SANTA CLAUSE IN "THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN"

At first glance, one might think these were Terrans who were miniaturized and held captive by Santa.  (Or maybe it was Cosmo Scam, impersonating his twin brother.)  But here's the actual story:

For Toobworld, they had come under the guardianship of Santa after the death of his "next door neighbor" Superman. (Superman had been exposed to vaporized Kryptonite radiation when saving two gangsters at a Nevada test bomb site.  He died within months back at his North Pole Fortress of Solitude.)

These residents of all the snow globes were Kryptonians, originally from the bottle city of Kandor.  They had been kidnapped before the destruction of Krypton by Brainiac.  They were miniaturized and kept in a large glass bottle under the artificial rays simulating a red sun, which kept them from utilizing the super strength they would have had under the rays of a yellow sun.

Eventually, the population of Kandor had overgrown their enclosed city and so Santa Claus built these snow globe "colonies" to house the more adventurous. Eventually, Santa enlisted the help of the Gallireyan Time Lord known as the Doctor to transport them all to their own uninhabited planet under a red sun where there were no native predators.

There they flourished until Earth finally had the technology to travel the stars. An astronaut discovered "The Little People" and tried to set himself up as their dictator, only to be dispatched by a race of beings who were even larger than Terrans.  (I believe they were from that alternate dimension which was a land of giants.  They would be the Brobdingnagians.

A lot of these connections are theoretical but I feel they are valid.  Not everything has to be actually seen on our TV screens.  It's like Macy's tells us during their televised Thanksgiving Day parade.....

Merry Christmas!

SHOWS CITED:

Coca Cola commercial
'The Adventures of Superman'
'Crime Story'
'Doctor Who'
"The Great Santa Claus Switch"
'The Twilight Zone' - "The Little People"
'Land Of The Giants'
"Gulliver's Travels"