We’re back to discuss the 2024 Doctor Who Christmas Special!

Who is the companion in this episode, Joy or Anita? What is the ultimate message we’re meant to take away from the ending? How do Moffat and RTD write Christmas specials differently?

Join us as we discuss JOY TO THE WORLD and our thoughts on the new series trailer in the latest episode of The Doctor’s Companion!

NEXT: THE LONG WAY ROUND 13!

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Clara is worried about revealing the truth about her adventures in space and time to Danny when the Doctor is forced to take a job as Coal Hill School’s caretaker as he tracks a rogue Skovox Blitzer, a dangerous weapon with enough firepower to decimate entire planets.

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After receiving a summons by the Doctor to meet him in the American west, Amy, Rory, and River are forced to watch the Doctor get killed by an Astronaut in a lake, only for another Doctor from 200 years earlier in his own timeline to arrive. Now, with the secret of the Doctor’s death between them, the three companions must help the Doctor survive while solving the mystery of an alien species that you forget the moment you look away…

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Medical student Martha Jones meets the Doctor when the hospital where she works is teleported to the moon by the Judoon, talking space rhino mercenaries for hire, who are searching for an alien fugitive loose in the building.

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After traveling to the Divergent Universe, the Doctor and Charley find themselves in a white void with nothing to do but walk, confront their feelings, and attempt to comprehend the entity trying to communicate with them.

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The Doctor brings Ace back to her hometown of Perivale where she learns that her old friends are being kidnapped by a race of alien hunters called the Cheetah People. How did they find their way to Earth? They were shown the way by the Doctor’s old enemy the Master.

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Tracking a nexus point in time, the Doctor meets Dr Evelyn Smythe, a history professor who is fading away as her timeline begins to unravel behind her. To stabilize the nexus and save Evelyn’s life, the Doctor must travel back to the time just before the rein of Elizabeth I to make sure that Evelyn’s ancestors are successfully born, while using all of his skills of diplomacy to navigate the theological politics of Queen Mary’s rein without losing his head (or anyone else’s) in the process.

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As the Black Guardian pressures Turlough to finally kill the Doctor, the TARDIS crew materialize on an Edwardian sailing yacht in space as they find themselves caught up in a mysterious race between godlike beings for the prize of “enlightenment.”

Tegan wears a dress.

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After the Doctor and Sarah Jane have a strange encounter with a living energy structure known as the Mandragora Helix in another dimension, a rogue fragment hitches a ride on the TARDIS and leads the pair to 15th century Italy, landing just before the Renaissance. There, palace intrigue plays out while the machinations of a sinister cult’s quest for power are further manipulated by the Mandragora fragment dead set on keeping Italy firmly in the Dark Ages by swallowing the moon.

Needless to say. the Doctor and Sarah Jane have their hands full.

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The Doctor and Jo visit the Master in his high-security prison on an island where the Doctor discovers the Master to make contact with the Sea Devils, a race of reptiles related to the Silurians who have been recently awoken from hibernation in a base underwater, and intends to use them to help him conquer the world (but mostly break out of prison).

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The TARDIS crew find themselves in the London Underground where the run into Professor Travers, whom they first met in the Himalayas some thirty years earlier, working with a military operation, lead by COLONEL Lethbridge-Stewart, that is investigating the tunnels of the railway system that are being overrun by a mysterious weblike structure, produced by the Great Intelligence’s robot Yeti.

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