List of Doctor Who Christmas and New Year's specials
Revived era

List of Doctor Who Christmas and New Year's specials

Section Title: Revived era
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Special	Story	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	UK viewers (millions)	AI

Tenth Doctor

1	167	"The Christmas Invasion"	James Hawes	Russell T Davies	25 December 2005	2X	9.84	84

Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) and the newly-regenerated Tenth Doctor return to Rose's house, where Rose, her mother Jackie (Camille Coduri) and her former boyfriend Mickey Smith (Noel Clarke) carry him inside to rest.

2	178	"The Runaway Bride"	Euros Lyn	Russell T Davies	25 December 2006	3X	9.35	84

Donna Noble (Catherine Tate), a woman about to walk down the aisle on her wedding day, suddenly materialises in the TARDIS, much to the shock of both her and the Doctor, who has just said his final goodbyes to Rose Tyler.

3	188	"Voyage of the Damned"	James Strong	Russell T Davies	25 December 2007	4X	13.31	86

The Doctor finds his TARDIS colliding with an interstellar replica of the famous ocean liner Titanic orbiting present-day Earth, during a Christmas party.

4	199	"The Next Doctor"	Andy Goddard	Russell T Davies	25 December 2008	4.14	13.10	86

This special sees the return of the Cybermen (of the design of the parallel universe's Cybus Industries Cybermen), following their previous appearance in the two-part finale of series two in 2006, "Army of Ghosts"/"Doomsday".

5a	202a	The End of Time, Part One	Euros Lyn	Russell T Davies	25 December 2009	4.17	12.04	87

On the Ood-Sphere in 4226, the Ood warn the Doctor that the Master has returned, heralding "the end of time". On Earth, a cult of women resurrect the Master, but Lucy Saxon sabotages the ceremony, causing the Master to be brought back with incredible strength but constant hunger.

5b	202b	The End of Time, Part Two	Euros Lyn	Russell T Davies	1 January 2010	4.18	12.27	89

The Doctor and Wilfred become fugitives from the Masters, and take refuge on the Vinvocci spacecraft. The Lord President implants the sound of drums in the Master's head as a child, and launches a whitepoint star to Earth, to be used to create a link that allows the Time Lords to bring Gallifrey to Earth.

Eleventh Doctor

6	213	"A Christmas Carol"	Toby Haynes	Steven Moffat	25 December 2010	2.X	12.11	83

A space liner containing 4,000 people and Amy and Rory on their honeymoon becomes caught in an electrified cloud. The Doctor, summoned by Amy, lands on the planet beneath and discovers that the atmosphere is controlled by the miserly Kazran Sardick (Michael Gambon) who refuses to let the ship safely land.

7	225	"The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe"	Farren Blackburn	Steven Moffat	25 December 2011	X11	10.77	84

The Doctor crash-lands on Earth in 1938. He is helped back to the TARDIS by Madge Arwell (Claire Skinner).

8	231	"The Snowmen"	Saul Metzstein	Steven Moffat	25 December 2012	–	9.87	87

Depressed after the loss of Amy and Rory, the Doctor hides himself in Victorian London. The "Great Intelligence", a form of "memory snow" which can mirror the thoughts of anything around it, hatches a plot to create an army of ice people.

9	241	"The Time of the Doctor"	Jamie Payne	Steven Moffat	25 December 2013	–	11.14	83

A message echoing through all of time and space emanates from the farming town of Christmas on the planet Trenzalore, where a prophecy states the Doctor will spend the last of his years.

Twelfth Doctor

10	253	"Last Christmas"	Paul Wilmshurst	Steven Moffat	25 December 2014	–	8.28	82

Clara is awakened and discovers Santa Claus on her rooftop. As she tries to deny his existence, the Doctor arrives and takes her away in the TARDIS.

11	263	"The Husbands of River Song"	Douglas Mackinnon	Steven Moffat	25 December 2015	–	7.69	82

The Doctor is on the planet Mendorax Dellora in 5343, where due to a case of mistaken identity he is recruited by his former companion and wife River Song to assist her in removing a diamond from the head of King Hydroflax after his maligned attempt to steal it.

12	264	"The Return of Doctor Mysterio"	Ed Bazalgette	Steven Moffat	25 December 2016	–	7.83	82

The Doctor, with Nardole, investigates the New York branch of "Harmony Shoal", a multinational research company. Also investigating is journalist Lucy Fletcher, and they discover that Harmony Shoal is transplanting alien brains into humans.

13	276	"Twice Upon a Time"	Rachel Talalay	Steven Moffat	25 December 2017	–	7.92	81

Wandering back to his TARDIS at the South Pole, the First Doctor refuses to regenerate. He encounters the Twelfth Doctor outside his own TARDIS in a similar state of mind.

Thirteenth Doctor

14	287	"Resolution"	Wayne Yip	Chris Chibnall	1 January 2019	–	7.13	80

On New Year's Day 2019 in Sheffield, archaeologists Lin and Mitch unintentionally revive a deadly intelligence that has been separated and dormant on Earth since the 9th century.

Sentence(s)

On 25 December 2016, The Return of Doctor Mysterio was the twelfth Christmas special.

final_sentence: On 25 December 2016, The Return of Doctor Mysterio was the twelfth Christmas special.