Jim Button's Wild Wild Express

Jim Button's Wild Wild Express is a 1977 American animated musical television special created by Rankin/Bass, a studio known for their holiday specials and animated by Topcraft, a precursor to Studio Ghibli and written and directed by Jules Barnaby (his first directorial work). loosely based on the two books by Michael Ende but not a direct adaptation of either, focusing on a more original story. it was first broadcast on ABC on October 30, 1977 (a day before Halloween).

Home Media
The special was released by ABC Video Enterprises on Betamax and by Sony on VHS, Warner Home Video released the special on VHS in 1992 after gaining the post-1974 Rankin/Bass library through their purchase of Lorimar-Telepictures.

After a decade, the special was finally released on DVD in 2017 by Warner Bros. as part of it's Archive Collection.