Well, hello there. I am Dave Holmes. Welcome to Troubled Waters. It is the most wonderful time of the year.

And to celebrate, we are re-airing some of our favorite holiday segments on a very Troubled Waters holiday special.

Welcome to make. Hope you're having a great December.

I am about to get on a plane and go to Japan.

No idea what to expect.

Cannot wait.

So excited.

Then off to St. Louis, to see family.

Which will be fun too.

A little less exotic. Well, first up, we are going all the way back to St. Louis to see family, which will be fun too. A little less exotic. Well, first up,

we are going all the way back to 2020. What a year that was with our old friends Mike Castle and

Joey Greer. The episode was Swan Lake versus Drummer Boy. Now, let's learn about some lesser-known

rank and bass specials.

If you were an American kid watching network television during the later half of the 20th century,

you definitely landed on a Christmas special produced by the team of Arthur Rankin Jr.

And Jules Bass, who produced almost all of the animated or stop-motion specials that are

burned into our collective consciousness.

Everything from Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer to Rudolph's shiny New Year to Frosty's Christmas in July.

Today, we're going to celebrate this prolific duo with a series of trivia questions based around clips from some of Rankin Bass's most iconic holiday specials.

All right, first, Rankin Bass produced a special in 1974, starring Joel Gray as a clockmaker

whose family were on friendly terms with the mice who stir in their house.

The logline is, when a town learns that Santa Claus has struck it off his

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