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22 The Daleks’ Master Plan: The Feast of Steven & Home Truths
23 Genesis of the Daleks
24 The New Adventures – Damaged Goods
25 The Unquiet Dead
26 Eve of the Daleks & The Rescue

…And should I select another #ChristmasWho calendar another year, are there any John Hurt or Jo Martin festive stories?
December 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Finally, on Boxing Day my ChristmasWho 2025 selection box:

0 The Trip of a Lifetime! Trailer
1 The Christmas Invasion
2 Connections – Albie’s Angels (part-set 2025)
3 The Tenth Planet & Spare Parts
4 The Husbands of River Song
5 Ravenous – Better Watch Out / Fairytale of Salzburg (Krampusnacht)
December 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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An extra, final #ChristmasWho Double Bill, jumping ahead (and back) to New Year:
Doctor Who – Eve of the Daleks & The Rescue
From 1960s to 2020s, from Whitaker to Whittaker

Plus: which two Doctors did I miss?
And my whole ChristmasWho calendar, if you missed any
The Doctor (William Hartnell) sits in judgement, waiting to confront the monster [The Rescue] The Doctor (William Hartnell) giggles in the TARDIS’s control room [The Rescue] The Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) in multiple iterations in front of a wounded TARDIS [Eve of the Daleks] An execution squad of three Daleks (hate-filled one-blob armoured tanks, this time each with not just a bigger gun but a *pair* of bigger guns. They even get to kill the Doctor a few times) [Eve of the Daleks]
December 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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After watching The Unquiet Dead for #ChristmasWho, for an even greater festive TV special we continued the Dickensian horror 60 years ago today:
OTD 1965 The Avengers – Too Many Christmas Trees
Haunting, brilliant, one of the best of all The Avengers
And does this have the series’ creepiest death…?
Father Christmas (face grotesquely masked) stands on a plain of many white cut-out Christmas trees against darkness, pointing and laughing Sleeping Steed (Patrick Macnee) dreams himself – or do others dream him? – in white pyjamas, white bowler and a blizzard hurled into him From above: four sinister figures sit about a round table with a snowflake design, before each of them a photo of Steed, a pool of darkness surrounding them Oliver Twist / Emma Peel in the dark Hall of Great Expectations, raising a candelabrum to see through the veil
December 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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I love many #ChristmasWho stories, from Better Watch Out / Fairytale of Salzburg which we listen to every Krampusnacht to the heartstopper of Damaged Goods and (most popular on Bluesky for me this year) The Chimes of Midnight, but here’s to three big anniversaries today…
December 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Doctor Who – The Unquiet Dead
20 years ago, the second coming of Doctor Who (first of St Russell of Davies) opened in an ideal spirit, with visitations of Past, Present and Future and brought us – through time – a proper Dickensian Christmas come early
Probably still the best #ChristmasWho!
The Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) and Rose (Billie Piper) promenade on the streets of Nineteenth-Century Cardiff Mrs Peace isn’t at peace; a revenant stalks the snowy streets, glowing blue gas erupting from her mouth in swirls! Charles Dickens stands back as the TARDIS vanishes in an eddy of snow Blue and yellow gas-flame Gelth swarm about Gwyneth in the morgue
December 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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@stephengallagher.co.uk Sherlock Holmes

A Christie For Christmas (ish)

Snakedance, the #ChristmasWho that really means it (see last Saturday)

Neil Tennant

and The New Avengers!

As you can see*, the bright sun is my natural habitat.

*I couldn’t
Beloved and I squinting really badly into the bright sun and piercing wind, standing by the River and somewhat precariously brandishing for the camera: Paul Magrs’ Josephine and the Argonauts Lucy McCaul’s Benton and Hawthorne Investigate Stephen Gallagher’s Sherlock Holmes A Christie For Christmas (ish) Snakedance, the #ChristmasWho that really means it (see last Saturday) Neil Tennant and The New Avengers!
December 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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I had a bright idea this morning and suggested we go into the bright day to show off fresh treasures! It was *too* bright, but we somehow didn’t drop them all in the icy wind.
Some gifts to each other:

@paulmagrs.bsky.social Josephine and the Argonauts

@lucymccaul.bsky.social Benton and Hawthorne
Beloved and I squinting into the bright sun and piercing wind, standing by the River and somewhat precariously brandishing for the camera: Paul Magrs’ Josephine and the Argonauts Lucy McCaul’s Benton and Hawthorne Investigate Stephen Gallagher’s Sherlock Holmes A Christie For Christmas (ish) Snakedance, the #ChristmasWho that really means it (see last Saturday) Neil Tennant and The New Avengers!
December 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Doctor Who – Damaged Goods
On the eve of a Who-less Day—
RTD’s first Christmas special spoke to me as nothing else ever has, making me gasp with blazing, breathless hope!
Listen to me pouring my heart out (and eventually getting to the book) in Si Hart’s Library of Impossible Things.
#ChristmasWho
Doctor Who: The New Adventures – Damaged Goods by Russell T Davies, original cover by Bill Donohoe: a body rises from its grave, propelled by icky tentacles. Doctor Who: The Novel Adaptations – Damaged Goods by Russell T Davies, adapted by Jonathan Morris, Big Finish cover by Tom Webster: a body rises from its grave, propelled by icky tentacles, with the Doctor (Sylvester McCoy), Roz (Yasmin Bannerman) and Chris (Travis Oliver) above.
December 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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I’ve been choosing #ChristmasWho stories all month, and more to come (which may be my real favourites, for very different reasons)!

But of those so far:

The Christmas Invasion, the first full-on TV Christmas special and still brilliant…
December 24, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Genesis of the Daleks
or
Doctor Who – The Nativity

50 years ago, yet never more topical.
The series’ crucial moral choice:

Doctor (“Nothing conforms”)
or
Daleks (“Aliens! I must exterminate! Exterminate!”)

Freedom from conformity
or
Fascism

Unwrap that.

#ChristmasWho
Davros as God (borne aloft by choirs of tentacled Kaled mutants and flying giant clam) reaches out to touch a Dalek sucker, in a parody of Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam by Paul Hanley on DeviantArt The Doctor (Tom Baker) and Davros (Michael Wisher) talk, struggling philosophically The Doctor is throttled / eaten by a formless Kaled mutant that’s leapt for his throat. They’re so cute at that age. A Dalek looms over the battlefield, a one-blob, hate-filled, tank-like war machine in its natural habitat. They grow up so quickly.
December 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Trying to decide which Seasonal #ChristmasWho I’ve been selecting all month or perhaps A Ghost Story for Christmas to watch this evening, but obviously my brain is broken so a bit of me keeps tugging at my sleeve saying ‘Put in Doctor Who – The Dæmons!’ ‘But that’s set at Beltane…
December 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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December 23, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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In today’s #ChristmasWho, a double Bill

Doctor Who: The Daleks’ Master Plan – The Feast of Steven
This huge, tragic epic brings death, surprise siblings and betrayal (the best Christmas Space Walford ever had)
Yet offers us a selection box of planets and times
And one slice of festive silliness…
Jean Marsh reads Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles 3.05 – Home Truths By Simon Guerrier With Niall MacGregor as Robert Cover: Sara Kingdom, SSS Agent, gun raised; Steven and the Doctor (William Hartnell) in the stars behind her; a lonely old house in the fens, lightning cracking across the night Doctor Who: The Daleks’ Master Plan – The Feast of Steven: “Incidentally – a Happy Christmas to all of you at home!” The Doctor (William Hartnell) toasts the viewers from within the TARDIS, Sara and Steven behind him
December 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Doctor Who – The Church on Ruby Road
The War Between The Land and The Sea climaxes tonight, so to celebrate the newest Who-ish, today’s #ChristmasWho is the newest-ish Doctor…
These two years seem to have flown by.
And
“Here’s the King!
“Here’s the King!
“Here’s the King!
“Here’s the King Goblin!”
The Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) beckons us from a whirling vortex of colour The Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) looks delighted to be on a flying Goblin galleon. Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) less so. Ruby Sunday pauses at the door of the TARDIS… Doctor Who – The Church on Ruby Road Target novelisation by Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson, cover by Dan Liles of the Doctor, Ruby and Goblins – many Goblins, the enormous Goblin King looming behind!
December 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Doctor Who – Tales of Trenzalore
#ChristmasWho short stories stuffed within The Time of the Doctor
[Don’t look at its cover if you want to be surprised]
One engages interestingly with the world
One a cutting of something I’ve already featured
One stylistically a hard-bitten, frostbitten action movie
Doctor Who – Tales of Trenzalore “The Eleventh Doctor’s last stand” Book cover: the Doctor (Matt Smith) and… Well, several pictures of monsters that are both spoilers and not really how they are in the story Let It Snow by Justin Richards An Apple A Day… by George Mann Strangers In the Outland by Paul Finch The Dreaming by Mark Morris
December 20, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Doctor Who – Snakedance
Look beyond the trappings and this might be the most seasonal Who of all…
A big festival celebration
Though some party-poopers claim everyone’s forgotten the true meaning of Snakemas.
They’re right!
—but no-one’s happy when they find out what it is.
#ChristmasWho
Who On Horror animated Trailer animation: giant snake coils; the Doctor (Peter Davison) recoils Snakemas partygoers revel in the streets around a big carnival snake The Doctor (Peter Davison), thumb in mouth, sits on Father Christmas’ knee. There is nothing suggestive or disturbing in this photo [says the disclaimer] Director Ambril (John Carson) puts on the Six Faces of Delusion headdress, smugly pointing out that it has only five carved faces but not noticing who is number six
December 20, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Doctor Who – The Chimes of Midnight
Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without—
A lively Edwardian house
An eerie piano phrase stuck in my head
Death striking on the hour…
By turns absurd, grisly and tragic. But that’s family Christmases for you.
“You are nothing. You are nobody.”
#ChristmasWho
Doctor Who – The Chimes of Midnight by Robert Shearman, 2002 Big Finish CD cover: the Doctor (Paul McGann) and Charley (India Fisher) set against a clock turning to 11.59 and the blazing windows of an Edwardian town house, all in midnight blue and indigo. “It seems to me that this is a murder mystery where the murders themselves are the red herrings…” Doctor Who – The Chimes of Midnight by Robert Shearman, 2025 book cover (hardback limited edition): the Doctor and Charley set against a clock turning to 11.59, this version more in black and, unsurprisingly, more oblong.
December 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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K9 and Company
Oh No It Isn’t!

Whoops! I forgot to Skeet Benny and Sarah Jane together.
I am ridiculously fond of this pair, so it’s a prompt to go double on (work with me here) textually one of the anniversaries of TV’s first Doctor Who spin-off.

One week of #ChristmasWho to go! Probably.
Professor Bernice Summerfield (Lisa Bowerman) and Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen), smiling back-to-back in front of a suggestively-shaped blue framework (despite Oh No It Isn’t! I mean suggestive of the TARDIS)
December 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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K9 and Company – A Girl’s* Best Friend
Professor Bernice Summerfield – Oh No It Isn’t!

Festive-themed launches for two long-running and marvellous spin-off series** for two of the Doctor’s longest-running and most marvellous companions

#ChristmasWho
Professor Bernice Summerfield (Lisa Bowerman) and Wolsey the Cat (Nicholas Courtney, not in costume) Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) and K9 (John Leeson – though he was in the voice booth, not in the tin dog)
December 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Doctor Who – Voyage of the Damned
What could be more Christmassy than a disaster movie?
“Information: you are all going to die”
Kylie Minogue probably* DW’s biggest-ever guest star
Oh look! Lovely Russell Tovey, shipping!
And in especially curly letters, Bernard Cribbins
#ChristmasWho
Midshipman Frame (Russell Tovey) all smart in his uniform and, sigh, those ears. But when he fills out a bit, sigh some more! The Doctor (David Tennant – I should specify, he’s the Tenth Doctor in this one) and Astrid Peth (Kylie Minogue), golden Heavenly Host robots on the Space Titanic behind them The Doctor and Astrid back-to-back, raising Sonic Screwdriver and a tray of drinks (champagne, not screwdrivers)
December 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor Adventures
Back to Earth – Auld Lang Syne
Into the Stars – Break the Ice
Celebrate his 20th anniversary with #ChristmasWho and New Who, New Year (not necessarily in that order), a strange caretaker* and Jack Frost

Are there any John Hurt or Jo Martin Christmas stories?
Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor Adventures 2.1.03: Back to Earth – Auld Lang Syne by Tim Foley, starring Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor, with Leah Brotherhead and Wendy Craig. From Big Finish Productions Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor Adventures 2.2.03: Into the Stars – Break the Ice by Tim Foley, starring Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor, with Pip Torrens. From Big Finish Productions
December 16, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Doctor Who – Thin Ice
A Thames frost fair, lovable urchins (some even survive), and this Doctor *isn’t* the Scrooge:
Several Doctor Who stories have borrowed from A Christmas Carol
But when even a visit from the Spirit of Past, Present and Future’s police box doesn’t change them…
#ChristmasWho
The Doctor [at this stage in their life, an older white man] and Bill [a considerably younger Black lesbian] enjoy walking an 1814 London street in rather fabulous hats An elephant amid the stalls and the snow on the frozen Thames A giant fish swims under London Bridge on the breaking Thames as the Doctor and Bill watch. Nobody tries to f*** it. The Doctor and Bill enjoy rather less walking the frozen Thames in diving suits.
December 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Doctor Who – The Trial of a Time Lord
The #ChristmasWho conceived as A Christmas Carol
Past, present, future
Mighty cathedral spires
The Doctor is dragged back to a long family gathering

[Spoiler]

And for one of the most Christmassy Doctors—
His own Ghost of Christmas Future turns Scrooge
The Doctor (Colin Baker) in many colours faces off against the… Valeyard (Michael Jayston) in black. Family rows are always the worst. In a golden courtroom for The Trial of a Time Lord, the Doctor’s future – or is it? – wields an axe, watched on a screen by the court and defendant the Doctor (Colin Baker) vs Court Prosecutor and Doctor of Law the Valeyard (Michael Jayston) Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 23 Blu-ray cover: The Doctor (Colin Baker) in fabulous multi-coloured coat, holding in one hand a scroll of Time Lord names and holding within him the Doctor (Michael Jayston), a plant-like Vervoid (actually looks like something else but I won’t go there), amphibian business-being Sil, chunky but grumpy L1 Robot Drathro, the Inquisitor for his Trial and his TARDIS being dragged down a blaze of power to a great cathedral of a space station, transformative blue and pink and scintillating white light all around The Trial of a Time Lord – the Doctor (Colin Baker) in many colours (centre), the… Valeyard (Michael Jayston) looming in black, the Inquisitor and a Time Lord space station sending out a beam of light to capture the TARDIS like a giant Christmas bauble in the dark
December 14, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Doctor Who – The Three Doctors
A joyous visitation by the Doctors of Past, Present and Further Past
A #ChristmasWho party where all the family gets together – and gets on as well as families do – for a big celebration. With jelly.
Other help me, I love this. Still my favourite multi-Doctor story.
Doctor Who – The Three Doctors by Terrance Dicks, cover by Chris Achilleos: a huge Omega (a titan in a tall, brazen mask) zaps down from his mighty fingers – looking not at all like Galactus – at the three Doctors (William Hartnell, Jon Pertwee and Patrick Troughton) Doctor Who – The Three Doctors VHS cover by Alister Pearson – the three Doctors (Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee and William Hartnell) against the Black Hole with ‘space lightning’ shooting from it, Omega before them The Three Doctors by Adrian Salmon for DWM’s Time Team – a magnificent Omega dominates all space and time, below him the Doctor (William Hartnell) caught in a time eddy and the Doctor (Jon Pertwee) and the Doctor (Patrick Troughton) caught between blobby Gel Guards Omega raises his helmet for the first time in millions of years with a blank stare. We see two Doctors through the empty space within
December 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM