The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas

The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas
Genre	Comedy Adventure Musical
Written by	John Barrett Larry Spiegel
Directed by	Gerry Chiniquy Hawley Pratt
Voices of	Bob Holt Kelly Lange Michael Bell Casey Kasem Caryn Paperny Arte Johnson Tom Smothers Barbara Feldon
Composer	Doug Goodwin
Country of origin	United States
Production
Executive producers	David H. DePatie Friz Freleng
Producer	Theodore Geisel
Running time	26 minutes
Production company	DePatie–Freleng Enterprises
Original release
Network	NBC
Release	December 17, 1973 (1973-12-17)

The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas is an animated Christmas television special originally broadcast in the United States on NBC, December 17, 1973.^[1][2] The special was produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, executive producer Norman Sedawie, and starred the voices of Tom Smothers, Arte Johnson and Barbara Feldon, with narration by Casey Kasem.^[3]

The story focuses on Theodore Edward Bear (Ted E. Bear for short) who is curious about Christmas and decides to go searching for it while the other bears hibernate for the winter.

In the early 1980s, a plush Ted E. Bear was sold in stores. A Halloween sequel, The Great Bear Scare, premiered in October 1983 and was later broadcast on the Disney Channel until the late 1990s.

Rights to The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas are now owned by Lionsgate and is currently available through the Lionsgate channel on YouTube and on Tubi.

Cast

• Robert Holt as Santa Claus and C. Emory Bear
• Kelly Lange as Weather Bear
• Michael Bell as Honey Bear
• Casey Kasem as the narrator
• Caryn Paperny as Girl
• Arte Johnson as Professor Werner von Bear
• Tom Smothers as Ted E. Bear
• Barbara Feldon as Patti Bear

See also

• List of Christmas films
• Santa Claus in film

References

1. Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. pp. 23–24. ISBN 9781476672939.
2. Woolery, George W. (1989). Animated TV Specials: The Complete Directory to the First Twenty-Five Years, 1962-1987. Scarecrow Press. p. 28. ISBN 0-8108-2198-2. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
3. Nina David, ed., TV Season 1974-75, Oryx Press, 1976.

External links

• The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas at IMDb