Operation: Secret Santa is a computer animated short film sequel to 2009's Christmas special Prep & Landing, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, and directed by Kevin Deters and Stevie Wermers-Skelton

Stevie Wermers

Stevie Wermers-Skelton is a Disney story artist and director. She co-directed the 2D animated short How To Hook Up Your Home Theater and ABC Christmas Special Prep and Landing with Kevin Deters. It has been reported that she is historically Walt Disney Animation Studios first screen-credited...

. The short premiered on TV channel ABC

American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

 on Tuesday, December 7, 2010. Another half-hour Christmas TV special, Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice

Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice

Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice is an upcoming computer animated television special, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, and directed by Kevin Deters and Stevie Wermers-Skelton. It will air on December 5, 2011, on the ABC TV channel...

will air on December 5, 2011, on ABC.

Plot

Wayne and Lanny, now partners, are called by Magee to meet with a secret contact – Mrs. Claus, who sends them on a new mission to retrieve a box from Santa’s secret workshop. Later they sneak into Santa’s office while he is asleep, using their high tech equipment from the previous film. Lanny’s expertise at dressing the tree enables them to enter the hidden workshop where they recover the box and escape just in time. Mrs Claus reveals the contents of the box to be the last part of the first toy that Santa ever made, and gives the complete toy back to him as his Christmas Present.

Cast

• Dave Foley
  Dave Foley
  David Scott "Dave" Foley is a Canadian comedian, writer, director, and producer best known for his work in The Kids in the Hall, NewsRadio, A Bug's Life, and Celebrity Poker Showdown...
  
   as Wayne
• Derek Richardson as Lanny
• Sarah Chalke
  Sarah Chalke
  Sarah Chalke is a Canadian-American actress known for portraying Dr. Elliot Reid on the NBC/ABC comedy Scrubs, "Second Becky" Conner Healy on Roseanne, and Stella Zinman in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother...
  
   as Magee
• Betty White
  Betty White
  Betty White Ludden , better known as Betty White, is an American actress, comedienne, singer, author, and former game show personality. With a career spanning seven decades since 1939, she is best known to modern audiences for her television roles as Sue Ann Nivens on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and...
  
   as Mrs. Claus
• W. Morgan Sheppard
  W. Morgan Sheppard
  William Morgan Sheppard , sometimes credited as Morgan Sheppard or W. Morgan Sheppard, is a British actor.Sheppard was born in London to an Anglo-Irish family but was educated in Ireland. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art 1956-58 before spending 12 years as Associate Artist with...
  
   as 'The Big Guy' Santa Claus.

Release

Prep & Landing: Operation: Secret Santa aired on TV channel ABC

American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

 on Tuesday, December 7, 2010.

The short will be released on the Prep & Landing DVD on November 22, 2011, accompanying the original special and the short film Tiny's Big Adventure.

See also

• List of Disney Animated Shorts and Featurettes
• Walt Disney Animation Studios