've got to get you lot there!" and when the barber notices Frosty, the bloom on Frosty's hat is on the right side instead of the left.
When Karen tells Hinkle "Simply information technology's not yours anymore. Yous threw information technology away.", if yous await closely at Karen, her legs are drawn weirdly, almost like she isn't wearing any pants. In later parts of the special however, you tin clearly see that she is wearing pants (thankfully).
In the same scene, when Karen tries to convince Hinkle that she and the other kids saw Frosty come to life, both boys' mouths motility, even though only 1 vocalization says "Uh-huh, we sure did".
The girl in the pinkish apparel has short sleeves with her outfit, but when she is waving adieu to Frosty and Karen on the train, she has long sleeves.
Karen's scarf briefly disappears and then reappears after Hocus pulls on it to get her attention at the train station.
Frosty takes his broomstick forth with him during the parade and leaves it in town, but when he is revived, information technology suddenly appears out of nowhere.
Frosty's mouth doesn't move when he says "I am alive!" and "Besides, I've been wanting to have off a little weight anyway".
When Frosty takes Karen into the greenhouse, his olfactory organ turns white for a split 2d.
When Frosty is revived, his mouth is missing, just when Hinkle comes, his mouth reappears, and the background keeps changing.
When the camera cuts to Frosty and Karen as the ticket man is getting the tickets ready, the brim of Frosty'due south hat turns white for ane frame. Also, his corncob pipe disappears.
In the first shot exterior the ticket window, the "Ticket" sign is missing. When the ticket human being says, "No money, no ticket!" the sign appears.
Only after Frosty says "Let'due south have a parade!" His mouth disappears for a split 2nd.
When Karen is getting on the train, one of her mittens becomes the same color as her skin tone for one frame.

Cast

Voice actor/actress	Character(s)
Jimmy Durante	Narrator
Billy De Wolfe	Professor Hinkle
Jackie Vernon	Frosty
June Foray	Teacher Karen (replaced during mail service-product) Karen's friends (replaced during post-production)
Suzanne Davidson (uncredited)	Karen
Greg Thomas (uncredited)	Karen'due south friends
Paul Frees	Santa Claus Traffic Cop Train Clerk Karen'south friends (replaced during post-production)