Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
The program relates how the legend of Santa Claus originated and answers such other questions as why he wears a red suit, why he leaves presents, why he comes down the chimney, and why he lives at the North Pole. The story begins with Tanta Kringle finding an abandoned baby. The baby, named Kris Kringle, grows up in Rainbow River Valley and learns how to make toys, which are supposed to be distributed to the good children of Sombertown.
However, because Sombertown is over the mountain--and in the path of the dreaded Winter Warlock--the Kringle Elfs are unable to deliver their toys. When older, Kris begins delivering the toys, but is soon declared an outlaw by the mean Burgermeister who has come to hate toys and forbids toys in Sombertown. With the aid of Jessica, the school teacher he befriends (and later marries), Kris begins sneaking into Somertown to deliver his toys (via chimneys).
To escape the Burgermeister, Kris, Jessica, and the Kringle family move to the North Pole where Kris establishes his base and decides to limit his toy deliveries to only one night a year, the most holy night, Christmas Eve.