Santa Claus

Santa Claus
Main aliases:	Father Christmas Saint Nicholas Apossibly Jeff or Geoff
Appearances:	TVC: A Christmas Story ST: The Man Who (Nearly) Killed Christmas ST: A Visit from Saint Nicholas BFIW: The Claws of Santa DW: A Christmas Carol (cameo; photograph only) IDW: Silent Knight
Main actor:	[[actor::Peter Sowerbutts Jon Glover|Peter Sowerbutts Jon Glover]]

Santa Claus — also known as Father Christmas or, according to the Eleventh Doctor, "Jeff" or "Geoff" — 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)

Santa helped Iris Wildthyme save Panda from Mary Christmas. (BFIW: 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: Special Occasions: 3. 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 he was Santa Claus and he had delivered a red bicycle to Rose Tyler when she was a child. (DW: The Doctor Dances)
• On the planet Sto, Mr Copper learnt from his Earthonomics course at Mrs Golightly's Happy Travelling University and Dry Cleaners that Earth worshipped the god named "Santa", described as a beast with huge claws - probably a result of the "Claus" part in the name being confused with the plural noun "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)