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Released
1970 · FILM

The Great Santa Claus Switch

Another classic Jim Henson holiday film.

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Written by
Runtime
52 min
AdventureComedyFamilyFantasyTV Movie

Synopsis

In this animated tale, Santa Claus and his elves prepare to deliver presents to children around the world, but their mission is jeopardized when the evil wizard Cosmo Scam devises a plan to kidnap Santa and take his place. Cosmo begins abducting Santa’s elves and replacing them with his own evil henchmen. The fate of Christmas now rests with Fred the Elf, who must find a way to stop Cosmo before he burglarizes the world.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 14

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Scored by Joe Raposo

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