voices lent their talents, including: Barbara Jean Wong as Judy Barton Bobby La Manche as Jimmy Barton Joseph Kearns as The Crazy-Quilt Dragon Verna Felton as Judy & Jimmy's mother Lou Merrill as Santa Claus Martha Wentworth as The Wintergreen Witch Gale Gordon as Weary Willie the Stork and Oliver Ostrich Rosa Barcelo as Queen Melissa Elvia Allman as Penelope the Pelican Joe DuVal as Fe Fo, the Giant Frank Nelson as Captain Tin Top Hanley Stafford as Snapper Snick, the Crooning Crocodile Howard McNear as Samuel the Seal and Slim Pickins, the Cowboy Cy Kendall as Captain Taffy, the Pirate, and Chief Cook and Bottle Washer (Indian Chief) Ted Osborne as King Blotto the Third and Professor Whiz, the Owl Elliott Lewis as Mr. Presto the Magician and Mudley Ed Max as the Inkaboo Assistant Executioner Dorothy Scott as Fraidy Cat Lindsay MacHarrie as Wesley the Wailing Whale, the Grand Wunkey, and others Eddie Collins as Rhyming Rabbit Radio announcer Bud Hiestand served as the narrator. Lindsay MacHarrie was also the producer of the show. Both actors Gale Gordon as Weary Willie the Stork and Oliver Ostrich and Joseph Kearns as The Crazy-Quilt Dragon would later go on to work on the 1959 television show Dennis the Menace. Gale Gordon was under contract to play John Wilson (after the death of Joseph Kearns, who played George Wilson) on Dennis the Menace. For more than 80 years, the identity of the actor who played Jimmy was a mystery, with several actors suggested, including Walter Tetley. In 2021, researcher Karl Schadow found conclusive evidence that Jimmy was played by Bobby La Manche. Schadow published the information in an article in the September 2021 issue of Hollywood360 Newsletter (editor: Carl Amari). The story and all the songs were written in six weeks' time by Glan Heisch, aided by his wife, Elisabeth A. Heisch (1908–2003). He was specifically directed to create something in the style of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Public reception The radio show proved to be so popular that the Metropolitan Washington Old-Time Radio Club says it has been broadcast by a station somewhere in the world every year during the holidays, even today. Many malls had a Cinnamon Bear that children would tell what they wanted for gifts instead of a Santa, and he would show up in Christmas parades. The Cinnamon Bear has