Casper's First Christmas

Casper's First Christmas

Genre	Animation Comedy
Based on	Casper the Friendly Ghost created by Seymour Reit Joe Oriolo
Story by	Bob Ogle
Directed by	Carl Urbano
Starring	Julie McWhirter Daws Butler Don Messick John Stephenson
Music by	Hoyt Curtin
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
Production
Executive producer(s)	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Producer(s)	Alex Lovy
Running time	30 minutes
Production company(s)	Hanna-Barbera Productions The Harvey Entertainment Company
Distributor	Worldvision Enterprises (original) Warner Bros. Television (current)
Release
Original network	NBC
Original release	December 18, 1979

Casper's First Christmas is a 1979 Christmas television special and crossover produced by Hanna-Barbera featuring Casper the Friendly Ghost and his friend Hairy Scary with guest stars Yogi Bear, Boo Boo, Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss, Quick Draw McGraw, and Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy. It aired on NBC on December 18, 1979. The theme song ("Comin' Up Christmas Time") sung by Yogi's pals was again used a year later in Yogi's First Christmas, which contradicts the events of this special in which Yogi and Boo Boo (who, being bears are supposed to be hibernating in the winter) can be seen celebrating Christmas with the other cast members.

This also marked the first and only time that this special pairs together the characters from its owners, Hanna-Barbera and Harvey Entertainment. Like many animated series created by Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s, the show contained an inferior laugh track created by the studio.

Plot

Casper and his friend Hairy Scary are in a house about to be demolished on Christmas Eve and go out to look for a new place to move to after Christmas in California. Then Yogi and his friends get lost and arrive at Casper and Hairy's house and clean and decorate it to celebrate Christmas. Then Casper befriends Yogi and company only for Hairy to try to ruin the party with Casper and his new friends. Then Hairy has a change of heart and celebrates Christmas with Casper and his new friends and ending with Santa Claus saving the house and turning it into Hairy's Haunting Lodge.

Cast

Julie McWhirter as Casper
Daws Butler as Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Snagglepuss, and Augie Doggie
Don Messick as Boo Boo Bear
Hal Smith as Santa Claus
John Stephenson as Hairy Scary and Doggie Daddy

Production credits

Executive Producers: William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
Producer: Alex Lovy
Associate Producer: Doug Paterson
Director: Carl Urbano
Story: Bob Ogle
Story Direction: Don Sheppard
Executive in Charge of Development: Margaret Loesch
Recording Director: Alex Lovy
Voices: Daws Butler, Paul DeKorte, Don Messick, Hal Smith, Ida Sue McCune, Julie McWhirter, John Stephenson, Michael Redman
Musical Sequences Directed by: Tex Avery, Chuck Couch, Tom Yakutis
Musical Director: Hoyt Curtin
Musical Supervisor: Paul DeKorte
Character Design: Don Morgan
Sound Directors: Richard Olson, Bill Getty
Layout Director: Steve Lumley
Layout: Joe Shearer, Shane Porteus, Deane Taylor
Animation Director: Geoffrey Collins
Animators: Peter Gardiner, Gerry Grabner, Greg Ingram, Paul Maron, Henry Neville, Susan Beak, Gairden Cooke, Dick Dunn, Peter Eastment, Don Ezard, Nicholas Harding, Chris Hague, Pamela Lofts, Paul McAdam, John Martin, Ray Nowland, Vivien Ray, Andrew Szermenyei, Jean Tych, Kaye Watts
Assistant Animation Supervisor: Martin Chatfield
Assistant Animators: Jac Appel, Fernando Bernia, Astrid Brennan, Rodney D'Silva, John Eyley, Ian Harrowell, Paul Baker, Mark Benvenuti, Jo-Anne Beresford, Marc Erasmus, Eva Hellscher, John Hull, Denise Kirkham, Jane LeRossignol, Helen McAdam, Kevin Peaty, Cliff Secto, Geoff White, Lucie Laarakkers, Steve Lyons, Marie Orr, Philip Peppers, Stella Wakil, Milan Zahorsky
Supervising Director: Chris Cuddington
Animation Checking: Jan Cregan, Ellen Bailey, Liz Lane, Frances Mould, Renee Robinson
Backgrounds: Richard Zaloudek, Sue Speer, Jerry Liew, Ken Wright, Milan Zahorsky Snr., Zdenka Ebner, Judy Nicholson
Production Co-ordinator: Judy Cross
Production Control: Vicki Joyce
Xerox: Jack Pietruska
Paint: Narelle Derrick
Paint Check: Liz Goodwin
Camera: Mark D'Arcy-Irvine, Virginia Browne, Carole Conen, Shaun Bell
Editing: Robert Ciaglla
Supervising Film Editor: Larry C. Cowan
Dubbing Supervisor: Pat Foley
Music Editors: Terry Moore, Joe Sandusky
Effects Editors: Julia Bagdonas, Sue Brown, Catherine MacKenzie
Show Editor: Gil Iverson
Negative Consultant: William E. DeBoer
Post Production Supervisor: Joed Eaton
A HANNA-BARBERA Production
Based on the character, owned and copyrighted by HARVEY CARTOONS, a partnership
Copyright 1979 Hanna-Barbera Productions Inc. All Right Reserved

Home Media releases

Turner Home Entertainment released Casper's First Christmas on VHS on September 26, 1995.^[1] On July 31, 2012, Warner Bros. released Hanna-Barbera Christmas Classics Collection on DVD in region 1 via their Warner Archive Collection. This is a Manufacture-on-Demand (MOD) release, available exclusively through Warner's online store and only in the US. This collection features a trilogy of Christmas specials: Casper's First Christmas, The Town That Santa Forgot and A Christmas Story.

References

↑ http://www.amazon.com/Caspers-First-Christmas-Daws-Butler/dp/156039577X

External links

Related topics

Casper the Friendly Ghost

Supporting Characters	The Ghostly Trio Wendy the Good Little Witch Spooky the Tuff Little Ghost Casper's Scare School characters

Shorts	The Friendly Ghost There's Good Boos To-Night A Haunting We Will Go Boo Moon

Comics	Casper and the Spectrals (2009-2010)

Television series	Matty's Funday Funnies (1959-1961) The New Casper Cartoon Show (1963) Casper and the Angels (1979) The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper (1996) Casper's Scare School (2009)

Television specials	Casper's Halloween Special (1979) Casper's First Christmas (1979)

Films	Casper (1995) Casper: A Spirited Beginning (1997) Casper Meets Wendy (1998) Casper's Haunted Christmas (2000) Casper's Scare School (2006)

Video Games	Casper (1996) Casper: Spirit Dimensions (2001) Casper's Scare School (2008)

Harvey Comics

The Yogi Bear Show

Characters	Yogi Bear Boo-Boo Bear Cindy Bear Ranger Smith Snagglepuss Yakky Doodle

Television shows	The Huckleberry Hound Show (1958–1962) (List of episodes) The Yogi Bear Show (1961–1963) (List of episodes) Yogi's Gang (1970–1975) Laff-A-Lympics (1977–1978) Yogi's Space Race (1978–1979) Galaxy Goof-Ups (1978–1979) Yogi's Treasure Hunt (1985–1988) The New Yogi Bear Show (1988-1995) Wake, Rattle, and Roll (Fender Bender segment; 1990–1991) Yo Yogi! (1991–1992)

Television specials and films	Yogi's Ark Lark (1972) Hanna-Barbera's All-Star Comedy Ice Revue (1977) The Hanna-Barbera Happy Hour (1978) Casper's First Christmas (1979) Yogi's First Christmas (1980) Yogi Bear's All Star Comedy Christmas Caper (1982) Yogi's Great Escape (1987) Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose (1987) Yogi and the Invasion of the Space Bears (1988) The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound (1988) Hanna-Barbera's 50th: A Yabba Dabba Doo Celebration (1989) Yogi the Easter Bear (1994) Arabian Nights (1994)

Theatrical films	Hey There, It's Yogi Bear! (1964) Yogi Bear (2010)

Amusement rides	The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera (1990)

See also: List of works produced by Hanna-Barbera · Yogi Bear and the Three Stooges Meet the Mad, Mad, Mad Dr. No-No

The Huckleberry Hound Show

Characters	Huckleberry Hound Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks Hokey Wolf Yogi Bear Boo-Boo Bear

Television shows and specials	The Huckleberry Hound Show (1958–1962) (List of episodes) Yogi's Gang (1973–1975) Laff-A-Lympics (1977–1978) Hanna-Barbera's All-Star Comedy Ice Revue (1978) The Hanna-Barbera Happy Hour (1978) Yogi's Space Race (1978–1979) Galaxy Goof-Ups (1978–1979) Casper's First Christmas (1979) Yogi Bear's All Star Comedy Christmas Caper (1982) Yogi's Treasure Hunt (1985–1988) Hanna-Barbera's 50th: A Yabba Dabba Doo Celebration (1989) Wake, Rattle, and Roll (Fender Bender segment; 1990–1991) Yo Yogi! (1991-1992)

Television films	Yogi's Ark Lark (1972) Yogi's First Christmas (1980) Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose (1987) The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound (1988)

See also: List of works produced by Hanna-Barbera

The Quick Draw McGraw Show

Characters	Quick Draw McGraw Baba Looey Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy Snaggletooth Snooper and Blabber

Television shows and specials	The Quick Draw McGraw Show (1959–1961) Yogi's Gang (1973) Laff-A-Lympics (1977–1978) Casper's First Christmas (1979) Yogi Bear's All Star Comedy Christmas Caper (1982) Yogi's Treasure Hunt (1985–1988) Hanna-Barbera's 50th: A Yabba Dabba Doo Celebration (1989) Wake, Rattle, and Roll (Fender Bender segment; 1990–1991)

Television films	Yogi's Ark Lark (1972) Yogi's Great Escape (1987) Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose (1987) The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound (1988)

See also: List of works produced by Hanna-Barbera Book:Quick Draw McGraw

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