Christmas in Tattertown

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Christmas in Tattertown

Genre	Animated series
Running time	30 minutes
Creator(s)	Ralph Bakshi
Starring	Charles Adler (voice)
Country of origin	USA
Original channel	Nickelodeon
Original run	December 21, 1988–
No. of episodes	1
IMDb profile

Christmas in Tattertown was the name of a 1988 television special created and directed by Ralph Bakshi about a place where everything discarded in the world came alive.

1 History
2 Characters
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] History

Animator Ralph Bakshi originated the idea for Tattertown in high school where it was originally a comic strip called Junk Town. The strip made light of the human condition by showing value of things we throw away. [1]

Bakshi worked with Nickelodeon to bring his strip to life as a regular television series. In 1988 they commissioned him to create a pilot for the series. It aired on December 21, 1988 during the network's Nick At Nite block of programming.

Originally the series was to be picked up in 1989 for 39 episodes, but the project was abandoned for unknown reasons. Nickelodeon renamed the pilot Christmas in Tattertown and aired it annually as a special until 1992. Bakshi has retained rights to the pilot and it has never been released on video or DVD.

[edit] Characters

Debbie: Human girl that finds herself in Tattertown.
Muffet: Based on public domain children's character Little Miss Muffet.
Sidney the Spider: Voiced by Charles Adler.

[edit] See also

List of Nickelodeon Shows

[edit] External links

Christmas in Tattertown at the Internet Movie Database

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Ralph Bakshi

Films: Fritz the Cat • Heavy Traffic • Coonskin • Wizards • J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings • American Pop • Hey Good Lookin' • Fire and Ice • Cool World • Cool and the Crazy • Last Days of Coney Island • Short films
TV series: The Mighty Heroes • Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures • Spicy City
TV specials: Christmas in Tattertown • The Butter Battle Book