# Old xmas animated tv shows

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-xmas-animated-tv-shows/46055>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 17, 2000, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-xmas-animated-tv-shows/46055 "2000-12-17T20:52:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Badbug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Badbug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badbug)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-xmas-animated-tv-shows/46055/1 "2000-12-17T20:52:14Z")

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Does anyone recall “The Selfish Giant” and another show called “The Happy Prince”? Both were on many years ago around xmas. The giant had a garden that he banished children from so that it became perpetual winter until he began to share it again blah…blah… blah excellent show with a moral. The happy prince was a statue that had once been a man and with the help of a little swallow distributed the jewels and gold leaf from his statue self to the needy. The ending still chokes me up. I would so love to obtain these vids for a special little girl and have no idea if they exist. Help!?

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**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-xmas-animated-tv-shows/46055/2 "2000-12-17T20:59:11Z")

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“The Happy Prince” is a short story by Oscar Wilde, and a sad one at that – [click here for the tale](http://a-vaulin.chat.ru/happyprince.html).