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- "A Christmas Carol" is often considered by critics to be the best Christmas episode.
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Dec 21, 2022 · There’s no 2022 Doctor Who Christmas special, but hopefully these episodes (available on BBC iPlayer in the UK and HBO Max in the US) will fill the hole. While you're here, check out our...
- "The Husbands of River Song" (2015) Season 9: Episode 13. Spoilers! This episode is beautiful, bonkers, and deeply, deeply sad. Beginning on Christmas Day of 5343, "The Husbands of River Song" reunites the Doctor with his timey-wimey wifey (Alex Kingston).
- "The Church on Ruby Road" (2023) Season 14, Episode 0. The Christmas special returns after five years off — and what a wonder! "The Church on Ruby Road" marks the first full episode featuring the Fifteenth Doctor, Ncuti Gatwa.
- "Voyage of the Damned" (2007) Season 3: Episode 14. Remember the time the Doctor crashed into the Titanic? No — not that Earth one. In an incredibly ominous decision by dangerously wealthy industrialist Max Capricorn (George Costigan), a nuclear-powered interstellar cruiser setting forth on a holiday cruise among the stars was also named Titanic.
- "Twice Upon a Time" (2017) Season 10: Episode 13. Christmas is a time for change — or in Doctor Who, a time for regeneration. The last Christmas special for five years saw Peter Capaldi face his last battle as The Doctor.
- "The Next Doctor"
- "The Return of Doctor Mysterio"
- "The Runaway Bride"
- "The End of Time, Part One"
- "The Snowmen"
- "The Husbands of River Song"
- "The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe"
- "The Time of The Doctor"
- "The Christmas Invasion"
- "Voyage of The Damned"
The 2008 Christmas episode was the first of the five David Tennant specials that aired before Davies stepped down as showrunner. The story follows the Doctor in a fight against a Cybermen invasion in 1850s London. He’s aided by a man who proclaims himself the Doctor (David Morrissey) and his companion, Rosita (Velile Tshabalala). Initially believin...
Doctor Who’s penultimate Christmas special is a superhero story that begins with the Doctor meeting a young boy called Grant (Logan Hoffman) in 1990s New York. After swallowing a special gemstone, Grant develops superpowers. Decades later, the Doctor and Grant meet once more, but now the boy has grown into a man that leads a double life as a nanny ...
Introducing future companion Donna Noble (Catherine Tate), “The Runaway Bride” was Tennant’s second Christmas special. Accidentally kidnapped by the TARDIS on the day of her Christmas wedding, office temp Donna has to deal with the fact that aliens exist and with the discovery that her family, friends, and husband-to-be (Don Gilet) don’t really car...
The penultimate of the Tennant specials was followed by a sequel episode that introduced the concept of the New Year's special Chibnall would later adopt. “The End of Time” sees the return of John Simm’s Master and of Donna’s grandfather, Wilfred (Bernard Cribbins). Narrated by a man we will later find out to be Gallifrey’s President Rassilon (Timo...
The second piece of the mysterious puzzle that is companion Clara Oswald (Jenna Coleman), “The Snowmen” is another Victorian Christmas adventure. With the help of an 1890s version of Clara, Madam Vastra (Neve McIntosh), Jenny (Catrin Stewart), and Strax (Dan Starkey), the Doctor (Matt Smith) investigates the sudden appearance of numerous snowmen th...
“The Husbands of River Song” is a heartfelt, beautifully told love story that is more of a River Song (Alex Kingston) adventure than a proper Doctor Who one. Mistaken for a surgeon, the Doctor is tasked with removing a diamond from the head of one of River’s husbands, King Hydroflax (Greg Davies). Without her knowing his true identity, the Doctor l...
This Narnia-inspired episode tells the story of a recently widowed woman trying to protect her two children from the pain of death. During World War II, Madge Arwell (Claire Skinner), her daughter Lily (Holly Earl), and son Cyril (Maurice Cole) trade London for a house in the country during the holiday season. They are greeted by the Doctor pretend...
The final chapter of Matt Smith’s run presents the Doctor with a whole new regeneration cycle and offers a conclusion to the whole “name of the Doctor” plot. In a town called Christmas, on the planet of Trenzalore, a crack in reality draws the attention of multiple alien species by broadcasting a message across the stars: “Doctor who?” While Cyberm...
The first Doctor Who Christmas special since the show’s 2005 revival, “The Christmas Invasion” aired on Christmas Day of that same year and was David Tennant’s first full episode after Christopher Eccleston’s departure. On Christmas Eve, Rose (Billie Piper) arrives at her London home accompanied by an unconscious Doctor. What is a puzzling inconven...
Before Donna took the position of full-time companion left open by Martha (Freema Agyeman), the Doctor invited another woman to travel the universe with him: Astrid Perth (Kylie Minogue), a waitress aboard the spaceship Titanic. Hovering over Earth on Christmas Eve, the cruise ship offers various attractions to its wealthy guests, including a guide...
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Jan 1, 2020 · From 2005’s “The Christmas Invasion” to the more recent (and much more unconventional) New Year’s Day special, we’ve ranked all 15 Doctor Who holiday episodes from worst to best.
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Matt Smith had the best Christmas special being 'A Christmas Carol' but Capaldi had the best line-up to be honest. Last Christmas doesn't get enough praise as it should the plot is great. Husband's of River Song is an excellent send off for her, wrapping up her story completely and brilliantly.
Dec 15, 2023 · 1. The Christmas Invasion (2005) (BBC) The first Doctor Who Christmas Special is still the best. In “The Christmas Invasion,” the Doctor has just regenerated from Christopher Eccleston’s...
Dec 11, 2018 · Matt Smith’s Doctor rang in his first Christmas episode with an opera singer (Katherine Jenkins), a flying shark and a national treasure – Michael Gambon, as the Scrooge-like Kazran Sardick who...
