obscure puppet Christmas movie I had on beta tape as a kid??

No, if I had to guess this production would have been from the late 70's or early 80's. Maybe I can provide a few more details. All the puppets were about the same size, so this wasn't a giant dragon or lizard. I would also say the puppets weren't as good as Eureeka's Castle, not as detailed. I've tried searching imdb through their advanced search option and haven't come up with anything. It was definitely sub-muppets quality, and seemed like a knock off. I wish I could remember more of the plot.

Yeah, I'm trying to recall what I can. I'm fairly certain it wasn't an overtly Christian Christmas film, just sort of a standard Christmas moral tale about being happy with what you have, money not being important, etc... As for specific year, I could only say with certainty that it came out before 1987, but how long before that i don't know. I might guess that it was made for tv if not direct to video. It had the image quality of being shot on video. The puppets were like Muppets, foam covered in felt. A little more about the plot, from what I remember a young boy puppet goes into some kind of store, where two other young characters are trying to steal. They run off, but the first boy gets accused by the shop owner of also stealing. I could be wrong but I seem to remember the shop owner character being a green, lizard type character, with a red tongue (maybe a lizard, dragon, gator, etc.) I also have a vague memory of the lizard shop owner wearing something like a white chef's hat. There were no humans in the movie, just puppets. I'm straining, but that's about all I can remember. Oh, and the box of the betamax tape was red, with the characters in a group shot over the title.

I don't. My parents bought it at a time when the rental stores were switching over to VHS, and so they were selling all the betas off really cheaply, so they bought two or three milk crates of movies. This puppet movie wasn't one of my favorites as a child, so I don't remember much because it wasn't something I loved and watched over and over. But occasionally I think about it and wish I knew what it was.