Rudolph's Shiny New Year
originally aired on ABC
The 1976 American-Japanese Christmas and New Year's stop motion animated television special is a standalone sequel to the 1964 special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. The special premiered on ABC on December 10, 1976, and was also aired on TV Asahi in Japan on December 24, 1979, under the Japanese dub title Rudolph's Shiny New Year.