With Love, the Claus

what happens

It's Christmas time and Jonathan and Mark's latest assignment is to try and get two divorce parents who are still bickering and using their son as pawn against each other to stop and start being parents. They go and work for the father who is a lawyer. They bring their son to a department store and there the new store Santa is upset at the store for promoting toy guns, and when the boy tells Santa what he wants, he tells him that he can't be sure if he can give that. Later the store throws him out cause of his bellowing. He later goes back and is arrested, Jonathan offers to defend him, and the boys father sees this as an opportunity to get back at his wife who is the store's counsel. While in jail the Santa manages to lift the spirits of some of the people he meets there including one of the guards. Mark thinking that if he really is, ""the Claus"", why doesn't he just whisk himself out of here. But saying that it would not be a good message for the children says he won't, they will hav

who made it

directed

Michael Landon

written

Dan Gordon

guest cast

Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.

• Wendie Malick as Donna Burke
• Ivor Barry as Dr. Erhardt
• Bill Erwin as Santa
• CCliff Norton as Mr. Newman
• RRobert Casper as Grinchley