''Peter and the Magic Egg'' is a 1983
animated musical
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* Musical theatre, a performance art that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance
* Musical film and television, a genre of film and television that incorporates into the narr ...
Easter television special produced by
Murakami-Wolf-Swenson
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. It is narrated by Uncle Amos the egg, voiced by
Ray Bolger
Raymond Wallace Bolger (January 10, 1904 – January 15, 1987) was an American actor, dancer, singer, vaudevillian and stage performer (particularly musical theatre) who started in the silent-film era.
Bolger was a major Broadway performer in ...
.
The special aired in syndication on March 23, 1983.
This special was produced as a promotional tie-in for
Paas Easter egg dye.
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Plot
The Doppler family, Pennsylvania Dutch
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farmers, are in debt to Tobias Tinwhiskers. Tobias Toot, a local farmer that successfully mechanized his farm leading to him taking over neighboring farms, the local bank and the town itself, previously had been converted into Tobias Tinwhiskers as he so loved machines, he underwent a procedure to become mechanical altogether himself. Mother Nature sends a baby, Peter Paas, to help the Dopplers out of their desperate situation.
Peter Paas grows up and works on the farm and, in order to pay the mortgage on the farm to Tinwhiskers, he arranges a contract with the Easter Bunny to supply colored eggs for Easter. He is helped by the cast of anthropomorphic farm animals to produce and dye the eggs and make the annual mortgage payment on Easter day. Tinwhiskers, enraged that he cannot repossess the farm, challenges Peter to a ploughing contest and arranges for Peter to fall down a well. Peter remains in a coma and sadness hangs over the farm. The animals went to Mother Nature for help as she gave them an egg to hatch which will awake Peter. The egg hatches into a Kookibird bringing laughter back to the farms. This wakes Peter and returns Tinwhiskers to human form. Tobias Toot gives back the town, renamed Paasville, and goes to work for the Dopplers while Peter leaves the farm to return to Mother Nature to help other families in need.
Cast
*Ray Bolger
Raymond Wallace Bolger (January 10, 1904 – January 15, 1987) was an American actor, dancer, singer, vaudevillian and stage performer (particularly musical theatre) who started in the silent-film era.
Bolger was a major Broadway performer in ...
as Uncle Amos Egg
* Al Eisenmann as Peter Paas
*Joan Gerber
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Her most challenging voice role was "all the children in a Japanese train wreck" for a ''Godzilla'' television episode. ...
as Mama Doppler / Feathers / Queen Bessie / Mother Nature
* Bob Holt as Papa Doppler / Kookybird
* Robert Ridgely as Tobias Tinwhiskers / Cotton
*Russi Taylor
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as Lollichop
*Charles Woolf
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as Terrence / King Bossy
Trivia
*This was the last special produced by Muller/Rosen.
See also
* List of Easter television episodes
References
External links
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1983 television specials
1980s American television specials
Amish in popular culture
Easter television specials
1980s animated television specials
Musical theatre television specials
First-run syndicated television programs in the United States
Television shows written by Romeo Muller
Easter Bunny in television
1980s English-language films
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