Doctor Who: “A Christmas Carol” (2010)
The Doctor travels into a miser’s past to change the man he grows up to be.
If you can travel in time, you don’t have to show a man his past. You can go and change it.
You love Doctor Who, or you want the story with a time machine in it.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: a miser on Christmas Eve, and a visitor who takes him through his past, present and future.
Changes: the planet, the century and the method. Michael Gambon’s Kazran Sardick controls the skies over a colony world, and a ship with over 4,000 people aboard is trapped in them.
Whose story is it?
Kazran’s, and Abigail’s, played by Katherine Jenkins.
How much time does it ask?
60 minutes, first shown on 25 December 2010. Written by Steven Moffat.
Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Michael Gambon, Katherine Jenkins. BBC.
Where to find it
Other ways to get it: Buy the episode — Prime Video · Find where it’s streaming — JustWatch
More Christmas Carols: A Christmas Carol (MGM, 1938) · Scrooge (1951), with Alastair Sim · A Christmas Carol (1984), with George C. Scott