Watch Here Comes Peter Cottontail (1971) Free Online

Release Date: 1971   Duration: 55 min

Cast: Casey Kasem, Joan Gardner, Paul Frees, Danny Kaye, Vincent Price

Categories: Movies, Children's/Family, Stop motion, Holiday Film, Animation, Musical, Drama, Animated Musical, Family Film, Musical Drama

Here Comes Peter Cottontail is a 1971 Easter television special made by Rankin-Bass, based on a 1957 novel by Priscilla and Otto Friedrich entitled The Easter Bunny That Overslept. The title of the special is from the Easter song "Here Comes Peter Cottontail", which is also heard in the special. The name "Peter Cottontail" comes from a series of books by Thornton W. Burgess, although the...  MORE

Here Comes Peter Cottontail is a 1971 Easter television special made by Rankin-Bass, based on a 1957 novel by Priscilla and Otto Friedrich entitled The Easter Bunny That Overslept. The title of the special is from the Easter song "Here Comes Peter Cottontail", which is also heard in the special. The name "Peter Cottontail" comes from a series of books by Thornton W. Burgess, although the special is not based directly on his books. It was originally broadcast on ABC-TV, and in later years, appeared on CBS. In 2006, it was followed by a computer-animated sequel, Here Comes Peter Cottontail: The Movie. It is a story about the Chief Easter Bunny's son and how he saved Easter. LESS