Editing The Snowmen (TV story)

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|doctor          = Eleventh Doctor
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'''The Snowmen''' was the 2012 Christmas special. It reintroduced [[Clara Oswald|Clara]], who first appeared in ''[[Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)|Asylum of the Daleks]]'', albeit under the name 'Oswin', as well as [[Vastra]], [[Strax]] and [[Jenny Flint]], who all were introduced in ''[[A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)|A Good Man Goes to War]]'' and had not returned since, aside from the mini-episodes ''[[The Great Detective (TV story)|The Great Detective]]'', ''[[Vastra Investigates: A Christmas Prequel (webcast)|Vastra Investigates]]'', and ''[[Songtaran Carols]]'', all of which were promotional materials for''The Snowmen''. The Doctor also encounters the [[Great Intelligence]] for the first time since his seventh incarnation ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Black and White (audio story)|Black and White]]'').

== Synopsis ==
After the deaths of [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]], the Doctor retires to Victorian England with [[Strax]], [[Jenny Flint]], and [[Vastra]]. The Doctor meets [[Clara Oswin Oswald|Clara]], a young governess, but at the same time, a sinister plot is unfolding. A series of snowmen are appearing around London and they are growing in size and power.  All they want is some human DNA to take over the world, and a drowned mistress is just what they need.

== Plot ==
It is 1842. Children are playing outside. Standing away from the others is [[Walter Simeon|a little boy]] building a snowman. A woman asks him if he'd like to play with the other children. He says that he doesn't need anyone else. The woman tells a man that he's always so alone, and that it's unhealthy. As they leave, he says that he doesn't want to talk to them because they are silly. To his surprise, the snowman he is building repeats this. He runs away as it tells him not to believe anyone else. He starts to walk back to it and it tells him that it can help him. He asks it how.

50 years later, Walter Simeon is overseeing men as they carefully scrape snow from snowmen into glass jars. The jars are loaded into a carriage where they are driven to [[The Great Intelligence Institute|Walter Simeon's Institute]].

Doctor Simeon carries one of the jars up to a large crystal ball filled with snow. He tells it that the last of the arrivals have been sampled. The globe says that the swarm is approaching, and that as humanity celebrates, it will end. He asks if the final piece is ready, and Doctor Simeon says it's in hand. The globe asks how he will keep his secrets from getting out of the men who helped him. Doctor Simeon says it's been taken care of. He says he promised to feed them.

Back at the work site, one of the men says that he doesn't see any food. Doctor Simeon says he does, and as the men look around, the snowmen rise up and devour them.

At an inn called [[The Rose & Crown]], [[Clara Oswald|a barmaid]] walks outside with a tray. She is surprised to see a snowman standing there that wasn't there before. She asks [[Eleventh Doctor|the Doctor]], who is walking past, if he built it. The Doctor says he didn't, and walks away, but stops when she tells him that it just appeared out of nowhere. He walks back and walks around the snowman, inspecting it. He says he wonders if the snow can remember how to build a snowman, which the maid thinks is silly. She makes the Doctor smile. He asks her what her name is. She says it is Clara, which he says is a nice name. He walks away, leaving her somewhat annoyed in the alley with the snowman. As she sees him drive away, she runs after him. 

The Doctor and Strax intend to use a memory worm to remove Clara's memory. The Doctor and Clara are attacked by snowmen. The Doctor tells Clara to think of the snowmen melting, and as she does, the snowmen splatter into water.

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== Cast ==
* [[Eleventh Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[Matt Smith]]
* [[Clara Oswald|Clara]] - [[Jenna-Louise Coleman]]
* [[Walter Simeon|Dr Simeon]] - [[Richard E. Grant]]
* [[Walter Simeon|Walter]] - [[Cameron Streford]]
* Madame [[Vastra]] - [[Neve McIntosh]]
* [[Jenny Flint|Jenny]] - [[Catrin Stewart]]
* [[Strax]] - [[Dan Starkey]]
* Voice of the [[Great Intelligence]] - [[Ian McKellen]]
* Captain [[Latimer (The Snowmen)|Latimer]] -[[Tom Ward]]
* [[Digby Latimer|Digby]] - [[Joseph Darcey-Alden]]
* [[Francesca Latimer|Francesca]] - [[Ellie Darcey-Alden]]
* [[Alice (The Snowmen)|Alice]] - [[Liz White]]
* [[John (The Snowmen)|Uncle John]] - [[Jim Conway]]
* [[Walter's Mother]] - [[Annabelle Dowler]]
* [[Bob Chilcott]] - [[Ben Addis]]
* [[Clara's Friend]] - [[Sophie Miller-Sheen]]
* [[Lead Workman]] - [[Daniel Hyde]]
* Voice of the [[Ice Governess]] - [[Juliet Cadzow]]

=== Notes ===
In the programme information for BBC iPlayer, ''The Snowmen'' credits Ian McKellan as "Voice of the Snowman". Sophie Miller-Sheen's character is "Girl".

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== References ==
===[[:Category:Culture|Cultural references]]===
* Simeon suggests that Conan Doyle based [[Sherlock Holmes]] on Madame Vastra.

===[[:Category:Communications technology|Communications technology]]===
*Vastra has a [[telephone]] that can call the phone in the Doctor's TARDIS.

===[[:Category:The Doctor|The Doctor]]===
* The Doctor pretends to be [[Sherlock Holmes]].

===[[:Category:Locations|Locations]]===
*The Doctor uses a tin with a map of the [[London Underground]] on it.

===[[:Category:TARDIS|TARDIS]]===
*Upon first entering [[the Doctor's TARDIS]], Clara describes it as ''"smaller on the outside"'' (which the Doctor describes as a first), and then asks if it has a kitchen (another first).

== Story notes ==
* This episode is noteworthy for three big changes. The first of which is a new companion, [[Clara Oswald|Clara]]. The second of these is the change to the [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] interior and the final change is a update to the title sequence - which now includes the Doctor's face - the first to do so since ''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]'' in [[1989]]. To go along with the new titles, a new variation of the theme tune was used.

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== Continuity ==
* Clara mentions baking Soufflés as Oswin did in [[TV]]: ''[[Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)|Asylum of the Daleks]]''.
* [[Strax]] still has confusion over the difference between human females and human males as he did in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Devil in the Smoke]]''.
* The [[Great Intelligence]] has previously appeared in [[TV]]: ''[[The Abominable Snowmen]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Web of Fear]]'', [[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Downtime]]'', and [[PROSE]]: ''[[Millennial Rites]]''.

== Home video releases ==
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