The BBC have released a first look photo and the synopsis for the Doctor Who Christmas Special 2015.
| It’s Christmas Day on a remote human colony and the Doctor is hiding from Christmas Carols and Comedy Antlers. But when a crashed spaceship calls upon the Doctor for help, he finds himself recruited into River Song’s squad and hurled into a fast and frantic chase across the galaxy. King Hydroflax (Greg Davies) is furious, and his giant Robot bodyguard is out-of-control and coming for them all! Will Nardole (Matt Lucas) survive? And when will River Song work out who the Doctor is? All will be revealed on a starliner full of galactic super-villains and a destination the Doctor has been avoiding for a very long time. |
Speaking to the Radio Times on why he brought back River, Steven Moffat said: “We’ve just lost Clara, so I didn’t want to go straight into a new companion. I’ll be honest, I brought River Song back in because I thought there was a possibility I’d never write [Doctor Who] again, so that’d be my goodbye.”
On how River and the Twelfth Doctor react to seeing each another again, he said: “It’s strange because they’re now, in our human terms, the perfect couple. They’re both sexy older people. It’s always been slightly strange before with Matt Smith. Now, yeah, they could actually be married. It works.”
“If you’re a long term fan of the show, you might be interested because there’s been a lot of talk about the Doctor and River’s glory years but we’ve never seen them. Here at last we see them as Mr and Mrs Who at the height of their powers. It’s great fun!”
On where in River’s timeline this takes place: “It doesn’t really matter, but for those who care it’s immediately after ‘The Angels Take Manhattan’. River’s just seen Matt Smith’s Doctor lose Amy and Rory, and obviously before ‘The Name of the Doctor’, because she’s dead in that!”
The Doctor Who Christmas Special will air on Christmas Day on BBC One, with the time yet to be announced.
On how River and the Twelfth Doctor react to seeing each another again, he said: “It’s strange because they’re now, in our human terms, the perfect couple. They’re both sexy older people. It’s always been slightly strange before with Matt Smith. Now, yeah, they could actually be married. It works.”
“If you’re a long term fan of the show, you might be interested because there’s been a lot of talk about the Doctor and River’s glory years but we’ve never seen them. Here at last we see them as Mr and Mrs Who at the height of their powers. It’s great fun!”
On where in River’s timeline this takes place: “It doesn’t really matter, but for those who care it’s immediately after ‘The Angels Take Manhattan’. River’s just seen Matt Smith’s Doctor lose Amy and Rory, and obviously before ‘The Name of the Doctor’, because she’s dead in that!”
The Doctor Who Christmas Special will air on Christmas Day on BBC One, with the time yet to be announced.
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