# The Adventures of Santa Claus **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 7, 2020, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-adventures-of-santa-claus/927471 "2020-12-07T13:33:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-adventures-of-santa-claus/927471/1 "2020-12-07T13:33:36Z")
Santa Claus has Conquered the Martians. He’s been killed and come back as Tim Allen. He’s fought Jesus. In the Harlan Ellison story _Santa Claus vs. S.P.I.D.E.R_. he’s a secret agent fighting an evil organization. He appeals to The Tick for help. He’s kidnapped by monster kids and held by Jack Skellington in _The Nightmare Before Christmas_. He’s “Saved Christmas” numerous times, most recently as Kurt Russell\* His adventures were written up by L. Frank Baum (The Wizard himself), and were turned into another of those Rank and Base TV shows (and a surprising number of other versions). tolien wrote his doings in The Father Christmas Letters, and Mark Twain wrote letters from him as “The Man in the Moon” (an identification I had been unaware of). He’s the leader of the Guardians, he was put on trial in the various versions of _Miracle on 34th street_ . He’s had the annoying relative Fred. There’s a whole Wikipedia entry devoted to him in films ( [Santa Claus in film - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus_in_film) ) What else has Santa done lately? Or ever? \*I expect his gifts to turn into rapidly-expanding blue blobs as soon as Santa gets back to his Ego home base. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-adventures-of-santa-claus/927471/2 "2020-12-07T13:38:22Z")
Well, in the current movie _Fatman_, he’s a gun-toting Santa on the run from an assassin hired by a 12-year old 'cause the kid got coal in his stocking. Santa’s played by Mel Gibson. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-adventures-of-santa-claus/927471/3 "2020-12-07T15:13:43Z")
He also kissed Mommy (or, in some cases, Daddy). ---
**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-adventures-of-santa-claus/927471/4 "2020-12-07T15:21:25Z")
He’s fought and defeated both Heat Miser and Snow Miser. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-adventures-of-santa-claus/927471/5 "2020-12-07T16:01:02Z")
Have you seen the movie cause that’s not really what happens. At least Santa’s not on the run, but he does get ambushed. And Santa does get shot too. It was a fun little movie for what it was supposed to do. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-adventures-of-santa-claus/927471/6 "2020-12-07T16:25:37Z")
[Santa (played by Art Carney) nearly got wiped out by some oil company blasting too close to his workshop.](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087797/) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-adventures-of-santa-claus/927471/7 "2020-12-07T16:40:35Z")
Not familiar with that one. But Art Carney was the Department Store Santa-turned-Real-Santa in the Twilight Zone episode “Night of the Meek” it aired two days before Christmas in 1960 > **[The Night of the Meek (The Twilight Zone, 1959)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_of_the_Meek_(The_Twilight_Zone,_1959))** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > "The Night of the Meek" is episode 47 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. It originally aired on December 23, 1960, on CBS. It was one of the six episodes of the second season which was shot on videotape in a short-lived experiment aimed to cut costs. > As snow begins to fall, a drunk Henry Corwin, wearing his Santa Claus suit, stumbles and half-falls at a curbside lamppost. He is approached by two tenement children plead... He was also Santa in the Muppet Musical **The Great Santa Claus Switch** > **[The Great Santa Claus Switch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Santa_Claus_Switch)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > The Great Santa Claus Switch is a musical Christmas special featuring Jim Henson's Muppets. It first aired on CBS on December 20, 1970, as an episode of The Ed Sullivan Show. It was directed by John Moffitt, written by Jerry Juhl, with music by Joe Raposo and puppets by Don Sahlin. > The special, narrated by Ed Sullivan, begins at the North Pole with Santa Claus and his Christmas Elves getting ready for another Christmas. However, Cosmo Scam has ha... ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-adventures-of-santa-claus/927471/8 "2020-12-07T16:58:28Z")
In the movie Santa’s Slay, Santa is actually a demon who lost a bet with an angel and had to be nice and give toys to children for a thousand years. But time’s up… > **[Santa's Slay (2005) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0393685/)** > > Santa's Slay: Directed by David Steiman. With Bill Goldberg, Douglas Smith, Emilie de Ravin, Robert Culp. Santa Claus is actually a demon who lost a bet with an Angel, so he becomes the giver of toys and happiness. But when the bet is off, he returns... ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-adventures-of-santa-claus/927471/9 "2020-12-07T17:40:43Z")
When psychos attack the North Pole, Santa and his crew break out the guns to fight back, only to be rescued by Lee Majors [The Night The Reindeer Died](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0QVJOEwXac) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-adventures-of-santa-claus/927471/10 "2020-12-07T17:49:07Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > When psychos attack the North Pole, Santa and his crew break out the guns to fight back, only to be rescued by Lee Majors Oh sure, psychos killed all those reindeer. An obvious cover up. [We know the real story.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSs3FyeThM0)