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Doctor Who Specials • New Year Special

Eve of the Daleks

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Doctor Who (2005-2022)
Thirteenth Doctor

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First aired Saturday, January 1, 2022
Written by Chris Chibnall
Directed by Annetta Laufer
Runtime 60 minutes
Time Travel Present
Tropes: (Potential Spoilers!) Countdown Consequences Time Travel Pivotal Cold open LGBTQA+ Base Under Siege Lost the TARDIS TARDIS is damaged Time Loop
Story Arc: (Potential Spoilers!) Flux Thasmin
Inventory: (Potential Spoilers!) Psychic Paper Sonic Screwdriver
UK Viewers 4.4 million
Appreciation Index 77
Synopsis

Ten minutes until midnight and the dawning of 2022. With the Doctor's TARDIS out of action, the Doctor, Yaz, and Dan are forced to wait in an ordinary self-storage facility with only one customer. However, Dalek Executioners are on the hunt and a time loop forces the trapped allies to keep reliving the dying minutes of 2021. What has gone wrong with time? What do the Daleks want? As New Year's Day ticks ever closer, the Doctor's tactics will be pushed to the limit to break the loop and dodge extermination on a night where auld acquaintance can't be forgot.

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