For the first time in five decades, the classic stop-motion film "Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer" will air on NBC instead of CBS. Here's how to watch.

"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," the classic stop-motion animated holiday special, premiered on this day 60 years ago.

"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," the longest-running Christmas special in television history, will be shown on NBC for the first time in over 50 years this month. The homecoming will include two presentations of an extended version of the beloved special.

In 1964, for NBC and General Electric, that meant a special based on the holiday story "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," which began life as a poem by Robert L. May in the 1930s and gained more popularity in the 1940s thanks to a song based on the poem by Johnny Marks.