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Cricket on the Hearth is a Christmas special produced by Rankin/Bass, and based on the story of the same title by Charles Dickens..
A talking cricket helps an impoverished toy maker and his daughter, who has been blinded after hearing her beloved is lost at sea. It is book-ended by live-action segments hosted by Danny Thomas.
Not a bad special but this 1967 Television special has too many songs and none of them are very good.
What does work is Television Icons Marlo Thomas and Danny Thomas bring life into an otherwise lifeless script.