Beth Broderick, who plays Pam Forrester (the mom in this movie), played Zelda Spellman (one of the Aunts) in the series Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996) starring Melissa Joan Hart.
Melissa Joan Hart and Mario Lopez previously co-starred in another Christmas TV movie, entitled To Catch a Crimes (2006).
The street view when Connie drives to Roy's Toys head office is in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The view is of the Centre Street bridge southbound headed straight to the Calgary Tower.
Scenes were also filmed in Bristol, Connecticut.
This is the ninth time Melissa Joan Hart and Tara Strong have worked together. Previously they appeared together in Sabrina Goes to Rome (1998) (The Wonderful World of Disney (1997)), Good Will Haunting (1998) (Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996)), Sabrina Down Under (1999) (The Wonderful World of Disney (1997)), the animated feature Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000), and Born to Run (2014), Witch Came First (2014), The Book Club (2015) and Melissa & Joey's Frozen (2015) (all of Melissa & Joey (2010)).