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  • Still my favourite Doctor Who Christmas special by a long shot. Just brilliant. :D

  • Who knew Dumbledore hated christmas so much?

  • @xPenguinPower Because he never got enough pairs of socks

  • This is my favorite episode simply because it takes ideas from the Philip K. Dick novel Ubik classic sci fi

  • This episode was so much better than the doctor, the widow and the wardrobe.

  • This is the best Christmas episode ever. The Doctor The Widow and The Wardrobe was an undeniable disappointment, in terms of a Moffat script it was his worst episode yet. Series 6 was great though and I hope Series 7 and maintain the same brilliant quality.

  • DUMBLEDOREE

  • That IS Dumbledore! It didn't even hit me until near the end.

    The Doctor took the Tardis back in time to Hogwarts to save Dumbledore from his death. That's awesome!

  • Watching this tonight!

  • CHARLIE

  • this music for the trailer was used in 'Vampires of Venice' :D xx

  • I genuinely think that this is the best episode since the revival...

  • i think the christmas specials go in this order as far as awesomeness goes:

    6.The Runaway Bride

    5.The Next Doctor

    4.Voyage of the Damned

    3.The End of Time

    2.The Christmas Invasion

    1.The Christmas Carol

  • @jayzner97 end of time is #1 for me

  • DUMBLEDORE IS SCROOGE!

  • 'Im a ghost of christmas past'

    like if u want 2 have sex with this man

    and david tennant

    whether girl or boy ;) U KNO U WANT TO!!!

  • @ThUnDeRbOltPunk ...............really?

  • the slutty looking bimbos kinda throw this off center

  • what i dont get is the numbers on the people who are frozen?? like does the people die when it hits zero??

  • Loved it! It's now a Christmas tradition.

  • this is more of a trailer, isnt it

  • Music... Just Wow

  • Found the episode boring

  • Both of the top comments have 69 likes.

  • @orbital151 Hehe.... 69

  • I really liked that special, but the preview was so good that I kind of disappointed in the special itself.

  • 0:22 "Sorry, landed on the roof; great big chimney my whole brain just went 'what the hell?'!"

  • @fuliajulia yup^^

  • I thought the end of time was better than a christmas carol but a christmas carol comes closely before it

  • why is this one not available yet on the website?

  • I never get tired of the trailer but when I do I won't be tired of the episode.

  • I saw this on TV back in Christmas.

    It was really bad.

  • Anyone know what the song in the trailer is called? i've been trying to find it everywhere!

  • @momentsinmusic It's called "The Vampires of Venice," and it's on the Series 5 soundtrack.

  • doctor who has gotten lazy for children in need. i missed specials like time crash with the 5th and 10th doctor. rose' reaction to seeing the 10th doctor for the first time. now they are just silly little trailers to promote a new series :/

  • Dumbledore turned EVIL!?!?!?!

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  • i had singing lessons off of kathrine jenkins

  • personally, I LOVE the new doctor. Obviously I miss David Tennant, but I love love LOVE Matt Smith as the doctor. I wonder what Rose would think!

  • @Kelly6758 What Rose would think? She's way too busy with the human doctor to think about school-boy Matt. *fatgrin*

  • Although i dont like this Doctor much, This was one of my favorite Doctor Who episodes ever. It was full of clever and emotional twists, and the whole way through it was well done.

  • I wish I could see it all...anyone have a link?

  • Oowwwwwwwww!

  • Christmas: A Carol Betwixt is FAR better than this!!!

  • Ppl keep bitching about EoT about how it was 'emo' at the end. Look, crying isn't emo, emotionalism isn't emo necesarrily. thats just dumb. he was a guy who was DYING, effectivly or losing a part of himself he really, really liked. r we gonna pretend dying isn't scary, isn't something 2 cry about (let alone the pain he was in). and the final line...its tru who WANTS 2 die, who wants to ''go". I think it was echoing the audience as well, alotta ppl didn't want him 2 go

  • the child Sardrick (spelling?) was quite good for a child actor. BUT I was most imp with Ms Jenkins. Smith was awsome. Dumbledore was awsome, but ud expect them 2 b. Jenkins howeva, has allegedly NO, or little, acting exp and I found nothing seriously wrong with her performance, and nothing at all wrong with her singing. all that considered she did magnificently

  • Dumbledore doesn't like christmas?

  • 20 people despise christmas. Oh, that's an old joke going on here.

  • How some people put The Christmas Invasion over this I'll never understand.

    This was a masterpiece reworked into something equally as good... The Christmas Invasion was just crap in general.

  • @PrimusPrimal1995 Wasn't the Christmas Invasion Tennant's first series?

  • @SoldierofFortune07 I imagine that would have a lot of sentimental value for Tennant fans including myself. It's all subjective at the end of the day.

  • @PrimusPrimal1995 Wasn't the Christmas Invasion Tennant's first episode?

  • @SoldierofFortune07 well technically he first appeared in Parting fo the Ways then int he Children in Need mini-ep but his first full ep was the Christmas Invasion altho he was out of action 4 most of it

  • @PrimusPrimal1995 Nah man all the xmas specials vary in quality but they all have their merits. Christmas Invasion is special bcos its the first real Dr Who xmas special (Feast of Steven doesn't really count) and started a trad as well as Tennent's run on the show. this was the most Christmassy special tho, no doubt due in part to the source material,

  • He'd make a food goest of past present and future

  • @ultrapersonthing I was right! The rewritting timey wimey wibby do dah thing did come into affect too. One all!

  • The way he dusts himself off after falling out of the chimney...it's like he's trying to re-gain his dignity. ^^

  • 1. A Christmas Carol

    2. The Waters of Mars

    3. End of Time (somehow I actually liked that long farewell plus regeneration scene, although it's in the "cry bitches" tone)

    4. Voyage of the Damned

    5. The Christmas Invasion

  • @ManuABG Waters of Mars wasn't an xmas special it aired in Nov 09

  • @227060 Neither was End Of Time, I was counting all the One-hour specials in.

  • @ManuABG Well EoT pt 1 was an xmas special, technically. I only assumed u were doing xmas specials cos most werexmas specials

  • hey... does anybody here know the story Mr. Scrooge? Because there is the ghost of christmas past^^ That's cool

  • Top 5 christmas specials (even though there have only been 5)

    1) The Christmas Invasion

    2) A Christmas Carol

    3) The Next Doctor

    4) Voyage of the Damned

    5) The Runnaway Bride. (Just an awful episode)

  • @DoctorWhoCenter2010 "just awful??" OI!

  • @diddymuck

    Well Donna wasn't bad. But seriously...it was ok. But not the best one.

  • @DoctorWhoCenter2010 I felt it wasn't the best 1 either tho the make up 4 da monster was good, the Docotr's reaction 2 Rose leaving in that ep is genuine, the bit at the end where he commits genocide is good and, altho not the best intro 4 Donna it was neat intro a companion 4 a 1 off then bringing em back full time much later on, making use of the continuity uv est already, plus she was bttr in l8r eps.

  • @227060

    I love Donna as a companion, I just hated the Runnaway Bride.

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  • JetBlue JetBlue Airways

    @ @trudydoodie Not even a little funny? We're open to other suggestions...

    it was the "first" time that I spoke to my mother like those patients

  • DUMBLEDORE

  • I thought this was by far the best Christmas special that's been done on television in Doctor Who (possibly better than The Feast of Steven). Most of the others were embarrassing

  • @Yetaxa I loved the others too but this 1 was the most christmassy. I mean 2009's 1 wasn't christmassy but thats understandable it was only a christmas special bcos it was a big event and xmas is the biggest day 4 TV in the yr

  • @Yetaxa the most heartfelt christmas episode. i think the only nu who one that doesnt just focus on action and special effects but dialogue, atmosphere and characters.

  • @Yetaxa The Feast of Steven wasted even that good. You're jsut saying these things ebcause you like being yourself.

  • @orbital151 I know it's not very good lol I honestly don't know why I said that now.

    It didn't help that my comment somehow ended up being top...

  • @orbital151 you needd to chill.

  • @GTXGirlliie Ha!

  • @Yetaxa yeh, it was a good oe. but i liked the one when donna just appears in the TARDIS. That was a good one

  • World - which ot goes 2 days, $ 120, 3days than $ 250,000

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  • Worst christmas special ever,

    On a scale of 1 - 5

    1. The End of Time (Best)

    2. The Next Doctor

    3. Christmas Invasion

    4. crappy titanic episode

    5. A Christmas Carol (WORST)

  • @mmiiki end of time and Next Doctor over this? RTD is that you? Tennant went out like a total bitch, RTD went on record saying he knew how DT's doc would die when he was cast, oh the same way CE did! lethal poisoning of a substance (Vortex energy and Radiation). I loved DT as the doctor i really did but the cry baby piss ant way he bowed out sealed a very awesome tenure with a sloppy emo finish not worthy of the Doctor character. Carol > EoT 1+2 any day

  • @Studio4474 but ENd of Time isn't really an xmas special is it, how much xmas factors r in them, its just an excuse 2 b epic

  • @227060 Some people count it as one some don't, it sits in the Christmas period since it aired (Part One) Christmas day. Since it was set and aired on Christmas and it was a 'special' episode (in the sense that both a regeneration and it was two of 2009's specials) i will count it as one.

  • @Studio4474 well pt1 is an xmas special yes bcos it was on xmas day and was a special ep in more ways than 1. sorry I didn't make myself clear wat I meant was it was a special episode but the fact that it was at xmas was quite secondary 2 wat was actually goin on in the ep, moreso than prev yrs and the latest xmas special. Im not saying I didin't like it or pt2 but just yeah, biggest TV nite of da yr, perfect time 2 air pt 1 of the biggest dr who story that yr

  • @mmiiki you forgot 'Runaway Bride', but, anyway, how is 'Christmas Carol' the worst? and...that's not how a "scale of 1-5" list works. what you have is more of a "Best-to-Worst" list

  • @CrazT729 Runaway was my least fav but it intro Donna who i liked in S4. Voyage, like Carol was more of a standalone, but this ep was bttr. I like all of em really, End of time pt1 is tricky cos da xmas factor is so secondary AND its a part 1 so its unfair 2 jude by itself

  • @mmiiki i thought it was the best just because it was the only one to have anything to do with christmas

  • @possem33 @possem33 thats my point its the 1 which embraces the fact its xmas the most. the other tho good r just normal eps on bigger scales set at xmas with some bits of xmas motif going on, killer santa and angel robots, electrocuting xmas stars, killer babubles and xmas trees. those r fr8 but this 1 felt like a typical TV xmas special 1 whichstand alone a bit more, altho i liked the way the others linked in as well

  • which simple & comlicated doesnt exist its peoples health & it doesnt come from anywhere showers etc. people would have it as a frog G.I. Joe

  • who is the actor playing middle kazran?

  • @Jelly1066 Danny Horn, apparently. 

  • internet tv - Jungle & Casper is peoples health

  • internet tv - I've done the same thing with Jackie as I did with Wendy

    its just 4 6's & Travis

  • i found this episode to be better than i expected. at first i thought that the chain of events would 'happen' to be like 'a christmas carol', but i'm glad that they made it a realistic inspirational idea to save amy and rory.

  • your participation is in democracy

  • I would SO much rather get te doctor then father christmas!

  • internet tv - why is there one roof & another

  • Does anyone know where I can get the song that they used in the preview? Send a link to the youtube video, or the name of the song or something? How do I ahold of it!!!!!! If you know tell me, that would be awesome.

  • @01101100011000010111 It's Vampires of Venice, from the series 5 soundtrack.

  • ESPN - said kids so much you msnbc put a colum about Bernets kids

  • airlines - Bernard, Griffin etc

  • internet tv - J-Bank up north robber

  • internet tv - ??? how ever many foods ???

  • Does everyone know the term jumping the shark? What they did here was the total opposite. They FLEW the shark! And is awesome. This was my favorite Christmas special yet!

  • internet tv- does everyone know the examples of Hygiene etc.

  • i loved this episode!!! matt smith is AWESOME!

  • that was good

  • internet tv - to move forward be continue I've been tired of this i've discussed already so new year

  • @itspeaks037 sorry, but what language are you speaking..... really am sorry but i cant stand reading shit that doesnt make sense....

  • This episode was amazing

  • this doctor who episode ROCKS!!

  • THIS WAS SOO SAD I almost actually cried

    I love Matt ...HAIL THE DOCTOR

  • this was really boring. I hated this christmas special i drove allll the way down to my cousins house that christmas just so i could watch this (trust me it's super far). and what do i get super disapointment. i was so bored i got sidetracked and just left the TV running while i was upstairs talking to ppl. usually it goes that i am telling ppl to shut up and leave me alone so i can watch it bcuz i am so interested but this :(. big big big waste of time.

  • Dr Who is fine, but the trailer could be better.

  • yesss no random aliens attacking modern london this christmas!! that was getting tiresome

  • I loved this episode.

  • This is my new favourite episode of doctor who :)

  • @Caller89 Me too :D

  • Christmastime can be rewritten

    They forgot to leave a space, FAIL.

  • I really loved this special. Loved David Tennant's Doctor, but Matt Smith's is still fun and awesome. BTW is it just me, or:

    1) Matt Smith's Doctor is much smarter than the others and can therefore plan things ahead in a manner that looks like hair-brained fumbling

    2) Matt Smith's Doctor is just as smart as the others but doesn't think before he does things, but is also insanely lucky.

    Personally, I think it's the latter. Which is even more fun. :)

  • @sackboy3G Really? :-7

  • Worst christmas special ever,

    On a scale of 1 - 5

    1. The End of Time (Best)

    2. Christmas Invasion

    3. The Next Doctor

    4. crappy titanic episode

    5. A Christmas Carol (WORST)

  • @Darthvezon681 crappy titanic episode! you sir are an ignoramus and I shall not tolerate such blasphemy! Good day madam

  • @sackboy3G Calm down dude

  • @Darthvezon681 Ummmm.... I disagree strongly. While, of course, The End of Time was the best one, I would actually place A Christmas Carol right after it in order of being good. Sorry mate, but that's how it is.

  • @TheZacula I respect your opinion, :)

  • @Darthvezon681 The End of Time was a drawn-out wankfest.

  • Doctor who used to be my FAVORITE show but its really gone down hill now.

    Its a shame cas matt smith is excellent, its the writers who are letting the side down.

    They just dont seem to understand you NEED a love interest to keep the story going.

    thats why rose and the doctor had the best series ever made.

    why on earth they have picked a married couple as his companions this time ill never know.......its SO DULL!

    you need aliens + adventure + love story to make the perfect doctor who episode.

  • @SuperYellow1989 YES!, i must admit rory and amy are adorable, but amy and the doctor have such clashing personalites and even if they didn't end up being a couple still get rory out of the picture so there can be some love tension between them or something

  • @XxWolfhowlsxX exactly lol

  • @SuperYellow1989 Actually I find it quiet refreshing to not have the doctor pinning over yet another girl who will no doubt die before him, personally I was getting a bit tired of all the fail romance in his life. Not to get me wrong, I loved the series with Rose but I like the change with the new doctor for now.

  • @chaoticaism i geuss every one likes diff stories.............but i will say i think any great doctor who needs a rose charater.

    Hes destined to be alone, its his burden and i think thats what makes doctor who a lasting charater and why people love him so much. He always going to have to deal with falling in love and then loosing the people he loves while he lives on, its heart breaking but all the great love stories are.

  • @SuperYellow1989 Awa n bile yer heed.

  • @PrimusPrimal1995

    away and bile my head..? huh? lol

    excuse my ignorance, i dont get what that means!? help lol?

  • Anyone know the song the woman was singing in this episode? I can't get it out of my head!

  • @CallioBajallio Katherine Jenkins :)

  • @EinKleinerEngel09

    the best was David, but Matt is good, too :)

  • You people dont realise that most doctor who christmas specials are worse than the actual episodes, this one really suprised me for the better.

  • Loved this episode so much. Especially the "Christmas Future" at the end, where Kazran is like "Then show me!" And rants, not realizing him as a child is RIGHT THERE. The Symbolism is poetic. =D

    @Annabeth713 I cracked up at that line too xD

  • This was a really good episode, in my personal opinion

  • This was definitely my favourite Christmas special so far (closely followed by The End of Time). I don't understand how people find it the worst episode... I actually liked how there wasn't really a real enemy, it made it feel more Christmassy. :)

  • oh i dont like cybermen!!!!!! iantos girlfriend was one and he belongs with jack

  • @ConwaySophie ummm... i think you commented on the wrong video..lol! TW rocks!

  • This has been my favorite christmas special yet. The one with the Cybermen come in as a close second.

  • My favorite thing about the eleventh doctor is his complete and total awkwardness around women, especially compared to ten who was so good with them. It's amazing how one man (or alien I guess) could be a ladykiller one day and than be completely clueless the next!

  • @spirit0423 Actually, Ten wasn't that good with them either, just a bit... less bad. It was more them chicks latching onto HIM than the other way around XD The Doctor is generally pretty clumsy with such things..

    The most flirty ones must've been Nine and Eight...

  • worst doctor who episode ever, ive never been so bored watching tv

  • it was ok. I expected better though. I love you matt <3 xx. Well, i still enjoyed it x

  • @PenultimateRun No he won't. People said that about RTD, and it turned out alright. In fact, Moffat's era is proving to be just as popular - 10 million viewers for this Xmas ep!

    As for your comment about the Doctor being a Cat in the Hat... well... you obviously haven't watched a Second Doctor story. :P

  • 'Marilyn! Get your coat!' xxx

  • Fantastic Doctor Who Christmas Special. Looking forward to the series!

  • One of the most epic episodes i've ever seen, i just love the romanticism on some doctor who episodes.

  • RTD vs Moffat is a little bit like Hellmuth vs Ivey heads-up. They're both respected, so it looks a fair fight ; it just isn't quite.

    I'm yet to see anything by Moffat in any show that doesn't pwn.

  • How funny that people thought this was crap. Each to there own but jesus!

  • @ProjectLonely Don't let it bother you. Some "Real Fans" haven't liked Doctor Who since around 1980.

  • now we all kno why amy and rory were dressed like tht they were in the honeymoon suite...

  • @rupertmyprince yeah. Nice way of getting crap past the radar XD

  • @PenultimateRun Geez, your a little fucking bitch, you know that?! Doctor Who is a show about change. Moffat and Russel have both written absolutley SHIT stories. All of you arguing about it? Grow the fuck up ad stop being whiney little bitches over somthing that is absolutley pointless. I feel as if who writes the show ow is a base of conflict, for people like you who have nothing else to do but sit here ad start shit o fucking YOUTUBE! You people who are fighting over this are losers. Got it?

  • so far best Christmas Special Episode ever. i watched it on one fucking breath and i loved it so much.

  • @PenultimateRun That is a horrible thing to say. To be a doctor who fan is to love the episodes good or bad, Sometimes I couldn't stand Rose and RTD's writing. Though I didn't hate the show & I still watched it. So I'm sorry you missed a Great Doctor Who season and an amazing christmas special. But then it's your loss.

  • After that I can't wait to see that I missed it on x-mas day!

  • I am american, so don't judge me. But I've always loved Doctor Who. David was my first doctor, and to see him leave really saddens me. I haven't watched any of Matt Smith, but these previews are making me love him already.

  • @jkarani just to clear up that point about donna noble,the Dr. put in an extra mesure to release alot of the huon particles when she started to remember(plus the "dr.donna" was still inside her head to also do some good),hence all the "masters" being hit by the light that came from her head.had it stayed in her head it would have killed her.

  • @jkarani In "The Writer's Tale" RTD said he rewrites nearly all of the scripts, apart from Moffat's, Matthew Graham's, Stephen Greenhorn's, and Chris Chibnall's. Even RTD wondered that it would look like, in hindsight, that he hadn't written most of the other episodes, when he took a co-writer's credit on The Waters of Mars and Planet of the Dead. Hope this answered your question :)