The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town

The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town (1977)

The Mailman decides to stop another deluge of letters by answering questions about the Easter Bunny: Sunny, a baby rabbit found and adopted by Kidville (a town of only kids--even a kid mailman). And when Sunny goes delivering eggs to the nearby town (which he has to dye to fool Gadzooks, the mean bear on the mountain), he discovers that there are no kids in the town, and that the rightful (kid) ruler is being suppressed by his aunt. But the young king likes Sunny's dyed eggs and jelly beans. So Kidsville, with the help of an old train engine, makes a few plans (and a decoy chocolate rabbit) to distribute them.

Date of release
1977-04-06
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (18)
Runtime
50m
Genres
Fantasy, Animation, Science Fiction, Family, Comedy
Director
Arthur Rankin Jr., Jules Bass

Casting

Interesting facts

The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town is a 1977 American-Japanese musical Easter television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions, using their "Animagic" stop motion animation. The special reunites the writer Romeo Muller, designer Paul Coker Jr., and narrator Fred Astaire from Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town, and stars the voices of Skip Hinnant, Bob McFadden, Meg Sargent, James Spies and Allen Swift. It premiered on ABC in the United States on April 6, 1977.

Production details

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 similarities with the earlier special (Sunny as Kris Kringle, the Kidville kids as the Kringles, King Bruce as Jessic…

This was the third and final Rankin/Bass special about Easter. The first two were Here Comes Peter Cottontail (1971), narrated by Danny Kaye, and The First Easter Rabbit (1976), narrated by Burl Ives.

The original airing of The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town on ABC in 1977 ranked No. 13 in the Nielsen TV ratings for that week.

Warner Home Video released The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town on VHS in 1993 and 2000 (as part of Warner's Century 2000 promotion), and on DVD in 2006 and 2008 (in a Deluxe Edition). The 2008 Deluxe Edition DVD release included two bonus features: "The Easter Bunny is Comin’ to Town: The Magic of Stop Motion." and three family-friendly selections consisting of "Breakfast of Magicians", "Floating Through Daydream Garden", and "The Easter Express".

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