| Director: | Mike Fallows |
| Producer: | Pam Lehn |
| Creator: | Michael Bedard |
| Voices: | Bryan Cranston Caroline Rhea Richard Kind Kevin McDonald Harland Williams Joe Flaherty |
| Music: | Brent Barkman Peter Coulman Carl Lenox Eric Schenkman Tim Thorney Tom Thorney |
| Editor: | Richard Bond |
| Company: | Nelvana Sitting Ducks Productions Film Roman |
| Network: | YTV (Canada) Disney Channel (United States) |
| Runtime: | 47 minutes |
| Country: | Canada United States |
| Language: | English |
The Santa Claus Brothers is a 2001 animated Christmas television special created by Michael Bedard.[1] Co-produced by Nelvana, Sitting Ducks Productions, and Film Roman, for YTV and the Disney Channel, this comic Christmas tale features the voices of Bryan Cranston, Caroline Rhea, Richard Kind, Kevin McDonald, Harland Williams, and Joe Flaherty. It premiered on December 13, 2001.
In 2002, it won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual in Animation.
Santa Claus has three sons, Roy, Daryl, and Mel, and all of them are talented. They have their father's toy making gift, not to mention scientific genius, but do they understand the true meaning of Christmas? Santa would like to retire, and it's time for the boys to learn their lesson, so Santa proposes a contest: whichever one of his triplets can first understand the true meaning of the holiday can have family business. What will it take to teach the boys such an important lesson?
A review in The Globe and Mail lauded The Santa Claus Brothers for "[using] satire to tell a not-too-heavy-handed lesson about the true meaning of Christmas", saying that "Bedard's touch gives the characters a goofy charm".[2]
The film can be viewed in YouTube and Amazon Prime Video.