What? Santa decides that people don't believe anymore and that he needs a vacation. Mrs Claus teams up with Jingle and Jangle Bells (two of Santa's elves) to prove to Santa that people still care. When they reach South Town, USA and find a less than enthusiatic welcome, especially from a small boy named Iggie, they enlist the help of the cantankerous Miser Brothers..who aren't that willing to help out.

The Deal

To help South Town get the Christmas spirit back, Snow Miser is allowed to let it snow one day in South Town. In exchange, his brother, Heat Miser gets to make one nice sunny day (in of all places) the North Pole! After Mrs Claus makes a visit to the duos mom..none other than Mother Nature herself, the boys agree and the deals on.

The Conclusion

Will the Miser Brothers keep their deal? Will the Christmas spirit return to South Town? Does Santa really take a vacation?

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Shirley Booth ... Mrs. Santa (voice)

Mickey Rooney ... Santa Claus (voice)

Dick Shawn ... Snow Miser (voice)

George S. Irving ... Heat Miser (voice)

Bob McFadden ... Jingle Bells (voice)
Bradley Bolke ... Jangle Bells (voice)

Rhoda Mann ... Mother Nature (voice)
Ron Marshall ... Mr. Thistlewhite (voice)
Colin Duffy ... Ignatius Thistlewhite (voice)
Christine Winter ... Blue Christmas girl (voice)

~Mother Nature tells Snow Miser to let it snow in Southtown and Heat Miser to allow a spring day at the North Pole. Each of those instructions is directed to the wrong Miser.

~During the "blue Christmas" song the little girl is writing the word blue Christmas with a crayon. As she writes the word Christmas, the letters appears to appear before she writes them.

~When Mrs. Claus is talking about how all the children from around the world were making gifts for Santa, she says "From east (they show a child dressed like a cowboy) and west" (they show a little child from the orient). They should be switched - west-cowboy, east-oriental.

~When Jingle Bells, Jangle Bells, and Iggie are sitting on the bench after Santa went to the pound, Jingle Bells clock's hands are pointing at 10 and 2 in the first shot, and then they change to 10 and 6 in the next.

~"The Year Without A Santa Claus"
Performed by Chorus

~"Anyone Can Be Santa"
Performed by Shirley Booth

~"Snow Right Here in Dixie"
Performed by the Mayor of Southtown

~"Snow Miser"
Performed by Dick Shawn

~"Heat Miser"
Performed by George S. Irving

~"Blue Christmas"
Performed by Children Chorus

~"Here Comes Santa Claus"
Performed by Chorus

~"I Believe in Santa Claus"
Performed by Mickey Rooney and Ron Marshall

I'm Mister White Christmas
I'm Mister Snow
I'm Mister Icicle
I'm Mister Ten Below
Friends call me Snow Miser
What ever I touch
Turns to snow in my clutch
I'm too much!

[Chorus:]
He's Mister White Christmas
He's Mister Snow

[Snow Miser:]
That's right!

[Chorus:]
He's Mister Icicle
He's Mister Ten Below

[Snow Miser:]
Friends call me Snow Miser,
What ever I touch
Turns to snow in my clutch

[Chorus:]
He's too much!

[Snow Miser:]
I never want to see a day
That's over forty degrees
I'd rather have it thirty,
Twenty, ten, five and let it freeeeEEEEEEeeze!

[Chorus:]
He's Mister White Christmas
He's Mister Snow

[Snow Miser:]
That's right!

[Chorus:]
He's Mister Icicle
He's Mister Ten Below

[Snow Miser:]
Friends call me Snow Miser,
What ever I touch
Turns to snow in my clutch
...too much.

[All:]
Too Much!

[Heat Miser]
I'm Mister Green Christmas
I'm Mister Sun
I'm Mister Heat Blister
I'm Mister Hundred and One
They call me Heat Miser,
What ever I touch
Starts to melt in my clutch
I'm too much!

[Chorus]
He's Mister Green Christmas
He's Mister Sun
He's Mister Heat Blister
He's Mister Hundred and One

[Heat Miser]
They call me Heat Miser,
What ever I touch
Starts to melt in my clutch

[Chorus]
He's too much!

[Heat Miser]
Thank you!
I never want to see a day
That's under sixty degrees
I'd rather have it eighty,
Ninety, one hundred degrees!

(spoken):Oh, some like it hot, but I like it really hot! Hee hee!

[Chorus]
He's Mister Green Christmas
He's Mister Sun

[Heat Miser]
Sing it!

[Chorus]
He's Mister Heat Blister
He's Mister Hundred and One

[Heat Miser]
They call me Heat Miser,
What ever I touch
Starts to melt in my clutch
I'm too much!

[All]
Too Much!