Doctor Who Christmas Specials

Going to miss your Doctor Who Christmas special this year?

This entertaining celebration of the festive episodes that became a national tradition is packed with memories, insights and behind-the-scenes stories. The perfect Christmas gift for Doctor Who fans everywhere.

For nearly two decades, the Doctor Who Christmas specials have been a national institution, delighting families with festive adventures, laughs, and a touch of timey wimey chaos. Now, with potentially no Christmas special this year, Candy Jar is releasing the ultimate celebration in Doctor Who Christmas Specials, Baz Greenland.

When Doctor Who returned to screens in 2005 after a sixteen-year absence, the show was reborn for a twenty-first-century audience. Showrunner Russell T Davies traded the classic multi-part serials for faster-paced, emotionally charged forty-five-minute adventures, packed with comedy, mystery, and epic finales.

From the shock of Harold Saxon’s reveal as the Master, to the mind-bending Bad Wolf storyline, Davies’ modern Doctor Who changed the rules, and the Christmas specials became a key part of that revolution. This book is the perfect festive gift for Doctor Who fans old and new.

I give my thoughts on The Runaway Bride, and as one early reviewer put it: "K.J.Heritage's take on the Runaway Bride is the very best thing I've ever read, ever, honestly". So don't miss it. The perfect Christmas Gift for the Whovonian in your life. This, or a very long scarf!

Here's an excerpt thingy: 

This Christmas Special, instead of embracing the festive season with warmth, nostalgia, and a thick slice of whimsy, charges at full tilt in the opposite direction.

Nostalgia? No. Warmth? No. Whimsy? No effing way. Instead, it has themes of genocidal rage, poisoning, murder and some quite awful emotional trauma. Oh, and shouting.

A helluva lot of shouting.

Sure, there are a few nods to the festive season—passive-aggressive, taxiing robotic brass-band Santas, spinning exploding Christmas tree baubles, and some other minor unexploding seasonal décor, not helped by the fact that the outdoor sequences all take place in what looks like the middle of summer.

Add an unseasonal giant spider lurking beneath the London Thames Barrier who just happens to own a rather dangerous Christmas star-shaped spaceship with Lightning Attack’ enabled and we end up with an entertaining Christmas-like diversion.

But is it a Christmas Special?

Not quite.