# Doctor Who Christmas - Previews **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 17, 2012, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-christmas-previews/641289 "2012-11-17T06:43:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-christmas-previews/641289/1 "2012-11-17T06:43:17Z")
Short [article](http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/4649356/doctor-who-christmas-day-special.html) with a few preview pics. Here’s a really short [video teaser.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB4TORcHLk0) Christmas Special [Prequel](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G17_B4uACgg) Children in Need Special. Puzzled how the Sontaran, Commander Strax is in this one. He supposedly died in _A Good Man Goes to War_. The Silurian warrior Madame Vastra is also back. She was in that same battle with Strax at Demon’s Run with the Headless Monks but she wasn’t injured. I’m guessing with those two warriors that the Doctor is going to war with somebody. Please post more links as new articles and videos are released. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-christmas-previews/641289/2 "2012-11-17T06:52:14Z")
More pictures. The video with Matt talking Series 7 is interesting. More pictures. The video with Matt talking Series 7 is interesting. > **[FIRST LOOK: 'Doctor Who' Christmas Special Prequel](https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/11/15/doctor-who-christmas-special-pictures-trailer_n_2135554.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular)** > > FIRST LOOK: 'Doctor Who' Christmas Special Prequel ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-christmas-previews/641289/3 "2012-11-17T07:08:06Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Puzzled how the Sontaran, Commander Strax is in this one. He supposedly died in _A Good Man Goes to War_. Wibbly Wobbly. Timey Wimey. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-christmas-previews/641289/4 "2012-11-17T08:02:57Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Puzzled how the Sontaran, Commander Strax is in this one. He supposedly died in _A Good Man Goes to War_ Just because he died in the Doctor’s past doesn’t mean he isn’t alive in the Doctor’s future. Cf. River Song. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-christmas-previews/641289/5 "2012-11-17T12:41:45Z")
Sontarans are cloned, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-christmas-previews/641289/6 "2012-11-17T13:06:46Z")
Sontarans are cloned, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Hen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Small\_Hen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Hen)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-christmas-previews/641289/7 "2012-11-17T14:24:00Z")
Pretty excited about this, thought the previous Doctor Who Christmas specials have been so so at best (Matt Smith’s Christmas Carol being a fantastic exception). Also, the doctor wears top hats now. Top hats are cool. ---
**Author:** ![Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Springtime_for_Spacers)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-christmas-previews/641289/8 "2012-11-17T14:31:03Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > Sontarans are cloned, I think. > [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > Sontarans are cloned, I think. So they are. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-christmas-previews/641289/9 "2012-11-17T14:56:46Z")
> [@Small\_Hen](#): > > Pretty excited about this, thought the previous Doctor Who Christmas specials have been so so at best (Matt Smith’s Christmas Carol being a fantastic exception). Also, the doctor wears top hats now. Top hats are cool. 🙂 I was expecting a deerstalker, given the title of the piece. Deerstalkers are cool. ---
**Author:** ![CorneaGenii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@CorneaGenii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CorneaGenii)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-christmas-previews/641289/10 "2012-11-17T20:30:28Z")
Here’s a link to the [trailer](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3KVpvEUTns) from the same Children In Need Special. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-christmas-previews/641289/11 "2012-11-17T21:02:16Z")
> [@Springtime\_for\_Spacers](#): > > So they are. Are the clones also nurses? ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-christmas-previews/641289/12 "2012-11-17T21:15:15Z")
Good point that this Commander Strax is probably a clone. He still apparently is indebted to the Doctor. Possible spoiler? I don’t think it reveals anything. Interesting to see how they film. Obviously special effects will get added later. The previews showed the Tardis up in the clouds. I guess this is showing the characters getting up there. [Video of them filming.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7q1P5--ZWw&feature=fvwrel) ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-christmas-previews/641289/13 "2012-11-17T22:50:41Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > 🙂 I was expecting a deerstalker, given the title of the piece. [That](http://www.rtp3.com/blog/2265) is the [correct](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz7uutMg6B1qc5r5ho1_1280.jpg) [hat](http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/kim-thomson). Neither Sherlock Holmes nor the Doctor would wander absurdly around the streets of London in a Deerstalker. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-christmas-previews/641289/14 "2012-11-17T23:26:06Z")
> [@Larry\_Mudd](#): > > Neither Sherlock Holmes nor the Doctor would wander absurdly around the streets of London in a Deerstalker. [Except for when the Doctor did just that.](http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmstv9xwP51qzyfwq.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-christmas-previews/641289/15 "2012-11-17T23:53:14Z")
_“We’re walking in the aaaaAAAAGGHMYGODGETITOFFMEAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaa…”_ I note that once again they’ve taken a beloved British Christmas institution and adapted it for comic sci-fi effect. This year “The Snowman” gets it, last year we had Narnia, and I think _A Christmas Carol_ the year before that, and probably a few others I’ve forgotten. In future I suppose we’ll get riffs on the Queen’s Speech, Christmas crackers, and reruns of _The Great Escape_. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-christmas-previews/641289/16 "2012-11-18T01:03:27Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > [Except for when the Doctor did just that.](http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmstv9xwP51qzyfwq.jpg) Dammit, Four! ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-christmas-previews/641289/17 "2012-11-18T01:22:15Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > [Except for when the Doctor did just that.](http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmstv9xwP51qzyfwq.jpg) He looks really good like that, too. That’s a brilliant costume, exactly the kind of thing Eleven would wear for fun. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-christmas-previews/641289/18 "2012-11-18T01:31:09Z")
> [@Larry\_Mudd](#): > > Dammit, Four! Doesn’t look like London to me. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-christmas-previews/641289/19 "2012-11-18T05:20:45Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Doesn’t look like London to me. It’s [London](http://doctorwhotv.co.uk/doctor-who-series-7-2012-what-we-know-27371.htm). > [@synopsis](#): > > 7X. The Snowmen > > Written by Steven Moffat. Directed by Saul Metzstein. > > “The Doctor is going to meet someone very new in the very last place he could ever have expected…” A Doctor Who take on Raymond Briggs’ festive animation, The Snowman. Set in 1890′s London and introduces the new companion called Clara. Also features the return of Madame Vastra, Jenny and Strax from A Good Man Goes To War. > > Guest starring: Richard E Grant (Doctor Simeon), Tom Ward (Captain Latimer), Liz White, Neve McIntosh (Madame Vastra), Catrin Stewart (Jenny), Dan Starkey (Strax) Richard E. Grant! Yay. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-christmas-previews/641289/20 "2012-11-18T05:28:04Z")
Ooh, Liz White from _Life on Mars_. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-christmas-previews/641289.md?page=2)