Frosty Returns

Frosty Returns (1992)

Mr. Twitchell, a greedy old businessman, has invented Summer Wheeze: a spray that instantly removes snow and slush! Now Holly has to keep Frosty from melting, and convince everybody that snow's actually a good thing.

Date of release
1992-12-01
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (119)
Runtime
24m
Genres
Animation, Family, TV Movie
Director
Bill Melendez, Evert Brown
Collection
Frosty the Snowman Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

Frosty Returns is an American animated Christmas television special directed by Bill Melendez and Evert Brown, starring the voices of Jonathan Winters as the narrator, John Goodman as Frosty the Snowman, and Brian Doyle Murray as Mr. Twitchell. It is the fourth special in a series beginning with Rankin/Bass Animated Entertainment's 1969 television adaptation of Steve Nelson and Walter E. "Jack" Rollins's 1950 holiday song. It was produced by Bill Melendez Productions in association with Broadway Video and CBS Entertainment Productions in 1992.

Production

Contrary to its title and consistent pairing with the 1969 Frosty the Snowman special, the two were produced by different companies (Rankin/Bass produced the original, while this special was made by Lorne Michaels' Broadway Video, with help from longtime Peanuts director Bill Melendez, for CBS), and Frosty Returns makes no effort to establish itself in the 1969 special's fictional universe, using different characters, setting and voice actors.

2023 was the final year that CBS aired the special. When CBS relinquished its rights to Frosty the Snowman to NBC in 2024, CBS opted not to continue airing Frosty Returns, while NBC also chose not to carry the special despite Michaels's long association with that network through his work with SNL and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon; NBC instead paired the original Frosty special with Shrek the Halls and the 1966 version of How the Grinch S…

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