When Is ‘Frosty the Snowman’ Airing on TV This Year?
Happy Birthday! December just isn’t December without a visit from your favorite living snowman — and luckily, the 1969 Rankin/Bass Frosty the Snowman special will be turning up on your small screen seven times between now and Christmas Day! So you’ll have plenty of chances to see this classic tale of Christmas magic, friendship, enchanted hats, a journey to the North Pole, and one very, very mean professor.
So when can you watch Frosty the Snowman? You can catch the special on network primetime this Wednesday, Dec. 11, at 8pm EST on NBC — the first time ever that the special will air on the network (since its 1969 premiere, the special has aired annually on CBS).
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If you can’t make that airing and have cable, however, you can catch it on the Freeform network six times, including a Christmas Eve primetime showing and a Christmas morning airing!
Monday, Dec. 16, Freeform, 8:45pm
Tuesday, Dec. 17, Freeform, 7:20pm
Saturday, Dec. 21, Freeform, 5:40pm
Sunday, Dec. 22, Freeform, 2:25pm
Tuesday, Dec. 24, Freeform, 7:30pm
Wednesday, Dec. 25, Freeform, 10:30am
And, finally, if none of those times work for you, you can stream the special any time you want on Hulu and Prime Video (subscriptions are required).
The third major Rankin/Bass franchise, after Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in 1964 and 1968’s Little Drummer Boy, Frosty the Snowman was based on the 1950 song by Gene Autry, which became a Christmas standard. Jimmy Durante covered the song later in the same year, and went on to become the narrator of the 1969 special — which turned out to be his final acting role.
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