A Very Merry Cricket (1973)
- Directed by
- Chuck Jones
- Genre
- comedy film, adventure film, family film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 30 min
- Rating
- 4.9 of 10 from 13 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A cricket and his animal friends face a challenge on Christmas Eve in New York City. They try to save a tree that is important to them.
whimsicalnostalgicgentlecozyplayfullightheartedfestive
What happens
A Very Merry Cricket is a 1973 Christmas animated television special. It was directed by Chuck Jones. It originally aired on ABC on December 14, 1973. who also wrote the teleplay with George Selden. It was a sequel to their acclaimed adaptation of the 1960 book The Cricket in Times Square and was followed in 1975 by another sequel, Yankee Doodle Cricket. The show included two original songs by Dean Elliott and Marian Dern (Jones' wife): "Christmas in New York" and "What If Humans Were More Like Mice?" (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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