Intergalactic Thanksgiving (1979)

Original title

Intergalactic Thanksgiving, or Please Don't Eat the Planet

Directed by

Clive A. Smith

Genre

comedy, animation

Country

Canada

Runtime

23 min

Rated

PG

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Farmers and a royal alien family deal with a runaway machine that makes too much food. The humans help the aliens solve the ecological mess the machine creates.

whimsicalfamily-friendlylightheartedvintageadventurousgentleretro-futuristic

What happens

Intergalactic Thanksgiving, sometimes known as Please Don't Eat the Planet, is a 1979 Canadian Thanksgiving animated television special that premiered on CBC and in the United States in syndication on November 22, 1979. Intergalactic Thanksgiving was the fourth television special produced by Nelvana in their 1977 to 1980 series of specials, A Cosmic Christmas, The Devil and Daniel Mouse and Romie-0 and Julie-8, all premiering in 1977, 1978 and 1979. The story revolves around farmers and aliens who try to get along after a serious ecological accident happens. The ranchers help the royal family of the planet Laffalot from their runaway foodmaking machine. The special has been included on several Nelvana compilations, such as Animated Ink from 1980 and Nelvanamation (Volume 1), also from 1980. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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