Before "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," Rankin-Bass produced "The New Adventures of Pinnochio"

The Rankin-Bass animation studio is best known for the 1964 television special, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, as well as The Little Drummer Boy (1968), Frosty the Snowman (1969), and Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (1970).

But in 1960, it produced a 130-episode television series called The New Adventures of Pinocchio using the same 'Animagic' stop-motion process used in its later shows. — Read the rest