The Doctor begins traveling with a woman twice dead, Clara Oswin Oswald, and continues his never-ending crusade. Together, the three traversed time and space continuing the fight against evil. Soon after when the Earth is threatened with alien invasion Donna returns to the Doctor to help save the planet.Īfter facing down the Time Lords of Gallifrey and averting the End of Time, the Doctor regenerates and meets young Amy Pond, as a young girl and is reunited with as an adult, along with her fiance Rory. He is joined on his adventures by a number of companions: Rose Tyler, an East London girl looking for a way out of her boring job Captain Jack Harkness, a time traveller and conman from the 51st century Donna Noble, who is sucked into the TARDIS on her wedding day, and is now looking for the dangerous life the Doctor leads and Martha Jones, a 23 year old medical student, who is whisked into the Doctor's life when the hospital she works in is transported to the moon, she leaves the Doctor after saving the world from the Master because she knows her love for him isn't reciprocated. The Doctor has returned! Travelling through time and space in his TARDIS, the Doctor battles aliens and monsters who are intent on mayhem and destruction. They soon realise the only person who can save them is Santa Claus. The dream team is reunited – let’s hope neither of them wakes up.The Doctor and Clara have to face their last ever Christmas - they find themselves trapped on a arctic base and under attack from terrifying creatures. Overall, it was the perfect mixture of festive froth and proper old-fashioned sci-fi we’ve come to expect from “Who” Christmas episodes, led by a Doctor with a naughty twinkle in his eye and a companion who’s teaching him to be nice. She’s what Rose Tyler could have been if she hadn’t met the Doctor, and only the Grinch wouldn’t hope that the TARDIS materializes in her living room in the not-too-distant future. But shop assistant Shona’s plea to stay in the dream a little longer to avoid waking up alone in her flat was heartbreaking. The reveal that Professor Bellows’ “real” self is in a wheelchair felt patronizing – it would have been easy to have had the character in a wheelchair throughout the entire episode, so it felt maudlin, manipulative and more than a little ableist. Of course, the North Pole scientists aren’t really scientists – in fact, they’ve never met, just four strangers who wound up in the same dream. Peter Capaldi calling fellow Scot and old pal Maureen Beattie (Professor Bellows) “sexy” is both sweet and right on the mark – it would have been nice to see both Beattie and Gumede given a bit more to do. Joining the jolly fat man in the red suit is a terrific ensemble cast that includes Dan Starkey, liberated from his Strax costume to play an elf (always a welcome sight), and a team of scientists at the North Pole led by Natalie Gumede. Nick Frost makes for a gloriously grumpy Santa and the rivalry between he and Capaldi’s Doctor is worth the price of admission alone. So it’s a relief to have Clara sticking around now that dream!Danny gave her some much-needed closure. My dream ending would be Clara somehow removing her cronolock tracks down the Tardis finds out The Doctor regenerated into the 13th Doctor so she starts. After a rocky start at the beginning of the previous season, Capaldi and Coleman have hit their stride as a partnership, especially now that they’ve both come clean about the lies they told in the season finale – that Danny is alive and Gallifrey is found.