"Merry Xmas Everybody"
"Merry Xmas Everybody" was a popular Christmas song, released by Slade in 1973. Six years later, the song was still incredibly popular in Britain, playing on the radio. Clive Finch was completely sick of it, and hoped it would finally be forgotten about by the following year. According to Clive, or CJ, it contained a long, loud cry of, "IT'S CHRIIISTMAAS". (PROSE: The Persistence of Memory [+]Loading...["The Persistence of Memory (short story)"])
The song was playing on the radio in the garage where Mickey Smith was working when the newly-regenerated Tenth Doctor crash-landed his TARDIS on the Powell Estate on 24 December 2006. (TV: The Christmas Invasion [+]Loading...["The Christmas Invasion (TV story)"])
On 24 December 2007, the song was playing at Donna Noble's first wedding reception. (TV: The Runaway Bride [+]Loading...["The Runaway Bride (TV story)"]) It also was heard on the radio in an alternate version of Christmas 2007. (TV: Turn Left [+]Loading...["Turn Left (TV story)"])
On a 25 December in approximately the 2000s,[nb 1] the song was playing while Wilfred Mott opened his gift of the book Fighting the Future. (TV: The End of Time [+]Loading...["The End of Time (TV story)"])
In 2017, the song was played in the Black Swan pub in Cheldon Bonniface. (PROSE: Not in My Back Yard [+]Loading...["Not in My Back Yard (short story)"])
The song was also played at the hospital where Rory Williams worked. (TV: The Power of Three [+]Loading...["The Power of Three (TV story)"])
In a shared dream, this song was played into Shona McCullough's ears to keep Shona distracted from thinking about the dream crabs. She danced and sang along to the song while listening to it. (TV: Last Christmas [+]Loading...["Last Christmas (TV story)"])
Footnotes
- ↑ Both Planet of the Dead and The End of Time are referred to in dialogue as taking place after the end of Journey's End, which is set in either 2008, according to TV: The Fires of Pompeii, TV: The Waters of Mars, and AUDIO: SOS (and heavily implied by TV: The Star Beast and TV: The Giggle), or six weeks after the middle of May 2009, circa June, according to PROSE: Beautiful Chaos. However, the year of The End of Time is unspecified, as is whether or not it is intended to be the Christmas immediately after Journey's End.
