Prep & Landing
| Prep & Landing | |
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| Genre | Animated television special |
| Screenplay by |
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| Story by | Chris Williams |
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| Music by | Michael Giacchino |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Producer | Dorothy McKim |
| Cinematography | Rob Dressel |
| Editor | William J. Caparella |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
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| Budget | $14 million |
| Original release | |
| Network | ABC |
| Release | December 8, 2009 |
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Prep & Landing is an American animated television special, based on an idea by Chris Williams at Walt Disney Animation Studios and developed by Kevin Deters and Stevie Wermers-Skelton into a half-hour Christmas special. The first installment in the Prep & Landing series, it first aired on December 8, 2009, on ABC.
The special was released online the next day, along with an original one-minute short film Tiny's Big Adventure. An 8-minute short, Prep & Landing: Operation: Secret Santa, aired on December 7, 2010, reprising the original cast with the addition of Betty White as Mrs. Claus. The next half-hour Christmas TV special, Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice aired on December 5, 2011, on ABC. A third half-hour special, produced at Disney Television Animation, Prep & Landing: The Snowball Protocol was released on November 27, 2025 (Thanksgiving night) on Disney Channel, the first of the series to debut via that channel, followed by Disney+ on the next day and was rerun on Freeform as part of the 25 Days of Christmas, as well as an additional airing on ABC.