Father Christmas appears in many English-language works of fiction, including Robin Jones Gunn's Father Christmas Series ( 2007 ), Catherine Spencer's A Christmas to Remember ( 2007 ), Debbie Macomber's There's Something About Christmas ( 2005 ), Richard Paul Evans's The Gift ( 2007 ), C. S.

The character of Timmy was intended to become an angel and remain a presence on the show, but this entire storyline was quickly rewritten after Evans's death to excise the character ( although one already-filmed scene was eventually aired, showing Timmy in Heaven, as a sort of coda ).

Rogers and Evans's famous theme song, " Happy Trails ", was written by Evans ; they sang it as a duet to sign off their television show.

Between 1999 and 2001, she was a co-host with Jamie Theakston on the Wednesday night chat / music show The Priory, which was commissioned by Chris Evans's then production company Ginger Productions.

From 29 October 2005, she joined Chris Evans's Saturday afternoon show on Radio 2 to read phone numbers and announcements.

The government also attempted to show inconsistencies in Evans's statements to the legislature on the subject ( as to whether or not he believed there were " two Tory campaigns " in the riding ).

In 1937, seeking a Christmas show, they were persuaded to present an evening of music hall entertainment recreating as far as possible a night at ' Evans's '.

Even though Evans liked the show, Vic gets up, pours water over Evans's head, tells him he's " all wet ," and strides out of the room.

One important fact was not brought up in Evans's trial: several workmen were willing to testify that there were no bodies in the wash-house when they worked there several days after Evans supposedly hid them.

Not only did Evans appear on Broadway as Hamlet four times, but the productions of the play that he appeared in were consecutive revivals of it-no other actor played Hamlet on Broadway between 1938, when Evans first played him there, and 1946, which marked Evans's last Broadway Hamlet.

Following Rollins, recordings continued ; there was John Coltrane's and Bill Evans's famed Vanguard titles, both from ' 61.

Evans's use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, block chords, and trademark rhythmically independent, " singing " melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists ; he was considered by some to be the most influential post-World War II jazz pianist.

Three years after Evans's execution, Christie was found to be a serial killer who had murdered a number of other women in the same house.

Evans was put on trial for the murder of his daughter on 11 January 1950 ( in accordance with legal practice at the time, the prosecution proceeded only with the charge of murdering Geraldine ; Beryl's murder, with which Evans was still formally charged, was " left on file ", though evidence from this murder was allowed to be used to prove Evans's guilt in the murder of Geraldine ).

When Christie was later the subject of the Scott Henderson Inquiry, questions drafted by a solicitor representing Evans's mother were deemed not relevant and Scott Henderson retained the right of deciding if they could be asked.

According to Evans's obituary, the aspiring reporter, who was on a date with a young woman, " wasn't interested until Hogan mentioned he would be paid $ 15 a week for officiating the game ", a figure equivalent to a week's salary at his sportswriting job.

In 1978, Johnson joined legendary pianist Bill Evans ' in what would be Evans's last trio.

The application requested the Court to find Evans's conviction to be unconstitutional because consideration of lesser included offenses was not offered the jury.

Having first worked for The New Zealand Herald in the 1970s, when he succeeded Sir Gordon Minhinnick, Evans was again its cartoonist for six years from 1997 till 2003 when those opposed to his anti-Zionist cartoons, which the Herald had judged to be " fair comment ", put pressure on the paper and, following Evans's subsequent refusal to stop drawing cartoons critical of Israel, he was dismissed.

Evans's mill used a leather belt bucket elevator, screw conveyors, canvas belt conveyors, and other mechanical devices to completely automate the process of making flour.

* Bill Evans's overdubbed piano elegy for fellow jazz pianist Sonny Clark is titled " N. Y. C.

Women writers were not uncommon at the time, but Evans's role at the head of a literary enterprise was.

The religious elements in her fiction also owe much to her upbringing, with the experiences of Maggie Tulliver from The Mill on the Floss sharing many similarities with the young Mary Anne Evans's own development.

* JK Rowling Interview with Daniel Radcliffe cites George Eliot's real name as inspiration for character Lily Evans's name.

At Evans's café in London, the two journals had " Round tables " in competition with each other.

Edgar Evans's widow, children and mother received £ 1, 500 (£ 109, 000 ) between them.

Gielgud's performance is preserved on an audio recording dating from 1952, which also captures Edith Evans's legendary embodiment of Lady Bracknell.

They parted company with Jones and took on Gareth Evans as manager, using Evans's International 1 venue as their new rehearsal space.

After graduating from UW in 1972 Bundy joined Governor Daniel J. Evans's reelection campaign.

Posing as a college student, he shadowed Evans's opponent, former governor Albert Rosellini, recording his stump speeches for analysis by Evans's team.

After Evans's reelection he was hired as an assistant to Ross Davis, Chairman of the Washington State Republican Party.

Evans's nickname was Queen of the West.

For a length near Rugby, Evans's dove-tailed bridge rails of 57 lb per yard, were tried, mounted on longitudinal Memel fir timbers with pine cross sleepers.

Side two was nearly as good, with " Axhandle " sounding like a cross between AC / DC and Buzzcocks, " Joliet " encouraging singalongs, Doug Evans's bass dominating " King Carp ", and Sims showing that he could pen a great mid-tempo song on " Dad " (" you know I really hate it / when you hit me with that belt "), a tough guy song tinged with melancholy.

Evans's dream was finally made a reality in 1930, when two caddies by the name of Harold Fink and Jim McGinnis were named the first two Evans Scholars.

Although these four records were marketed primarily under Davis's name ( and credited to Miles Davis with Orchestra Under the Direction of Gil Evans ), Evans's contribution was as important as Davis's.

Trupp and Dalton were also the rhythm section in the popular Liberation Blues Band and backed Evans on some solo demo material prior to Zager and Evans's recording of " In the Year 2525 " in 1968.

An official inquiry concluded in 1966 that Christie had also murdered Evans's daughter, and Evans was granted a posthumous pardon.

Evans had an older sister Eileen and a younger half-sister Maureen, born when Evans's mother re-married in 1929.

This was the basis of Evans's defence in his trial, which Evans maintained as the truth until his execution.

The case largely came down to Christie ’ s word against Evans's and the course of the trial rapidly turned against Evans.

The inquiry ran for one week and its findings upheld Evans's guilt in both murders with the explanation that Christie's confessions of murdering Beryl Evans were unreliable because they were made in the context of furthering his own defence that he was insane.

She argued that Evans's pardon had not formally expunged his conviction of murdering his daughter, and although the Brabin report had concluded that Evans probably did not kill his daughter, it had not declared him innocent.

In 1973, the literary agent Pat Kavanagh introduced Evans to Tina Brown, a female journalist twenty-five years Evans's junior.

As well, Evans's son Gurney Evans served as a cabinet minister in the governments of Dufferin Roblin and Walter Weir in Manitoba.

Chess historian Edward Winter criticized Evans's work, asserting that it was sloppy, dishonest, and riddled with factual inaccuracies, International Master John L. Watson, has noted that Evans has " huge bias ", " long histories of ignoring and distorting evidence ", and " absurd arguments ".

According to Doug Smith's As Many Liars ( a literary overview of the scandal ), Evans was able to confirm this information through a discussion with Allan Aitken, a PC organizer in the region ( who had previously been among Evans's personal friends ).

At this point Evans collapsed ; Crean thought he had died and, according to Evans's account, " his hot tears fell on my face ".

After his 1976 parole from an Indiana prison, Evans and fellow convict Wayne Ritter ( January 30, 1954-August 28, 1987 ) embarked on a two-month long crime spree involving, by Evans's own admission, over thirty armed robberies, nine kidnappings, and two extortion schemes across seven states.

The following description of Evans's electrocution was sworn by Evans ' attorney, Russell F. Canan on June 22, 1983: