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The Rankin/Bass X-Mas specials get all the glory, but this month, one of the non-Christmas outings can get some deserved recognition.

Danny Kaye voiced a lot of characters from "Here Comes Peter Cottontail", a stop-motion Easter special from the early 70s. Seymour Sassafrass (a peddler of magic) has a time travel vehicle called the Yestomorrowbile--Antoine the catepillar is its pilot. Antoine pilots a disgraced Peter Cottontail through the holidays, trying to give him a chance to give away a basket of eggs.

Vincent Price turns in a rare performance as the villain, Irontail.

Antoine wears a WWI aviator's helmet and goggles and a silk scarf--otherwise, he is au naturel. He IS French, after all.

Antoine is left behind in one of Peter's escapades, but turns up again as a butterfly (which is what happens to most catepillar characters in animation.) Check out "The Fox and the Hound" and "A Bug's Life" and "Monsters vs Aliens" for others.

Description
The Rankin/Bass X-Mas specials get all the glory, but this month, one of the non-Christmas outings can get some deserved recognition.

Danny Kaye voiced a lot of characters from "Here Comes Peter Cottontail", a stop-motion Easter special from the early 70s. Seymour Sassafrass (a peddler of magic) has a time travel vehicle called the Yestomorrowbile--Antoine the catepillar is its pilot. Antoine pilots a disgraced Peter Cottontail through the holidays, trying to give him a chance to give away a basket of eggs.

Vincent Price turns in a rare performance as the villain, Irontail.

Antoine wears a WWI aviator's helmet and goggles and a silk scarf--otherwise, he is au naturel. He IS French, after all.

Antoine is left behind in one of Peter's escapades, but turns up again as a butterfly (which is what happens to most catepillar characters in animation.) Check out "The Fox and the Hound" and "A Bug's Life" and "Monsters vs Aliens" for others.