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An Evening with Fred Astaire is a one-hour live television special starring Fred Astaire, broadcast on NBC on October 17, 1958. It was highly successful, winning nine Emmy awards and spawning three further specials, and technically innovative, as it was the first major television show to be recorded on videotape in color.
Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town is a 1970 American stop-motion Christmas television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions in New York. The film is narrated by Fred Astaire and stars the voices of Mickey Rooney, Keenan Wynn, Robie Lester, Joan Gardner and Paul Frees, as well as an assistant song performance by the Westminster Children's Choir.
The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town was the last Rankin/Bass television special for Fred Astaire, who also played narrator S.D. Kluger in the previous holiday special, Santa Claus is Comin' to Town (1970). It is also a semi-sequel to the earlier special — Santa Claus is only mentioned once in the special and as such, it shares many ...
Frosty The Snowman (CBS, 1969) Directed by Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin. Written by Romeo Muller. Here, Jimmy Durante (like his cartooned colleagues Burl Ives and Fred Astaire before him) serves ...
An Evening with Fred Astaire: Oct. 17, 1958 NBC Himself Barrie Chase: Bud Yorkin — — The Ed Sullivan Show: June 28, 1959 CBS Himself — — — — General Electric Theater (Episode: "Man on a Bicycle") Sept. 3, 1959 CBS J. Willingham Bardley Stanley Adams: Herschel Daugherty — — Another Evening with Fred Astaire: Nov. 4, 1959 NBC ...
In 1970, Rankin-Bass produced Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town, an hour-long animated TV film based on the song, with Fred Astaire narrating the origin of Santa Claus. The same year, the Jackson 5 included the song on their best-selling album Jackson 5 Christmas Album. The Jackson 5 version would chart 50 years later on the Billboard 100 at #33.
The Bing Crosby Show (TV special) E. The Edsel Show; An Evening with Fred Astaire; F. Final Curtain (film) From All of Us to All of You; G.
October 17 – Fred Astaire makes his TV starring debut in the NBC special, An Evening with Fred Astaire, which later won nine Emmy Awards and is one of the first TV specials to be preserved on videotape. September 20 – Radio Valencia Televisión signs on the air in Venezuela with test transmissions began on April 30.