A Very Merry Cricket (1973)
30m
Running Time
December 14, 1973Release Date
A Very Merry Cricket (1973)
30m
Running Time
December 14, 1973Release Date
Plot.
A sequel to "A Cricket in Times Square," in this feature a musical cricket returns to his New York City home and his friends, a cat and a mouse, to discover the meaning of Christmas.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Les Tremayne
Chester C. Cricket
Ted C. Bemiller
Production Coordinator
Mel Blanc
Tucker the Mouse
Hal Ambro
Animation
Chuck Jones
Director
George Nicholas
Animation
Irv Anderson
Animation
George Selden
Writer
Irv Wyner
Background Designer
Dean Elliott
Composer
Don Foster
Production Manager
Hank Gotzenberg
Editor
Ken Gotzenberg
Editor
Gregg Heschong
Camera Operator
Bill Hajee
Animation
Oscar Dufau
ProductionDesigner
Bob Tyler
Animation
Joseph Aidlin
Associate Producer
Marian Dern
Lyricist
Joe Roman
Animation
Retta Davidson
Animation
Byron McRae
Camera Operator
Mary Cain
Animation
David Hanan
Animation
Bob Inman
Background Designer
Israel Baker
Music
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
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?"
A Cricket in Times Square Collection.
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