Rudolph the Red–Nosed Reindeer is a long-running Christmas television special produced in stop-motion animation by Rankin/Bass, and the company's first Christmas special. It originally aired on NBC on December 6, 1964, as an installment of The General Electric Fantasy Hour, and is now the world's longest-running and highest-rated television special of all time. It is based on the 1939 poem of the same name by Robert L. May (who was an advertising copywriter for Montgomery Ward) and its song…
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