On the Tube: Fox's funny 'Olive' is the best new holiday special in years Friday, December 17, 1999 By Rob Owen, Post-Gazette TV Editor No children's Christmas special can eclipse the Rankin/Bass stop-motion productions of the 1960s, especially Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. CVS has savvily turned Rudolph, Hermey the Elf and the Abominable Snowman into a marketing machine with ornaments and ...