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Snow Miser/Heat Miser Song The Snow Miser and Heat Miser song from the 1974 Christmas TV special, The Year Without A Santa Claus.

Fans of the Rankin-Bass animated Christmas classic The Year Without a Santa Claus will remember the characters Heat Miser and Snow Miser. This holiday season, the quarreling siblings are back in ABC Family’s new original animated special A Miser Brothers’ Christmas, which premieres Saturday, Dec. 13 at 8 p.m. (ET/PT). Mickey Rooney returns as the voice of Santa Claus and George S. Irving reprises the role of Heat Miser. The debut is part of the network’s “25 Days of Christmas” programming event. Santa’s new chief mechanic, Tinsel, has created a speedy, new high-tech sleigh for Christmas, but North Wind has...

I’ve heard all the talk about the “War on Christmas” and the battle of “Happy Holidays” vs. “Merry Christmas.” All the while, the real war on Christmas was going undetected. I’m talking about the war on classic Christmas specials. This year’s victim: “The Year Without a Santa Claus.” MODERN SCHLOCK On Monday, NBC aired a live action version of the 1974 stop-motion animated classic. The story line was basically the same: Santa gives up on Christmas, thinking kids don’t care about him anymore, while his elves, Jingle and Jangle, set off to find kids full of Christmas spirit. The elves...