It feels like ages since Doctor Who last aired on Christmas Day, and its return to this festive slot is definitely a welcome one. The Church On Ruby Road is definitely one of the best Christmas editions. It's like an appealing mixture of Gremlins and Labyrinth, with the Goblins creating bad luck to dine on coincidence. They have to be among the show's most despicable antagonists, considering that their motives revolve around eating babies and feeding them to the Goblin King. Christina Rolando's vocals for the Goblin Song are wonderful, and the song itself is extremely catchy. Most notably, we get our first singing Doctor, and Ncuti Gatwa has a brilliant voice. I've wanted a more musical Doctor for a while, as I have always felt that Doctor Who is the kind of show where musical sequences where characters burst into song can absolutely work. It's already a bonkers show to begin with, so it doesn't require much suspension of belief.

As in The Giggle, Ncuti Gatwa impresses as the Doctor. He's absolutely fantastic, and feels instantly like the character. I especially enjoy his chemistry with Millie Gibson, who is unsurprisingly amazing as Ruby Sunday. I can see what she meant when she said they are like giggling schoolkids, and it is very endearing to watch.

Where the episode falls apart for me is with Davina McCall's segments. Davina McCall is a brilliant TV presenter, but an actor she is not. She is quite wooden here, and I'm still not a fan of the idea of Davina McCall being crushed by a Christmas Tree, which was a part of the original leak. It's too silly, even for Doctor Who. I'm intrigued by who Ruby's parents are, and who Mrs Flood is. I think both her parents and Flood must be Time Lords, as Flood knows what TARDISes are, and Ruby's parents couldn't be found on a human database. They would surely have had to have been registered on a governmental register for elections, and must have given blood at some point if they are human. In fact, could Mrs Flood and Ruby's mother be one and the same? What if she is the Rani, and Mrs Flood regenerates into a younger actor, who then goes back in time, has Ruby as a baby, and leaves her outside the church on Christmas Eve?