1983: Has Santa lost his Christmas spirit?

"Chatham police described the man as being between 50 and 200, between 5ft and 7ft, plump and with a hearty disposition."

Sixty Minutes goes to a shopping centre in Kent to investigate reports that Father Christmas has lost his jollity, "and on two recent occasions demonstrated he was going off children".

BBC Archive: Originally broadcast on 21 December 1983.

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