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Overview

First aired

Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Written by

Steven Moffat

Directed by

Alex Pillai

Runtime

60 minutes

Story Type

Christmas

Time Travel

Past, Present, Future

Inventory (Potential Spoilers!)

Psychic Paper, Fireworks, Sonic Screwdriver

UK Viewers

5.91 million

Appreciation Index

75.6

Synopsis

When Joy opens a secret doorway to the Time Hotel, she discovers danger, dinosaurs and the Doctor. But a deadly plan is unfolding across the earth, just in time for Christmas.

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doctor who is the only show where you could ever have a t-rex and the birth of christ in the same episode and it not even be in the top 15 of craziest things the show has ever done. I am completely here for the lesbians on the orient express. overall wasn't the worst holiday special produced but not one I'm likely to rewatch anytime soon.


kawaii2234

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Well first of all jesus was born before 1 AD. Historically inaccurate.


godslayer86

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Ncuti Gatwa is scary man. Bro is a charisma machine. Feel like I'm watching a folkloric, faintly hypnotic creature from a mystical grove, offering me honeyed dates and wine. What a smile. What a Doctor. Even when his surroundings are faintly annoying, he shines.


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i love doctor who so f**king much holy s**t oh my god. just f**king everything. i don't understand how a single soul dislikes the current era of the show. it's so filled with LOVE

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Rewatched 2025-04-11 (⭐⭐⭐½)


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DOCTOR: I mean, basically the code came from nowhere, but then so did the universe, and no-one complains about that.

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[The Queen's Hotel, Manchester, 1940]

(During an air raid.)

HILDA: (playing solitaire) Close the window, Basil. There's a war on.
BASIL: Cathedral's been hit. Oh. Don't think there'll be much left. I used to know someone who lived up that way. Long time ago.
HILDA: Woman, was it?
BASIL: Mmm, two women, in fact.
HILDA: Well, that doesn't surprise me.

(Nearby explosion rattles the decanter and glasses.)

BASIL: It's the end of everything, you know. Everything we hold dear. Democracy itself will fall.


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