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Yes, Virginia (TV program)

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Yes, Virginia
Created byWayne Best
Matt MacDonald
Based onYes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus
Written byWayne Best
Matt MacDonald
Chris Plehal
Screenplay byChris Plehal
Directed byPete Circuitt
Voices of
ComposerNicholas Hooper
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producers
ProducerTed Rogers
Editors
Running time22 minutes
Production companies
Original release
NetworkCBS
ReleaseDecember 11, 2009 (2009-12-11)

Yes, Virginia is an animated Christmas television special created by Wayne Best and Matt MacDonald, and produced by JWT Productions, The Ebeling Group, and Starz Animation, with sponsorship from Macy's. It first aired December 11, 2009 on CBS. It was based on Francis Pharcellus Church's famous 1897 editorial, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" in The (New York) Sun. The special featured the voice talents of Bea Miller as Virginia O'Hanlon and Neil Patrick Harris as her father, Philip.[1]

There was a previous animated special, Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus, broadcast in 1974.[2]

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References

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  1. ^ "Yes Virginia, there really is a Macy's". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved March 30, 2017.
  2. ^ Woolery, George W. (1989). Animated TV Specials: The Complete Directory to the First Twenty-Five Years, 1962-1987. Scarecrow Press. pp. 463–464. ISBN 0-8108-2198-2. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
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