Casper's First Christmas

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Genre AnimationComedy Directed by Carl Urbano Initial release 18 December 1979 First episode date 18 December 1979 Music director Hoyt Curtin		Story by Bob Ogle Music by Hoyt Curtin Director Carl Urbano Network NBC

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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 from the animated series Casper and the Angels with guest stars Yogi Bear, Boo Boo, Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss, Quick Draw McGraw, and Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy.

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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.

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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 laugh track created by the studio.

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Plot

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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

Paul DeKorte - Singer

Ida Sue McCune - Singer

Michael Redman - Singer

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

Home Media releases

Turner Home Entertainment released Casper's First Christmas on VHS on September 26, 1995. 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

Casper's First Christmas Wikipedia

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