Burl Ives, who many of us will remember as the silver-and-golden-voiced snowman in the 1964 TV Special "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", spent his own golden years in a waterfront home in Anacortes, where he passed away in 1995 at the age of 85. Burl Ives was a last-minute casting decision for the special, as the producers originally intended the actor who voiced Yukon Cornelius to sing the songs. Thankfully, a last-minute switch was made to bring in Burl, which is why Sam the Snowman is never seen interacting with the other characters because his parts were created after the rest of the scenes were mostly finished. The show was broadcast for the first time in 1964, but it suffered from a glaring plot hole. The protagonists never made good on their promise to return to the Island of Misfit toys. Thousands of concerned citizens deluged the network with letters demanding a resolution. So, Rankin Bass created a new ending (spoiler alert) that shows Santa flying to the island and rescuing the Misfit Toys for distribution to loving children around the world. The revised show aired the next year and every year since. In order to fit the new scene in, something had to be cut, so they nixed a segment in which they explained that the object of Yukon Cornelius' desire was actually a Peppermint Mine - which explains his bizarre ice-axe-licking fetish. He was tasting for peppermint and not silver and gold.
Here's the original "lost" "Peppermint Mine Scene," which aired on NBC in 1964 and has not aired since.