"Partners in Crime (Doctor Who) ""Partners in Crime"" is the first episode of the fourth series of the British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"". It was broadcast on BBC One on 5 April 2008. The episode reintroduced actor and comedian Catherine Tate as the temp Donna Noble, who had previously appeared in the 2006 Christmas Special ""The Runaway Bride"". In the episode, Donna and the alien time traveller the Tenth Doctor (David Tennant) meet while separately investigating Adipose Industries, a company that has created a revolutionary diet pill. Together, they attempt to stop the death of thousands of people"
"""Doctor Who – The 10 Christmas Specials"" on 19 October 2015. A Christmas Carol (Doctor Who) ""A Christmas Carol"" is an episode of the British science fiction television programme ""Doctor Who"". It is the sixth ""Doctor Who"" Christmas special since the programme's revival in 2005, and was broadcast on 25 December 2010 on both BBC One and BBC America, making it the first episode to premiere on the same day in both the United Kingdom and United States. It was written by Steven Moffat and directed by Toby Haynes. In the episode, a crashing space liner with more than four"
"A Christmas Carol (Doctor Who) ""A Christmas Carol"" is an episode of the British science fiction television programme ""Doctor Who"". It is the sixth ""Doctor Who"" Christmas special since the programme's revival in 2005, and was broadcast on 25 December 2010 on both BBC One and BBC America, making it the first episode to premiere on the same day in both the United Kingdom and United States. It was written by Steven Moffat and directed by Toby Haynes. In the episode, a crashing space liner with more than four thousand people on board has been caught in a strange cloud"
"The Christmas Invasion ""The Christmas Invasion"" is a 60-minute special episode of the British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"", which was first broadcast on BBC One on 25 December 2005. This episode features the first full-episode appearance of David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor and is also the first specially produced ""Doctor Who"" Christmas special in the programme's history. In the episode, principally set in London, the alien race the Sycorax invade Earth, demanding that either humanity surrenders or one third of them will die. The newly regenerated Tenth Doctor, suffering side effects from his regeneration, crash lands the"
"part of a second series boxset on 20 November 2006. This release included an in-vision commentary with Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner (Head of Drama for BBC Wales) and Phil Collinson, recorded before the story aired. This commentary was also made available as an MP3 on the BBC ""Doctor Who"" website. The ten Christmas specials between ""The Christmas Invasion"" and ""Last Christmas"" inclusive were released in a boxset titled ""Doctor Who – The 10 Christmas Specials"" on 19 October 2015. On 3 December 2005, the annual Christmas edition of the BBC's listings magazine ""Radio Times"" was released, to tie-in with"
"tea"" (in the manner of an acrostic). A novelisation of this story written by Jenny T. Colgan including the storyline from was released in paperback and digital formats 5 April 2018 as part of the ""Target Collection"". The Christmas Invasion ""The Christmas Invasion"" is a 60-minute special episode of the British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"", which was first broadcast on BBC One on 25 December 2005. This episode features the first full-episode appearance of David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor and is also the first specially produced ""Doctor Who"" Christmas special in the programme's history. In the episode,"
"series of ""Doctor Who"" only ever featured one episode with any purposeful Christmas-related content: episode 7 of ""The Daleks' Masterplan"" was broadcast by the BBC on Christmas Day 1965 and featured The First Doctor William Hartnell offering viewers seasons' greetings direct-to-camera. For the first three series of the revived ""Doctor Who"", the Christmas Special was held over by the ABC to be broadcast a week ahead of the next series, commencing with ""The Christmas Invasion"" which the ABC used to kick off Series 2 in Australia on Saturday 8 July 2006 – about ten hours before Series 2 finished in"
"revived in 2005, behind previous specials ""Voyage of the Damned"" (13.31 million, 2007), ""The Next Doctor"" (13.10 million, 2008), and Part Two of ""The End of Time"" (12.27 million, 2010). ""A Christmas Carol"" was the third highest rated show on all UK TV for the week ending 26 December 2010. In addition, 716,000 watched the show on the BBC's iPlayer, making it the eighth most downloaded show for December 2010. This special had an Appreciation Index of 83. ""A Christmas Carol"" is the first episode of ""Doctor Who"" that was broadcast the same day in the United Kingdom and in"
"Last Christmas (Doctor Who) ""Last Christmas"" is an episode of the British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"" that was first broadcast on 25 December 2014. It is the tenth Christmas special since the show’s revival in 2005, and the first full Christmas special to feature the Twelfth Doctor. It was written by Steven Moffat and directed by Paul Wilmshurst. In the special, alien time traveller the Doctor (Peter Capaldi) is reunited with his companion Clara Oswald (Jenna Coleman) as they must save a North Pole science base from creatures called dream crabs that induce dream states whilst killing their"
"Doctor Who (series 6) The sixth series of British science fiction television programme ""Doctor Who"" was shown in two parts. The first seven episodes were broadcast from April to June 2011, beginning with ""The Impossible Astronaut"" and ending with mid-series finale ""A Good Man Goes to War"". The final six episodes aired from August to October, beginning with ""Let's Kill Hitler"" and ending with ""The Wedding of River Song"". The main series was preceded by ""A Christmas Carol"", the 2010 Christmas special. The series was led by head writer and executive producer Steven Moffat, alongside executive producers Beth Willis and"
"Christmas specials of the show. In 2014, over 7000 readers of Radio Times voted ""The Christmas Invasion"" as the greatest ""Doctor Who "" Christmas special with over a quarter of the votes going to it, 24.92%, a whole 10% more votes than the second favourite. Immediately after ""The Christmas Invasion"", digital viewers were able to press their red button to view a special interactive episode, ""Attack of the Graske"" written by Gareth Roberts and starring Tennant as the Doctor. The Canadian presentation on the CBC on 26 December 2005 was hosted by Piper, who was attired for the occasion in"
"as the third disc of the soundtrack covering series 8. Last Christmas (Doctor Who) ""Last Christmas"" is an episode of the British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"" that was first broadcast on 25 December 2014. It is the tenth Christmas special since the show’s revival in 2005, and the first full Christmas special to feature the Twelfth Doctor. It was written by Steven Moffat and directed by Paul Wilmshurst. In the special, alien time traveller the Doctor (Peter Capaldi) is reunited with his companion Clara Oswald (Jenna Coleman) as they must save a North Pole science base from creatures"
"""The Christmas Invasion"". This was the first time ""Doctor Who"" had featured on the Christmas edition cover in the show's forty-two-year history, and the first Christmas cover for an individual BBC television drama since ""EastEnders"" in 1986. The Christmas ""Radio Times"" cover usually features artwork of a generic Christmas scene. As confirmed by Russell T Davies in the episode commentary, the ""Doctor Who"" section of that issue of the ""Radio Times"" contains a hidden message explaining what saves the Doctor: many of the paragraphs in the articles have an oversized first letter, which taken consecutively spell out ""A cup of"
"Doctor Who (series 2) The second series of British science fiction programme ""Doctor Who"" began on 25 December 2005 with the Christmas special ""The Christmas Invasion"". Following the special, a regular series of thirteen episodes was broadcast, starting with ""New Earth"" on 15 April 2006. In addition, two short special episodes were produced; and an interactive episode, as well as 13 ""TARDISODEs"". This is the first series to feature David Tennant as the tenth incarnation of the Doctor, an alien Time Lord who travels through time and space in his TARDIS, which appears to be a British police box on"
"""overnight DNA tests"", ""helpful couriers that deliver the results at Christmas"", and the fact that Scully fills out an adoption paper and is visited by a Social Service agent on Christmas Eve. Christmas Carol (The X-Files) ""Christmas Carol"" is the sixth episode of the fifth season of American science fiction television series ""The X-Files"". It was written by Vince Gilligan, John Shiban and Frank Spotnitz and directed by Peter Markle. The episode explores the series' overarching mythology. The episode premiered in the United States on December 7, 1997 on the Fox network, earning a Nielsen household rating of 12.8 and"
"the BBC announced that ""Doctor Who"" had been recommissioned for both a second series and a Christmas special on 30 March 2005. Recording for the Christmas special began on 23 July 2005, with production on the series itself beginning on 1 August 2005 and concluding on 31 March 2006. New writers for the show included Toby Whithouse, creator of the Channel 4 drama ""No Angels"", Tom MacRae, creator of Sky One's ""Mile High"", Matt Jones, also a prolific script editor and producer, and Matthew Graham, co-creator of the BBC science fiction series ""Life on Mars"". Previous writers Mark Gatiss, Steven"
"to release it on DVD. Doctor Who: A Celebration Doctor Who: A Celebration was a concert performed for the BBC's annual ""Children In Need"" charity appeal at the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff on 19 November 2006. It featured suites of incidental music composed by Murray Gold from the first two series of the revived television show ""Doctor Who"", along with the reworked Doctor Who theme music. The suites were accompanied visually by clips from episodes related to the pieces. The show was hosted by David Tennant and featured the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Ben Foster, with the"
"alongside the Christmas specials between ""The Christmas Invasion"" and ""Last Christmas"" inclusive in a boxset titled ""Doctor Who – The 10 Christmas Specials"" on 19 October 2015. Selected pieces of score from ""The Snowmen"" and the preceding Christmas special, as composed by Murray Gold, were included on a soundtrack released on 21 October 2013 by Silva Screen Records. The Snowmen ""The Snowmen"" is an episode of the British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"", first broadcast on Christmas Day 2012 on BBC One. It is the eighth ""Doctor Who"" Christmas special since the show's 2005 revival and the first to"
"2006, during a BBC Breakfast interview with Sladen, and was released a day later on the interactive advent calendar on the ""Doctor Who"" microsite. The clip, lasting one minute in length, was of Sarah Jane's interview with Mrs Wormwood. The episode's airing on BBC One gathered 2.9 million viewers, 15% of the audience share, of which 20% were under 16. While the film ""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"", which aired against ""Invasion of the Bane"" on ITV1, had a higher overall reach, ""Invasion of the Bane"" had a slightly higher number of viewers head-to-head. The episode's audience Appreciation Index was 77,"
"a crash landing on Christmas Eve... The mini-episode was not broadcast with a title, but throughout the Children in Need appeal a preview banner for the segment called it ""The New Doctor"". Russell T Davies joked in a ""Doctor Who Magazine"" article that it was called ""Pudsey Cutaway""—after the Children in Need teddy-bear mascot and modifying ""Dalek Cutaway"", an alternative title for ""Mission to the Unknown"" (something of a one-off special itself, from the programme's earliest black-and-white era). The 2006 ""Doctor Who Magazine"" special ""Series Two Companion"" revealed that the title used on production papers was ""Doctor Who: Children in"
"Oliver, Sharon Osbourne, Sarah Parish, Angela Pleasence, Hugh Quarshie, Miranda Raison, Anne Reid, Thomas Sangster, John Simm and Ann Widdecombe. Following the success of the first series, the BBC announced that ""Doctor Who"" had been recommissioned for a third series on 16 June 2005, only two months after the announcement of the second series. Recording for the Christmas special began on 4 July 2006, with production on the series itself beginning on 8 August 2006 and concluding on 2 April 2007. First-time writers for the show included Gareth Roberts, who previously wrote the interactive episode ""Attack of the Graske"" and"
"by the Sixth Doctor (""The Condemned""). (At the end of Charley's adventures with the Sixth Doctor, an alien race called the Viyrans replace his memories of Charley with another woman, Mila, to preserve the timeline). Starting New Year's Eve 2006, a new audio series titled ""The Eighth Doctor Adventures"" featuring the Doctor and new companion Lucie Miller (played by Sheridan Smith) was broadcast on BBC7. A second series followed in 2007. A third season was streamed from the Big Finish website, and was available on CD. A fourth and final season started in 2009 with the Christmas episode ""Death in"
"The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe ""The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe"" is an episode of the British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"". First broadcast on BBC One on 25 December 2011, it is the seventh ""Doctor Who"" Christmas special since the show's revival in 2005. It was written by Steven Moffat and directed by Farren Blackburn. Internationally, the special was shown on BBC America in the United States and on Space in Canada the same day as the British broadcast, with ABC1 in Australia showing it one day later. In the special, alien time traveller the"
"Christmas Carol (The X-Files) ""Christmas Carol"" is the sixth episode of the fifth season of American science fiction television series ""The X-Files"". It was written by Vince Gilligan, John Shiban and Frank Spotnitz and directed by Peter Markle. The episode explores the series' overarching mythology. The episode premiered in the United States on December 7, 1997 on the Fox network, earning a Nielsen household rating of 12.8 and being watched by 20.91 million people in its initial broadcast. It received moderately positive reviews from television critics, with many complimenting Gillian Anderson's performance. The show centers on FBI Special Agents Fox"
"the first two series took place on 19 November 2006 to raise money for Children in Need. David Tennant hosted the event, introducing the different sections of the concert. Murray Gold and Russell T Davies answered questions during the interval and Daleks and Cybermen appeared whilst music from their stories was played. The concert aired on BBCi on Christmas Day 2006. A Doctor Who Prom was celebrated on 27 July 2008 in the Royal Albert Hall as part of the annual BBC Proms. The BBC Philharmonic and the London Philharmonic Choir performed Murray Gold's compositions for the series, conducted by"
"Doctor unmask the murderer? Or is something far more sinister at work? The Chimes of Midnight The Chimes of Midnight is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"". This audio play was broadcast on digital radio station BBC 7 in four weekly parts, starting on 17 December 2005, and has been rebroadcast on the same channel beginning on 17 December 2006, and again on 26 and 27 September 2007. An Edwardian home, Christmas 1906. Or is it? The Doctor and Charley are caught in a mysterious house outside of time"
"in the third and fourth series of ""Doctor Who"", presented the programme with guests Noel Clarke and Camille Coduri, who respectively played Mickey Smith and Jackie Tyler in the first, second and fourth series of the television programme. Catherine Tate, who played the Doctor's companion Donna Noble in the 2006 ""Doctor Who"" Christmas special and the fourth series of the programme, made a surprise guest appearance to introduce ""Donna's Theme"", not having been listed as being a presenter in the lineup. Sarah Walker presented BBC Radio 3's coverage of the concert. The full concert was rehearsed on Saturday, 26 July,"
"for ""Doctor Who"" in 1996. For the return of the series in 2005, Murray Gold provided a new arrangement which featured samples from the 1963 original with further elements added; in the 2005 Christmas episode ""The Christmas Invasion"". A new arrangement of the theme, once again by Gold, was introduced in the 2007 Christmas special episode, ""Voyage of the Damned""; Gold returned as composer for the 2010 series. He was responsible for a new version of the theme which was reported to have had a hostile reception from some viewers. In 2011, the theme tune charted at number 228 of"
"Christmas"" inclusive were released in a boxset titled ""Doctor Who – The 10 Christmas Specials"" on 19 October 2015. Selected pieces of score from this two-part special, as composed by Murray Gold, were included in the specials soundtrack on 4 October 2010, released by Silva Screen Records. The End of Time (Doctor Who) The End of Time is a two-part story made up of the fourth and fifth of five special episodes of the British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"" broadcast between December 2008 and January 2010. ""The End of Time"" was originally broadcast in the United Kingdom on"
"""Last Christmas"" inclusive were later released in a boxset titled ""Doctor Who – The 10 Christmas Specials"" on 19 October 2015. Voyage of the Damned (Doctor Who) ""Voyage of the Damned"" is an episode of the British science fiction television programme ""Doctor Who"". First broadcast on BBC One on 25 December 2007, it is the third ""Doctor Who"" Christmas special since the show's revival in 2005. In the episode, the alien businessman Max Capricorn (George Costigan) seeks revenge on his company after it voted him out. He sets a starship replica of the RMS ""Titanic"" on a collision course with"
"Charity. It raised £920.51. During the live broadcast, the front page of the official BBC website stated: ""THE CHRISTMAS INVASION is on BBC One NOW. HARRIET JONES SAYS: Switch this website off for Britain."" The tie-in website ""Who is Doctor Who?"" was also updated with a message from Mickey referencing the Guinevere One website, and an appeal to the Doctor to bring back Rose. The song playing during the wardrobe sequence, ""Song for Ten"" (named in reference to the Tenth Doctor), was composed by Murray Gold for the episode and sung by Tim Phillips. The closing credits had a new"
"Christmas, the ""Doctor Who"" Christmas Special was again scheduled into ABC1's 7:30pm Boxing Day timeslot, with ""The Time of the Doctor"" being Matt Smith's final first-run episode to premiere in Australia. Unlike the classic series, which saw innumerable instances of censorship, both societal changes as well as changes to the television ratings classification system itself have meant that networks have been more free to show material that may not have been allowed to air at all in the 1960s or 1970s. Aside from some early references to violence or horror that was toned down or removed altogether in post-production the"
"Melissa Runstrom, in a review of the sixth season, described ""How the Ghosts Stole Christmas"" as ""hokey"" and ""over-the-top."" She identified it as the weakest episode of the sixth season. How the Ghosts Stole Christmas ""How the Ghosts Stole Christmas"" is the sixth episode of the sixth season of the science fiction television series ""The X-Files"". It premiered on the Fox network on December 13, 1998. It was written and directed by series creator Chris Carter, and featured guest appearances by Edward Asner and Lily Tomlin. The episode is a ""Monster-of-the-Week"" story, unconnected to the series' wider mythology. ""How the"