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Scary Christmas and Unhappy New Year was the eighteenth short story in Doctor Who The Official Annual 2022. It features the Doctor recollecting on the events of the Christmas Specials.
Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
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- The Doctor says the most dangerous thing you're most likely to do at Christmas is open too many selection boxes.
- The Doctor's New Year's resolution every year is to defeat the Daleks.
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- The Doctor admits to preferring New Year over Christmas in her current body, a nod to the Thirteenth Doctor's television era opting for New Year Specials over Christmas Specials.
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Doctor admits to not being so keen on Christmas in her current body. Her previous incarnation expressed similar sentiments. (COMIC: Relative Dimensions, Be Forgot)
- The Doctor recalls:
- Dealing with a Roboform Christmas tree (TV: The Christmas Invasion) and Roboform Santas. (TV: The Runaway Bride)
- Celebrating one Christmas aboard the Titanic. (TV: Voyage of the Damned)
- Fighting off Cybermen and Cybershades in the snow. (TV: The Next Doctor)
- Spending one Christmas and New Year battling to avert the "end of time" before regenerating. (TV: The End of Time)
- Dealing with flying sharks. (TV: A Christmas Carol)
- Encountering a Wooden King, (TV: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe) and living snowmen. (TV: The Snowmen)
- Defending a town called Christmas from every monster in the universe. (TV: The Time of the Doctor)
- An adventure with the real Father Christmas. (TV: Last Christmas)
- A Christmas where people kept getting their heads chopped off. (TV: The Husbands of River Song)
- Hanging out with an actual superhero. (TV: The Return of Doctor Mysterio)
- Being present at the Christmas truce. (TV: Twice Upon a Time)