. . "1500.0"^^ . . "\u2019Twas the Night Before Christmas is an animated Christmas television special, produced by Rankin/Bass and based loosely on the famous 1823 poem that opens with this line. The special originally aired on the CBS network on December 8, 1974."@en . . "Jerome Coopersmith"@en . . "1974-12-08"^^ . . . . "'Twas the Night Before Christmas (Rankin/Bass)"@en . . . . "from the poem by"@en . "\u2019Twas the Night Before Christmas is an animated Christmas television special, produced by Rankin/Bass and based loosely on the famous 1823 poem that opens with this line. The special originally aired on the CBS network on December 8, 1974."@en . "Blu-ray"@en . . . . . . . "VHS"@en . . . . . "DVD"@en .