Every Day

Every Day is a trip and a half. Featuring the First Doctor, Vicki, Ian, and Barbara, the TARDIS crew find themselves in 2004 at a seemingly normal family's home on Christmas Day.

The family is behaving oddly but welcomes the crew with a lot of friendliness. One of the most interesting aspects of this short is how Barbara and Ian react to the modern age, just like Tegan in Last Minute Shopping, while Vicki is largely naive to Christmas in general.

It's really good fun, especially with seeing stuff like the First Doctor setting up a new video game console. This is the sort of thing we could never see in the original show, but makes a lot of sense for these characters. At first, I thought that was it. The conflict seemed to be with Barbara and Ian, seriously considering staying in this time since they are closer than they had ever been to being back home

But no. No, no, no. There is something very wrong with this house, leading to a Groundhog Day type of situation, just like in Eve of the Daleks but done well. This results in some pretty shocking moments and twists, including some deeply unsettling moments of violence I found utterly out of sorts with the type of content normally encountered by Doctor Who.

It's not bad. In fact, it is very, very good - intentionally disturbing in the best way possible. But tonally, it is jarring as we jump from the Christmas festivities which a full of joy, and transition into content about as dark as Doctor Who gets outside of spin-off material. It's a little shocking, and certainly the kind of thing that might haunt a child, but I enjoyed myself a great deal and it did feel true to Doctor Who and the characters of this era.