How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (TV special) animation divisions of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, where Jones was under contract at the time. CBS, coming off the surprise success of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" a year before, allotted Jones and MGM a $315,000 budget, more than four times what Bill Melendez was offered to produce "A Charlie Brown Christmas". The original broadcast was sponsored by the Foundation for Full Service Banks whose sponsor plugs within the original airing were later edited out for subsequent broadcasts. The entirety of the book's text, with some slight embellishment, was adapted into the special; to pad the special to a full 30-minute time slot,
The Lorax (TV special) 1994 as part of a CBS Video four-tape package called "Dr. Seuss Sing-Along Classics". To tie-in with the 40th anniversary of the special and the release of film "The Lorax", Warner Home Video released the special on a deluxe edition DVD and Blu-ray on February 14, 2012. "The Lorax" received the Critics Award from the International Animated Cartoon Festival (Zagreb, 1972) and the Silver Media from the International Film and Television Festival (New York, 1972). The Lorax (TV special) The Lorax is a musical animated short produced by DePatie–Freleng Enterprises which first aired as a television special on CBS on