A big part of the Christmas season is, for me, watching all the classic holiday Christmas specials. It just wouldn’t be Christmas without Frosty, Rudolph, the Grinch, and all my other holiday TV pals.

One of my favorite specials is the holiday classic, The Year Without a Santa Claus, featuring a memorable appearance by two brothers, Heat Miser and Snow Miser, who apparently have some hand in the current global warming crisis, due to some complicated family issues.

I love these characters so much that I was delighted/dismayed when the ABC Family Channel announced they would premier a new special, A Miser Brothers Christmas, on December 13th (as part of their annual however-many days of showing crappy Christmas movies thing they do every year). I was delighted because I, of course, was happy to see my old pals back, and thrilled that Mickey Rooney was returning as the voice of Santa, and that George S. Irving was reprising his role as Heat Miser. Sadly, Dick Shawn will not be playing Snow Miser again, as he is dead.

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