Here Comes Peter Cottontail (1971) on Netflix

NR197151mAnimation Family Musical

Peter Cottontail is chosen to succeed the retiring Chief Easter Bunny, but January Q. Irontail wants the office so he can spoil Easter. The rivals compete over who delivers more eggs.

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Plot summary

Peter Cottontail lives in April Valley, where the Easter bunnies make candy, sew bonnets and decorate eggs. Colonel Wellington B. Bunny is stepping down as Chief Easter Bunny and names Peter as his successor, telling him that the post calls for honesty and responsibility. January Q. Irontail wants the office as well, and means to ruin Easter in revenge for his tail: a child once roller-skated over it, and he wears a replacement made of iron. He proposes that he and Peter compete over which of them delivers more eggs. Peter stays up late celebrating with friends and asks his rooster to wake him early, but Irontail slips into the house and feeds the bird magic bubblegum that seals its beak. Peter sleeps through the day and delivers nothing. Irontail takes the office, and Peter leaves April Valley.

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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Here Comes Peter Cottontail (1971)

Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.

TV Guide once praised the special's music as one of the best scores in children's television history, yet despite that acclaim no official soundtrack album has ever been commercially released.
A Blu-ray released by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment on 22 February 2019 as a Walmart exclusive contains a version edited for syndication that runs nearly ten minutes shorter.
ABC and Rankin/Bass did produce a private promotional vinyl LP of the entire soundtrack recording in 1971, but no record company has released an official, legitimate audio version to date.