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Last Christmas was the 2014 Doctor Who Christmas special. It was the 813th episode of the series and the first full Christmas special with Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor. It brought back Nick Frost as Santa Claus, who was last seen at the end of Death in Heaven.
Casting-wise, it was notable for featuring the first on-screen appearance of Michael Troughton, son of Second Doctor actor Patrick Troughton. It also allowed recurring actor Dan Starkey, best known for portraying various Sontaran characters, to appear with minimal make-up as an elf.
The Christmas special saw the return of Danny Pink, Clara Oswald's boyfriend and former Coal Hill School Maths teacher — albeit only in Clara's dream state.
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- The Doctor exclaims that "nobody likes the tangerines." Santa is visibly offended.
- The song Merry Xmas Everybody by "Slade" is played in the background in the North Pole military station to distract Shona from thinking about the dream crabs. She dances to it.
- Professor Albert compares the dream crabs to the facehuggers from the movie, Alien. The Doctor finds it offensive that a horror movie is named Alien, commenting, "No wonder everyone keeps invading you!"
- The Doctor tells Clara not to get too attached to the people at the arctic base because it "isn't Facebook."
- Santa mentions My Little Pony when proving to Shona that he is real.
Story notes
- This is the third consecutive Christmas special to feature Jenna Coleman as Clara Oswald, with this number making her the companion actor with the most appearances on Christmas. Catherine Tate, Bernard Cribbins, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill are the only other companion actors to have appeared in more than one Christmas special. Although, Gillan's cameo in The Time of the Doctor as a hallucination of former companion, Amy Pond, could arguably be called a third appearance, albeit not a full one.
- This is also the third consecutive Christmas special to feature Dan Starkey. He had previously appeared in his recurring Sontaran role, Strax, in TV: The Snowmen, then as Commander Skarr and his unnamed subordinate in The Time of the Doctor.
- Jenna Coleman allegedly had a "change of heart" on whether she wanted to stay on Doctor Who and is going to appear in the ninth series. This change required the Christmas special to be rewritten; "When it came to Clara, they had to tear them up and start again," the source said. "In the original draft of the script, she became an old woman who then died with the Doctor at her side. But after they were rewritten, she will now be seen returning to the Tardis, hand in hand with the Doctor."[1] That source said she would appear in the first half of the series, however a newer source confirm her for the full series 9.[2]
- The announcement 'The Doctor and Clara will return in - The Magician's Apprentice' appears at the end of this episode. The title of the series 9 premiere was confirmed by Steven Moffat a week prior to this special's broadcast. [3] Shona likened the Doctor to a magician several times during the episode, and Santa made a passing mention of the very same nature.
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- The Doctor is likened to a magician because of his appearance. He previously noted this about himself in TV: Time Heist.
- The Doctor and Clara admit their lies from Death in Heaven.
- During his dream of elderly Clara, the Doctor helps her pull a cracker. Clara had previously done the same for the Eleventh Doctor in The Time of the Doctor.
- At the end of the episode a nightie clad Clara leaves in the TARDIS in the dead of night. Amy Pond's travels with the Doctor began in similar fashion at the end of The Eleventh Hour.
- The Doctor states that all the people affected by the dream crabs could be from different times and places as anything is possible with dreams. Madame Vastra once told Clara something similar when explaining the psychic conference call in The Name of the Doctor: when Clara asked how they were communicating across time, Vastra stated that time travel was possible in dreams.
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- ↑ http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2014-11-28/is-jenna-coleman-coming-back-for-another-series-of-doctor-who?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook
- ↑ http://www.cultbox.co.uk/news/headlines/jenna-coleman-confirmed-to-return-for-all-of-season-9
- ↑ http://www.kasterborous.com/2014/12/series-9-episode-title-revealed/
