# ID this "Holiday Special" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 22, 2004, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-holiday-special/270603 "2004-10-22T15:14:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-holiday-special/270603/1 "2004-10-22T15:14:43Z")
A long time ago, I caught a late night airing of a ‘holiday special’. I saw this on a UHF station to give you an idea of the time frame. Any way it was done in the style of a Rankin Bass, stop motion thing. The two things I can remember was that the villan, Mr. Wrench, (A Monkey wrench that opened and closed to talk) stole all the presents from the North Pole. The morning Santa and the elves went into the workshop to pack his sled went something like this Santa (sees empty workshop) Oh my goodness! Who did this? Elf #1 Hey! Who left the coffee pot plugged in?! Elf#2 We all could have burned! The entire thing was narrated by someone doing a pretty good Bing Crosby impersonation and at the end imagine the action and Bing saying. Just then someone pulled up to Santa’s Workshop and who do you think it was? That’s right! It was Dracula, that blood sucking boogey man and he sucked those elves dry. The End That’s about all I can remember because I was laughing and changing pants frequently during the show. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-holiday-special/270603/2 "2004-10-23T14:54:46Z")
Wow! Did I stump the Dope? I saw thins in the Early to Mid 80’s. I think it was channel 25 in OKC. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-holiday-special/270603/3 "2004-10-23T16:16:46Z")
Possibly [The Year Without Santa Claus](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0072424/combined) (1974), a Rankin/Bass production. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-holiday-special/270603/4 "2004-10-23T17:07:53Z")
No wrenches or vampires in there. I don’t think what **Zebra** saw is even listed at the IMDb. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-holiday-special/270603/5 "2004-10-23T17:16:27Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > Wow! Did I stump the Dope? > > I saw thins in the Early to Mid 80’s. I think it was channel 25 in OKC. [Brian Griffin]Are you sure you saw this? Are you sure what you saw was nothing?[/BG] Seriously, I’ve tried Googling various combinations of terms and come up with nothing. Now, I want to see this! ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-holiday-special/270603/6 "2004-10-23T18:04:36Z")
Are you sure this is a holiday special? I watch all that come on and I have never heard of this. Is it possible it is an animated short from SNL or MAD TV? > [@](#): > > Just then someone pulled up to Santa’s Workshop and who do you think it was? > That’s right! It was Dracula, that blood sucking boogey man and he sucked those elves dry. > > The End This part just isn’t in keeping with any animated special I have ever seen. Dracula pulls up and kills all the elves and it ends? Even as a Halloween special, it doesn’t scan. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-holiday-special/270603/7 "2004-10-23T19:55:42Z")
Are you sure you’re not conflating some stop-motion holiday special with [_Mad Monster Party_](http://imdb.com/title/tt0061931/)? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-holiday-special/270603/8 "2004-10-23T19:57:01Z")
[Another link](http://www.misfits.com/MadMonster.html) for \*Mad Monster Party, with better pics. This was also a (very against-type) Rankin-Bass film. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-holiday-special/270603/9 "2004-10-23T21:49:53Z")
Maybe it was a short on an SNL type show. Wasn’t Friday’s on in the time era? But I’m sure I was watching a UHF chanel and not a network station. IF Mad Monster Party, did a Twisted Christmas show, this was it. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-holiday-special/270603/10 "2004-10-23T21:53:10Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > Maybe it was a short on an SNL type show. Wasn’t Friday’s on in the time era? But I’m sure I was watching a UHF chanel and not a network station. Fridays ran from 1980-82.