Rudolph's Shiny New Year

Rudolph's Shiny New Year

Release Date:  12/10/1976
Country of Release:  USA
Length:  60 minutes
MPAA:  TV-G
Medium:  Video
Genre:  ADV COM
Release Message:  Father Time (Red Skelton) enlists the help of Rudolph to find Happy, the baby New Year, before midnight, New Year's Eve -- with the help of the islands of the Archipelagos of Last Years.
Description:  Rudolph must find Happy, the baby New Year, before midnight, New Year's Eve. Among the islands of the Archipelagos of Last Years are: 1,000,000 BC: Represented as a prehistoric island that consists of dinosaurs and cavemen. O.M. lives here. 4000 BC: Rudolph mentions that all its inhabitants wanted to do was build pyramids. 1023: Represented as a medieval island filled with fairytale characters. The year 1023 is said to be when all the well-known fairy tales and nursery rhymes actually happened. Sir 1023 lives here. 1492: Rudolph mentions that the people on that island were too busy discovering things to help them (a reference to the year of Christopher Columbus's voyage to the New World). 1776: Represented as a Colonial American island that celebrates American Independence Day on a daily basis. 1776 (AKA "Sev") lives here. 1893: Rudolph mentions that the inhabitants have never heard of Happy due to the Panic of 1893. 1965: Rudolph stated that island was "too noisy" to search for Happy. This is theoretically in reference to Beatlemania (which revolved around the British Invasion of The Beatles) and growing political unrest in the United States brought on by inner city rioting and the escalation of the Vietnam War.