Boxing Day was a holiday taking place on 26 December since at least the 19th century. As the Fifth Doctor expressed to Nyssa, no actual boxing took place. (AUDIO: Castle of Fear) Boxing Days in the 21st century, such as the one following the attempted Racnoss invasion in 2007, were marked by many sales in shops. (TV: The Runaway Bride)
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The Doctor and Nyssa once watched a Boxing Day mummers play in Stockbridge on 26 December 1899. (AUDIO: Castle of Fear)
On 24 December 2006, Jackie Tyler told a friend on the phone that she would come round and see them on Boxing Day. (TV: The Christmas Invasion)
Martha Jones and her family would play board games on Boxing Day, which often led to arguments. (PROSE: Sick Building)
Emma-Louise Cowell took a job at a London shop which was set to open the day after Boxing Day. (TV: Out of Time)
On 25 December in approximately the 2000s,[nb 1] Joshua Naismith offered the Saxon Master a break from repairing the Immortality Gate, telling him he could resume on Boxing Day only to learn that the Master had just finished his work. (TV: The End of Time)
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- ↑ 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.