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The End of Time – Part 1

3.68/ 5 562 votes

First aired Friday, December 25, 2009
Production Code 4.17
Written by Russell T Davies
Directed by Euros Lyn
Runtime 60 minutes
Story Type Christmas Special
Time Travel Present
Tropes: (Potential Spoilers!) The Doctor Falls Mind Control Ritual
Story Arc: (Potential Spoilers!) He will Knock Four Times Time War
UK Viewers 12.04 million
Appreciation Index 87
Synopsis

It is the Tenth Doctor's final journey — but his psychotic nemesis, the Saxon Master, has been resurrected on Christmas Eve! Each determined to cheat death, the battle rages from the abandoned wastelands of London to the mysterious Immortality Gate, whilst the alien Ood warn of an even greater danger approaching, as a terrible shadow falls across the entire universe.

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