"Rudolph's Shiny New Year" is one of the strangest stop-motion holiday specials ever made, earning it a place in the IndieWire After Dark collection.

One of the most iconic portrayals is in the 1976 holiday special Rudolph's Shiny New Year, where Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer teams up with Father Time to find the missing Baby New Year.

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According to the cartoons, Baby New Year ages rapidly over 12 months and by the end of December, ... “Rudolph’s Shiny New Year,” produced by the Rankin/Bass stop-motion animation studio.

So we’ve kicked the old year out onto its island, and welcomed baby Happy 2021 hoping for the best. There is still a pandemic. There are still people sick and dying or unemployed. But on New ...

A few decades later, Baby New Year was featured alongside Father Time in the 1976 stop-motion animated film Rudolph’s Shiny New Year. In it, Happy (Baby New Year) goes missing, and if he isn’t ...

Rudolph’s Shiny New Year (9 p.m., ABC) – Rudolph comes to the rescue when an evil bird kidnaps Baby New Year. Superstore (9 p.m., NBC) – Jonah offers to help when Cloud 9 is flooded with ...