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Rankin on Bass

Rankin on Bass

Weirding Way Media

Tv & Film
Tv & Film
Tv & Film

Frequency: 1 episode/30d. Total Eps: 39

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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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Farewell from Rankin on Bass

Season 3 · Episode 39

dimanche 31 décembre 2023 • Duration 55:33

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.

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

Season 3 · Episode 38

vendredi 15 décembre 2023 • Duration 46:49

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.

Episode 29: The Wind in the Willows

Season 3 · Episode 29

vendredi 28 avril 2023 • Duration 50:27

We look at the idle rich via Kenneth Grahame's children's classic, The Wind in the WIllows and the 1987 Rankin/Bass animated adaptation. This is a proper bookend for Rankin/Bass's animated features as one of their earliest animates series, The Reluctant Dragon & Mr. Toad Show also brought Grahame's characters to life (albeit in 1970).

Richard Hatem, Chris Stachiw, and Mike White discuss both incarnations of Mr. Toad on this final season of Rankin on Bass.

Episode 28: The Mad Mad Mad Comedians (1970)

Season 1 · Episode 28

vendredi 31 mars 2023 • Duration 59:48

Pepsico presents The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians, an animated special that played before the Academy Awards ceremony in 1970. The cast includes contemporary (Flip Wilson) and older (George Burns, Henny Youngman, Jack Benny, Groucho Marx, etc.) comedians as well as the voice talent of Paul Frees in an uneven TV event.

Richard Hatem, Chris Stachiw, and Mike White discuss the state of stand-up comedy in the early '70s as well as what a series of Mad Mad Mad Comedians might have looked like.

Episode 27: The King and I (1999)

Season 3 · Episode 27

vendredi 10 mars 2023 • Duration 01:04:42

One of the final Rankin/Bass animated features fuses the grandeur and romance of Rodgers and Hammerstein with some sub-par kiddie far including funny monkeys, elephants, and a horribly racist caricature of an Asian man voiced by Darrell Hammond. Possibly released to cash in on the Anna & The King film from the same year, The King and I suffers from an inconsistent tone.

Richard Hatem, Chris Stachiw, and Mike White discuss the film and begin planning their exit strategy from the world of Rankin and Bass.

Episode 26: Return to Oz (1964)

Season 3 · Episode 26

vendredi 10 février 2023 • Duration 01:03:32

Though we don't remember going there the first time, Richard, Chris, and Mike return to Oz to discuss some of Rankin & Bass's earliest work, the 1961 series Tales of the Wizard of Oz and the 1964 follow-up, Return to Oz. Based on two of the later L. Frank Baum books, it's the story of Dorothy going back to Oz and finding that her old friends aren't what they used to be. Of course, we also discuss the 1985 Walter Murch freaky feature film as well.

Episode 25: Cricket on the Night Before Christmas

Season 3 · Episode 25

mardi 20 décembre 2022 • Duration 01:02:44

'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring except for a mouse who has seen The Year Without a Santa Claus too many times.

Richard, Mike, and Chris discuss 1974's Twas the Night Before Christmas and 1967's Cricket on the Hearth, a Rankin/Bass special inspired by Charles Dickens.

Episode 24: The Wacky World of Mother Goose

Season 3 · Episode 24

jeudi 24 novembre 2022 • Duration 46:59

We're starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel here, folks, with Rankin & Bass's first feature film, the animated interpretation of Charles Perrault’s many nursery rhymes wherein the titular Mother Goose skips town, leaving Old King Cole in charge. The hapless dupe is usurped by the Crooked Man who kidnaps all of the adults in Cole's kingdom, leaving little Jack and Mary to try and save the day.

Listen to Richard Hatem, Chris Stachiw, and Mike White lose their minds.

Episode 23: Marco (1973)

Season 3

vendredi 21 octobre 2022 • Duration 01:10:58

Are you ready for the heart-stopping action of the totally true tale of Italian tradesman Marco Polo? Are you ready for Desi Arnaz Jr. riding on a kite? Or how about Zero Mostel as Kublai Khan? If you're not ready for all of that then you definitely can't handle the Rankin & Bass-produced epic MARCO from 1973.

Episode 22: The Ivory Ape (1980)

Season 3

vendredi 29 juillet 2022 • Duration 48:21

Something of a retread of The Last Dinosaur, the usual gang is back -- "Tom" Kotani directing, William Overgard writing, Benni Korzen producing, Maury Laws providing music, and all under the auspices of Rankin & Bass. It's also something of a King Kong story where the titular ape is taken from his home in Africa to Bermuda where he's feared by the local authorities who hire a big game hunter (Jack Palance) to stop the ape from killing innocent victims.

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