Rankin on Bass

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Welcome to Rankin on Bass, an offhanded joke that became a short-lived podcast where we discuss the stopmotion and animated works of Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass. Your hosts: Chris Stachiw of The Kulturecast podcast, Richard Hatem of DC's Titans, and Mike White of The Projection Booth podcast. Artwork by Abbie Stabby - https://www.instagram.com/abbiestabby Music by The Great Octopus - http://thegreatoctopus.bandcamp.com

  1. Farewell from Rankin on Bass

    12/31/2023

    Farewell from Rankin on Bass

    Live from the Island of Misfit Toys we record our last episode of Rankin on Bass where Mike, Chris, and Richard recount the bizarre trip they've been on for the last three years going from animagic to animated to live action fare that ranged from the sublime to the bizarre. Thank you to everyone who took this trip with us.

    56 min
  2. Episode 38: Pinocchio's Christmas and The New Adventures of Pinocchio

    12/15/2023

    Episode 38: Pinocchio's Christmas and The New Adventures of Pinocchio

    We conclude our discussion of Rankin & Bass works properly with a double dose of animagic for the holidays - Pinocchio's Christmas in which the little wooden boy learns the magic of the season and some of R&B's earliest work, the New Adventures of Pinocchio.

    47 min
  3. Episode 36: The Stingiest Man in Town and The First Christmas

    12/08/2023

    Episode 36: The Stingiest Man in Town and The First Christmas

    Richard Hatem, Chris Stachiw, and Mike White are back in Christmas-town and looking at two more holiday specials from Rankin & Bass; The Stingiest Man in Town -- a re-telling of A Christmas Carol starring the voice of Walter Matthau -- and The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow which features Angela Lansbury and a poor blind shepherd.

    52 min
  4. Episode 37: Santa, Baby! and The Comic Strip

    11/25/2023

    Episode 37: Santa, Baby! and The Comic Strip

    It's Santa, Baby an animated special from 2001 starring Gregory Hines as a frustrated songwriter and Patti Labelle as the patridge from the pear tree(!). We also discuss "Comic Strip" - a two hour block of cartoons featuring The Mini-Monsters, Street Frogs, Karate Kat and TigerSharks. This would be the last animated TV series produced by Rankin & Bass. You can watch Santa, Baby via Amazon: https://amzn.to/3R7I2MW

    1h 3m
  5. Episode 35: The Coneheads (1983)

    10/27/2023

    Episode 35: The Coneheads (1983)

    It's time to consume mass quantities of Coneheads with this 1983 pilot produced by Rankin & Bass for a Coneheads half-hour animated television show. Richard Hatem, Mike White, and Chris Stachiw discuss the strange choices made when trying to bring the Coneheads into America's living room on a weekly basis.

    57 min

  6. 09/21/2023

    Episode 34: That Girl in Wonderland (1973)

    Marlo Thomas returns as "That Girl" in a very "not cannon" episode. Here she's in a Rankin & Bass cartoon where she seems to be having delusions about being inside several familiar fairy tales.

    49 min
  7. Episode 33: Willie Mays and The Say Hey Kid (1972)

    08/19/2023

    Episode 33: Willie Mays and The Say Hey Kid (1972)

    One of the more rare Rankin & Bass specials we've covered, Willie Mays and the Say-Hey Kid was the sixth episode of the first season of The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie. It's a bizarre story of Willie Mays being saddled with an orphaned child and her guardian angel, KC.

    47 min
  8. Episode 32: The Red Baron (1972)

    07/28/2023

    Episode 32: The Red Baron (1972)

    One of the episodes of The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie, The Red Baron (1972) is a canine interpretation of the story of Baron Manfred von Richthofen who, for whatever reason, was having a real resurgence in the late '60s/early '70s (lest we forget the General Mills Baron von Redberry cereal). We get off-target very easily and very quickly in this one. Forgive us, but this one was a real dog!

    43 min
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Welcome to Rankin on Bass, an offhanded joke that became a short-lived podcast where we discuss the stopmotion and animated works of Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass. Your hosts: Chris Stachiw of The Kulturecast podcast, Richard Hatem of DC's Titans, and Mike White of The Projection Booth podcast. Artwork by Abbie Stabby - https://www.instagram.com/abbiestabby Music by The Great Octopus - http://thegreatoctopus.bandcamp.com

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  • Channel
    Weirding Way Media
  • Creator
    Weirding Way Media
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2023
  • Episodes
    39
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Copyright The Projection Booth
  • Show Website
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