Twice Upon a Time included three Doctors, the return of old friends and the start of a new era. But was it a Christmas cracker?

REVIEW BY GRAHAM KIBBLE-WHITE

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TELEVISION

David Bradley as the First Doctor.

BROADCAST Monday 25 December 2017

Hello, Doctor! Imagine some cheerful waving to go with that, and me not quite getting the eye-line right. Like I’ve been CSO-ed into a sequence shot at a later date. Because as I write this, in your past (retweet if you remember early December 2017), I haven’t actually witnessed Jodie Whittaker’s first scene. As is right and proper, that’s been kept from all preview copies of Twice Upon a Time, and reserved for Christmas Day so that everyone can enjoy it together.

Without that breath of life, this story really feels like The End. Of everything. This Doctor, this Doctor Who team, and a philosophy for making the show that’s been around since production began on The Eleventh Hour in 2009. I’m going to guess – I do not know – that time is also up for the current theme arrangement, the TARDIS (both INT and EXT), and even the fonts. Never liked the fonts. But everything else? It’s hard to watch it all go up in flames.