
The ship's captain sabotages the ship by engineering its collision with three large meteors. The TARDIS has collided with a ship called the Titanic, a nuclear-powered interstellar cruiser from the planet Sto. She declines, but suggests he needs a companion to keep his temperament in check. The Doctor offers Donna the opportunity to travel with him. The Doctor attempts to offer a peaceful solution but the Empress refuses, and the Doctor is forced to flood the pit with water from the Thames. The Empress uses her ship to start firing on Earth. The Doctor takes Donna to his TARDIS and travels back billions of years to discover that an inert Racnoss ship became the core of the Earth as the planet formed around it the Empress is now trying to wake her children aboard that ship with the huon particles.

He finds the spider-like Empress of the Racnoss, who had been hiding in hibernation at the edge of the universe, awoke and used the Torchwood company to gain the equipment to make huon particles. The Doctor discovers something is controlling them remotely from space. The reception is attacked by robots dressed as Santa Claus. However, the Sycorax ship is destroyed against the Doctor's wishes by Harriet, who had called Torchwood on the matter.ĭonna Noble, in a wedding dress, appears within the TARDIS while in flight. After the Doctor has fully recovered, he challenges the Sycorax leader to a sword fight for the future of the Earth, which he eventually wins. Rose, Mickey, and Jackie drag the Doctor onto the TARDIS, but the TARDIS is detected by the Sycorax and they transport it to their ship, with Rose, Mickey, and the Doctor inside. Prime Minister Harriet Jones is threatened by the leader of the Sycorax to give them half of the Earth's population as slaves Harriet tries to negotiate and is transmatted on their ship. When out shopping, Rose and Mickey are attacked by Santa robots the Doctor theorises that energy from his regeneration has lured them here. Rose Tyler and the newly-regenerated Tenth Doctor return to Rose's house, where Rose, her mother Jackie and her former boyfriend Mickey Smith carry him inside to rest. No subsequent episodes of the series' original run were broadcast on Christmas Day the first episodes of Day of the Daleks (1972) and The Face of Evil (1977) were first shown on New Year's Day, but make no reference to the holiday season. In its final scene, as the Doctor and his companions celebrate Christmas with a toast, the First Doctor ( William Hartnell) turns to the camera and breaks the fourth wall by saying "Incidentally, a happy Christmas to all of you at home." The following episode, "Volcano", returns to the main narrative of The Daleks' Master Plan, although its ending briefly features a contemporary New Year's Eve. The former, "The Feast of Steven", was scripted as a comic interlude in the style of a pantomime, in the middle of an otherwise epic adventure.
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During the third season, the twelve-part serial The Daleks' Master Plan was broadcast weekly over the 1965–1966 Christmas period, with its seventh and eighth episodes scheduled for Christmas and New Year's Day respectively. Episodes Classic era ĭuring the first run of the programme (1963–1989), special episodes were not a frequent occurrence.

The Christmas specials will return from 2023. Beginning with the Thirteenth Doctor, the traditional Christmas special episode was moved to the following New Year's Day timeslot, with episodes being produced for the holiday, beginning with " Resolution" (2019) and the most recent special being " Eve of the Daleks" (2022). Along with the regular series, special Christmas episodes were initially broadcast every year, beginning with " The Christmas Invasion" (2005) and ending with " Twice Upon a Time" (2017). The show has been a large influence in the media since its inception in 1963. Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC.
