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* The [[Fourth Doctor]] dressed as Santa and snuck into [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|the Brigadier's]] house with [[Romana II|Romana]] in order to leave him a Christmas present. ([[ST]]: ''[[Better Watch Out, Better Take Care]]'') | * The [[Fourth Doctor]] dressed as Santa and snuck into [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|the Brigadier's]] house with [[Romana II|Romana]] in order to leave him a Christmas present. ([[ST]]: ''[[Better Watch Out, Better Take Care]]'') | ||
* On [[24 December|Christmas Eve]] [[2006]], Rose and [[Mickey Smith]] encountered dangerous [[Robot Santa|"pilot fish" disguised as Santas]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'') The following year | * On [[24 December|Christmas Eve]] [[2006]], Rose and [[Mickey Smith]] encountered dangerous [[Robot Santa|"pilot fish" disguised as Santas]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'') | ||
* The following year the same robots, now under control of the [[Empress of the Racnoss]], attacked [[Donna Noble]] and [[Lance Bennett|Lance Bennett's]] wedding reception. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride]]'') | |||
== References == | == References == | ||
* The [[Ninth Doctor]] hinted that he was Santa Claus and he had delivered a red bicycle to [[Rose Tyler]] when she was a child. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Doctor Dances]]'') | * The [[Ninth Doctor]] hinted that he was Santa Claus and he had delivered a red bicycle to [[Rose Tyler]] when she was a child. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Doctor Dances]]'') | ||
Revision as of 13:39, 27 August 2012
Santa Claus — also known as Father Christmas or, according to the Eleventh Doctor, Jeff or Geoff (DW: A Christmas Carol) — legendarily distributed presents to good children on Christmas morning under their trees. He played an important part in the Christmas tradition on the planet Earth.
Profile
Santa maintained a workshop where he created toys. (TVC: A Christmas Story) In order to deliver presents to all children in a single night, Santa used time loops and clones of himself. (ST: The Man Who (Nearly) Killed Christmas)
Appearances
The First Doctor visited Santa Claus in his workshop and helped save Christmas. (TVC: A Christmas Story)
The Second Doctor warned Santa of a future where the toy workshop spanned over two thousand worlds and the fabric of space was being torn by his time looping. A solution was found involving a fleet of robot Santas and newly calculated, more stable wormholes. (ST: The Man Who (Nearly) Killed Christmas)
The Third Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith travelled to New York, 1822, where they met Saint Nicholas. Clement C. Moore watched them from his window, and then sat down to write Twas the Night Before Christmas. (ST: A Visit from Saint Nicholas)
Santa helped Iris Wildthyme save Panda from Mary Christmas. (IW: The Claws of Santa)
Impersonations
- The Fourth Doctor dressed as Santa and snuck into the Brigadier's house with Romana in order to leave him a Christmas present. (ST: Better Watch Out, Better Take Care)
- On Christmas Eve 2006, Rose and Mickey Smith encountered dangerous "pilot fish" disguised as Santas. (DW: The Christmas Invasion)
- The following year the same robots, now under control of the Empress of the Racnoss, attacked Donna Noble and Lance Bennett's wedding reception. (DW: The Runaway Bride)
References
- The Ninth Doctor hinted that he was Santa Claus and he had delivered a red bicycle to Rose Tyler when she was a child. (DW: The Doctor Dances)
- Bayldon Copper, who had a phony Earthonomics degree from Mrs Golightly's Happy Travelling University and Dry Cleaners on the planet Sto, told the passengers of the Titanic that Earth worshipped a god named "Santa" and his wife Mary. Santa was described as a beast with fearsome claws. (DW: Voyage of the Damned)
- As a child, Amelia Pond once prayed to Santa to do something about the crack in her bedroom wall. (DW: The Eleventh Hour)
- When the Eleventh Doctor jumped down a chimney, he told a child that the "big fat guy" would be down later. He showed the child a picture of himself, Santa and Albert Einstein at Frank Sinatra's hunting lodge as proof. (DW: A Christmas Carol)
