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Sci-fi · 2010s

Doctor Who

A Christmas Carol

Dickens meets a flying shark, with a bittersweet love story at its heart.

  • Family-safe
  • Good for kids
  • Tearjerker

Content note: Mild peril; a sad love story; suitable for most ages

BBC One

2010

First shown 25 Dec 2010

First shown
25 December 2010
Channel
BBC One
Runtime
1 hr 2 mins
Genre
Sci-fi

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Amy and Rory are aboard a space liner that is plunging towards a planet, and the only way to save it is to soften the heart of a lonely, miserly man called Kazran Sardick who controls the weather. The Doctor's plan is to nip back into Kazran's past, which is where a flying shark, a stored-away singer and an old man's lost love come in. Dickens gets a sci-fi remix, with Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor and a surprisingly bittersweet romance threaded through. A properly Christmassy story: sparkly, strange and with a lump-in-the-throat finish.

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