A Christmas Story (comic story)

A Christmas Story was the first Christmas story set in the Doctor Who universe. Originating in the 1965 Christmas season, it would later be one of the few TV Comic stories reprinted in Doctor Who Classic Comics, and was even the subject of the cover to the issue in which it appeared.

Summary
The First Doctor, John and Gillian visit the planet to which Santa Claus has moved his workshop. They find that Santa's toy production has been hampered by an impish being calling himself, variously, the Demon Magician and the "Magician of the Forest". Santa asks the Doctor to help him ward off the Demon Magician in order to save Christmas for the little kids of the world. The three time travellers eventually thwart the Magician with the help of the Doctor's "magic box". After they send the creature into space, far away from Santa's workshop, they decide to leave in the TARDIS. In gratitude, Santa lights up the sky with a huge message: Happy Journey to TARDIS.

Characters

 * First Doctor
 * John and Gillian
 * Santa Claus
 * Magician of the Forest

Continuity

 * The Second Doctor meets Santa Claus again and mentions this adventure in ST: The Man Who (Nearly) Killed Christmas.
 * The Doctor's "magic box" shares some of the technology seen much later in the Master's Tissue Compression Eliminator. It's shown to shrink a polar bear here.  However, unlike the TCE, it doesn't kill its subjects; it just makes them smaller.

Timeline

 * This story occurs after TVC: Shark Bait
 * This story occurs before TVC: The Didus Expedition