And at the BFI screening on 17 December, he pointed out that he often has such dreams blurring into other dreams within dreams… We all do. “It’s certainly the strangest bloody thing I’ve ever written,” admitted Steven Moffat, when I interviewed him for the pre-Christmas edition of Radio Times. What! It really happened? That really was the 2014 Christmas Doctor Who? And it went out on BBC1? Ho ho… hmmmm! Fall off! No…? What do you mean, no? Too much Port and Stilton…? Ooooh, wake me up, Grandma.

I’m waiting for that crabby critter to fall off my face again… Come on. Ho ho ho! Ha ha ha! I’m just having another delirious nightmare. She’s got a Dream Crab on her face, burrowing into her skull… She wakes to realise she’s on an Arctic base beset by aliens… Except the crew are all dreaming too because they have Dream Crabs on their faces… Except that Clara, the Doctor and the crew are all sharing that dream too because they have Dream Crabs on their faces… Except the Doctor finds an elderly Clara dreaming in bed… But maybe that’s a dream too… and Santa is real… Santa is real…

Aahhh… So Clara believes that Danny is still alive, only he’s dressed as Santa and an inch taller.

(Those tangerines are tough this year!) Another glass of brandy, please…īack to BBC1. Ahhhhh…įirst Christmas… The Weeping Angel Gabrielle appears unto Clara and transports her back to AD 0… And – lo! – in Bethlehem the Virgin Clara is about to give birth to a very untimely, un-wimey baby… new hubby Joseph Pink, Biblical forebear and striking looky-likey of Danny Pink, really doesn’t mind at all that the child won’t be his… A band of Silurians abandon their sheep to follow a wandering star, and Three Cyber Men arrive from the East bearing deadly gifts… Meanwhile Missy, cross-dressed as Herod, orders the slaughter of a generation of newborns… Oh dear, but what’s that squirming and squawking in the manger…? It can’t be… an embryonic Dalek mutant with the face of Peter Capaldi… No-oooooo!”īut wait…! What’s that on my face? Urghh! Get it off! And what’s that crumbling to dust on the hearth rug? Phew! So it was just a dream… a delirious nightmare… Light the log fire, dim the lamps, draw the curtains and pass me a tangerine… I’m just settling down to watch the Doctor Who Christmas special. Professor Albert Smithe - Michael TroughtonĮxecutive producers – Steven Moffat, Brian Minchin

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