11 Forgotten Christmas Specials You Probably Haven't Seen

3. Jack Frost Rankin/Bass started run out of well-known Christmas characters as time wore on, and the were forced to revisit the nose-nipping sprite jack Frost, last seen as the bad guy in Frosty's Winter Wonderland three years before. This story is not set in the same continuity as that special (And yes, there was an actual continuity in the Frosty and Rudolph specials, but that is quite another story), and Jack is played by Broadway star Robert Morse (How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying!) with Larry Storch, Don Messick and Paul Frees rounding out the cast. A familiar storyline (Little Mermaid leaps to mind), Jack falls in love with a human girl, and asks to be made human to win her heart. Pardon-Me Pete (oiced by Buddy Hackett, a guy who did a LOT of children's entertainment, considering how old-school) bawdy his stage act was, the star of Groundhog Day (the actual day, but the movie) is the narrator of the story, one of the few times where the narrator plays a part in the story. Another classic from Romeo Muller, filled with wild and amazing creative characters like Snip, the sprite in charge of cutting snowflakes and Father Winter, the god of the season.