High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Father Christmas is a 1991 animated short based on two books written by Raymond Briggs: Father Christmas and Father Christmas Goes on Holiday, published in 1973 and 1975 respectively. It was first aired in Britain in 1991 on Channel 4, nine years after The Snowman, another animated Briggs adaptation produced for the same channel. It is suggested by a scene in the movie that the two films take place in the same universe, and both were made by very similar production teams. It is also suggested the film takes place a year or so after The Snowman because Father Christmas mentions that the boy "managed to make it again", in reference to the boy`s snowman, and the boy can also be seen wearing the scarf Father Christmas gave him. It is also possible to spot Ernest the milkman from Ethel and Ernest delivering milk to the Royal Family on Christmas morning, and Jim and Hilda Bloggs from When the Wind Blows enjoying a drink in the Scottish pub.