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Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas

A group of stop motion plasticine sheep wearing Christmas cracker hats gathered around a table of food with a smaller sheep at the head of the table alongside a light brown dog, a twinkling Christmas tree in the background
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Produced by Bristol-based Aardman Pictures (Wallace & Gromit), this short contains all the heartwarming and comic stop-motion slapstick elements for which the animation studio is renowned. Co-written by British screenwriters Nick Park, Giles Pilbrow and Mark Burton, this Christmas special is sweet, inoffensive and enjoyably cheeky. UK actor Justin Fletcher lends his voice to the iconic Shaun the Sheep character.

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Shaun (Justin Fletcher) finds his festive excitement quickly turns to alarm when Timmy goes missing after a farmhouse raid to get bigger and better stockings for the Flock. Panicked and dismayed, Shaun tries to retrieve Timmy before he becomes someone else’s gift.