The Trolls and the Christmas Express

The Trolls and the Christmas Express is a 1981 animated Christmas television special produced by the Canadian-based Atkinson Film-Arts for Pooled Film Services. It was originally broadcast on Home Box Office (HBO) on December 9, 1981.^[1]

Plot

Six troublesome trolls, whose leader is called Troglo (voiced by Hans Conried), use their mischievous magic to sabotage Christmas by infiltrating Santa's village disguised as elves. After a week of wreaking havoc but still not completely ruining Christmas, the trolls get a devilishly clever idea: on the day before Christmas Eve, they get the reindeer dancing and singing all night long. The next day, the reindeer are so tired that they cannot find the energy to pull Santa's sleigh. Although it is likely that Christmas is ruined, the elves quickly devise a plan to link the train from Santa's village with tracks that travel all over the world so that Santa can deliver the toys by using the Christmas Express.

Cast

• Roger Miller - Narrator
• Hans Conried - Troglo
• Paul Soles
• Len Carlson
• Billie Mae Richards
• Carl Banas

Songs and performers

• "The Christmas Express" - composed by Hagood Hardy, performed by Roger Miller
• "The Elves' Song" - composed by Hagood Hardy, performed by the Elves
• "The Trolls' Song" composed by Hagood Hardy, performed by the Trolls

Home media

The Trolls and the Christmas Express was released on VHS by Paramount Home Video in 1985 which has long been out of print. On August 12, 2008, it was released as a manufacture-on-demand DVD-R as part of the "Holiday Classics" series by Phoenix Learning Group, Inc.^[2]

References

External links

• The Trolls and the Christmas Express at the Internet Movie Database
• The Trolls and the Christmas Express at The Big Cartoon DataBase
• The Trolls and the Christmas Express at AllMovie
• The Trolls and the Christmas Express at New York Times