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 Release Date: 1984 Tagline: You're going to believe in Santa all over again! Director: Jackie Cooper Writer: Jim Moloney
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 Plot Synopsis by Erik: Art Carney plays a thoroughly modern Santa in this 1986 made-for-Jaclyn-Smith-for-TV-movie in which an oil digger's family is
enlisted (the titular “They”) to save Christmas. When Gaylord-fearing
oil tycoon Murdoch (Smucker’s spokesvoice Mason Adams in a role that
will confound you) forces Michael (Paul Le Mat in another thankless
role) to drill and bomb two sites near the North Pole, Santa dispatches
his top Elf, Ed (Paul Williams in a role that will sicken you) to speak
to Michael. Ed gently, but firmly, lets Michael know the oil is not on
Site B—which is close to North Pole City, but on Site A—which still
gives North Pole City quite a jolt. Ed offers to take Michael and his family to meet Santa. The family takes up the offer and Murdoch convinces Michael the never-seen “Gaylord” has kidnapped his family and
to move all digging operations to Site B by the 24th of December
(“That’s Christmas-Eve Day, have you got me?”). While the family is
treated to the scientific wonders, Michael is berated and despondent by
their disappearance. Will the titular “They” save Christmas? Or will
Murdoch be feasting on reindeer meats at Site B? Oh, and watch for TV
mainstay Anne Haney in another service role as Hedda the Housekeeper. |
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